1-34 Recent Progress in Search for Dark Sector Signatures

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Wecommunicatemanydifficultiesthatweencounterwhenattemptingtopinpointacommonoriginfortheseveralobservedanomalies[1;2]orassessingtheirtensionwithexistingexclusionlimits.Theseincludesystematicsaffectingtheoperationofthedetectors,ourknowledgeoftheirresponse,astrophysicaluncertainties,andthebroadrangeofparticlecouplingsthatcanmediatetheinteractionwithadetectortarget.Theinterestingastrophysicalevidence[2]thatmotivatesasearchfordark-photonandfocusesourattentiononaHiddenValleysmodelwithaGeV-scaledarksectorthatproducesexcitingsignatures.Resultsfromtherecentundergroundexperiments[1]arealsoconsidered.