Search for a dark photon in electroproduced e+e− pairs with the Heavy Photon Search experiment at JLab

Adrian, P.H. et al. (2018) Search for a dark photon in electroproduced e+e− pairs with the Heavy Photon Search experiment at JLab. Physical Review D, 98(9), 091101(R). (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.98.091101)

Abstract

The Heavy Photon Search experiment took its first data in a 2015 engineering run using a 1.056 GeV, 50 nA electron beam provided by CEBAF at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, searching for a prompt, electroproduced dark photon with a mass between 19 and 81 MeV/c2. A search for a resonance in the e+e− invariant mass distribution, using 1.7 days (1170 nb−1) of data, showed no evidence of dark photon decays above the large QED background, confirming earlier searches and demonstrating the full functionality of the experiment. Upper limits on the square of the coupling of the dark photon to the standard model photon are set at the level of 6×10−6. Future runs with higher luminosity will explore new territory.

• Item Type: Articles
• Additional Information: The research reported here is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, Office of High Energy Physics, the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, United Kingdom’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), the Sesame project HPS@JLab funded by the French region Ile-de-France and the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare. Jefferson Science Associates, LLC, operates the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility for the United States Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC05-060R23177.
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Sokhan, Dr Daria and McKinnon, Dr Bryan and Livingston, Dr Kenneth
• Authors: Adrian, P.H., Baltzell, N.A., Battaglieri, M., Bondí, M., Boyarinov, S., Bueltmann, S., Burkert, V.D., Calvo, D., Carpinelli, M., Celentano, A., Charles, G., Colaneri, L., Cooper, W., Cuevas, C., D’Angelo, A., Dashyan, N., De Napoli, M., De Vita, R., Deur, A., Dupre, R., Egiyan, H., Elouadrhiri, L., Essig, R., Fadeyev, V., Field, C., Filippi, A., Freyberger, A., Garçon, M., Gevorgyan, N., Girod, F.X., Graf, N., Graham, M., Griffioen, K.A., Grillo, A., Guidal, M., Herbst, R., Holtrop, M., Jaros, J., Kalicy, G., Khandaker, M., Kubarovsky, V., Leonora, E., Livingston, K., Maruyama, T., McCarty, K., McCormick, J., McKinnon, B., Moffeit, K., Moreno, O., Munoz Camacho, C., Nelson, T., Niccolai, S., Odian, A., Oriunno, M., Osipenko, M., Paremuzyan, R., Paul, S., Randazzo, N., Raydo, B., Reese, B., Rizzo, A., Schuster, P., Sharabian, Y.G., Simi, G., Simonyan, A., Sipala, V., Sokhan, D., Solt, M., Stepanyan, S., Szumila-Vance, H., Toro, N., Uemura, S., Ungaro, M., Voskanyan, H., Weinstein, L.B., Wojtsekhowski, B., and Yale, B.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
• Journal Name: Physical Review D
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• ISSN: 2470-0010
• ISSN (Online): 2470-0029
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2018 2018 American Physical Society
• First Published: First published in Physical Review D 98(9):091101(R)
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