Dark Sectors 2016 Workshop: Community Report

By J. Alexander, M. Battaglieri, B. Echenard, R. Essig, M. Graham, E. Izaguirre, J. Jaros, G. Krnjaic, J. Mardon, D. Morrissey and 194 more. 2016

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This report, based on the Dark Sectors workshop at SLAC in April 2016, summarizes the scientific importance of searches for dark sector dark matter and forces at masses beneath the weak-scale, the status of this broad international field, the important milestones motivating future exploration, and promising experimental opportunities to reach these milestones over the next 5-10 years.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Mechanics, Computer Networks and Communications

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In Artificial Intelligence

1. M. White
2. S. Watson
3. F. Cyr-Racine
4. Raphael Flauger
5. Juan Rojo
6. Pierre Baldi
7. A. Lewis
8. Lloyd Knox

In Computational Mechanics

1. J. Carron
2. M. White
3. P. Meerburg
4. A. Slosar
5. R. Somerville
6. S. Antusch
7. F. Cyr-Racine
8. Silvia Pascoli

In Computer Networks and Communications

1. G. Lanfranchi
2. Juan Rojo
3. Pierre Baldi
4. H. Dreiner
5. S. Mukherjee
6. K. Abazajian
7. N. Bernal

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• Low-mass dark matter search with CDMSlite (2017, background): “, asymmetric dark matter [7]) or the possibility of a parallel dark sector that may contain many dark matter particles [8].”
• The Forward Physics Facility: Sites, experiments, and physics potential (2021, background): “There is also much well-motivated physics beyond these minimal benchmarks that remains to be studied at the FPF, such as new U(1) gauge groups and UV-complete models of light DM [51, 52].”
• Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), Far Detector Technical Design Report, Volume II: DUNE Physics (2020, methodology): “One of the possible ways to produce and then detect relativistic DM particles can be through accelerator experiments, for example, neutrino beam experiments [330, 331, 332, 199].”
• The Dawn of FIMP Dark Matter: A Review of Models and Constraints (2017, background): “c scatterings of DM in the mass range from keV to MeV [55{61,63{71,77,78]. In particular, the typical DM-electron cross sections for an MeV FIMP DM could be tested by some next generation experiments [9,55,61,294]. Finally, due to the possibility of absorbing a dark photon, the direct detection cons”
• The Dark Photon (2020, background): “In the past few years a number of reports on the dark sector (and the massive dark photon within it) have been published (Alekhin et al., 2016; Alexander et al., 2016; Beacham et al., 2019; Curciarello, 2016; Deliyergiyev, 2016; Essig et al., 2013; Hewett et al., 2012; Raggi and Kozhuharov, 2015).”
• CMB-S4 Science Case, Reference Design, and Project Plan (2019, background): “The possibility of additional radiation is also compelling, in the contexts of both particle physics and cosmology [11, 141, 12].”
• Search for vector mediator of dark matter production in invisible decay mode (2017, background): “As discussed previously, the possibility of the existence of light thermal Dark Matter (LTDM) has been the subject of intense theoretical activity over the past several years [13, 14], see also [73, 74].”