Combined limit on the production of a light gauge boson decaying into mu(+) mu(-) and pi(+) pi(-)
Autor: | P.A. Lukin, E. P. Solodov, E. Perez del Rio, A. D'Uffizi, D. Kisielewska-Kamińska, Michał Silarski, Filippo Ceradini, Paolo Ciambrone, G. Venanzoni, P. Fermani, V. L. Ivanov, P. De Simone, Paweł Moskal, A. De Santis, R. Messi, T. Johansson, G. Fantini, Eryk Czerwiński, E. Dané, Francesca Curciarello, D. Domenici, S. Giovannella, F. Bossi, Antonio Budano, C. Bloise, A. Anastasi, L. Tortora, A. Selce, Marco Schioppa, A. Di Domenico, Giuseppe Mandaglio, Magnus Wolke, P. Gauzzi, S. Miscetti, X. Kang, D. Babusci, N. Raha, A. Fantini, V. De Leo, Florin Sirghi, Vincenzo Patera, Andrzej Kupsc, Wojciech Krzemien, P. Branchini, E. De Lucia, M. Martini, Paolo Santangelo, D. Moricciani, G. D'Agostini, E.A. Kozyrev, A. Di Cicco, A. Passeri, S. Fiore, E. Graziani, Wojciech Wiślicki, M. Berlowski, B. Cao, Aleksander Gajos |
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Přispěvatelé: | Anastasi, A., Babusci, D., Berlowski, M., Bloise, C., Bossi, F., Branchini, P., Budano, A., Cao, B., Ceradini, F., Ciambrone, P., Curciarello, F., Czerwiński, E., D'Agostini, G., Danè, E., De Leo, V., De Lucia, E., De Santis, A., De Simone, P., Di Cicco, A., Di Domenico, A., Domenici, D., D'Uffizi, A., Fantini, A., Fantini, G., Fermani, P., Fiore, S., Gajos, A., Gauzzi, P., Giovannella, S., Graziani, E., Ivanov, V. L., Johansson, T., Kang, X., Kisielewska-Kamińska, D., Kozyrev, E. A., Krzemien, W., Kupsc, A., Lukin, P. A., Mandaglio, G., Martini, M., Messi, R., Miscetti, S., Moricciani, D., Moskal, P., Passeri, A., Patera, V., Perez del Rio, E., Raha, N., Santangelo, P., Schioppa, M., Selce, Andrea, Silarski, M., Sirghi, F., Solodov, E. P., Tortora, L., Venanzoni, G., Wiślicki, W., Wolke, M. |
Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Dark forces e(+) e(-) Collisions High Energy Physics::Lattice Electron–positron annihilation Hadron Radiation 01 natural sciences e+e− Collision Dark photon High Energy Physics - Experiment Subatomär fysik High Energy Physics::Theory e+e- Collisions Dark forces. Gauge vector boson Upper limits Astronomi astrofysik och kosmologi 0103 physical sciences Subatomic Physics Astronomy Astrophysics and Cosmology Limit (mathematics) e + e − Collisions Gauge vector boson Upper limits 010306 general physics Condensed Matter::Quantum Gases Coupling constant Physics Gauge boson 010308 nuclear & particles physics High Energy Physics::Phenomenology Settore FIS/01 - Fisica Sperimentale Upper limit Fine-structure constant lcsh:QC1-999 Dark force High Energy Physics::Experiment Atomic physics lcsh:Physics |
Zdroj: | Physics Letters B, Vol 784, Iss, Pp 336-341 (2018) Physics Letters |
Popis: | We searched for the $\mu^+\mu^-$ decay of a light vector gauge boson, also known as dark photon, in the $e^+ e^- \to \mu^+ \mu^- \gamma_{\rm ISR}$ process by means of the Initial State Radiation (ISR) method. We used 1.93~fb$^{-1}$ of data collected by the KLOE experiment at the DA$\Phi$NE $\phi$-factory. No structures have been observed over the irreducible $\mu^+ \mu^-$ background. A 90\% CL limit on the ratio $\varepsilon^2=\alpha^{\prime}/\alpha$ between the dark coupling constant and the fine structure constant of $ 3\times 10^{-6}-2\times 10^{-7}$ has been set in the dark photon mass region between 519 MeV and 973 MeV. This new limit has been combined with the published result obtained investigating the hypothesis of the dark photon decaying into hadrons in $e^+ e^- \to \pi^+ \pi^- \gamma_{\rm ISR}$ events. The combined 90\% CL limit increases the sensitivity especially in the $\rho-\omega$ interference region and excludes $\varepsilon^2$ greater than $(13-2)\times 10^{-7}$. For dark photon masses greater than 600 MeV the combined limit is lower than 8~$\times\, 10^{-7}$ resulting more stringent than present constraints from other experiments. Comment: 7 pages, 9 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in Physics Letters B |
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