[Cuga] Searching for a New Gauge Boson at JLab Workshop---a message from Stepan Stepanyan

[Rachel Harris]

Dear JLab Users and Colleagues,

We invite you to participate in the workshop

   Searching for a New Gauge Boson at JLab
   September 20-21, 2010
   Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
   Newport News, VA

Various dark matter related anomalies have lead to theoretical models
proposing that there are new gauge bosons (A') with masses in the MeV
to GeV range, which act as force carriers between dark matter particles.
Fixed-target experiments with electron beams are a powerful probe of
such A's. The goal of the workshop is to review the A' search
experiments proposed at Jefferson Lab in order to further inform a
decision at the laboratory on which experiments to pursue in detail. The
workshop will focuson the technologies of each proposed measurement, and
the issues perceived as potentially standing in the way of conclusive
results. The workshop will identify R&D/technology development,
background measurements and modeling that would be useful in preparing
these experiments. The relevance of each of the proposed experiments
will be discussed, as well as the degree of overlap and complementarity.

Details of the workshop can be found at -
http://conferences.jlab.org/boson2010/index.html

On behalf of organizing committee
Andrei Afanasev
Rouven Essig
Peter Fisher
John Jaros
Stepan Stepanyan
Bogdan Wojtsekhowski