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Bartels, Sjors (2022)

The search for Dark Matter: SND@LHC

Bachelor thesis | Natuurkunde (BSc)

This paper considers how the SND neutrino detector at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN, may probe light dark matter. To this end, the leptophobic portal is considered (mostly with a dark matter mass of 20 MeV). After a review of the sensitivity of the current SND configurations, two alternative configurations are considered: one in the same pseudorapidity range as the current experiment, the other further off-axis. While the former will have a higher sensitivity than the current experiment, for the latter this depends on the mediator mass. For a mediator mass of 7 GeV, the sensitivity of the off-axis configuration is higher than the sensitivity of the current experiment and the other alternative configuration.

Dark Matter

Leptophobic portal

SND

Author

Bartels, Sjors

Faculty

Faculty of Science

Supervisors

Boyarsky, A.

ECTS Credits

24

Language

en