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Report number | arXiv:2303.08666 ; CERN-EP-2023-032 |
Title | Search for dark photon decays to $\mu^+ \mu^-$ at NA62 |
Author(s) |
Cortina Gil, Eduardo (Louvain U., CP3) ; Jerhot, Jan (Louvain U., CP3) ; Kleimenova, Alina (Louvain U., CP3 ; EPFL) ; Lurkin, Nicolas (Louvain U., CP3) ; Zamkovsky, Michal (Louvain U., CP3 ; CERN) ; Numao, Toshio (TRIUMF) ; Velghe, Bob (TRIUMF) ; Wong, Vincent Wai Sum (TRIUMF) ; Bryman, Douglas (British Columbia U. ; TRIUMF) ; Hives, Zdenko (Charles U.) ; Husek, Tomas (Charles U.) ; Kampf, Karol (Charles U.) ; Koval, Michal (Charles U.) ; De Martino, Bianca (Marseille, CPPM) ; Perrin-Terrin, Mathieu (Marseille, CPPM) ; Akmete, Atakan Tugberk (Mainz U., Inst. Phys.) ; Aliberti, Riccardo (Mainz U., Inst. Phys. ; Helmholtz Inst., Mainz) ; Di Lella, Luigi (Mainz U., Inst. Phys.) ; Doble, Niels (Mainz U., Inst. Phys.) ; Peruzzo, Letizia (Mainz U., Inst. Phys.) ; Schuchmann, Simone (Mainz U., Inst. Phys.) ; Wahl, Heinrich (Mainz U., Inst. Phys.) ; Wanke, Rainer (Mainz U., Inst. Phys.) ; Dalpiaz, Pietro (Ferrara U.) ; Mazzolari, Andrea (Ferrara U.) ; Neri, Ilaria (Ferrara U.) ; Petrucci, Ferruccio (Ferrara U.) ; Soldani, Mattia (Ferrara U.) ; Bandiera, Laura (INFN, Ferrara) ; Cotta Ramusino, Angelo (INFN, Ferrara) ; Gianoli, Alberto (INFN, Ferrara) ; Romagnoni, Marco (INFN, Ferrara) ; Sytov, Alexei (INFN, Ferrara) ; Lenti, Massimo (Florence U.) ; Lo Chiatto, Prisco (Florence U.) ; Marchevski, Radoslav (Florence U. ; EPFL) ; Panichi, Ilaria (Florence U.) ; Ruggiero, Giuseppe (Florence U.) ; Bizzeti, Andrea (INFN, Florence ; Modena U.) ; Bucci, Francesca (INFN, Florence) ; Antonelli, Antonella (Frascati) ; Kozhuharov, Venelin (Frascati ; Sofiya U.) ; Lanfranchi, Gaia (Frascati) ; Martellotti, Silvia (Frascati) ; Moulson, Matthew (Frascati) ; Spadaro, Tommaso (Frascati) ; Tinti, Gemma (Frascati) ; Ambrosino, Fabio (Naples U.) ; D'Errico, Mariaelena (Naples U.) ; Fiorenza, Renato (Naples U. ; SSM, Naples) ; Giordano, Raffaele (Naples U.) ; Massarotti, Paolo (Naples U.) ; Mirra, Marco (Naples U.) ; Napolitano, Marco (Naples U.) ; Potrebenikov, Yuri ; Rosa, Ilaria (Naples U.) ; Saracino, Giulio (Naples U.) ; Anzivino, Giuseppina (Perugia U.) ; Brizioli, Francesco (INFN, Perugia ; CERN) ; Cenci, Patrizia (INFN, Perugia) ; Duk, Viacheslav (INFN, Perugia) ; Lollini, Riccardo (INFN, Perugia) ; Lubrano, Pasquale (INFN, Perugia) ; Pepe, Monica (INFN, Perugia) ; Piccini, Mauro (INFN, Perugia) ; Costantini, Flavio (Pisa U.) ; Giorgi, Marcello (Pisa U.) ; Giudici, Sergio (Pisa U.) ; Lamanna, Gianluca (Pisa U.) ; Lari, Enrico (Pisa U.) ; Pedreschi, Elena (Pisa U.) ; Pinzino, Jacopo (Pisa U.) ; Sozzi, Marco (Pisa U.) ; Fantechi, Riccardo (INFN, Pisa) ; Spinella, Franco (INFN, Pisa) ; Mannelli, Italo (Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore) ; Raggi, Mauro (Rome U.) ; Biagioni, Andrea (INFN, Rome) ; Cretaro, Paolo (INFN, Rome) ; Frezza, Ottorino (INFN, Rome) ; Lonardo, Alessandro (INFN, Rome) ; Turisini, Matteo (INFN, Rome) ; Vicini, Piero (INFN, Rome) ; Ammendola, Roberto (Rome U., Tor Vergata) ; Bonaiuto, Vincenzo (Rome U., Tor Vergata) ; Fucci, Adolfo (Rome U., Tor Vergata) ; Salamon, Andrea (Rome U., Tor Vergata) ; Sargeni, Fausto (Rome U., Tor Vergata) ; Arcidiacono, Roberta (Turin U. ; Piemonte Orientale U., Novara) ; Bloch-Devaux, Brigitte (Turin U.) ; Menichetti, Ezio (Turin U.) ; Migliore, Ernesto (Turin U.) ; Biino, Cristina (INFN, Turin) ; Filippi, Alessandra (INFN, Turin) ; Marchetto, Flavio (INFN, Turin) ; Soldi, Dario (INFN, Turin) ; Briano Olvera, Alejandro (San Luis Potosi U.) ; Engelfried, Jürgen (San Luis Potosi U.) ; Estrada-Tristan, Nora (San Luis Potosi U. ; Guanajuato U.) ; Piandani, Roberto (San Luis Potosi U.) ; Reyes Santos, Marco Antonio (San Luis Potosi U. ; Guanajuato U.) ; Boboc, Petre (Bucharest, IFIN-HH) ; Bragadireanu, Alexandru Mario (Bucharest, IFIN-HH) ; Ghinescu, Stefan Alexandru (Bucharest, IFIN-HH) ; Hutanu, Ovidiu Emanuel (Bucharest, IFIN-HH) ; Blazek, Tomas (Comenius U.) ; Cerny, Vladimir (Comenius U.) ; Kucerova, Zuzana (Comenius U. ; CERN) ; Volpe, Roberta (Comenius U. ; INFN, Perugia) ; Bernhard, Johannes (CERN) ; Bician, Lubos (CERN ; Charles U.) ; Boretto, Marco (CERN) ; Ceccucci, Augusto (CERN) ; Ceoletta, Marco (CERN) ; Corvino, Michele (CERN) ; Danielsson, Hans (CERN) ; Duval, Francois (CERN) ; Döbrich, Babette (CERN ; Munich, Max Planck Inst.) ; Federici, Luca (CERN) ; Gamberini, Enrico (CERN) ; Guida, Roberto (CERN) ; Holzer, Eva Barbara (CERN) ; Jenninger, Berthold (CERN) ; Lehmann Miotto, Giovanna (CERN) ; Lichard, Peter (CERN) ; Massri, Karim (CERN) ; Minucci, Elisa (CERN ; Syracuse U.) ; Noy, Matthew (CERN) ; Ryjov, Vladimir (CERN) ; Swallow, Joel (CERN) ; Fry, John Richard (Birmingham U.) ; Gonnella, Francesco (Birmingham U.) ; Goudzovski, Evgueni (Birmingham U.) ; Henshaw, Jack (Birmingham U.) ; Kenworthy, Chandler (Birmingham U.) ; Lazzeroni, Cristina (Birmingham U.) ; Parkinson, Christopher (Birmingham U.) ; Romano, Angela (Birmingham U.) ; Sanders, Jack (Birmingham U.) ; Sergi, Antonino (Birmingham U. ; Genoa U.) ; Shaikhiev, Artur (Birmingham U. ; Lancaster U.) ; Tomczak, Adam (Birmingham U.) ; Heath, Helen (Bristol U.) ; Britton, David (Glasgow U.) ; Norton, Alan (Glasgow U.) ; Protopopescu, Dan (Glasgow U.) ; Dainton, John Bourke (Lancaster U.) ; Gatignon, Lau (Lancaster U.) ; Jones, Roger William Lewis (Lancaster U.) ; Cooper, Peter (George Mason U.) ; Coward, David (George Mason U. ; SLAC) ; Rubin, Philip David (George Mason U.) ; Baeva, Aigul ; Baigarashev, Dosbol (Eurasian Nat. U., Astana) ; Emelyanov, Dmitry ; Enik, Temur ; Falaleev, Valeri (INFN, Perugia) ; Fedotov, Sergei ; Gorshanov, Konstantin ; Gushchin, Evgeny ; Kekelidze, Vladimir ; Kereibay, Dias ; Kholodenko, Sergey (INFN, Pisa) ; Khotyantsev, Alexey ; Korotkova, Anna ; Kudenko, Yury ; Kurochka, Viktoriia ; Kurshetsov, Viktor ; Litov, Leandar (Sofiya U.) ; Madigozhin, Dmitry ; Mefodev, Aleksandr ; Misheva, Milena (Sofiya, Inst. Nucl. Res.) ; Molokanova, Natalia ; Obraztsov, Vladimir ; Okhotnikov, Artem ; Polenkevich, Irina ; Potrebenikov, Yu. ; Sadovskiy, Alexander ; Shkarovskiy, Sergey ; Sugonyaev, Valentin ; Yushchenko, Oleg |
Corporate author(s) | The NA62 collaboration |
Publication | 2023-09-06 |
Imprint | 12 Mar 2023 |
Number of pages | 23 |
Note | 23 pages, 16 figures, final version, accepted for publication in JHEP |
Published in: | JHEP 2309 (2023) 035 |
DOI | 10.1007/JHEP09(2023)035 |
Subject category | Particle Physics - Experiment |
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment | CERN SPS ; NA62 |
Keywords | exotics ; branching fraction ; rare decay ; experimental results ; Beam-dump experiment ; Exotic particle search ; Dark photon production and decay |
Abstract | The NA62 experiment at CERN, designed to study the ultra-rare decay $K^+ \rightarrow \pi^+ \nu \bar\nu$, has also collected data in beam-dump mode. In this configuration, dark photons may be produced by protons dumped on an absorber and reach a decay volume beginning 80 m downstream. A search for dark photons decaying in flight to $\mu^+ \mu^-$ pairs is reported, based on a sample of $1.4 \times 10^{17}$ protons on dump collected in 2021. No evidence for a dark photon signal is observed. A region of the parameter space is excluded at 90% CL, improving on previous experimental limits for dark photon masses between 215 and 550 MeV/$c^2$. |
Other source | Inspire |
Copyright/License | Preprint: © 2023-2024 CERN (License: CC-BY-4.0) Publication: © 2023-2024 CERN (License: CC-BY-4.0), sponsored by SCOAP³ |
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