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Search for production of an invisible dark photon in $\pi^0$ decays

The results of a search for π$^{0}$ decays to a photon and an invisible massive dark photon at the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS are reported. From a total of 4.12 × 10$^{8}$ tagged π$^{0}$ mesons, no signal is observed. Assuming a kinetic-mixing interaction, limits are set on the dark photon coup...

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Autores principales: Cortina Gil, Eduardo, Minucci, Elisa, Padolski, Sergey, Petrov, Plamen, Velghe, Bob, Kozhuharov, Venelin, Litov, Leandar, Georgiev, Georgi, Bryman, Douglas, Fu, Ji, Numao, Toshio, Petrov, Yevgeniy, Husek, Tomas, Kampf, Karol, Zamkovsky, Michal, Jerhot, Jan, Aliberti, Riccardo, Khoriauli, Gia, Kunze, Jonas, Lomidze, David, Marchevski, Radoslav, Peruzzo, Letizia, Vormstein, Mario, Wanke, Rainer, Cotta Ramusino, Angelo, Dalpiaz, Pietro, Fiorini, Massimiliano, Gamberini, Enrico, Gianoli, Alberto, Neri, Ilaria, Norton, Alan, Petrucci, Ferruccio, Wahl, Heinrich, Bizzeti, Andrea, Bucci, Francesca, Iacopini, Enrico, Latino, Giuseppe, Lenti, Massimo, Parenti, Andrea, Volpe, Roberta, Antonelli, Antonella, Gonnella, Francesco, Lamanna, Gianluca, Lanfranchi, Gaia, Mannocchi, Giampaolo, Martellotti, Silvia, Moulson, Matthew, Raggi, Mauro, Spadaro, Tommaso, Ambrosino, Fabio, Capussela, Tiziana, Corvino, Michele, Di Filippo, Domenico, Massarotti, Paolo, Mirra, Marco, Napolitano, Marco, Saracino, Giulio, Anzivino, Giuseppina, Imbergamo, Ermanno, Lollini, Riccardo, Santoni, Cristiano, Brizioli, Francesco, Barbanera, Mattia, Cenci, Patrizia, Checcucci, Bruno, Duk, Viacheslav, Lupi, Matteo, Pepe, Monica, Piccini, Mauro, Lubrano, Pasquale, Costantini, Flavio, Doble, Niels, Giorgi, Marcello, Giudici, Sergio, Lari, Enrico, Pinzino, Jacopo, Pontisso, Luca, Sozzi, Marco, Di Lella, Luigi, Mannelli, Italo, Cerri, Claudio, Fantechi, Riccardo, Pedreschi, Elena, Piandani, Roberto, Spinella, Franco, Biagioni, Andrea, D'Agostini, Giulio, Leonardi, Emanuele, Lonardo, Alessandro, Valente, Paolo, Vicini, Piero, Ammendola, Roberto, Bonaiuto, Vincenzo, De Simone, Nicola, Federici, Luca, Fucci, Adolfo, Salamon, Andrea, Sargeni, Fausto, Arcidiacono, Roberta, Biino, Cristina, Bloch-Devaux, Brigitte, Boretto, Marco, Filippi, Alessandra, Iacobuzio, Lorenza, Marchetto, Flavio, Menichetti, Ezio, Migliore, Ernesto, Soldi, Dario, Engelfried, Jürgen, Estrada-Tristan, Nora, Bragadireanu, Alexandru Mario, Ghinescu, Stefan Alexandru, Hutanu, Ovidiu Emanuel, Enik, Temur, Falaleev, Valeri, Kekelidze, Vladimir, Korotkova, Anna, Madigozhin, Dmitry, Misheva, Milena, Molokanova, Natalia, Movchan, Sergei, Polenkevich, Irina, Potrebenikov, Yuri, Shkarovskiy, Sergey, Zinchenko, Andrey, Fedotov, Sergei, Khotyantsev, Alexey, Gushchin, Evgeny, Kleimenova, Alina, Kudenko, Yury, Kurochka, Viktoriia, Medvedeva, Mariia, Mefodev, Aleksandr, Shaikhiev, Artur, Kholodenko, Sergey, Kurshetsov, Viktor, Obraztsov, Vladimir, Ostankov, Aleksandr, Semenov, Vitali, Sugonyaev, Valentin, Yushchenko, Oleg, Bician, Lubos, Blazek, Tomas, Cerny, Vladimir, Koval, Michal, Kucerova, Zuzana, Ceccucci, Augusto, Bernhard, Johannes, Danielsson, Hans, Döbrich, Babette, Duval, Francois, Gatignon, Lau, Guida, Roberto, Hahn, Ferdinand, Holzer, Eva Barbara, Jenninger, Berthold, Laycock, Paul, Lehmann Miotto, Giovanna, Lichard, Peter, Mapelli, Alessandro, Noy, Matthew, Palladino, Vito, Perrin-Terrin, Mathieu, Ruggiero, Giuseppe, Ryjov, Vladimir, Schuchmann, Simone, Venditti, Stefano, Brunetti, Maria Brigida, Bache, Thomas, Goudzovski, Evgueni, Lazzeroni, Cristina, Fascianelli, Valeria, Lurkin, Nicolas, Newson, Francis, Parkinson, Christopher, Romano, Angela, Sergi, Antonino, Sturgess, Andrew, Swallow, Joel, Heath, Helen, Page, Ryan, Trilov, Stoyan, Angelucci, Bruno, Britton, David, Protopopescu, Dan, Graham, Connor, Jones, Roger William Lewis, Dainton, John Bourke, Fry, John Richard, Fulton, Liam, Hutchcroft, David, Carmignani, Joseph, Massri, Karim, Maurice, Emilie, Wrona, Bozydar, Conovaloff, Adam, Cooper, Peter, Coward, David, Rubin, Philip David
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2019)182
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2655539
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Sumario:The results of a search for π$^{0}$ decays to a photon and an invisible massive dark photon at the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS are reported. From a total of 4.12 × 10$^{8}$ tagged π$^{0}$ mesons, no signal is observed. Assuming a kinetic-mixing interaction, limits are set on the dark photon coupling to the ordinary photon as a function of the dark photon mass, improving on previous searches in the mass range 60–110 MeV/c$^{2}$. The present results are interpreted in terms of an upper limit of the branching ratio of the electro-weak decay $ {\pi}^0\to \gamma \nu \overline{\nu} $ , improving the current limit by more than three orders of magnitude.