Search for A′→μ+μ− Decays
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Author(s)
The LHCb Collaboration
Boettcher, Thomas Julian
Craik, Daniel C
Weisser, Constantin
Williams, Michael
Date Issued
January 31, 2020
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
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Final published version
Abstract
Searches are performed for both prompt-like and long-lived dark photons,
$A'$, produced in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13
TeV. These searches look for $A'\!\to\!\mu^+\mu^-$ decays using a data sample
corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.5/fb collected with the LHCb
detector. Neither search finds evidence for a signal, and 90% confidence-level
exclusion limits are placed on the $\gamma$-$A'$ kinetic-mixing strength. The
prompt-like $A'$ search explores the mass region from near the dimuon threshold
up to 70 GeV, and places the most stringent constraints to date on dark photons
with $214 < m(A') \lesssim 740$ MeV and $10.6 < m(A') \lesssim 30$ GeV. The
search for long-lived $A'\!\to\!\mu^+\mu^-$ decays places world-leading
constraints on low-mass dark photons with lifetimes $\mathcal{O}(1)$ ps.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.124.041801
