Search for an Invisible Z^{'} in a Final State with Two Muons and Missing Energy at Belle II.
Journal
Physical review letters
ISSN: 1079-7114
Titre abrégé: Phys Rev Lett
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0401141
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
09 Jun 2023
09 Jun 2023
Historique:
received:
07
12
2022
accepted:
19
04
2023
medline:
26
6
2023
pubmed:
24
6
2023
entrez:
24
6
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The L_{μ}-L_{τ} extension of the standard model predicts the existence of a lepton-flavor-universality-violating Z^{'} boson that couples only to the heavier lepton families. We search for such a Z^{'} through its invisible decay in the process e^{+}e^{-}→μ^{+}μ^{-}Z^{'}. We use a sample of electron-positron collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 10.58 GeV collected by the Belle II experiment in 2019-2020, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 79.7 fb^{-1}. We find no excess over the expected standard-model background. We set 90%-confidence-level upper limits on the cross section for this process as well as on the coupling of the model, which ranges from 3×10^{-3} at low Z^{'} masses to 1 at Z^{'} masses of 8 GeV/c^{2}.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37354391
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.231801
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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