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Search for Axionlike Particles Produced in e⁺e⁻ Collisions at Belle II
- Source :
- Physical Review Letters, Physical Review Letters, 2020, 125 (16), ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.161806⟩, Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society, 2020, 125 (16), ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.161806⟩, (2020). doi:10.3204/PUBDB-2020-03001, Physical review letters, 125 (16), Article: 161806, Physical review letters 125(16), 161806 (2020). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.161806
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- American Physical Society., 2020.
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Abstract
- Physical review letters 125(16), 161806 (2020). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.161806<br />We present a search for the direct production of a light pseudoscalar $a$ decaying into two photons with the Belle II detector at the SuperKEKB collider. We search for the process ${e^+e^-\to\gamma a, a \to\gamma\gamma}$ in the mass range ${0.2} \,< m_a < {9.7}\,{\text{GeV/$c$}^2}$ using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $(445\pm 3)\,\text{pb}^{-1}$. Light pseudoscalars interacting predominantly with standard model gauge bosons (so-called axion-like particles or ALPs) are frequently postulated in extensions of the standard model. We find no evidence for ALPs and set 95% confidence level upper limits on the coupling strength $g_{a\gamma\gamma}$ of ALPs to photons at the level of $10^{-3}\,{\text{GeV}^{-1}}$. The limits are the most restrictive to date for $0.2\<br />Published by Americal Physical Society, College Park, Md.
- Subjects :
- pair production [photon]
axionlike particles
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
FOS: Physical sciences
BELLE
coupling constant: upper limit
annihilation [electron positron]
electron positron: annihilation
High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
KEK-B
[PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex]
Belle II
ddc:530
direct production [axion]
two-photon
gauge boson
axionlike particle
Physics
High Energy Physics::Phenomenology
pseudoscalar [interaction]
photon
ALPs
coupling constant
axion: direct production
SuperKEKB
electron positron: colliding beams
Rare decays
upper limit [coupling constant]
interaction: pseudoscalar
postulated particle
Rare decay
direct production
coupling: (axion 2photon)
colliding beams [electron positron]
ALP
axion-like particles
High Energy Physics::Experiment
photon: pair production
(axion 2photon) [coupling]
experimental results
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00319007 and 10797114
- Volume :
- 125
- Issue :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physical Review Letters
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4a1422391ea7f4d71161db0f512864e0