SMuK 2023 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 131: Searches V

T 131.4: Vortrag

Donnerstag, 23. März 2023, 18:15–18:30, HSZ/0403

Results from First Simulation Studies for a Dark Photon Search Experiment at the ELSA Electron Accelerator — Philip Bechtle, Klaus Desch, Oliver Freyermuth, Matthias Hamer, •Jan-Eric Heinrichs, and Martin Schürmann — Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

The true nature of Dark Matter (DM) has long been of interest for scientists worldwide. Previous searches have so far been unsuccessful in finding proposed DM particles. A promising and not well explored family of DM models contains dark matter particles and a portal to the SM with masses below ≈ 1 GeV. Mainly two approaches are investigated by the community, namely beam dump and fixed targets experiments.

Lohengrin is a proposed experiment to search for a dark sector that couples to the SM through a dark photon at the ELSA accelerator in Bonn. In this presentation, the underlying theory and the proposed experiment strategy will be explained. The challenges for the proposed experiment are presented, as well as first steps towards the reconstruction of high level physics objects using a Geant 4 simulation.