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1 APEX: A Prime EXperiment at Jefferson Lab e + e A e γ APEX Test Run Data, ~770K evts Z Events / ( 0.05 ) James Beacham New York University for the APEX Collaboration (MeV/c ) m e+e- 1

2 Outline Motivations Existing constraints APEX test run setup Test run results Full run plans 2

3 U(1) extension of the Standard Model Common feature of many theories, e.g., Holdom Two U(1) s and Epsilon Charge Shifts, Phys. Lett. B166 (1986) 196 Strassler/Zurek Echoes of a hidden valley at hadron colliders, Phys. Lett. B651 (2007) Generically, hidden gauge sector talks to visible sector via kinetic mixing terms in Lagrangian; simplest extension is a U(1) L = 2 F Y,µν F µν 3

4 U(1) extension of the Standard Model Hidden gauge boson ( dark photon, ) mixes with photon hidden sector coupled to SM Equivalent to assigning small EM charge A Y = cos θ W = g /e m A MeV GeV Note: α /α = 2 4

5 Additional motivations A sub-gev mass for the A could explain dark matter anomalies... PAMELA sees positron excess but no antiproton excess GeV mass gauge boson into leptons preferential decay of a sub- Fermi, ATIC, HESS: Annihilation or decay of dark matter charged under new U(1) with sub-gev mass A, to explain e+e- excesses DAMA/LIBRA, INTEGRAL, CoGeNT 5

6 Additional motivations...and the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon arxiv:

7 Existing constraints Beam dump experiments BaBar Υ(3S) g-2 of muon experiment Supernova data BBN, CMB data arxiv:

proposed a fixed target experiment to be conducted at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, in

8 APEX: Dark photon search in fixed target experiment at Jefferson Lab Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA Coupling strength APEX proposal Bjorken, Essig, Schuster, Toro, Wojtsekhowski, et al. proposed a fixed target experiment to be conducted at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, in Virginia; test run for experiment in June/July 2010 Full run: α /α 10 7 m A = 65 to 525 MeV Test run: α /α 10 6 m A = 178 to 250 MeV Hall A 8

9 Experimental signature Direct production at JLab Produce low mass hidden gauge bosons with weak coupling to SM via high energy electron beam incident on fixed high-z (Ta) target A decays to e + e pair with opening angle ~ m A /E b e + Dipole septum magnets allow for detection of e + e produced at small angles e A e γ Z Θ 0 5 9

10 Experimental signature e Signal A e + e e γ l + l Z γ Z γ APEX Test Run Data, ~770K evts QED backgrounds Events / ( 0.05 ) ? e Z l + l Looking for a small, narrow bump on top of a smooth histogram of QED processes (MeV/c ) m e+e- Excellent mass resolution required 10

11 Jefferson Lab s Hall A experimental apparatus APEX test run: Beam current up to 150µA Target: Ta foil, 22 mg/cm 2 HRS Central momenta: 1.13 GeV Momentum acc: ± 4.5% Electron beam energy: 2.26 GeV Solid angle acceptance: Left HRS: 2.8 msr Right HRS: 2.9 msr Top view J. Huang 11

12 JLab Hall A Outgoing electron (behind) Incoming electron beam: 2.26 GeV Target enclosure (behind) Outgoing positron 12

13 JLab Hall A Detector hut for HRS Outgoing electron Pipe leading to beam dump 13

14 Hall A High Resolution Spectrometers (HRSs) Timing (to ID coincident e+e- pairs) Offline PID Online PID and triggering Tracking E. Jensen 14

15 Vertical Drift Chambers Argon-CO2 mixture S. Riordan Two parallel VDCs provide accurate reconstruction of full 3D track of particle as it enters the HRS APEX: Electron singles rate from 0.7 to 5.8 MHz Rates are higher than ever used in Hall A -- 5 MHz (75 khz/wire, 368 wires) 15

Optics calibration Accurate determination of momentum requires knowledge of position at

Entrance Sieve Sieve V. Pos [m] Beam After Calibration Sieve Plate e Vertex Sieve V.

Huang Use elastic scattering events during calibration run; know position and angle at

16 Optics calibration Accurate determination of momentum requires knowledge of position at target in addition to position at HRS Before Calibration Sieve slit method Septum Entrance Sieve Sieve V. Pos [m] Beam After Calibration Sieve Plate e Vertex Sieve V. Pos [m] J. Huang Use elastic scattering events during calibration run; know position and angle at target very well optics matrix Optics is a mapping from measured coord. at VDC to 3-momentum at target Optics data separately used to determine angular resolution Sieve H. Pos [m] 16

17 Mass resolution Mass resolution depends on angular and momentum resolution HRS momentum resolution excellent, 10 4 ; negligible Angular resolution and multiple scattering in target dominate mrad Optics Tracking MS in target σ(horiz) 0.11 ~ σ(vert) 0.22 ~ Test run mass resolution: σ ~ MeV (varies over mass range) 17

18 Background rejection and final data set Reducible backgrounds Electron singles from inelastic or electron-nucleon scattering Pions from virtual photon decays Proton singles Accidental e + e coincidences e + e pairs from real photon conversions Pion rejection: Production ratio in right HRS: e + /π + > 1/100 Online pion rejection: factor of 30 cos θ c = c nv Measure p separately ==> Offline rejection > 1/100 using both gas Cherenkov and calorimeters Final event sample trigger: Double coincidence gas Cherenkov signal within 12.5 ns window in each arm m = p γv Final data sample consisted of true e + e - coincident events with 0.9% (7.4%) meson (accidental e + e - coincidence) contamination 18

19 Bump hunt / resonance search Final invariant mass spectrum QED radiative trident / Bethe-Heitler events Bump hunt for small, narrow resonance APEX Test Run Data, ~770K evts TestRunData_6_30_10_27, Wind 30, Cheb O(7), m = , edm= , CQ=3 A' Events / ( 0.05 ) Events / ( (0.05) ) (MeV/c ) Test run mass resolution: P (m e+ e m A, σ,s,b,a i)= S N(m e + e m A, σ) + B Polynomial(m e + e,a i) S + B Probability model and profile likelihood ratio σ m e+e- ~ MeV λ(s) = L(S, ˆB,âi ) L(Ŝ, ˆB,â i ) Window size = 30.5 MeV 7th order polynomial fit Rescaled Mass MeV MeV Test mass: m = MeV A 19

20 Results from scan of test run data: S, P-values APEX Test Run Data, Two-Sided Central Limit APEX Test Run Data, Raw Null P-values S % CL! m = 1 MeV/c Upper Limit Lower Limit Exp Limit, Asimov Exp Limit, Stat. S best fit 2 p-val σ 2σ (MeV/c ) m A' σ For ~1000 pseudoexperiments based on the test run data, 40% yielded a p-value lower than (MeV/c ) m A' 20

21 Upper limit on S upper limit on coupling The A cross section is related to the radiative trident cross section by dσ(a ) dσ(γ ) = within a mass window of width δm 3π 2 2N eff α ma δm = S δm B γ δm (See APEX proposal) S/B independent of detector acceptance within 1 MeV window around mass A Exploit the kinematic similarities between and production A Ratio f of radiative-only cross section to full trident cross section determined via Monte Carlo to vary linearly from 0.21 to 0.25 across APEX mass range γ α Smax /m A 2Neff α α max = f B/ m 3π 21

22 Upper limit on S upper limit on coupling α α max Smax /m A 2Neff α = f B/ m 3π 22

org/abstract/prl/v107/i19/e191804 arxiv:1108.

23 Test run results and full run status Test run results in PRL prl.aps.org/abstract/prl/v107/i19/e arxiv: Experiment is approved; JLab currently shut down for upgrade of beam to 12 GeV 23

24 Plan for Full Run Full run at JLab will take data for ~34 days at 4 different energy and spectrometer settings Cover a larger mass range using a 50-cm long multifoil target 24

Plan for Full Run Full run statistics of e + e pairs will be ~200x larger than test run, allowing sensitivity to α /α = 2 1-2 orders of magnitude below current limits JLab first beam after

25 Plan for Full Run Full run statistics of e + e pairs will be ~200x larger than test run, allowing sensitivity to α /α = orders of magnitude below current limits JLab first beam after shutdown for 12 GeV upgrade projected for February 2014 APEX ready for first beam in Hall A Currently testing new optics calibration method Data acquisition rate improvements (up to 5 khz) 25

26 Acknowledgments APEX spokespeople Rouven Essig (Stony Brook) Philip Schuster (Perimeter) Natalia Toro (Perimeter) Bogdan Wojtsekhowski (Jefferson Lab) Core test run analysis team Sergey Abrahamyan (Jefferson Lab) Eric Jensen (William & Mary) Jin Huang (MIT) Kyle Cranmer, J.B. (NYU) The Hall A Collaboration Jefferson Lab staff 26

27 Backups 27

28 Hall A High Resolution Spectrometers (HRSs) 28

APEX: Goals and Strategy

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