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New Prospects In Fixed Target Searches For Dark Forces With The Seaquest Experiment At Fermilab, Susan Gardner, R. J. Holt, A. S. Tadepalli

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

An intense 120 GeV proton beam incident on an extremely long iron target generates enormous numbers of light-mass particles that also decay within that target. If one of these particles decays to a final state with a hidden gauge boson, or if such a particle is produced as a result of the initial collision, then that weakly interacting hidden-sector particle may traverse the remainder of the target and be detected downstream through its possible decay to an e⁺ e⁻, μ⁺ μ⁻, or π⁺ π⁻ final state. These conditions can be realized through …