[BDXlist] [EXTERNAL] Abstract for PM2024

[Andrea Celentano]

Dear Marco,
your abstract looks fine with me, and I think it is a very nice idea if you’ll give this talk / poster to the conference.

I just have a question regarding the last sentence:

> Additionally, AI-supported techniques  to enhance background rejection and increase the experiment's sensitivity to Light Dark Matter signals will be presented.

Do you plan to present results obtained from AI-supported techniques or just the plans and idea to use these techniques in BDX? In the first case, I suggest to show these results to the collaboration before the talk; I’d really interested in seeing them, this is the first time I hear about this approach in BDX.

Bests,
Andrea



> On Jan 25, 2024, at 05:06, Marco Spreafico via BDXlist <bdxlist at jlab.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> I would like to submit an abstract for the upcoming 16TH PISA MEETING ON ADVANCED DETECTORS (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.pi.infn.it_pm_&d=DwIDaQ&c=CJqEzB1piLOyyvZjb8YUQw&r=Ru7nA6zPBSFajtw1o6aZjchIV9Cs2SBk2RiVldzQhDc&m=G3g5p1xhnBZKLxkKnRRDBebtpG7BCqYNSix4fluBtVwypWBi5wkO3yjLiRuUi0zC&s=ktesfeJAIgSXpDNkwuvZUhFm9cQ4rMFAmKulaNglYO0&e= ) presenting BDX detector. I send you the abstract I would like to submit. Let me know if you have any suggestion before this Friday.
> 
> Title: The BDX detector for Light Dark Matter search at JLab
> 
> Abstract:
> The BDX experiment will be the first modern large-scale electron beam dump experiment explicitly aimed to search for Light Dark Matter (LDM) within the MeV-GeV energy range. Scheduled to operate between 2026 and 2029, BDX will utilise a 10 GeV beam with currents reaching up to 65 uA, and will accumulate over 10^22 electrons on target (EOT) over the full running period. Positioned downstream of the Jefferson Lab experimental Hall-A beam dump, BDX will run parasitically alongside the Hall-A experimental program.
> The BDX detector is optimised for Dark Matter detection and achieve remarkably high efficiency in background rejection. It will feature a 1 m^3 active core composed by CsI(Tl) crystals, surrounded by a highly hermetic, multi-layer veto system.  The innermost layer is made by a  passive lead shielding, while the middle and outer layers consist of high-efficiency plastic scintillators designed to detect charged particles.
> In this contribution I will show main features of the BDX experiment and the detector.  I will present the different variables that can be reconstructed and utilised in signal identification and background rejection. Additionally, AI-supported techniques  to enhance background rejection and increase the experiment's sensitivity to Light Dark Matter signals will be presented.
> 
> Let me know if you would change anything. I await your reply.
> Best regards,
> Marco S.
> 
> 
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