A data-driven framework using normalizing flows predicts the rate and kinematic distributions of dark photon and millicharged particle production directly from measured dilepton events.
Inclusive Dark Photon Search at LHCb
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We propose an inclusive search for dark photons $A'$ at the LHCb experiment based on both prompt and displaced di-muon resonances. Because the couplings of the dark photon are inherited from the photon via kinetic mixing, the dark photon $A' \to \mu^+ \mu^-$ rate can be directly inferred from the off-shell photon $\gamma^* \to \mu^+ \mu^-$ rate, making this a fully data-driven search. For Run 3 of the LHC, we estimate that LHCb will have sensitivity to large regions of the unexplored dark-photon parameter space, especially in the 210-520 MeV and 10-40 GeV mass ranges. This search leverages the excellent invariant-mass and vertex resolution of LHCb, along with its unique particle-identification and real-time data-analysis capabilities.
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Cascade LLPs in SHiP suffer strong acceptance suppression, yielding at most moderate enhancement over primary production for light ALPs and subdominant contribution for HNLs from secondary kaons.
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LDMX can close much of the sub-100 MeV blind spot for axions and dark photons via charged track and momentum reconstruction.
Reviews precision timing integration in LHC upgrades and discusses a possible shift to triggerless detectors enabled by timing and networking, with reflections on physics benefits.
The paper surveys theoretical motivations, experimental searches, and bounds on the dark photon as a kinetically mixed gauge boson from a dark sector, covering both massive and massless cases along with related milli-charged fermion constraints.
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Data-Driven Predictions for Dark Photon and Millicharged Particle Production
A data-driven framework using normalizing flows predicts the rate and kinematic distributions of dark photon and millicharged particle production directly from measured dilepton events.
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On Exclusive Coherent Production of Bosons in Electron-Proton Collisions
A phenomenological 2-to-3 framework is constructed for exclusive boson electroproduction that matches flux-factorized predictions near Q^{2}=0 while capturing finite-Q^{2} effects at larger virtualities.
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Search for long-lived particles decaying into muons in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13.6 TeV using data scouting
Null result from dimuon scouting search at 13.6 TeV sets 95% CL limits on long-lived particle production in Higgs and b-hadron decay channels across multiple BSM models.
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Detector performance at SHiP for cascade-produced long-lived particles
Cascade LLPs in SHiP suffer strong acceptance suppression, yielding at most moderate enhancement over primary production for light ALPs and subdominant contribution for HNLs from secondary kaons.
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Letter of Intent: The Forward Physics Facility
Proposes construction of the Forward Physics Facility at the HL-LHC with four complementary detectors to exploit forward neutrinos and new-particle fluxes for neutrino, QCD, astroparticle, and dark-matter measurements.
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Dark Matter Energy Deposition and Production from the Table-Top to the Cosmos
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Cornering MeV-GeV Axions and Dark Photons with LDMX
LDMX can close much of the sub-100 MeV blind spot for axions and dark photons via charged track and momentum reconstruction.
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Towards triggerless four-dimensional detectors for High Energy Physics collider experiments
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The Dark Photon
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