Search for dark photons from neutral meson decays in <i>p</i> plus <i>p</i> and <i>d</i> plus Au collisions at √s<i><sub>NN</sub></i>=200 GeV
PHYSICAL REVIEW C, cilt.91, sa.3, 2015 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 91 Sayı: 3
- Basım Tarihi: 2015
- Doi Numarası: 10.1103/physrevc.91.031901
- Dergi Adı: PHYSICAL REVIEW C
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır
Özet
The standard model (SM) of particle physics is spectacularly successful, yet the measured value of the muon anomalous magnetic moment (g - 2)mu deviates from SM calculations by 3.6 sigma. Several theoretical models attribute this to the existence of a "dark photon," an additional U(1) gauge boson, which is weakly coupled to ordinary photons. The PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has searched for a dark photon, U, in pi(0), eta -> gamma e(+)e(-) decays and obtained upper limits of O(2 x 10(-6)) on U-gamma mixing at 90% C.L. for the mass range 30 < m(U) < 90 MeV/c(2). Combined with other experimental limits, the remaining region in the U-gamma mixing parameter space that can explain the (g - 2)(mu) deviation from its SM value is nearly completely excluded at the 90% confidence level, with only a small region of 29 < m(U) < 32 MeV/c(2) remaining.