Search for Darkonium in e+e− Collisions

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Search for Darkonium in e+e− Collisions. / BaBar Collaboration.

In: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 128, No. 2, 021802, 14.01.2022.

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BaBar Collaboration 2022, 'Search for Darkonium in e+e− Collisions', Physical Review Letters, vol. 128, no. 2, 021802. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.021802

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BaBar Collaboration (2022). Search for Darkonium in e+e− Collisions. Physical Review Letters, 128(2), [021802]. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.021802

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BaBar Collaboration. Search for Darkonium in e+e− Collisions. Physical Review Letters. 2022 Jan 14;128(2):021802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.021802

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BaBar Collaboration. / Search for Darkonium in e+e− Collisions. In: Physical Review Letters. 2022 ; Vol. 128, No. 2.

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@article{d0bf2e0ff34a4ef497bf72a951602bdf,

title = "Search for Darkonium in e+e− Collisions",

abstract = "Collider searches for dark sectors, new particles interacting only feebly with ordinary matter, have largely focused on identifying signatures of new mediators, leaving much of dark sector structures unexplored. In particular, the existence of dark matter bound states (darkonia) remains to be investigated. This possibility could arise in a simple model in which a dark photon (A′) is light enough to generate an attractive force between dark fermions. We report herein a search for a JPC=1 - darkonium state, the D, produced in the reaction e+e-→γ D, D→A′A′A′, where the dark photons subsequently decay into pairs of leptons or pions, using 514 fb-1 of data collected with the BABAR detector. No significant signal is observed, and we set bounds on the γ-A′ kinetic mixing as a function of the dark sector coupling constant for 0.001",

author = "{BaBar Collaboration} and Lees, {J. P.} and V. Poireau and V. Tisserand and E. Grauges and A. Palano and G. Eigen and Brown, {D. N.} and Kolomensky, {Yu G.} and M. Fritsch and H. Koch and T. Schroeder and R. Cheaib and C. Hearty and Mattison, {T. S.} and McKenna, {J. A.} and So, {R. Y.} and Blinov, {V. E.} and Buzykaev, {A. R.} and Druzhinin, {V. P.} and Golubev, {V. B.} and Kozyrev, {E. A.} and Kravchenko, {E. A.} and Onuchin, {A. P.} and Serednyakov, {S. I.} and Skovpen, {Yu I.} and Solodov, {E. P.} and Todyshev, {K. Yu} and Lankford, {A. J.} and B. Dey and Gary, {J. W.} and O. Long and Eisner, {A. M.} and Lockman, {W. S.} and {Panduro Vazquez}, W. and Chao, {D. S.} and Cheng, {C. H.} and B. Echenard and Flood, {K. T.} and Hitlin, {D. G.} and J. Kim and Y. Li and Lin, {D. X.} and Miyashita, {T. S.} and P. Ongmongkolkul and J. Oyang and Porter, {F. C.} and M. R{\"o}hrken and Z. Huard and Meadows, {B. T.} and Pushpawela, {B. G.}",

note = "Funding Information: The authors wish to thank Haipeng An and Yue Zhang for useful discussions and for providing us with madgraph simulations of self-interacting dark matter processes. We also thank Gaia Lanfranchi for providing us constraints from existing experiments. We are grateful for the extraordinary contributions of our PEP-II colleagues in achieving the excellent luminosity and machine conditions that have made this work possible. The success of this project also relies critically on the expertise and dedication of the computing organizations that support BABAR. The collaborating institutions wish to thank SLAC for its support and the kind hospitality extended to them. This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and National Science Foundation, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada), the Commissariat {\`a} l{\textquoteright}Energie Atomique and Institut National de Physique Nucl{\'e}aire et de Physique des Particules (France), the Bundesministerium f{\"u}r Bildung und Forschung and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Germany), the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Italy), the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (Netherlands), the Research Council of Norway, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Ministerio de Econom{\'i}a y Competitividad (Spain), the Science and Technology Facilities Council (U.K.), and the Binational Science Foundation (U.S.-Israel). Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie IEF program (European Union) and the A. P. Sloan Foundation (U.S.). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the {"}https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/{"}Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3.",

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T1 - Search for Darkonium in e+e− Collisions

AU - BaBar Collaboration

AU - Lees, J. P.

AU - Poireau, V.

AU - Tisserand, V.

AU - Grauges, E.

AU - Palano, A.

AU - Eigen, G.

AU - Brown, D. N.

AU - Kolomensky, Yu G.

AU - Fritsch, M.

AU - Koch, H.

AU - Schroeder, T.

AU - Cheaib, R.

AU - Hearty, C.

AU - Mattison, T. S.

AU - McKenna, J. A.

AU - So, R. Y.

AU - Blinov, V. E.

AU - Buzykaev, A. R.

AU - Druzhinin, V. P.

AU - Golubev, V. B.

AU - Kozyrev, E. A.

AU - Kravchenko, E. A.

AU - Onuchin, A. P.

AU - Serednyakov, S. I.

AU - Skovpen, Yu I.

AU - Solodov, E. P.

AU - Todyshev, K. Yu

AU - Lankford, A. J.

AU - Dey, B.

AU - Gary, J. W.

AU - Long, O.

AU - Eisner, A. M.

AU - Lockman, W. S.

AU - Panduro Vazquez, W.

AU - Chao, D. S.

AU - Cheng, C. H.

AU - Echenard, B.

AU - Flood, K. T.

AU - Hitlin, D. G.

AU - Kim, J.

AU - Li, Y.

AU - Lin, D. X.

AU - Miyashita, T. S.

AU - Ongmongkolkul, P.

AU - Oyang, J.

AU - Porter, F. C.

AU - Röhrken, M.

AU - Huard, Z.

AU - Meadows, B. T.

AU - Pushpawela, B. G.

N1 - Funding Information: The authors wish to thank Haipeng An and Yue Zhang for useful discussions and for providing us with madgraph simulations of self-interacting dark matter processes. We also thank Gaia Lanfranchi for providing us constraints from existing experiments. We are grateful for the extraordinary contributions of our PEP-II colleagues in achieving the excellent luminosity and machine conditions that have made this work possible. The success of this project also relies critically on the expertise and dedication of the computing organizations that support BABAR. The collaborating institutions wish to thank SLAC for its support and the kind hospitality extended to them. This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and National Science Foundation, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada), the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique and Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (France), the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Germany), the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Italy), the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (Netherlands), the Research Council of Norway, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Spain), the Science and Technology Facilities Council (U.K.), and the Binational Science Foundation (U.S.-Israel). Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie IEF program (European Union) and the A. P. Sloan Foundation (U.S.). Publisher Copyright: © 2022 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3.

PY - 2022/1/14

Y1 - 2022/1/14

N2 - Collider searches for dark sectors, new particles interacting only feebly with ordinary matter, have largely focused on identifying signatures of new mediators, leaving much of dark sector structures unexplored. In particular, the existence of dark matter bound states (darkonia) remains to be investigated. This possibility could arise in a simple model in which a dark photon (A′) is light enough to generate an attractive force between dark fermions. We report herein a search for a JPC=1 - darkonium state, the D, produced in the reaction e+e-→γ D, D→A′A′A′, where the dark photons subsequently decay into pairs of leptons or pions, using 514 fb-1 of data collected with the BABAR detector. No significant signal is observed, and we set bounds on the γ-A′ kinetic mixing as a function of the dark sector coupling constant for 0.001

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