A Beamdump facility at Jefferson Lab
Abstract The potential of the intense secondary muon, neutrino, and (hypothetical) light dark matter beams at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) is explored. These are produced in the high-power dumps with high-current electron beams. Light dark matter searches with the approved Beam Dump eXperiment (BDX) are driving the realization of a new underground vault behind Hall A that could be extended to a Beamdump Facility with little additional installations. High-energy muons created via the Bethe–Heitler process uniquely do not proceed through the more common pion production and decay channels. Several possible muon physics applications are highlighted. Neutrino detector technologies and experiments suitable for a beamdump facility are outlined.
Authors
- R. Rossini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5273-344X)
- J. Dilling
- P. Achenbach (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6754-653X)
- C. Keppel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7516-8292)
- P. Ambrozewicz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9128-9441)
- P. Brindza (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3466-6367)
- H. Jackson
- M. Battaglieri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5002-8771)
- Holly Szumila
- L. Doria (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7800-6328)
- A. Camsonne (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4333-2614)
- E. Cline (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9130-3856)
- Davide Terzani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0105-5420)
- Antonino Fulci (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3801-725X)
- E. Pozdeyev
- S. Fegan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2523-5247)
- D. W. Higinbotham (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2758-6526)
- Ralph Marinaro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4449-1641)
- T. Satogata (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8081-3815)
- D. Snowden-Ifft (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3454-3567)
- C. Cuevas
- M. Bondí (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8297-9184)
- Adrian Signer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8488-7400)
- Marco Spreafico (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2131-8160)
- C. Mariani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3284-4681)
- Zhen Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3137-2846)
- Patrizia Rossi
- Adi Ashkenazi
- Jay Benesch
- Jian-Wei Qiu
- S. Grazzi
- Júlia Tena Vidal
- P. Panda
- Andrei Afanasev
- Glenn Schrader
- Kevin McFarland
- Marco Filippini
- Michael Wood
- Charlie Velasquez
- Michael Kohl
- Diktys Stratakis
- Dipanwita Banerjee
- Vladimir Khachatryan
- Claudio Montanari
- Yuhong Zhang
- Takayuki Yamazaki
- Eric M. Christy
- Hanjie Liu
- Simona Giovannella
- Manjukrishna Suresh
Institutions
- University of Messina (IT)
- University of Minnesota (US)
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
- Hampton University (US)
- Tel Aviv University (IL)
- Christopher Newport University (US)
- George Washington University (US)
- Florida International University (US)
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (DE)
- University of Zurich (CH)
- University of Pavia (IT)
- Paul Scherrer Institute (CH)
- Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (JP)
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (US)
- Advanced Energy (United States) (US)
- University Hospital of Zurich (CH)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pavia (IT)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Catania (IT)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova (IT)
- Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo (IL)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT)
- University of York (GB)
- University of Rochester (US)
- Stony Brook University (US)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CH)
- Occidental College (US)
- Canisius College (US)
- Old Dominion University (US)
- Virginia Tech (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The European Physical Journal A
- Published
- 2025-12-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-025-01748-6
- Primary Topic
- Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Office of Science
- Nuclear Physics