10–13 Sept 2019
University of Perugia (Italy)
Europe/Zurich timezone

Search for an invisible vector boson from π0 decays at NA62

13 Sept 2019, 11:40
20m
Aula Magna (University of Perugia (Italy))

Aula Magna

University of Perugia (Italy)

Piazza dell'Università 1, 06123 Perugia (Italy)

Speaker

Tommaso Spadaro (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))

Description

The high-intensity setup, trigger system flexibility, and detector performance – high-frequency tracking of beam particles, redundant PID, ultra-high-efficiency photon vetoes – make NA62 particularly suitable for searching for new-physics effects from different scenarios. We report the results of a search for π0 decays to one photon and an invisible massive dark photon. From a total of about 400$ million π0 decays, no signal is observed beyond the expected fluctuation of the background and limits are set in the plane of the dark photon coupling to ordinary photon versus dark photon mass.

Primary author

Patrizia Cenci (INFN Perugia (IT))

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