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May 25 – 27, 2022
TRIUMF
America/Vancouver timezone

Illuminating the Dark Photon with DarkLight

May 27, 2022, 10:30 AM
30m
Auditorium (TRIUMF )

Auditorium

TRIUMF

4004 Wesbrook Mall University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC V6T 2A3

Speaker

Ethan Cline

Description

The search for a dark photon holds considerable interest in the physics community. Such a force carrier would begin to illuminate the dark sector. Many experiments have searched for such a particle, but so far it has proven elusive. In recent years the concept of a low mass dark photon has gained popularity in the physics community. Of particular recent interest is the ^8Be and ^4He anomaly, which could be explained by a 17 MeV mass dark photon. The proposed Darklight experiment would search for this potential low mass force carrier at ARIEL in the 10-20 MeV e^+e^- invariant mass range. This talk will focus on the experimental design and physics case of the Darklight experiment.

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