1. Search for a dark photon in the π0→e+e−γ decay
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M. Mikirtychiants, Magdalena Skurzok, C. F. Redmer, Bo Höistad, G. J. Wagner, Jozef Zlomanczuk, A. Magiera, P. Goslawski, T. Sefzick, W. Eyrich, James Ritman, B. Mariański, C.-O. Gullström, Markus Büscher, H. Clement, Zbigniew Rudy, R. Siudak, Eryk Czerwiński, A. Trzcinski, Harald Kleines, Aleksandra Wrońska, Ulf-G. Meißner, A. Bondar, E. Perez del Rio, N. Shah, K. Pysz, P. Fedorets, Ferdous Khan, W. Zipper, P. Adlarson, W. Bardan, J. Zabierowski, K. Lalwani, Ankhi Roy, M. Hodana, Antoni Szczurek, P. Wurm, H. P. Morsch, H. Ohm, R. Varma, D. Pszczel, M. Żurek, Izabela Ciepał, T. Johansson, I. Ozerianska, V. Hejny, K. Föhl, B. Kłos, M. Siemaszko, Hans Stockhorst, V. Sopov, E. Stephan, H. Ströher, Marcin Zieliński, Frank Goldenbaum, S. Sawant, Pawel Marciniewski, F. Hauenstein, P. Podkopał, Rolf Stassen, K. Grigoryev, E. Doroshkevich, B. Shwartz, J. Stepaniak, Stanisław Kistryn, P. Pluciński, Alexander Schmidt, M. Krapp, P. Żuprański, F. Hinterberger, Hans Calén, R. Maier, Lena Heijkenskjöld, A. Jany, D. Prasuhn, Wojciech Krzemien, L. Li, Kjell Fransson, W. Wȩglorz, T. Tolba, Akira Yamamoto, A. Kupść, M. Berłowski, W. Erven, L. Jarczyk, Andreas Wirzba, A. Pricking, T. Skorodko, K. Demmich, V. Serdyuk, Di. Kirillov, G. Sterzenbach, B. Lorentz, Jerzy Smyrski, M. Bashkanov, F. S. Bergmann, Ralf Engels, Magnus Wolke, Paweł Moskal, Günter Kemmerling, S. Schadmand, B. Kamys, A. Pyszniak, W. Augustyniak, P. Wüstner, A. Goswami, A. Khoukaz, Himani Bhatt, Basanta Kumar Nandi, N.M. Piskunov, Benedykt R. Jany, P. Kulessa, A. Kuzmin, J. Klaja, D. Coderre, and D. Lersch
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Muon ,Anomalous magnetic dipole moment ,Magnetic moment ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Elementary particle ,01 natural sciences ,7. Clean energy ,Dark photon ,Nuclear physics ,Massless particle ,Particle decay ,0103 physical sciences ,010306 general physics ,Lepton - Abstract
The presently world largest data sample for π 0 → γ e + e − decays studies containing nearly 5 × 10 5 events was collected using the WASA detector at COSY. A search for a dark photon U produced in the π 0 → γ U → γ e + e − decay from the p p → p p π 0 reaction was carried out. An upper limit on the square of the U − γ mixing strength parameter ϵ 2 of 5 × 10 − 6 at 90% CL was obtained for the mass range 20 MeV M U 100 MeV . This result together with other recent experimental limits significantly reduces the M U vs. ϵ 2 parameter space which could explain the presently seen deviation between the Standard Model prediction and the direct measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon.
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- 2013