Dark Force Detection in Low Energy e-p Collisions

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2009-09-16

arxiv.org/abs/0909.2862v2

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

38 pages, 19 figures; v2, references added

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We study the prospects for detecting a light boson X with mass m_X < 100 MeV at a low energy electron-proton collider. We focus on the case where X dominantly decays to e+ e- as motivated by recent "dark force" models. In order to evade direct and indirect constraints, X must have small couplings to the standard model (alpha_X < 10^-8) and a sufficiently large mass (m_X >10 MeV). By comparing the signal and background cross sections for the e- p e+ e- final state, we conclude that dark force detection requires an integrated luminosity of around 1 inverse attobarn, achievable with a forthcoming JLab proposal.

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