[BDXlist] [EXTERNAL] Invited talk at HADRON 2023

[Marco Spreafico]

Dear all,
I was invited to give a talk about BDX-MINI at HADRON 2023 
(https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__agenda.infn.it_event_33110_registrations_3359_&d=DwICAg&c=CJqEzB1piLOyyvZjb8YUQw&r=Ru7nA6zPBSFajtw1o6aZjchIV9Cs2SBk2RiVldzQhDc&m=A2OOWHDzUeccFvhcmQR-QDidoyaZ7iRERe3uoGsmw1M8dhMkfm6VDzxiz5OXGPm_&s=Iia2BT6vD_PziaCVNzvcved822-sO0J_jtSGtXK_amo&e= ). I send you the 
title and abstract I would like to submit. Let me know if you have any 
suggestion, otherwise I will submit everything next week.

Title: Dark Matter search with the BDX-MINI experiment

Abstract:
BDX-MINI is a beam dump experiment performed at Jefferson Lab, aimed at 
searching for Light Dark Matter in the MeV-GeV mass range. Dark Matter 
is expected to be produced by the interaction of CEBAF high-intensity 
2.176 GeV beam with the  Hall A beam dump at Jefferson Lab.
The detector, installed in a well located 22 m downstream of the Hall-A 
beam dump, consists of a PbWO4 electromagnetic calorimeter surrounded by 
a hermetic veto system for background rejection. Despite the small 
interaction volume, the large accumulated charge of 2.56x10^21 EOT 
allowed for the BDX-mini measurement to set competitive exclusion limits 
on the LDM parameters space, comparable to those reported by 
larger-scale efforts.
In this talk, after a brief introduction to the LDM physics case, I will 
show the results obtained from the BDX-mini experiment, focusing on few 
key aspects of the associated experimental campaign and data analysis 
effort.

Let me know if you would change anything. I await your reply.
Best regards,
Marco S.