1. Search for a dark photon in electroproduced $e^{+}e^{-}$ pairs with the Heavy Photon Search experiment at JLab
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Adrian, P.H., Baltzell, N.A., Battaglieri, M., Bondí, M., Boyarinov, S., Bueltmann, S., Burkert, V.D., Calvo, D., Carpinelli, M., Celentano, A., Charles, G., Colaneri, L., Cooper, W., Cuevas, C., D’Angelo, A., Dashyan, N., De Napoli, M., De Vita, R., Deur, A., Dupre, R., Egiyan, H., Elouadrhiri, L., Essig, R., Fadeyev, V., Field, C., Filippi, A., Freyberger, A., Garçon, M., Gevorgyan, N., Girod, F.X., Graf, N., Graham, M., Griffioen, K.A., Grillo, A., Guidal, M., Herbst, R., Holtrop, M., Jaros, J., Kalicy, G., Khandaker, M., Kubarovsky, V., Leonora, E., Livingston, K., Maruyama, T., McCarty, K., McCormick, J., McKinnon, B., Moffeit, K., Moreno, O., Munoz Camacho, C., Nelson, T., Niccolai, S., Odian, A., Oriunno, M., Osipenko, M., Paremuzyan, R., Paul, S., Randazzo, N., Raydo, B., Reese, B., Rizzo, A., Schuster, P., Sharabian, Y.G., Simi, G., Simonyan, A., Sipala, V., Sokhan, D., Solt, M., Stepanyan, S., Szumila-Vance, H., Toro, N., Uemura, S., Ungaro, M., Voskanyan, H., Weinstein, L.B., Wojtsekhowski, B., Yale, B., Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, HPS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Adrian, P, Baltzell, N, Battaglieri, M, Bondí, M, Boyarinov, S, Bueltmann, S, Burkert, V, Calvo, D, Carpinelli, M, Celentano, A, Charles, G, Colaneri, L, Cooper, W, Cuevas, C, D'Angelo, A, Dashyan, N, De Napoli, M, De Vita, R, Deur, A, Dupre, R, Egiyan, H, Elouadrhiri, L, Essig, R, Fadeyev, V, Field, C, Filippi, A, Freyberger, A, Garçon, M, Gevorgyan, N, Girod, F, Graf, N, Graham, M, Griffioen, K, Grillo, A, Guidal, M, Herbst, R, Holtrop, M, Jaros, J, Kalicy, G, Khandaker, M, Kubarovsky, V, Leonora, E, Livingston, K, Maruyama, T, Mccarty, K, Mccormick, J, Mckinnon, B, Moffeit, K, Moreno, O, Munoz Camacho, C, Nelson, T, Niccolai, S, Odian, A, Oriunno, M, Osipenko, M, Paremuzyan, R, Paul, S, Randazzo, N, Raydo, B, Reese, B, Rizzo, A, Schuster, P, Sharabian, Y, Simi, G, Simonyan, A, Sipala, V, Sokhan, D, Solt, M, Stepanyan, S, Szumila-Vance, H, Toro, N, Uemura, S, Ungaro, M, Voskanyan, H, Weinstein, L, Wojtsekhowski, B, and Yale, B
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photon: decay ,photon: hidden sector ,Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) ,accelerator ,engineering ,FOS: Physical sciences ,S029HPH ,coupling constant: upper limit ,quantum electrodynamics: background ,Newport News CEBAF Linac ,photon: electroproduction ,Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) ,photon: mass ,photon: heavy ,[PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph] ,mass spectrum: (electron positron) ,[PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex] ,luminosity: high ,experimental results ,Jefferson Lab - Abstract
The Heavy Photon Search experiment took its first data in a 2015 engineering run using a 1.056 GeV, 50 nA electron beam provided by CEBAF at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, searching for an electro-produced dark photon. Using 1.7 days (1170 nb$^{-1}$) of data, a search for a resonance in the $e^{+}e^{-}$ invariant mass distribution between 19 and 81 MeV/c$^2$ showed no evidence of dark photon decays above the large QED background, confirming earlier searches and demonstrating the full functionality of the experiment. Upper limits on the square of the coupling of the dark photon to the Standard Model photon are set at the level of 6$\times$10$^{-6}$. In addition, a search for displaced dark photon decays did not rule out any territory but resulted in a reliable analysis procedure that will probe hitherto unexplored parameter space with future, higher luminosity runs., Comment: 8 pages, Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2018), 4-11 July, 2018, Seoul, Korea
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- 2018