The BDX detector prototype for dark matter searches in a Beam Dump eXperiment at JLAB

The Beam Dump eXperiment (BDX) is an electron-beam thick-target experiment aimed to investigate the existence of light dark matter particles in the MeV-GeV mass range at Jefferson Lab. A small-scale prototype (BDX-Proto) of the BDX detector has been constructed in order to validate the proposed desi...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of instrumentation 2020-04, Vol.15 (4), p.C04022-C04022
Hauptverfasser:	Bondí, M., Battaglieri, M., Celentano, A., Napoli, M. De, Vita, R. De, Marsicano, L., Italiano, A., Randazzo, N., Sipala, V., Smith, E.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	calorimeters Cosmic rays Dark matter Electron beams Experiments photon detectors for UV, visible and IR photons (solid-state) (PIN diodes, APDs, Si-PMTs, G-APDs, CCDs, EBCCDs, EMCCDs, CMOS imagers, etc) Prototypes scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators)
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Zusammenfassung:	The Beam Dump eXperiment (BDX) is an electron-beam thick-target experiment aimed to investigate the existence of light dark matter particles in the MeV-GeV mass range at Jefferson Lab. A small-scale prototype (BDX-Proto) of the BDX detector has been constructed in order to validate the proposed design and to demonstrate with real measurements the capability to efficiently reject the cosmogenic backgrounds. In this paper we report the peformance of BDX-Proto extracted from a long campaign of cosmic ray measurements performed at INFN, Sez. Catania and INFN, LNS.
ISSN:	1748-0221 1748-0221
DOI:	10.1088/1748-0221/15/04/C04022