Physics Opportunities at a Beam Dump Facility at PIP-II at Fermilab and Beyond

• Published in: arXiv.org 2023-11
• Main Authors: Aguilar-Arevalo, A A, Barrow, J L, Bhat, C, Bogenschuetz, J, Bonifazi, C, Bross, A, Cervantes, B, D'Olivo, J, De Roeck, A, Dutta, B, Eads, M, Eldred, J, Estrada, J, Fava, A, C Fernandes Vilela, G Fernandez Moroni, Flaugher, B, Gardiner, S, Gurung, G, Gutierrez, P, Jang, W Y, Kelly, K J, Kim, D, Kobilarcik, T, Liu, Z, Lyu, K F, Machado, P, Mahapatra, R, Marjanovic, M, Mastbaum, A, Pandey, V, Pellico, W, Perez, S, Reichenbacher, J, Rodrigues, D, Sousa, A, Simons, B, Snowden-Ifft, D, C -Y Tan, Toups, M, Tran, N, Y -T Tsai, R G Van de Water, Vilar, R, Westerdale, S, J Yu, Zettlemoyer, J, Zwaska, R
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Kinematics; Neutrinos; Protons
• ISSN: 2331-8422

The Fermilab Proton-Improvement-Plan-II (PIP-II) is being implemented in order to support the precision neutrino oscillation measurements at the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, the U.S. flagship neutrino experiment. The PIP-II LINAC is presently under construction and is expected to provide 800~MeV protons with 2~mA current. This white paper summarizes the outcome of the first workshop on May 10 through 13, 2023, to exploit this capability for new physics opportunities in the kinematic regime that are unavailable to other facilities, in particular a potential beam dump facility implemented at the end of the LINAC. Various new physics opportunities have been discussed in a wide range of kinematic regime, from eV scale to keV and MeV. We also emphasize that the timely establishment of the beam dump facility at Fermilab is essential to exploit these new physics opportunities.