Collaboration Meeting May 31 - June 2, 2023
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America/Vancouver
Conference Room (TRIUMF)
Conference Room
TRIUMF
Description
This will be the fourth meeting of the DarkLight @ ARIEL Collaboration. It will be held May 31 - June 2, 2023 at TRIUMF in Vancouver, Canada.
The purpose of this meeting is to bring as many people as possible together to review:
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developments in dark matter searches,
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production of the DarkLight detector components,
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status and plans for the ARIEL accelerator,
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schedule for installing and commissioning the experiment, and
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plans for the first period of operation in the fall of 2023.
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.
Participants