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Search for an Axionlike Particle in B Meson Decays
- 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.
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Lin, D. X.
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Middleton, S.
- 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.
- Flood, I.
- Nguyen, N.
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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.
- De Nuccio, 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.
- Tasneem, N.
- 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.
- Bianchi, 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.
- Miller, C.
- Nugent, I. M.
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Roney, J. M.
- Sobie, R. J.
- Gershon, T. J.
- Harrison, P. F.
- Latham, T. E.
- Prepost, R.
- Wu, S. L.
- BaBar Collaboration
Abstract
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.
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 4 November 2021; revised 31 January 2022; accepted 7 March 2022; published 1 April 2022. We are grateful for the extraordinary contributions of our PEP-II2 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 (United Kingdom), 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 (USA).Attached Files
Published - PhysRevLett.128.131802.pdf
Submitted - 2111.01800.pdf
Supplemental Material - BABAR-PUB-21-006-v2_EPAPS.pdf
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- Alternative title
- Search for an Axion-Like Particle in B Meson Decays
- Eprint ID
- 114459
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20220426-239874200
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- NSF
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Commissariat à 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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