DPF - PHENO 2024

New Physics searches via scattering at DarkQuest

16 May 2024, 16:45

15m

David Lawrence Hall 209 (University of Pittsburgh)

Other BSM Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Speaker

Aparajitha Karthikeyan (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University)

Description

We explore the possibility of probing new physics particles that scatter into visible particles at DarkQuest, such as neutrino tridents, Bethe-Heitler scattering, etc. The DarkQuest setup consists of a 120 GeV proton beam that impinges on a 5 m iron block with the detector placed 25 m away from the proton source. We find that the closeness of the detector to this high-energy proton source is advantageous in probing new physics that appear through scattering at the large iron dump. We take the $L_{\mu }-L_{\tau }$ gauge bosons as an example where we look at muon-antimuon signals that are produced through neutrino tridents via the gauge boson. We see that DarkQuest can probe a major region in the parameter space that explains the $g-2$ anomaly.

Presentation materials

AKarthikeyan_DPFPheno.pdf