Published April 1, 2020 | Version v1
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The BDX detector prototype for dark matter searches in a Beam Dump eXperiment at JLAB

Creators

  • 1. INFN, Sezione di Catania, Via S. Sofia 64, I-95125 Catania (Italy)
  • 2. INFN, Sezione di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, I-16146 Genova (Italy)
  • 3. Università degli Studi di Sassari, Via Vienna 2, I-07100 Sassari (Italy)
  • 4. Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA 23606 (United States)

Description

The Beam Dump eXperiment (BDX) is an electron-beam thick-target experiment aimed to investigate the existence of light dark matter particles in the MeV-GeV mass range at Jefferson Lab. A small-scale prototype (BDX-Proto) of the BDX detector has been constructed in order to validate the proposed design and to demonstrate with real measurements the capability to efficiently reject the cosmogenic backgrounds. In this paper we report the peformance of BDX-Proto extracted from a long campaign of cosmic ray measurements performed at INFN, Sez. Catania and INFN, LNS.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/15/04/C04022

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/1748-0221/15/04/C04022;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Instrumentation
Journal Volume
15
Journal Issue
04
Journal Page Range
p. C04022
ISSN
1748-0221

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
52078922
Subject category
S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
Descriptors DEI
BEAM DUMPS; CEBAF ACCELERATOR; COSMIC RADIATION; DESIGN; ELECTRON BEAMS; GEV RANGE; INFN; MASS; MEV RANGE; NONLUMINOUS MATTER
Descriptors DEC
ACCELERATOR EXPERIMENTAL FACILITIES; ACCELERATORS; BEAMS; ENERGY RANGE; IONIZING RADIATIONS; ITALIAN ORGANIZATIONS; LEPTON BEAMS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MATTER; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; PARTICLE BEAMS; RADIATIONS