
arXiv: 0906.0580
Fixed-target experiments are ideally suited for discovering new MeV-GeV mass U(1) gauge bosons through their kinetic mixing with the photon. In this paper, we identify the production and decay properties of new light gauge bosons that dictate fixed-target search strategies. We summarize existing limits and suggest five new experimental approaches that we anticipate can cover most of the natural parameter space, using currently operating GeV-energy beams and well-established detection methods. Such experiments are particularly timely in light of recent terrestrial and astrophysical anomalies (PAMELA, FERMI, DAMA/LIBRA, etc.) consistent with dark matter charged under a new gauge force.
14 pages + 6 page appendix and refs, 11 figures
Nonluminous Matter, Production Experiment-Hep, Phenomenology-Hep,Hepex, FOS: Physical sciences, Decay, Experiment-Hep, 72 Physics Of Elementary Particles And Fields, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Kinetics, Detection, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Hepph, Bosons
Nonluminous Matter, Production Experiment-Hep, Phenomenology-Hep,Hepex, FOS: Physical sciences, Decay, Experiment-Hep, 72 Physics Of Elementary Particles And Fields, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Kinetics, Detection, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Hepph, Bosons
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