Search for dark photons produced in 13 TeV pp collisions
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Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
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<m(A′)<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<m(A′)<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.
Date Issued
2018-02-08
Date Acceptance
2018-01-11
Citation
Physical Review Letters, 2018, 120 (6)
ISSN
0031-9007
Publisher
American Physical Society
Journal / Book Title
Physical Review Letters
Volume
120
Issue
6
Copyright Statement
© 2018 The Author(s). Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Physics
ELECTRON-BEAM-DUMP
VECTOR GAUGE BOSON
PHI-MESON DECAYS
EXCLUSION LIMITS
HEAVY NEUTRINOS
KLOE DETECTOR
MASS RANGE
PARTICLES
FORCES
PI(0)
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 061801