The high-intensity setup, trigger system flexibility and detector performance make the NA62 experimentat CERN particularly suitable to perform direct searches for long-lived hidden-sector particles, such as dark photons, dark scalars, axion-like particles, and heavy neutral leptons, using kaon and pion decays as well as operating the experiment in dump mode. Results from NA62 will be presented on a search for π0 decays to one photon and an invisible massive dark photon. From about 400 Mπ0 decays, no signalis observed beyond the expected fluctuation of the background and limits are set in the plane of the dark photon coupling to ordinary photon versus the dark photon mass. The analysis has been also interpreted in terms of the branching ratio for the electroweak decay π0→γν ̄ν.
SEARCH FOR AN INVISIBLE VECTOR BOSON FROM π0 DECAYS AT NA62
F. Costantini;G. Lamanna;E. Lari;M. Sozzi;S. Venditti;
2019-01-01
Abstract
The high-intensity setup, trigger system flexibility and detector performance make the NA62 experimentat CERN particularly suitable to perform direct searches for long-lived hidden-sector particles, such as dark photons, dark scalars, axion-like particles, and heavy neutral leptons, using kaon and pion decays as well as operating the experiment in dump mode. Results from NA62 will be presented on a search for π0 decays to one photon and an invisible massive dark photon. From about 400 Mπ0 decays, no signalis observed beyond the expected fluctuation of the background and limits are set in the plane of the dark photon coupling to ordinary photon versus the dark photon mass. The analysis has been also interpreted in terms of the branching ratio for the electroweak decay π0→γν ̄ν.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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