Balazs Konya
Researcher
Search for Dark Photons in Rare Z Boson Decays with the ATLAS Detector
Author
Summary, in English
A search for events with a dark photon produced in association with a dark Higgs boson via rare decays of the standard model Z boson is presented, using 139 fb^{-1} of sqrt[s]=13 TeV proton-proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The dark boson decays into a pair of dark photons, and at least two of the three dark photons must each decay into a pair of electrons or muons, resulting in at least two same-flavor opposite-charge lepton pairs in the final state. The data are found to be consistent with the background prediction, and upper limits are set on the dark photon's coupling to the dark Higgs boson times the kinetic mixing between the standard model photon and the dark photon, α_{D}ϵ^{2}, in the dark photon mass range of [5, 40] GeV except for the ϒ mass window [8.8, 11.1] GeV. This search explores new parameter space not previously excluded by other experiments.
Department/s
- Particle and nuclear physics
- eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
Publishing year
2023
Language
English
Publication/Series
Physical Review Letters
Volume
131
Issue
25
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
American Physical Society
Topic
- Subatomic Physics
Keywords
- article
- boson
- darkness
- photon
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1079-7114