1. Search for a dark photon in the $\pi^0 \to e^+e^-\gamma$ decay
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Adlarson, P., Augustyniak, W., Ciepal, I., Trzcinski, A., Varma, R., Wagner, G. J., Weglorz, W., Wirzba, Andreas, Wolke, Magnus, Wronska, A., Wüstner, Peter, Wurm, Patrick, Yamamoto, A., Clement, H., Zabierowski, J., Zielinski, M. J., Zipper, W., Zlomanczuk, J., Zupranski, P., Zurek, M., Coderre, Daniel, Czerwinski, E., Demmich, K., Doroshkevich, E., Engels, Ralf W., Erven, Wilhelm, Eyrich, W., Fedorets, Pavel, Bardan, W., Föhl, K., Fransson, K., Goldenbaum, Frank, Goslawski, P., Goswami, Ankita, Grigoryev, Kirill, Gullström, C. -O., Hauenstein, Florian, Heijkenskjöld, L., Hejny, Volker, Bashkanov, M., Hinterberger, F., Hodana, Malgorzata, Höistad, B., Jany, A., Jany, Benedykt, Jarczyk, L., Johansson, T., Kamys, B., Kemmerling, Günter, Khan, Farha Anjum, Bergmann, F. S., Khoukaz, A., Kistryn, S., Klaja, J., Kleines, Harald, Kirillov, D. A., Klos, B., Krapp, M., Krzemien, W., Kulessa, Pawel, Kupsc, Andrzej, Berlowski, M., Kuzmin, A., Lalwani, K., Lersch, Daniel, Li, L., Lorentz, Bernd, Magiera, A., Maier, Rudolf, Marciniewski, P., Marianski, B., Meißner, Ulf-G., Bhatt, Himani, Mikirtychyants, Maxim, Morsch, H. -P., Moskal, Pawel, Nandi, B. K., Ohm, Henner, Ozerianska, I., Perez del Rio, E., Piskunov, N. M., Plucinski, P., Podkopal, P., Bondar, A., Prasuhn, Dieter, Pricking, A., Pszczel, D., Pysz, K., Pyszniak, A., Redmer, F., Ritman, James, Roy, A., Rudy, Z., Sawant, S., Büscher, Markus, Schadmand, Susan, Schmidt, A., Sefzick, Thomas, Serdyuk, Valeriy, Shah, N., Shwartz, B., Siemaszko, M., Siudak, R., Skorodko, T., Skruzok, M., Calen, Hans, Smyrski, J., Sopov, V., Stassen, Rolf, Stepaniak, J., Stephan, E., Sterzenbach, Guenter, Stockhorst, Hans, Stroeher, Hans, Szczurek, A., and Tolba, T.
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branching ratio: upper limit [pi0] ,+positron+electron+photon%22">pi0 --> positron electron photon ,0.55 GeV-kin ,radiative decay [pi0] ,interaction [p p] ,Juelich COSY PS ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology ,magnetic moment [muon] ,+2p+pi0%22">p p --> 2p pi0 ,ddc:530 ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,WASA ,Nuclear Experiment ,mixing [photon] ,search for [U boson] ,mass spectrum [electron positron] ,experimental results ,+U+boson+photon%22">pi0 --> U boson photon - Abstract
The presently world largest data sample of pi0 --> gamma e+e- decays containing nearly 5E5 events was collected using the WASA detector at COSY. A search for a dark photon U produced in the pi0 --> gamma U --> gamma e+e- decay from the pp-->pp\pi^0 reaction was carried out. An upper limit on the square of the U-gamma mixing strength parameter epsilon^2 of 5e-6 at 90% CL was obtained for the mass range 20 MeV, Comment: 16 pages, 8 figures; improved analysis extending the exclusion region to 20 MeV
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- 2013
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