https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-025-01748-6
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
A Beamdump facility at Jefferson Lab
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Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, 23606, Newport News, Virginia, USA
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Johannes Gutenberg University, 55128, Mainz, Germany
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George Washington University, 20052, Washington, DC, USA
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Tel Aviv University, 6997801, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
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CERN, 1217, Geneve, Switzerland
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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova, 16146, Genova, Italy
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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Catania, 95125, Catania, Italy
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Old Dominion University, 23529, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
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Stony Brook University, 11790, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA
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University of York, YO10 5DD, York, UK
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Università degli Studi di Messina, 98122, Messina, Italy
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Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati dell’INFN, 00044, Frascati, Italy
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Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy, Department of Energy, New York, USA
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Hampton University, 23668, Hampton, Virginia, USA
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University of Minnesota, 55455, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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Virginia Tech, 24061, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
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Christopher Newport University, 23606, Newport News, Virginia, USA
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University of Rochester, 14627, Rochester, NY, USA
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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, 60510, Batavia, IL, USA
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Università degli Studi di Pavia, 27100, Pavia, Italy
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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pavia, 27100, Pavia, Italy
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Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232, Villigen, Switzerland
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University of Zürich, 8057, Zürich, Switzerland
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Occidental College, 90041, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Florida International University, 33199, Miami, Florida, USA
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA
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Canisius University, 14208, Buffalo, NY, USA
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High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, 305-0801, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex, 319-1195, Tokai-mura, Ibaraki, Japan
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patricka@jlab.org
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battaglieri@ge.infn.it
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mariangela.bondi@ct.infn.it
Received:
17
October
2025
Accepted:
10
November
2025
Published online:
24
December
2025
The potential of the intense secondary muon, neutrino, and (hypothetical) light dark matter beams at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) is explored. These are produced in the high-power dumps with high-current electron beams. Light dark matter searches with the approved Beam Dump eXperiment (BDX) are driving the realization of a new underground vault behind Hall A that could be extended to a Beamdump Facility with little additional installations. High-energy muons created via the Bethe–Heitler process uniquely do not proceed through the more common pion production and decay channels. Several possible muon physics applications are highlighted. Neutrino detector technologies and experiments suitable for a beamdump facility are outlined.
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