Search for an Axionlike Particle in B Meson Decays.
Journal
Physical review letters
ISSN: 1079-7114
Titre abrégé: Phys Rev Lett
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0401141
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 Apr 2022
01 Apr 2022
Historique:
received:
04
11
2021
revised:
31
01
2022
accepted:
07
03
2022
entrez:
15
4
2022
pubmed:
16
4
2022
medline:
16
4
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Axionlike particles (ALPs) are predicted in many extensions of the standard model, and their masses can naturally be well below the electroweak scale. In the presence of couplings to electroweak bosons, these particles could be emitted in flavor-changing B meson decays. We report herein a search for an ALP, a, in the reaction B^{±}→K^{±}a, a→γγ using data collected by the BABAR experiment at SLAC. No significant signal is observed, and 90% confidence level upper limits on the ALP coupling to electroweak bosons are derived as a function of ALP mass, improving current constraints by several orders of magnitude in the range 0.175 GeV<m_{a}<4.78 GeV.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35426701
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.131802
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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