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We study capability of the ILC beam dump experiment to search for new physics, comparing the performance of the electron and positron beam dumps. The dark photon, axion-like particles, and light scalar bosons are considered as new physics scenarios, where all the important production mechanisms are included: electron-positron pair-annihilation, Primakoff process, and bremsstrahlung productions.
We find that the ILC beam dump experiment has higher sensitivity than past beam dump experiments, with the positron beam dump having slightly better performance for new physics particles which are produced by the electron-positron pair-annihilation.
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Asai, K., Iwamoto, S., Sakaki, Y. et al. New physics searches at the ILC positron and electron beam dumps. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 183 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2021)183
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