PT Journal
AU BABAR Collaboration (Lees, JPea
   Martinez-Vidal, F
   Oyanguren, A
   Villanueva-Perez, P
TI Search for a Dark Photon in e(+)e(-) Collisions at BABAR
SO Physical Review Letters
JI Phys. Rev. Lett.
PY 2014
BP 201801
EP 8pp
VL 113
IS 20
DI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.201801
LA English
AB Dark sectors charged under a new Abelian interaction have recently received much attention in the context of dark matter models. These models introduce a light new mediator, the so-called dark photon (A'), connecting the dark sector to the standard model. We present a search for a dark photon in the reaction e(+)e(-) ->gamma A', A' -> e(+)e(-), mu(+) mu(-) using 514 fb(-1) of data collected with the BABAR detector. We observe no statistically significant deviations from the standard model predictions, and we set 90% confidence level upper limits on the mixing strength between the photon and dark photon at the level of 10(-4) – 10(-3) for dark photon masses in the range 0.02-10.2 GeV. We further constrain the range of the parameter space favored by interpretations of the discrepancy between the calculated and measured anomalous magnetic moment of the muon.
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