The new physics case for beam-dump experiments with accelerated muon beams
Oct 24, 202322 pages
Published in:
- JHEP 05 (2024) 283
- Published: May 24, 2024
e-Print:
- 2310.16110 [hep-ph]
Report number:
- MIT-CTP 5606
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Abstract: (Springer)
As the field examines a future muon collider as a possible successor to the LHC, we must consider how to fully utilize not only the high-energy particle collisions, but also any lower-energy staging facilities necessary in the R&D process. An economical and efficient possibility is to use the accelerated muon beam from either the full experiment or from cooling and acceleration tests in beam-dump experiments. Beam-dump experiments are complementary to the main collider as they achieve sensitivity to very small couplings with minimal instrumentation. We demonstrate the utility of muon beam-dump experiments for new physics searches at energies from 10 GeV to 5 TeV. We find that, even at low energies like those accessible at staging or demonstrator facilities, it is possible to probe new regions of parameter space for a variety of generic BSM models, including muonphilic, leptophilic, L − L, and dark photon scenarios. Such experiments could therefore provide opportunities for discovery of new physics well before the completion of the full multi-TeV collider.Note:
- 22 pages and 10 figures + 11 pages and 10 figures
- New Gauge Interactions
- Other Weak Scale BSM Models
- Specific BSM Phenomenology
- Theories of Flavour
- muon: beam
- muon: storage ring
- energy: low
- new physics
- beam dump
- acceleration
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