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- Title
Search for π<sup>0</sup> decays to invisible particles.
- Authors
Cortina Gil, E.; Kleimenova, A.; Minucci, E.; Padolski, S.; Petrov, P.; Shaikhiev, A.; Volpe, R.; Numao, T.; Velghe, B.; Bryman, D.; Fu, J.; Husek, T.; Jerhot, J.; Kampf, K.; Zamkovsky, M.; Aliberti, R.; Khoriauli, G.; Kunze, J.; Lomidze, D.; Marchevski, R.
- Abstract
The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS reports a study of a sample of 4 × 109 tagged π0 mesons from K+ → π+π0(γ), searching for the decay of the π0 to invisible particles. No signal is observed in excess of the expected background fluctuations. An upper limit of 4.4 × 10−9 is set on the branching ratio at 90% confidence level, improving on previous results by a factor of 60. This result can also be interpreted as a model- independent upper limit on the branching ratio for the decay K+ → π+X, where X is a particle escaping detection with mass in the range 0.110–0.155 GeV/c2 and rest lifetime greater than 100 ps. Model-dependent upper limits are obtained assuming X to be an axion-like particle with dominant fermion couplings or a dark scalar mixing with the Standard Model Higgs boson.
- Publication
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021, Vol 2021, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1126-6708
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/JHEP02(2021)201