We present a search for the direct production of a light pseudoscalar a decaying into two photons with the Belle II detector at the SuperKEKB collider. We search for the process e+e-→γa, a→γγ in the mass range 0.2<9.7 GeV/c2 using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of (445±3) pb-1. Light pseudoscalars interacting predominantly with standard model gauge bosons (so-called axionlike particles or ALPs) are frequently postulated in extensions of the standard model. We find no evidence for ALPs and set 95% confidence level upper limits on the coupling strength gaγγ of ALPs to photons at the level of 10-3 GeV-1. The limits are the most restrictive to date for 0.2<1 GeV/c2.

Search for Axionlike Particles Produced in e+e- Collisions at Belle II / Abudinen, F., Adachi, I., Aihara, H., Akopov, N., Aloisio, A., Ameli, F., Anh Ky, N., Asner, D.M., Aushev, T., Aushev, V., Babu, V., Baehr, S., Bahinipati, S., Bambade, P., Banerjee, S., Bansal, S., Baudot, J., Becker, J., Behera, P.K., Bennett, J.V., et al.. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. - ISSN 0031-9007. - STAMPA. - 125:16(2020), pp. 16180601-16180609. [10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.161806]

Search for Axionlike Particles Produced in e+e- Collisions at Belle II

Ganiev E.;La Licata C.;Lanceri L.;Manfredi R.;Vitale L.;
2020-01-01

Abstract

We present a search for the direct production of a light pseudoscalar a decaying into two photons with the Belle II detector at the SuperKEKB collider. We search for the process e+e-→γa, a→γγ in the mass range 0.2<9.7 GeV/c2 using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of (445±3) pb-1. Light pseudoscalars interacting predominantly with standard model gauge bosons (so-called axionlike particles or ALPs) are frequently postulated in extensions of the standard model. We find no evidence for ALPs and set 95% confidence level upper limits on the coupling strength gaγγ of ALPs to photons at the level of 10-3 GeV-1. The limits are the most restrictive to date for 0.2<1 GeV/c2.
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