3:30 pm MCP 201
Accelerator-based experiments provide a unique opportunity to expand the search for dark sector signatures in the MeV to GeV range. This largely unexplored regime is well motivated when assuming a simple and predictive thermal origin for dark matter, or extensions of QCD that predict heavy axion-like particles. Accelerator experiments can manufacture these dark sector candidates by scattering a high-intensity beam on a fixed target. In this talk, I will review the landscape of these searches and identify two distinct and urgent opportunities for the US to lead the hunt for sub-GeV dark sector particles: the LDMX and DarkQuest experiments.
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