Seminario di Marco Battaglieri (INFN, Sezione di Genova)

The Beam Dump eXperiment is a state of the art, modern beam dump experiment approved by JLab PAC with maximum scientific rate. BDX aims to detect light dark matter particles in the interaction of the intense 11 GeV CEBAF electron beam with the dump of experimental Hall-A. In this contribution I will show the genesis of the experiment and its evolution  toward a pilot run we just concluded at Jlab (BDX-MINI). The physics case, as well as the experimental technique (simulation framework, detector design and prototyping), will be review and discussed.