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Dark scalars and heavy neutral leptons at DarkQuest

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  • Brian Batell1,
  • Jared A. Evans2,
  • Stefania Gori3,4 &
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  • Mudit Rai1 

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Abstract

The proposed DarkQuest beam dump experiment, a modest upgrade to the existing SeaQuest/SpinQuest experiment, has great potential for uncovering new physics within a dark sector. We explore both the near-term and long-term prospects for observing two distinct, highly-motivated hidden sector benchmark models: heavy neutral leptons and Higgs-mixed scalars. We comprehensively examine the particle production and detector acceptance at DarkQuest, including an updated treatment of meson production, and light scalar production through both bremsstrahlung and gluon-gluon fusion. In both benchmark models, DarkQuest will provide an opportunity to probe previously inaccessible interesting regions of parameter space on a fairly short timescale when compared to other proposed experiments.

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Batell, B., Evans, J.A., Gori, S. et al. Dark scalars and heavy neutral leptons at DarkQuest. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 49 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2021)049

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