Published January 14, 2022
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Search for Darkonium in e⁺e⁻ Collisions
- Creators
- Lees, J. P.
- Poireau, V.
- Tisserand, V.
- Grauges, E.
- Palano, A.
- Eigen, G.
- Brown, D. N.
- Kolomensky, Yu. G.
- Fritsch, M.
- Koch, H.
- Schroeder, T.
- Cheaib, R.
- Hearty, C.
- Mattison, T. S.
- McKenna, J. A.
- So, R. Y.
- Blinov, V. E.
- Buzykaev, A. R.
- Druzhinin, V. P.
- Golubev, V. B.
- Kozyrev, E. A.
- Kravchenko, E. A.
- Onuchin, A. P.
- Serednyakov, S. I.
- Skovpen, Yu. I.
- Solodov, E. P.
- Todyshev, K. Yu.
- Lankford, A. J.
- Dey, B.
- Gary, J. W.
- Long, O.
- Eisner, A. M.
- Lockman, W. S.
- Panduro Vazquez, W.
- Chao, D. S.
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Cheng, C. H.
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Echenard, B.
- Flood, K. T.
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Hitlin, D. G.
- Kim, J.
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Li, Y.
- Lin, D. X.
- Miyashita, T. S.
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Ongmongkolkul, P.
- Oyang, J.
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Porter, F. C.
- Röhrken, M.
- Huard, Z.
- Meadows, B. T.
- Pushpawela, B. G.
- Sokoloff, M. D.
- Sun, L.
- Smith, J. G.
- Wagner, S. R.
- Bernard, D.
- Verderi, M.
- Bettoni, D.
- Bozzi, C.
- Calabrese, R.
- Cibinetto, G.
- Fioravanti, E.
- Garzia, I.
- Luppi, E.
- Santoro, V.
- Calcaterra, A.
- de Sangro, R.
- Finocchiaro, G.
- Martellotti, S.
- Patteri, P.
- Peruzzi, I. M.
- Piccolo, M.
- Rotondo, M.
- Zallo, A.
- Passaggio, S.
- Patrignani, C.
- Shuve, B. J.
- Lacker, H. M.
- Bhuyan, B.
- Mallik, U.
- Chen, C.
- Cochran, J.
- Prell, S.
- Gritsan, A. V.
- Arnaud, N.
- Davier, M.
- Le Diberder, F.
- Lutz, A. M.
- Wormser, G.
- Lange, D. J.
- Wright, D. M.
- Coleman, J. P.
- Gabathuler, E.
- Hutchcroft, D. E.
- Payne, D. J.
- Touramanis, C.
- Bevan, A. J.
- Di Lodovico, F.
- Sacco, R.
- Cowan, G.
- Banerjee, Sw.
- Brown, D. N.
- Davis, C. L.
- Denig, A. G.
- Gradl, W.
- Griessinger, K.
- Hafner, A.
- Schubert, K. R.
- Barlow, R. J.
- Lafferty, G. D.
- Cenci, R.
- Jawahery, A.
- Roberts, D. A.
- Cowan, R.
- Robertson, S. H.
- Seddon, R. M.
- Neri, N.
- Palombo, F.
- Cremaldi, L.
- Godang, R.
- Summers, D. J.
- Taras, P.
- De Nardo, G.
- Sciacca, C.
- Raven, G.
- Jessop, C. P.
- LoSecco, J. M.
- Honscheid, K.
- Kass, R.
- Gaz, A.
- Margoni, M.
- Posocco, M.
- Simi, G.
- Simonetto, F.
- Stroili, R.
- Akar, S.
- Ben-Haim, E.
- Bomben, M.
- Bonneaud, G. R.
- Calderini, G.
- Chauveau, J.
- Marchiori, G.
- Ocariz, J.
- Biasini, M.
- Manoni, E.
- Rossi, A.
- Batignani, G.
- Bettarini, S.
- Carpinelli, M.
- Casarosa, G.
- Chrzaszcz, M.
- Forti, F.
- Giorgi, M. A.
- Lusiani, A.
- Oberhof, B.
- Paoloni, E.
- Rama, M.
- Rizzo, G.
- Walsh, J. J.
- Zani, L.
- Smith, A. J. S.
- Anulli, F.
- Faccini, R.
- Ferrarotto, F.
- Ferroni, F.
- Pilloni, A.
- Piredda, G.
- Bünger, C.
- Dittrich, S.
- Grünberg, O.
- Heß, M.
- Leddig, T.
- Voß, C.
- Waldi, R.
- Adye, T.
- Wilson, F. F.
- Emery, S.
- Vasseur, G.
- Aston, D.
- Cartaro, C.
- Convery, M. R.
- Dorfan, J.
- Dunwoodie, W.
- Ebert, M.
- Field, R. C.
- Fulsom, B. G.
- Graham, M. T.
- Hast, C.
- Innes, W. R.
- Kim, P.
- Leith, D. W. G. S.
- Luitz, S.
- MacFarlane, D. B.
- Muller, D. R.
- Neal, H.
- Ratcliff, B. N.
- Roodman, A.
- Sullivan, M. K.
- Va'vra, J.
- Wisniewski, W. J.
- Purohit, M. V.
- Wilson, J. R.
- Randle-Conde, A.
- Sekula, S. J.
- Ahmed, H.
- Bellis, M.
- Burchat, P. R.
- Puccio, E. M. T.
- Alam, M. S.
- Ernst, J. A.
- Gorodeisky, R.
- Guttman, N.
- Peimer, D. R.
- Soffer, A.
- Spanier, S. M.
- Ritchie, J. L.
- Schwitters, R. F.
- Izen, J. M.
- Lou, X. C.
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Bianchini, F.
- De Mori, F.
- Filippi, A.
- Gamba, D.
- Lanceri, L.
- Vitale, L.
- Martinez-Vidal, F.
- Oyanguren, A.
- Albert, J.
- Beaulieu, A.
- Bernlochner, F. U.
- King, G. J.
- Kowalewski, R.
- Lueck, T.
- Nugent, I. M.
- Roney, J. M.
- Sobie, R. J.
- Tasneem, N.
- Gershon, T. J.
- Harrison, P. F.
- Latham, T. E.
- Prepost, R.
- Wu, S. L.
- BaBar Collaboration
Abstract
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_(ΥD) < 9.5 GeV.
Additional Information
© 2022 Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3. Received 20 June 2021; revised 17 September 2021; accepted 13 December 2021; published 11 January 2022. The authors wish to thank Haipeng An and Yue Zhang for useful discussions and for providing us with madgraph simulations of self-interacting dark matter processes. We also thank Gaia Lanfranchi for providing us constraints from existing experiments. We are grateful for the extraordinary contributions of our PEP-II colleagues in achieving the excellent luminosity and machine conditions that have made this work possible. The success of this project also relies critically on the expertise and dedication of the computing organizations that support BABAR. The collaborating institutions wish to thank SLAC for its support and the kind hospitality extended to them. This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and National Science Foundation, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada), the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique and Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (France), the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Germany), the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Italy), the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (Netherlands), the Research Council of Norway, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Spain), the Science and Technology Facilities Council (U.K.), and the Binational Science Foundation (U.S.-Israel). Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie IEF program (European Union) and the A. P. Sloan Foundation (U.S.).Attached Files
Published - PhysRevLett.128.021802.pdf
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- Alternative title
- Search for Darkonium in e+e− Collisions
- Eprint ID
- 113182
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20220131-49348800
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- NSF
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA)
- Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3)
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
- Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM)
- Research Council of Norway
- Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
- Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- Binational Science Foundation (USA-Israel)
- Marie Curie Fellowship
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- SCOAP3
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