The PADME experiment at DAFNE Linac

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• Mauro Raggi (INFN, Frascati)
• Friday 13 May 2016, 16:00-17:00
• Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

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The long standing problem of reconciling the cosmological evidence of the existence of dark matter with the lack of any clear experimental observation of it, has recently revived the idea that the new particles are not directly connected with the Standard Model gauge fields, but only through mediator fields or “portals”, connecting our world with new “secluded” or “hidden” sectors. One of the simplest models just adds an additional U(1) symmetry, with its corresponding vector boson A’. All SM particles will be neutral under this symmetry, while the new field will couple to the charged particles of the SM with an effective milli-charge. Additional interest arises from the observation that A’ in the mass range 1 MeV to 100 MeV and coupling charge of the order of 0.001, would justify the discrepancy between theory and observation for the muon anomalous magnetic moment, (g − 2) of the muon. This possibility has been recently disproved in the hypothesis that the A’ decays to SM particles only, on the contrary if A’ decays to dark sector particles, almost all of the available experimental constraints can be evaded and the dark photon is still a valuable explanation for the muon (g-2) anomaly. At the end of 2015 INFN has formally approved a new experiment, PADME , to search for invisible decays of the A’ at the DAFNE Linac in Frascati. The experiment is designed to detect dark photon produced in positron on fixed target annihilation by measuring the final state missing mass. The collaboration aims to complete the design and construction of the experiment by the end of 2017 and to collect 10**13 positron on target by the end of 2018, thus allowing to reach the a sensitivity on the milli-charge of 0.001 up to a dark photon mass of 26 MeV

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