Secondary Beams at High-Intensity Electron Accelerator Facilities

Marco Battaglieri; Andrea Bianconi; Mariangela Bondí; Raffaella De Vita; Antonino Fulci; Giulia Gosta; Stefano Grazzi; Hyon Suk Jo; Changhui Lee; Giuseppe Mandaglio; Valerio Mascagna; Tetiana Nagorna; Alessandro Pilloni; Marco Spreafico; Luca J. Tagliapietra; Luca Venturelli; Tommaso Vittorini

doi:10.3390/instruments8010001

Secondary Beams at High-Intensity Electron Accelerator Facilities

Marco Battaglieri, Andrea Bianconi, Mariangela Bondí, Raffaella De Vita, Antonino Fulci, Giulia Gosta, Stefano Grazzi, Hyon Suk Jo, Changhui Lee, Giuseppe Mandaglio, Valerio Mascagna, Tetiana Nagorna, Alessandro Pilloni, Marco Spreafico, Luca J. Tagliapietra, Luca Venturelli, Tommaso Vittorini

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The interaction of a high-current O(100 µA), medium energy O(10 GeV) electron beam with a thick target O(1m) produces an overwhelming shower of standard model particles in addition to hypothetical light dark matter particles. While most of the radiation (gamma, electron/positron) is contained in the thick target, deep penetrating particles (muons, neutrinos, and light dark matter particles) propagate over a long distance, producing high-intensity secondary beams. Using sophisticated Monte Carlo simulations based on FLUKA and GEANT4, we explored the characteristics of secondary muons and neutrinos and (hypothetical) dark scalar particles produced by the interaction of the Jefferson Lab 11 GeV intense electron beam with the experimental Hall-A beam dump. Considering the possible beam energy upgrade, this study was repeated for a 22 GeV CEBAF beam.

Original language	English
Article number	1
Journal	Instruments
Volume	8
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/instruments8010001
State	Published - Mar 2024

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BSM physics
dark matter
intensity frontier
muon beam
neutrino interaction

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Battaglieri, M., Bianconi, A., Bondí, M., De Vita, R., Fulci, A., Gosta, G., Grazzi, S., Jo, H. S., Lee, C., Mandaglio, G., Mascagna, V., Nagorna, T., Pilloni, A., Spreafico, M., Tagliapietra, L. J., Venturelli, L., & Vittorini, T. (2024). Secondary Beams at High-Intensity Electron Accelerator Facilities. Instruments, 8(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/instruments8010001

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