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
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
Předmět:
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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