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SUMMARY:[RBRC seminar] New Searches for Dark Sectors via Deep Inelastic Sc
 attering at the EIC
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Susan Gardner (University of Kentucky)\n\nThe upcomi
 ng EIC is expected to offer new perspectives on femtoscale physics\, and i
 n this talk I develop how it can also be used to probe non-Standard-Model 
 physics in the MeV-GeV mass range. Such searches are motivated\, e.g.\, by
  models that would simultaneously explain dark matter and the cosmic baryo
 n asymmetry. Searches for new particles have traditionally been realized t
 hrough ``bump hunts'’ or via displaced-vertex searches for more weakly 
 coupled particles. Here I discuss how the combined QCD and QED factorizati
 on approach to deep inelastic scattering enables new searches for light\, 
 non-SM physics. That combined framework puts radiation in QED and QCD on t
 he same theoretical footing\, making it a perfect setting in which to stu
 dy the production of non-SM particles\, which are undetected save for the 
 energy loss that they generate. As a first step we consider e-p scattering
  with leptophilic new physics and generic initial state radiation to prov
 ide a "proof of principle" example of this new approach\, noting its compa
 tibility with the expected forward-backward detection sensitivity of the e
 PIC detector at the EIC.  This type of search strategy does not require th
 at the non-SM particles couple to electrons\, opening new vistas on such p
 hysics\, and I will note how these searches can be accelerated using agen
 tic AI techniques.\n\nhttps://indico.bnl.gov/event/33092/
LOCATION:2-160 (https://bnl.zoomgov.com/j/1600983728?pwd=RAD7OLcqre7Ycsp6J
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URL:https://indico.bnl.gov/event/33092/
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