Searches are performed for both promptlike and long-lived dark photons, A′, produced in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, using A′→μ+μ- decays and a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.6 fb-1 collected with the LHCb detector. The promptlike A′ search covers the mass range from near the dimuon threshold up to 70 GeV, while the long-lived A′ search is restricted to the low-mass region 214<350 MeV. No evidence for a signal is found, and 90% confidence level exclusion limits are placed on the γ-A′ kinetic-mixing strength. The constraints placed on promptlike dark photons are the most stringent to date for the mass range 10.6<70 GeV, and are comparable to the best existing limits for m(A′)<0.5 GeV. The search for long-lived dark photons is the first to achieve sensitivity using a displaced-vertex signature.

Search for dark photons produced in 13 TeV pp collisions / Aaij, R., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Ajaltouni, Z., Akar, S., Albrecht, J., Alessio, F., Alexander, M., Alfonso Albero, A., Ali, S., Alkhazov, G., Alvarez Cartelle, P., Alves, A.A., Amato, S., Amerio, S., Amhis, Y., An, L., Anderlini, L., Andreassi, G., Andreotti, M., et al.. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. - ISSN 0031-9007. - 120:6(2018), p. 061801. [10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.061801]

Search for dark photons produced in 13 TeV pp collisions

Capriotti L.;Casse G.;Kazeev N.;Sarti A.;Sciubba A.;
2018

Abstract

Searches are performed for both promptlike and long-lived dark photons, A′, produced in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, using A′→μ+μ- decays and a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.6 fb-1 collected with the LHCb detector. The promptlike A′ search covers the mass range from near the dimuon threshold up to 70 GeV, while the long-lived A′ search is restricted to the low-mass region 214<350 MeV. No evidence for a signal is found, and 90% confidence level exclusion limits are placed on the γ-A′ kinetic-mixing strength. The constraints placed on promptlike dark photons are the most stringent to date for the mass range 10.6<70 GeV, and are comparable to the best existing limits for m(A′)<0.5 GeV. The search for long-lived dark photons is the first to achieve sensitivity using a displaced-vertex signature.
2018
Spectroscopy B physics Particle and resonance production Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
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Search for dark photons produced in 13 TeV pp collisions / Aaij, R., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Ajaltouni, Z., Akar, S., Albrecht, J., Alessio, F., Alexander, M., Alfonso Albero, A., Ali, S., Alkhazov, G., Alvarez Cartelle, P., Alves, A.A., Amato, S., Amerio, S., Amhis, Y., An, L., Anderlini, L., Andreassi, G., Andreotti, M., et al.. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. - ISSN 0031-9007. - 120:6(2018), p. 061801. [10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.061801]
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