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Description
The accelerator complex at Fermilab is currently undergoing improvements which will increase the available beam power to the complex and is known as Proton Improvement Plan-II (PIP-II). The PIP-II Linac is slated for operation later this decade and will be the main proton driver for Fermilab experiments moving forward and provide the beam to LBNF/DUNE. However, the DUNE physics program requires only ~1% of the available protons provided by PIP-II. The Accelerator Complex Evolution, or ACE, will provide further upgrades in the form of a replacement for the Fermilab Booster which could also include an accumulator ring. PIP-II provides an exciting opportunity to build a beam dump facility that could host a suite of small projects to search for dark sector physics across energy scales with examples being accelerator-produced dark matter, active-to-sterile neutrino oscillations, millicharged particles, and axion-like particles, which can be produced in the proton collisions with a fixed target. In this talk, I will summarize the physics possible at PIP-II and sensitivities to different dark sector physics and other beyond the Standard Model models using detectors spanning from an eV-scale to MeV-scale detection threshold.
| Topic of submission | Small projects portfolio across frontiers |
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