FLArE up dark sectors with EM form factors at the LHC forward physics facility
Despite being mostly secluded, dark sector particles may feebly interact with photons via a small mass-dimension 4 millicharge, a mass-dimension 5 magnetic and electric dipole moment, or a mass-dimension 6 anapole moment and charge radius. If sufficiently light, the LHC may produce an intense and co...
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| author | Felix Kling Jui-Lin Kuo Sebastian Trojanowski Yu-Dai Tsai |
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| description | Despite being mostly secluded, dark sector particles may feebly interact with photons via a small mass-dimension 4 millicharge, a mass-dimension 5 magnetic and electric dipole moment, or a mass-dimension 6 anapole moment and charge radius. If sufficiently light, the LHC may produce an intense and collimated beam of these particles in the far forward direction. We study the prospects of searching for such dark sector particles with electromagnetic form factors via their electron scattering signature in the Forward Liquid Argon Experiment (FLArE) at the Forward Physics Facility (FPF). We find that FLArE can provide new probes of sub-GeV dark particles with dipole moments and strong sensitivities for millicharged particles in the 100 MeV to 100 GeV region. This complements other search strategies using scintillation signatures or dark matter direct detection and allows for probing strongly interacting dark matter motivated by the EDGES anomaly. Along with the FORMOSA detector, this leads to a very versatile and leading experimental program in the search for millicharged particles in the FPF. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2f18a7a960824339b00b0827308c9e7b2023-02-23T04:30:08ZengElsevierNuclear Physics B0550-32132023-02-01987116103FLArE up dark sectors with EM form factors at the LHC forward physics facilityFelix Kling0Jui-Lin Kuo1Sebastian Trojanowski2Yu-Dai Tsai3Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany; Corresponding authors.Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-4575, USAAstrocent, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Rektorska 4, 00-614, Warsaw, Poland; National Centre for Nuclear Research, ul. Pasteura 7, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland; Corresponding authors.Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-4575, USADespite being mostly secluded, dark sector particles may feebly interact with photons via a small mass-dimension 4 millicharge, a mass-dimension 5 magnetic and electric dipole moment, or a mass-dimension 6 anapole moment and charge radius. If sufficiently light, the LHC may produce an intense and collimated beam of these particles in the far forward direction. We study the prospects of searching for such dark sector particles with electromagnetic form factors via their electron scattering signature in the Forward Liquid Argon Experiment (FLArE) at the Forward Physics Facility (FPF). We find that FLArE can provide new probes of sub-GeV dark particles with dipole moments and strong sensitivities for millicharged particles in the 100 MeV to 100 GeV region. This complements other search strategies using scintillation signatures or dark matter direct detection and allows for probing strongly interacting dark matter motivated by the EDGES anomaly. Along with the FORMOSA detector, this leads to a very versatile and leading experimental program in the search for millicharged particles in the FPF.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321323000329 |
| spellingShingle | Felix Kling Jui-Lin Kuo Sebastian Trojanowski Yu-Dai Tsai FLArE up dark sectors with EM form factors at the LHC forward physics facility Nuclear Physics B |
| title | FLArE up dark sectors with EM form factors at the LHC forward physics facility |
| title_full | FLArE up dark sectors with EM form factors at the LHC forward physics facility |
| title_fullStr | FLArE up dark sectors with EM form factors at the LHC forward physics facility |
| title_full_unstemmed | FLArE up dark sectors with EM form factors at the LHC forward physics facility |
| title_short | FLArE up dark sectors with EM form factors at the LHC forward physics facility |
| title_sort | flare up dark sectors with em form factors at the lhc forward physics facility |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321323000329 |
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