Speaker
Dr
Deepak Sathyan
Description
We propose a novel method to probe visibly decaying dark photons at the LHC with masses of 10 MeV to 10 GeV, providing complementarity with short baseline beam dump experiments. Dark photons can be produced at the LHC through neutral meson decays, bremsstrahlung off baryons, or directly produced in association with a jet. We consider visible decays to electron or muon pairs as the signal channel and describe methods to control backgrounds. We present the projected sensitivities considering various background estimations and signal threshold requirements.
Author
Co-authors
Aparajitha Karthikeyan
(Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University)
Prof.
Bhaskar Dutta
Doojin Kim
Hyunyong Kim
(Texas A & M University (US))
Taehee Kim
(Seoul National University (KR))