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Nicholas Kozenieski

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SBND is one of three liquid argon neutrino detectors sitting along the booster neutrino beam (BNB) of Fermilab's Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program. It is a 112-ton Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) situated 110 mete rs from the beam and has just started taking data that will provide unpreceden ted statistics on neutrino-argon cross sections and neutrino flavor oscillations . In addition, SBND's proximity to the BNB target provides sensitivity to pr obe a plethora of Beyond Standard Model (BSM) scenarios, such as several clas ses of dark matter (DM) models. One model of interest to SBND is vector porta l light dark matter, which involves a hypothetical force-carrying gauge boson in the dark sector, the dark photon, coupling to the standard model (SM) photon. This coupling, combined with the high performance of LArTPC technology in reco nstructing photon, electron, and nucleon signals, make SBND an ideal experime nt to probe newly accessible parameter space of this DM model. In this talk, w e will first introduce the SBN program, SBND, and LArTPC detection technolog y in particle physics. Then, we will look at phenomenological aspects of this light DM model useful for detection. Lastly, we will present new expected exclusion limits to this model's parameter space for certain proposed production and signal channels, namely π0 decay in flight (π0→γ+χ+χ†) and elastic neutral

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University of Florida / Nicholas Kozenieski, Heather Ray / 2024

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Nicholas Kozenieski