Search for a Dark Photon in e+e- Collisions at BABAR

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作者
Lees, J. P. [1 ]
Poireau, V. [1 ]
Tisserand, V. [1 ]
Grauges, E. [2 ]
Palano, A. [3 ,4 ]
Eigen, G. [5 ]
Stugu, B. [5 ]
Brown, D. N. [6 ,7 ,44 ]
Feng, M. [6 ,7 ]
Kerth, L. T. [6 ,7 ]
Kolomensky, Yu. G. [6 ,7 ]
Lee, M. J. [6 ,7 ]
Lynch, G. [6 ,7 ]
Koch, H. [8 ]
Schroeder, T. [8 ]
Hearty, C. [9 ]
Mattison, T. S. [9 ]
McKenna, J. A. [9 ]
So, R. Y. [9 ]
Khan, A. [10 ]
Blinov, V. E. [11 ,12 ,13 ]
Buzykaev, A. R. [11 ]
Druzhinin, V. P. [11 ,12 ]
Golubev, V. B. [11 ,12 ]
Kravchenko, E. A. [11 ,12 ]
Onuchin, A. P. [11 ,12 ,13 ]
Serednyakov, S. I. [11 ,12 ]
Skovpen, Yu. I. [11 ,12 ]
Solodov, E. P. [11 ,12 ]
Todyshev, K. Yu. [11 ,12 ]
Lankford, A. J. [14 ]
Mandelkern, M. [14 ]
Dey, B. [15 ]
Gary, J. W. [15 ]
Long, O. [15 ]
Campagnari, C. [16 ]
Sevilla, M. Franco [16 ]
Hong, T. M. [16 ]
Kovalskyi, D. [16 ]
Richman, J. D. [16 ]
West, C. A. [16 ]
Eisner, A. M. [17 ]
Lockman, W. S. [17 ]
Vazquez, W. Panduro [17 ]
Schumm, B. A. [17 ]
Seiden, A. [17 ]
Chao, D. S. [18 ]
Cheng, C. H. [18 ]
Echenard, B. [18 ]
Flood, K. T. [18 ]
机构
[1] Univ Savoie, Lab Annecy le Vieux Phys Particules LAPP, IN2P3, CNRS, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France
[2] Univ Barcelona, Fac Fis, Dept ECM, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
[3] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy
[4] Univ Bari, Dipartmento Fis, I-70126 Bari, Italy
[5] Univ Bergen, Inst Phys, N-5007 Bergen, Norway
[6] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[7] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[8] Ruhr Univ Bochum, Inst Expt Phys 1, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
[9] Univ British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
[10] Brunel Univ, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, Middx, England
[11] Budker Inst Nucl Phys SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
[12] Novosibirsk State Univ, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
[13] Novosibirsk State Tech Univ, Novosibirsk 630092, Russia
[14] Univ Calif Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
[15] Univ Calif Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[16] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[17] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Inst Particle Phys, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[18] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[19] Univ Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221 USA
[20] Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[21] Colorado State Univ, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA
[22] Tech Univ Dortmund, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
[23] Ecole Polytech, CNRS, IN2P3, Lab Leprince Ringuet, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
[24] Univ Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, Midlothian, Scotland
[25] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Ferrara, I-44122 Ferrara, Italy
[26] Univ Ferrara, Dipartimento Fis & Sci Terra, I-44122 Ferrara, Italy
[27] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Frascati, I-00044 Frascati, Italy
[28] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Genova, I-16146 Genoa, Italy
[29] Univ Genoa, Dipartimento Fis, I-16146 Genoa, Italy
[30] Indian Inst Technol Guwahati, Gauhati 781039, Assam, India
[31] Heidelberg Univ, Inst Phys, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
[32] Humboldt Univ, Inst Phys, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
[33] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, London SW7 2AZ, England
[34] Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
[35] Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA 50011 USA
[36] Jazan Univ, Dept Phys, Jazan 22822, Saudi Arabia
[37] Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[38] CNRS, IN2P3, Accelerateur Lineaire Lab, F-91898 Orsay, France
[39] Univ Paris 11, Ctr Sci Orsay, F-91898 Orsay, France
[40] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA
[41] Univ Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, Merseyside, England
[42] Univ London, London E1 4NS, England
[43] Univ London, Royal Holloway & Bedford New Coll, Egham TW20 0EX, Surrey, England
[44] Univ Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292 USA
[45] Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Inst Kernphys, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
[46] Univ Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England
[47] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[48] MIT, Nucl Sci Lab, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[49] McGill Univ, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada
[50] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Milano, I-20133 Milan, Italy
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
BHABHA SCATTERING; DETECTOR; BOSON;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.201801
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
Dark sectors charged under a new Abelian interaction have recently received much attention in the context of dark matter models. These models introduce a light new mediator, the so-called dark photon (A'), connecting the dark sector to the standard model. We present a search for a dark photon in the reaction e(+)e(-) ->gamma A', A' -> e(+)e(-), mu(+) mu(-) using 514 fb(-1) of data collected with the BABAR detector. We observe no statistically significant deviations from the standard model predictions, and we set 90% confidence level upper limits on the mixing strength between the photon and dark photon at the level of 10(-4) - 10(-3) for dark photon masses in the range 0.02-10.2 GeV. We further constrain the range of the parameter space favored by interpretations of the discrepancy between the calculated and measured anomalous magnetic moment of the muon.
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