Because most Standard Model particles are absorbed in the dump, beam dump experiments are also suitable for studying weakly interacting particles like neutrinos.
Sources
- Beam dump experiment (en.wikipedia.org)
- https://t2k-experiment.org/neutrinos/sources-and-experiments/ (t2k-experiment.org)
- https://arxiv.org/html/2504.06692 (arxiv.org)
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.15851 (arxiv.org)
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