Journal of University of Science and Technology of China ›› 2016, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (7): 601-607.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-2778.2016.07.010

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Search for dark photon and long-lived particles at BaBar

LUSIANI A.   

  1. 1.Scuola Normale Superiore, piazza dei Cavalieri 7, Pisa PI 56125, Italy; 2.Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, sezione di Pisa, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 3, 56127 Pisa PI, Italy
  • Received:2015-11-30 Revised:2016-04-20 Online:2016-07-31 Published:2016-07-31

Abstract: The complete large and clean sample of e+e- collisions recorded by the BaBar detector at PEP-II at the SLAC National Laboratory was used to search for a photon-like particle with mass and decaying into an e+e- or μ+μ- pair, which is proposed in some Dark Matter theory models, and to search for a long-lived particle that decays into an oppositely charged fermion pair, predicted in a number of New Physics models. We do not observe a significant signal and we set 90% confidence level upper limits of several production rates and on the parameters of some proposed New Physics models.

Key words: New Physics, Dark Matter, B-factory