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Search for Invisible Decays of a Dark Photon Produced in e+e- Collisions at BaBar
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Lees, JP; Poireau, V; Tisserand, V; Grauges, E; Palano, A; Eigen, G; Brown, DN; Derdzinski, M; Giuffrida, A; Kolomensky, Yu G; Fritsch, M; Koch, H; Schroeder, T; Hearty, C; Mattison, TS; McKenna, JA; So, RY; Blinov, VE; Buzykaev, AR; Druzhinin, VP; Golubev, VB; Kravchenko, EA; Onuchin, AP; Serednyakov, SI; Skovpen, Yu I; Solodov, EP; Todyshev, K Yu; Lankford, AJ; Gary, JW; Long, O; Eisner, AM; Lockman, WS; Vazquez, W Panduro; Chao, DS; Cheng, CH; Echenard, B; Flood, KT; Hitlin, DG; Kim, J; Miyashita, TS; Ongmongkolkul, P; Porter, FC; Röhrken, M; Huard, Z; Meadows, BT; Pushpawela, BG; Sokoloff, MD; Sun, L; Smith, JG; Wagner, SR; 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, IM; Piccolo, M; Rotondo, M; Zallo, A; Passaggio, S; Patrignani, C; Lacker, HM; Bhuyan, B; Mallik, U; Chen, C; Cochran, J; Prell, S; Ahmed, H; Gritsan, AV; Arnaud, N; Davier, M; Le Diberder, F; Lutz, AM; Wormser, G; Lange, DJ; Wright, DM; Coleman, JP; Gabathuler, E; Hutchcroft, DE; Payne, DJ; Touramanis, C; Bevan, AJ; Di Lodovico, F; Sacco, R; Cowan, G; Banerjee, Sw; Davis, CL; Denig, AG; Gradl, W
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Physical Review Letters. 119(13)
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Abstract
We search for single-photon events in 53 fb^{-1} of e^{+}e^{-} collision data collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II B-Factory. We look for events with a single high-energy photon and a large missing momentum and energy, consistent with production of a spin-1 particle A^{'} through the process e^{+}e^{-}→γA^{'}; A^{'}→invisible. Such particles, referred to as "dark photons," are motivated by theories applying a U(1) gauge symmetry to dark matter. We find no evidence for such processes and set 90% confidence level upper limits on the coupling strength of A^{'} to e^{+}e^{-} in the mass range m_{A^{'}}≤8 GeV. In particular, our limits exclude the values of the A^{'} coupling suggested by the dark-photon interpretation of the muon (g-2)_{μ} anomaly, as well as a broad range of parameters for the dark-sector models.