Search for dark photons with the FASER detector at the LHC

Autor: Henso Abreu, John Anders, Claire Antel, Akitaka Ariga, Tomoko Ariga, Jeremy Atkinson, Florian U. Bernlochner, Tobias Boeckh, Jamie Boyd, Lydia Brenner, Franck Cadoux, David W. Casper, Charlotte Cavanagh, Xin Chen, Andrea Coccaro, Monica D'Onofrio, Ansh Desai, Sergey Dmitrievsky, Candan Dozen, Yannick Favre, Deion Fellers, Jonathan L. Feng, Carlo Alberto Fenoglio, Didier Ferrere, Iftah Galon, Stephen Gibson, Sergio Gonzalez-Sevilla, Yuri Gornushkin, Carl Gwilliam, Daiki Hayakawa, Shih-Chieh Hsu, Zhen Hu, Giuseppe Iacobucci, Tomohiro Inada, Sune Jakobsen, Hans Joos, Enrique Kajomovitz, Hiroaki Kawahara, Alex Keyken, Felix Kling, Daniela Köck, Umut Kose, Rafaella Kotitsa, Susanne Kuehn, Helena Lefebvre, Lorne Levinson, Ke Li, Jinfeng Liu, Jack MacDonald, Chiara Magliocca, Fulvio Martinelli, Josh McFayden, Sam Meehan, Matteo Milanesio, Théo Moretti, Magdalena Munker, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Toshiyuki Nakano, Friedemann Neuhaus, Laurie Nevay, Ken Ohashi, Hidetoshi Otono, Hao Pang, Lorenzo Paolozzi, Brian Petersen, Markus Prim, Michaela Queitsch-Maitland, Hiroki Rokujo, Elisa Ruiz-Choliz, Jorge Sabater-Iglesias, Jakob Salfeld-Nebgen, Osamu Sato, Paola Scampoli, Kristof Schmieden, Matthias Schott, Anna Sfyrla, Savannah Shively, Yosuke Takubo, Noshin Tarannum, Ondrej Theiner, Eric Torrence, Sebastian Trojanowski, Svetlana Vasina, Benedikt Vormwald, Di Wang, Eli Welch, Samuel Zahorec, Stefano Zambito
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Physics Letters B, Vol 848, Iss , Pp 138378- (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0370-2693
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2023.138378
Popis: The FASER experiment at the LHC is designed to search for light, weakly-interacting particles produced in proton-proton collisions at the ATLAS interaction point that travel in the far-forward direction. The first results from a search for dark photons decaying to an electron-positron pair, using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 27.0 fb−1 collected at centre-of-mass energy s=13.6 TeV in 2022 in LHC Run 3, are presented. No events are seen in an almost background-free analysis, yielding world-leading constraints on dark photons with couplings ϵ∼2×10−5−1×10−4 and masses ∼17 MeV−70 MeV. The analysis is also used to probe the parameter space of a massive gauge boson from a U(1)B−L model, with couplings gB−L∼5×10−6−2×10−5 and masses ∼15 MeV−40 MeV excluded for the first time.
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