Search for new light particles at ILC main beam dump

TL;DR

This paper evaluates the potential of the ILC beam dump experiment to detect new light particles, demonstrating significantly improved sensitivity over existing experiments and complementarity with astrophysical bounds.

Contribution

It presents a feasibility study showing the ILC beam dump's enhanced sensitivity to ALPs and light scalars, including regions relevant to muon g-2.

Findings

Higher detection sensitivity than other beam dump experiments.

Complementary to astrophysical bounds for ALPs.

Can explore muon g-2 favored parameter space.

Abstract

We perform a feasibility study of a beam dump experiment at the International Linear Collider (ILC). To investigate the sensitivity to new light particles at the experiment, we consider models for axion-like particles (ALPs) and a light scalar particle coupled to charged leptons. For both models, we show that the detection sensitivity is almost an order of magnitude higher than other beam dump experiments in the small coupling region. For ALPs, it is shown that the ILC beam dump experiment is highly complementary to bounds from astrophysics. In addition, for the model of the scalar particle, the region favored by the muon $g-2$ experiment can be explored.