Search for Darkonium in e^{+}e^{-} Collisions.
Journal
Physical review letters
ISSN: 1079-7114
Titre abrégé: Phys Rev Lett
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0401141
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
14 Jan 2022
14 Jan 2022
Historique:
received:
20
06
2021
revised:
17
09
2021
accepted:
13
12
2021
entrez:
28
1
2022
pubmed:
29
1
2022
medline:
29
1
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Collider searches for dark sectors, new particles interacting only feebly with ordinary matter, have largely focused on identifying signatures of new mediators, leaving much of dark sector structures unexplored. In particular, the existence of dark matter bound states (darkonia) remains to be investigated. This possibility could arise in a simple model in which a dark photon (A^{'}) is light enough to generate an attractive force between dark fermions. We report herein a search for a J^{PC}=1^{--} darkonium state, the ϒ_{D}, produced in the reaction e^{+}e^{-}→γϒ_{D}, ϒ_{D}→A^{'}A^{'}A^{'}, where the dark photons subsequently decay into pairs of leptons or pions, using 514 fb^{-1} of data collected with the BABAR detector. No significant signal is observed, and we set bounds on the γ-A^{'} kinetic mixing as a function of the dark sector coupling constant for 0.001<m_{A^{'}}<3.16 GeV and 0.05<m_{ϒ_{D}}<9.5 GeV.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35089770
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.021802
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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