APEX is an experiment at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) in Virginia, USA, that searches for a new gauge boson ($A^prime$) with sub-GeV mass and coupling to ordinary matter of $g^prime sim (10^{-6} - 10^{-2}) e$. Electrons impinge upon a fixed target of high-Z material. An $A^prime$ is produced via a process analogous to photon bremsstrahlung, decaying to an $e^+ e^-$ pair. A test run was held in July of 2010, covering $m_{A^prime}$ = 175 to 250 MeV and couplings $g^prime/e ; textgreater ; 10^{-3}$. A full run is approved and will cover $m_{A^prime} sim$ 65 to 525 MeV and $g^prime/e ; textgreater ; 2.3 times10^{-4}$.
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