Search for the dark photon in π0 decays

Roberto Piandani

doi:10.1051/epjconf/201612604035

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EPJ Web of Conferences 126, 04035 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201612604035

Search for the dark photon in π⁰ decays

Roberto Piandani^a for the NA48/2 Collaboration: Cambridge, CERN, Dubna, Chicago, Edinburgh, Ferrara, Firenze, Mainz, Northwestern, Perugia, Pisa, Saclay, Siegen, Torino, Wien.

INFN Pisa

^a e-mail: roberto.piandani@cern.ch

Published online: 4 November 2016

Abstract

A sample of 1.69 × 10⁷ fully reconstructed π⁰ → γe⁺e⁻ in the kinematic range m_ee > 10MeV/c² with a negligible background contamination collected by the NA48/2 experiment at CERN in 2003-04 is analysed to search for the dark photon (A′) via the decay chain π;⁰ → γA′, A′ → e⁺e. No signal is observed, and preliminary exclusion limits on space of dark photon mass m_A′ and mixing parameter ϵ² are reported.

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