Jun 2 – 7, 2019
Carnegie Mellon University
America/New_York timezone

New Experiments at the CERN M2 beam line within “Physics Beyond Colliders”: AMBER/COMPASS++, NA64µ, MuonE

Jun 6, 2019, 2:30 PM
30m
Rangos 2

Rangos 2

Contributed Future Facilities and Directions Future Facilities

Speaker

Johannes Bernhard (CERN)

Description

The “Physics Beyond Colliders (PBC)” study explores fundamental physics opportunities at the CERN accelerator complex complementary to collider experiments. Three new collaborations aim to exploit the M2 beam line in the North Area with existing high-intensity muon and hadron beams, but also aspire to go beyond the current M2 capabilities with a RF-separated, high-intensity hadron beam, under study. The AMBER/COMPASS++ collaboration proposes an ambitious program with a measurement of the proton radius with muon beams, as well as QCD-related studies from pion PDFs / Drell-Yan to cross section measurements for dark sector searches. Assuming feasibility of the RF-separated beam, the spectrum of strange mesons would enter a high precision era while kaon PDFs as well as nucleon TMDs would be accessible via Drell-Yan reactions. The NA64µ collaboration proposes to search for dark sector mediators such as a dark scalar A’ or a hypothetical Z_µ using the M2 muon beam and complementing their on-going A’ searches with electron beams. The MuonE collaboration intends to assess the hadronic component of the vacuum polarization via elastic µ-e scattering, the dominant uncertainty in the determination of g_µ-2. An overview of the three new experimental programs will be presented together with implications for the M2 beam line and the experimental area EHN2, based on the studies of the PBC “Conventional Beams” Working Group.

Graduate Student No
Early Consideration No

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Co-authors

Dipanwita Banerjee (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and CERN) Markus Brugger (CERN) Nikolaos Charitonidis (CERN) Serhii Cholak (CERN) Gian Luigi D'Allesandro (Royal Holloway, University of London and CERN) Lau Gatignon (CERN) Alexander Gerbershagen (CERN) Eva Montbarbon (CERN) Bastien Rae (CERN) Marcel Rosenthal (CERN) Maarten van Dijk (CERN) Benjamin Moritz Veit (CERN and Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

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