Title:
|
Search for a muonic dark force at BaBar
|
Author:
|
Graugés Pous, Eugeni; BABAR Collaboration
|
Other authors:
|
Universitat de Barcelona |
Abstract:
|
Many models of physics beyond the standard model predict the existence of new Abelian forces with new gauge bosons mediating interactions between "dark sectors" and the standard model. We report a search for a dark boson Z ′ coupling only to the second and third generations of leptons in the reaction e + e − → μ + μ − Z ′ , Z ′ → μ + μ − using 514 fb − 1 of data collected by the BABAR experiment. No significant signal is observed for Z ′ masses in the range 0.212-10 GeV. Limits on the coupling parameter g ′ as low as 7 × 10 − 4 are derived, leading to improvements in the bounds compared to those previously derived from neutrino experiments. |
Subject(s):
|
-Partícules (Matèria) -Matèria fosca (Astronomia) -Particles -Dark matter (Astronomy) |
Rights:
|
(c) American Physical Society, 2016
|
Document type:
|
Article Article - Published version |
Published by:
|
American Physical Society
|
Share:
|
|