Search for Hidden Sector and Dark Matter Particles produced at Fermilab's NuMI Target

Hatzikoutelis, Athanasios "Search for Hidden Sector and Dark Matter Particles produced at Fermilab's NuMI Target. " in Proceedings, 10th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs (AXION-WIMP 2014) / Tsesmelis, Emmanuel, Maroudas, Marios (eds.), Verlag Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron : 2014 ; AXION-WIMP 2014 : 10th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, 2014-06-29 - 2014-07-04, Geneva 10th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, AXION-WIMP 2014, Geneva, Switzerland, 29 Jun 2014 - 4 Jul 2014 ; DESY-PROC 177-180(2014). doi:10.3204/DESY-PROC-2014-03/hatzikoutelis_athanasios
In the long tradition of exotic searches at fixed-target experiments, we plan to use the NuMI beam-target and the NOvA Near Detector to observe potential signatures of Hidden Sector or Dark Matter particles, either directly produced within the target or through theoretically postulated mediators. Expecting mostly scattering events on electrons or nucleons as their signatures, an example of a mediator generated scalar dark matter particles is used to discuss the target production profile of a dark matter beam. This channel explores the capabilities of the detector to observe neutral-current events from electron-neutrino scattering interactions.
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