Authors: Bogdan A Dobrescu Claudia Frugiuele
Publish Date: 2015/02/03
Volume: 2015, Issue: 2, Pages: 19-
Abstract
Assuming that dark matter particles interact with quarks via a GeVscale mediator we study dark matter production in fixed target collisions The ensuing signal in a neutrino near detector consists of neutralcurrent events with an energy distribution peaked at higher values than the neutrino background We find that for a Z ′ boson of mass around a few GeV that decays to dark matter particles the dark matter beam produced by the Main Injector at Fermilab allows the exploration of a range of values for the gauge coupling that currently satisfy all experimental constraints The NOνA near detector is well positioned for probing the presence of a dark matter beam and future LBNF near detectors would provide more sensitive probesThis article is published under an open access license Please check the Copyright Information section for details of this license and what reuse is permitted If your intended use exceeds what is permitted by the license or if you are unable to locate the licence and reuse information please contact the Rights and Permissions team
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