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Dec 4 – 8, 2023
America/Kentucky/Louisville timezone

Search for Baryogenesis and Dark Matter in $B$-meson decays at $BABAR$.

Dec 5, 2023, 5:00 PM
20m
Plenary Presentation Tuesday afternoon

Speaker

David Norvil Brown (Western Kentucky University)

Description

We present the most recent $BABAR$ searches for reactions that could simultaneously explain the presence of dark matter and the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe. This scenario predicts exotic $B$-meson decays into an ordinary-matter baryon and a dark-sector anti-baryon $\psi_D$ with branching fractions accessible at the $B$ factories.
The results are based on the full data set of about 430 $\text{fb}^{-1}$ collected at the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance by the $BABAR$ detector at the PEP-II collider.
We search, in particular, for decays like $B^{0}\to\psi_{D} \,{\cal B}$ where $\cal{B}$ is a baryon (proton or $\Lambda$). The hadronic recoil method has been applied with one of the $B$ mesons from $\Upsilon(4S)$ decay fully reconstructed, while only one baryon is present in the signal $B$-meson side. The missing mass of signal $B$ meson is considered as the mass of the dark particle $\psi_{D}$. Stringent upper limits on the decay branching fraction are derived for $\psi_D$ masses between 1.0 and 4.3 GeV/c$^2$.

Name of collaboration or list of co-authors

BABAR

Primary author

Fabio Anulli (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

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