Speaker
Babette Döbrich
(MPP)
Description
The talk also aims at giving a short overview of the overall community attempts of new physics searches in proton beam-dumps.As a concrete example it will then focus on the NA62 experiment at CERN. This was designed to measure the highly-suppressed decay $K^{+} \rightarrow \pi^{+}\nu\bar{\nu}$, has the capability to collect data in a beam-dump mode, where 400~GeV protons are dumped on an absorber. In this configuration, New Physics particles, including dark photons, dark scalars and axion-like particles, may be produced and reach a decay volume beginning 80~m downstream of the absorber. This talk then presents in detail the newest analysis results from the search of these particles and their possible connection to Dark Matter.
Author
Babette Döbrich
(MPP)