1. Dark Matter Search in Missing Energy Events with NA64
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V.A. Polyakov, L. Molina Bueno, B. Radics, D. V. Kirpichnikov, A. Feshchenko, Vladimir Frolov, V.E. Burtsev, A. N. Toropin, G. Vasquez Arenas, R.R. Dusaev, V. A. Matveev, Rimsky Alejandro Rojas, B.I. Vasilishin, Dipanwita Banerjee, B. Ketzer, Nikolaos Charitonidis, A. Yu. Trifonov, A.G. Chumakov, A. V. Dermenev, Igor Konorov, P. Ulloa, S. Gerassimov, M. Kirsanov, Petr Volkov, Serguei Kuleshov, G. D. Kekelidze, V. M. Lysan, Paolo Crivelli, S. V. Donskov, V.D. Samoylenko, A. E. Karneyeu, David R. Cooke, V. O. Tikhomirov, N. V. Krasnikov, Sergey Kovalenko, L. Kravchuk, D. A. Tlisov, V. Yu. Volkov, S. N. Gninenko, E. Depero, M. Hösgen, M. Jeckel, V. A. Kramarenko, I. Tlisova, D. Shchukin, A. Gardikiotis, Yu. V. Mikhailov, D. Peshekhonov, V. E. Lyubovitskij, T. Enik, and André Rubbia
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Particle physics ,Photon ,Dark matter ,Scalar (mathematics) ,General Physics and Astronomy ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,7. Clean energy ,01 natural sciences ,Computer Science::Digital Libraries ,Dark photon ,law.invention ,Vector boson ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) ,law ,0103 physical sciences ,Beam dump ,010306 general physics ,Particle Physics - Phenomenology ,Physics ,Missing energy ,Large Hadron Collider ,hep-ex ,hep-ph ,ddc ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology ,Physics::Accelerator Physics ,Particle Physics - Experiment - Abstract
A search for sub-GeV dark matter production mediated by a new vector boson $A'$, called dark photon, is performed by the NA64 experiment in missing energy events from 100 GeV electron interactions in an active beam dump at the CERN SPS. From the analysis of the data collected in the years 2016, 2017, and 2018 with $2.84\times10^{11}$ electrons on target no evidence of such a process has been found. The most stringent constraints on the $A'$ mixing strength with photons and the parameter space for the scalar and fermionic dark matter in the mass range $\lesssim 0.2$ GeV are derived, thus demonstrating the power of the active beam dump approach for the dark matter search., 6 pages, 4 figures, version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1710.00971, arXiv:1610.02988
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- 2019