%0 Journal Article
%T GeV-scale dark matter: production at the Main Injector
%A Bogdan A. Dobrescu
%A Claudia Frugiuele
%J Physics
%D 2014
%I arXiv
%R 10.1007/JHEP02(2015)019
%X Assuming that dark matter particles interact with quarks via a GeV-scale mediator, we study dark matter production in fixed target collisions. The ensuing signal in a neutrino near detector consists of neutral-current events with an energy distribution peaked at higher values than the neutrino background. We find that for a $Z'$ boson of mass around a few GeV that decays to dark matter particles, the dark matter beam produced by the Main Injector at Fermilab allows the exploration of a range of values for the gauge coupling that currently satisfy all experimental constraints. The NO$\nu$A detector is well positioned for probing the presence of a dark matter beam, while future LBNF near-detectors would provide more sensitive probes.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.1566v1