A Beamdump facility at Jefferson Lab
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Achenbach, Patrick
Afanasev, Andrei
Ambrozewicz, Pawel
Ashkenazi, Adi
Banerjee, Dipanwita
Battaglieri, Marco
Benesch, Jay
Bondí, Mariangela
Brindza, Paul
Camsonne, Alexandre
Date Issued
December 24, 2025
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The European Physical Journal A
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Achenbach, P., Afanasev, A., Ambrozewicz, P. et al. A Beamdump facility at Jefferson Lab. Eur. Phys. J. A 61, 285 (2025).
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Abstract
The potential of the intense secondary muon, neutrino, and (hypothetical) light dark matter beams at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) is explored. These are produced in the high-power dumps with high-current electron beams. Light dark matter searches with the approved Beam Dump eXperiment (BDX) are driving the realization of a new underground vault behind Hall A that could be extended to a Beamdump Facility with little additional installations. High-energy muons created via the Bethe–Heitler process uniquely do not proceed through the more common pion production and decay channels. Several possible muon physics applications are highlighted. Neutrino detector technologies and experiments suitable for a beamdump facility are outlined.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-025-01748-6
