Natalia Toro

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• Axion dark matter detection by superconducting resonant frequency conversion JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS Berlin, A., D'Agnolo, R., Ellis, S. R., Nantista, C., Neilson, J., Schuster, P., Tantawi, S., Toro, N., Zhou, K. 2020

  View details for DOI 10.1007/JHEP07(2020)088

  View details for Web of Science ID 000553159900001

• A high efficiency photon veto for the Light Dark Matter eXperiment JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS Akesson, T., Blinov, N., Bryngemark, L., Colegrove, O., Collura, G., Dukes, C., Dutta, V., Echenard, B., Eichlersmith, T., Group, C., Hiltbrand, J., Hitlin, D. G., Incandela, J., Krnjaic, G., Lazaro, J., Li, A., Mans, J., Masterson, P., McCormick, J., Moreno, O., Mullier, G., Nagar, A., Nelson, T., Niendorf, G., Oyang, J., Petersen, R., Pottgen, R., Schuster, P., Siegel, H., Toro, N., Tran, N., Whitbeck, A. 2020

  View details for DOI 10.1007/JHEP04(2020)003

  View details for Web of Science ID 000524516700002

• Lepton-nucleus cross section measurements for DUNE with the LDMX detector PHYSICAL REVIEW D Ankowski, A. M., Friedland, A., Li, S., Moreno, O., Schuster, P., Toro, N., Tran, N. 2020; 101 (5)

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.053004

  View details for Web of Science ID 000522163200002

• Directly Deflecting Particle Dark Matter PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS Berlin, A., D'Agnolo, R., Ellis, S. R., Schuster, P., Toro, N. 2020; 124 (1): 011801

  Abstract

  We propose a new strategy to directly detect light particle dark matter that has long-ranged interactions with ordinary matter. The approach involves distorting the local flow of dark matter with time-varying fields and measuring these distortions with shielded resonant detectors. We apply this idea to sub-MeV dark matter particles with very small electric charges or coupled to a light vector mediator, including the freeze-in parameter space targeted by low mass direct detection efforts. This approach can probe dark matter masses ranging from 10 MeV to below a meV, extending beyond the capabilities of existing and proposed direct detection experiments.

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.011801

  View details for Web of Science ID 000505495300008

  View details for PubMedID 31976725

• Dark matter, millicharges, axion and scalar particles, gauge bosons, and other new physics with LDMX PHYSICAL REVIEW D Berlin, A., Blinov, N., Krnjaic, G., Schuster, P., Toro, N. 2019; 99 (7)

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.075001

  View details for Web of Science ID 000462920400003

• Search for a dark photon in electroproduced e(+)e(-) pairs with the Heavy Photon Search experiment at JLab PHYSICAL REVIEW D Adrian, P. H., Baltzell, N. A., Battaglieri, M., Bondi, M., Boyarinov, S., Bueltmann, S., Burkert, V. D., Calvo, D., Carpinelli, M., Celentano, A., Charles, G., Colaneri, L., Cooper, W., Cuevas, C., D'Angelo, A., Dashyan, N., De Napoli, M., De Vita, R., Deur, A., Dupre, R., Egiyan, H., Elouadrhiri, L., Essig, R., Fadeyev, Field, C., Filippi, A., Freyberger, A., Garcon, M., Gevorgyan, N., Girod, F. X., Graf, N., Graham, M., Griffioen, K. A., Grillo, A., Guidal, M., Herbst, R., Holtrop, M., Jaros, J., Kalicy, G., Khandaker, M., Kubarovsky, Leonora, E., Livingston, K., Maruyama, T., McCarty, K., McCormick, J., McKinnon, B., Moffeit, K., Moreno, O., Camacho, C., Nelson, T., Niccolai, S., Odian, A., Oriunno, M., Osipenko, M., Paremuzyan, R., Paul, S., Randazzo, N., Raydo, B., Reese, B., Rizzo, A., Schuster, P., Sharabian, Y. G., Simi, G., Simonyan, A., Sipala, Sokhan, D., Solt, M., Stepanyan, S., Szumila-Vance, H., Toro, N., Uemura, S., Ungaro, M., Voskanyan, H., Weinstein, L. B., Wojtsekhowski, B., Yale, B., Heavy Photon Search Collaboration 2018; 98 (9)

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.98.091101

  View details for Web of Science ID 000449909800001

• Dark sectors at the Fermilab SeaQuest experiment PHYSICAL REVIEW D Berlin, A., Gori, S., Schuster, P., Toro, N. 2018; 98 (3)

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.98.035011

  View details for Web of Science ID 000441013200005

• Cosmology and accelerator tests of strongly interacting dark matter PHYSICAL REVIEW D Berlin, A., Blinov, N., Gori, S., Schuster, P., Toro, N. 2018; 97 (5)

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.97.055033

  View details for Web of Science ID 000428164300006

• Analyzing the Discovery Potential for Light Dark Matter PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS Izaguirre, E., Krnjaic, G., Schuster, P., Toro, N. 2015; 115 (25): 251301

  Abstract

  In this Letter, we determine the present status of sub-GeV thermal dark matter annihilating through standard model mixing, with special emphasis on interactions through the vector portal. Within representative simple models, we carry out a complete and precise calculation of the dark matter abundance and of all available constraints. We also introduce a concise framework for comparing different experimental approaches, and use this comparison to identify important ranges of dark matter mass and couplings to better explore in future experiments. The requirement that dark matter be a thermal relic sets a sharp sensitivity target for terrestrial experiments, and so we highlight complementary experimental approaches that can decisively reach this milestone sensitivity over the entire sub-GeV mass range.

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.251301

  View details for Web of Science ID 000366484900001

  View details for PubMedID 26722912

• Testing GeV-scale dark matter with fixed-target missing momentum experiments PHYSICAL REVIEW D Izaguirre, E., Krnjaic, G., Schuster, P., Toro, N. 2015; 91 (9)

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.094026

  View details for Web of Science ID 000354927200006

• A new class of particle in 2+1 dimensions PHYSICS LETTERS B Schuster, P., Toro, N. 2015; 743: 224–27

  View details for DOI 10.1016/j.physletb.2015.02.050

  View details for Web of Science ID 000352147500036

• The Heavy Photon Search test detector NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT Battaglieri, M. a., Boyarinov, S. b., Bueltmann, S. c., Burkert, V. b., Celentano, A. a., CHARLES, G. F., COOPER, W. D., Cuevas, C. b., Dashyan, N. e., DeVita, R. a., Desnault, C. f., Deur, A. b., Egiyan, H. b., Elouadrhiri, L. b., Essig, R. g., Fadeyev, V. h., Field, C. i., Freyberger, A. b., Gershtein, Y. j., Gevorgyan, N. E., Girod, F. b., Graf, N. i., Graham, M. I., Griffioen, K. k., Grillo, A. h., Guidal, M. f., Haller, G. i., Adrian, P. H., Herbst, R. i., Holtrop, M. l., Jaros, J. i., Kaneta, S. b., Khandaker, M. M., Kubarovsky, A. n., Kubarovsky, V. b., Maruyama, T. i., McCormick, J. I., Moffeit, K. i., Moreno, O. H., Neal, H. i., Nelson, T. i., Niccolai, S. f., Odian, A. i., Oriunno, M. i., Paremuzyan, R. e., Partridge, R. i., Phillips, S. K., Rauly, E. f., Raydo, B. b., REICHERT, J. J., Rindel, E. f., Rosier, P. F., Salgado, C. M., Schuster, P. o., Sharabian, Y. b., Sokhan, D. p., Stepanyan, S. b., Toro, N. o., Uemura, S. i., Ungaro, M. b., Voskanyan, H. E., Walz, D. i., Weinstein, L. B., Wojtsekhowski, B. B. 2015; 777: 91-101

  View details for DOI 10.1016/j.nima.2014.12.017

  View details for Web of Science ID 000349468800014

• Continuous-spin particle field theory with helicity correspondence PHYSICAL REVIEW D Schuster, P., Toro, N. 2015; 91 (2)

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.025023

  View details for Web of Science ID 000349485800008

• Physics motivation for a pilot dark matter search at Jefferson Laboratory PHYSICAL REVIEW D Izaguirre, E., Krnjaic, G., Schuster, P., Toro, N. 2014; 90 (1)

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.90.014052

  View details for Web of Science ID 000341241300002

• New electron beam-dump experiments to search for MeV to few-GeV dark matter PHYSICAL REVIEW D Izaguirre, E., Krnjaic, G., Schuster, P., Toro, N. 2013; 88 (11)

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.88.114015

  View details for Web of Science ID 000328601900011

• A gauge field theory of continuous-spin particles JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS Schuster, P., Toro, N. 2013

  View details for DOI 10.1007/JHEP10(2013)061

  View details for Web of Science ID 000325564700005

• On the theory of continous-spin particles: helicity correspondence in radiation and forces JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS Schuster, P., Toro, N. 2013

  View details for DOI 10.1007/JHEP09(2013)105

  View details for Web of Science ID 000324653800003

• On the theory of continous-spin particles: wavefunctions and soft-factor scattering amplitudes JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS Schuster, P., Toro, N. 2013

  View details for DOI 10.1007/JHEP09(2013)104

  View details for Web of Science ID 000324653800002

• Study of LHC searches for a lepton and many jets JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS Lisanti, M., Schuster, P., Strassler, M., Toro, N. 2012

  View details for DOI 10.1007/JHEP11(2012)081

  View details for Web of Science ID 000312198500016

• Sommerfeld-enhanced annihilation in dark matter substructure: Consequences for constraints on cosmic-ray excesses PHYSICAL REVIEW D Slatyer, T. R., Toro, N., Weiner, N. 2012; 86 (8)

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.86.083534

  View details for Web of Science ID 000310194700002

• Simplified models for LHC new physics searches JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS Alves, D., Arkani-Hamed, N., Arora, S., Bai, Y., Baumgart, M., Berger, J., Buckley, M., Butler, B., Chang, S., Cheng, H., Cheung, C., Chivukula, R. S., Cho, W. S., Cotta, R., D'Alfonso, M., El Hedri, S., Essig, R., Evans, J. A., Fitzpatrick, L., Fox, P., Franceschini, R., Freitas, A., Gainer, J. S., Gershtein, Y., Gray, R., Gregoire, T., Gripaios, B., Gunion, J., Han, T., Haas, A., Hansson, P., Hewett, J., Hits, D., Hubisz, J., Izaguirre, E., Kaplan, J., Katz, E., Kilic, C., Kim, H., Kitano, R., Koay, S. A., Ko, P., Krohn, D., Kuflik, E., Lewis, I., Lisanti, M., Liu, T., Liu, Z., Lu, R., Luty, M., Meade, P., Morrissey, D., Mrenna, S., Nojiri, M., Okui, T., Padhi, S., Papucci, M., Park, M., Park, M., Perelstein, M., Peskin, M., Phalen, D., Rehermann, K., Rentala, V., Roy, T., Ruderman, J. T., Sanz, V., Schmaltz, M., Schnetzer, S., Schuster, P., Schwaller, P., Schwartz, M. D., Schwartzman, A., Shao, J., Shelton, J., Shih, D., Shu, J., Silverstein, D., Simmons, E., Somalwar, S., Spannowsky, M., Spethmann, C., Strassler, M., Su, S., Tait, T., Thomas, B., Thomas, S., Toro, N., Volansky, T., Wacker, J., Waltenberger, W., Yavin, I., Yu, F., Zhao, Y., Zurek, K. 2012; 39 (10)

  View details for DOI 10.1088/0954-3899/39/10/105005

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• Multiphotons and photon jets from new heavy vector bosons PHYSICAL REVIEW D Toro, N., Yavin, I. 2012; 86 (5)

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.86.055005

  View details for Web of Science ID 000308393500003

• Search for a New Gauge Boson in Electron-Nucleus Fixed-Target Scattering by the APEX Experiment PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS Abrahamyan, S., Ahmed, Z., Allada, K., Anez, D., Averett, T., Barbieri, A., Bartlett, K., Beacham, J., Bono, J., Boyce, J. R., Brindza, P., Camsonne, A., Cranmer, K., Dalton, M. M., de Jager, C. W., Donaghy, J., Essig, R., Field, C., Folts, E., Gasparian, A., Goeckner-Wald, N., Gomez, J., Graham, M., Hansen, J., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmstrom, T., Huang, J., Iqbal, S., Jaros, J., Jensen, E., Kelleher, A., Khandaker, M., LeRose, J. J., Lindgren, R., Liyanage, N., Long, E., Mammei, J., Markowitz, P., Maruyama, T., Maxwell, V., Mayilyan, S., McDonald, J., Michaels, R., MOFFEIT, K., Nelyubin, V., Odian, A., Oriunno, M., Partridge, R., Paolone, M., Piasetzky, E., POMERANTZ, I., Qiang, Y., Riordan, S., Roblin, Y., Sawatzky, B., Schuster, P., Segal, J., Selvy, L., Shahinyan, A., Subedi, R., Sulkosky, V., Stepanyan, S., Toro, N., Walz, D., Wojtsekhowski, B., Zhang, J. 2011; 107 (19)

  Abstract

  We present a search at the Jefferson Laboratory for new forces mediated by sub-GeV vector bosons with weak coupling α' to electrons. Such a particle A' can be produced in electron-nucleus fixed-target scattering and then decay to an e + e- pair, producing a narrow resonance in the QED trident spectrum. Using APEX test run data, we searched in the mass range 175-250 MeV, found no evidence for an A'→ e+ e- reaction, and set an upper limit of α'/α ~/= 10(-6). Our findings demonstrate that fixed-target searches can explore a new, wide, and important range of masses and couplings for sub-GeV forces.

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.191804

  View details for Web of Science ID 000297006700004

  View details for PubMedID 22181599

• An electron fixed target experiment to search for a new vector boson A ' decaying to e(+)e(-) JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS Essig, R., Schuster, P., Toro, N., Wojtsekhowski, B. 2011

  View details for DOI 10.1007/JHEP02(2011)009

  View details for Web of Science ID 000287939400051

• High energy electron signals from dark matter annihilation in the Sun PHYSICAL REVIEW D Schuster, P., Toro, N., Weiner, N., Yavin, I. 2010; 82 (11)

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.115012

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• Discovering new light states at neutrino experiments PHYSICAL REVIEW D Essig, R., Harnik, R., Kaplan, J., Toro, N. 2010; 82 (11)

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.113008

  View details for Web of Science ID 000286566100002

• Physics with the KLOE-2 experiment at the upgraded DA Phi NE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C Amelino-Camelia, G., Archilli, F., Babusci, D., Badoni, D., Bencivenni, G., Bernabeu, J., Bertlmann, R. A., Boito, D. R., Bini, C., Bloise, C., BOCCI, V., Bossi, F., Branchini, P., Budano, A., BULYCHJEV, S. A., Campana, P., Capon, G., Ceradini, F., Ciambrone, P., Czerwinski, E., Czyz, H., D'Ambrosio, G., Dane, E., De Lucia, E., De Robertis, G., De Santis, A., De Simone, P., De Zorzi, G., Di Domenico, A., Di Donato, C., Di Micco, B., Domenici, D., Eidelman, S. I., Erriquez, O., Escribano, R., Essig, R., Fedotovich, G. V., Felici, G., Fiore, S., Franzini, P., Gauzzi, P., Giacosa, F., Giovannella, S., Gonnella, F., Graziani, E., Happacher, F., Hiesmayr, B. C., Hoistad, B., Iarocci, E., Ivashyn, S., Jacewicz, M., Jegerlehner, F., Johansson, T., Lee-Franzini, J., Kluge, W., Kulikov, V. V., Kupsc, A., Lehnert, R., Loddo, F., Lukin, P., Martemianov, M. A., Martini, M., Matsyuk, M. A., Mavromatos, N. E., Mescia, F., Messi, R., Miscetti, S., Morello, G., Moricciani, D., Moskal, P., Mueller, S., Nguyen, F., Passemar, E., Passera, M., Passeri, A., Patera, V., Pennington, M. R., Prades, J., Quintieri, L., Ranieri, A., Reece, M., Santangelo, P., Sarkar, S., Sarra, I., Schioppa, M., Schuster, P. C., Sciascia, B., Sciubba, A., Silarski, M., Taccini, C., Toro, N., Tortora, L., Venanzoni, G., Versaci, R., Wang, L., Wislicki, W., Wolke, M., ZDEBIK, J. 2010; 68 (3-4): 619-681

  View details for DOI 10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1351-1

  View details for Web of Science ID 000280642600022

• Terrestrial and solar limits on long-lived particles in a dark sector PHYSICAL REVIEW D Schuster, P., Toro, N., Yavin, I. 2010; 81 (1)

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.016002

  View details for Web of Science ID 000274002800061

• New fixed-target experiments to search for dark gauge forces PHYSICAL REVIEW D Bjorken, J. D., Essig, R., Schuster, P., Toro, N. 2009; 80 (7)

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.075018

  View details for Web of Science ID 000271353400093

• Probing dark forces and light hidden sectors at low-energy e(+)e(-) colliders PHYSICAL REVIEW D Essig, R., Schuster, P., Toro, N. 2009; 80 (1)

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.015003

  View details for Web of Science ID 000268618600051

• Constructing the tree-level Yang-Mills S-matrix using complex factorization JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS Schuster, P. C., Toro, N. 2009

  View details for DOI 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/06/079

  View details for Web of Science ID 000267789300079

• Simplified models for a first characterization of new physics at the LHC PHYSICAL REVIEW D Alwall, J., Schuster, P. C., Toro, N. 2009; 79 (7)

  View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.075020

  View details for Web of Science ID 000266408300084