ICHEP 2020

28 July 2020 to 6 August 2020
virtual conference
Europe/Prague timezone

Search for an Axion-Like Particle in B -> K a, with a -> gamma gamma at BABAR

28 Jul 2020, 17:25
25m
virtual conference

virtual conference

Talk 09. Dark Matter Detection

Speaker

Brian Shuve (Harvey Mudd College)

Description

Many extensions of the Standard Model include the possibility of light new particles, such as axions or dark matter candidates. These scenarios can be probed using the large data sets collected by $B$-factories, complementing measurements performed at the LHC.
We report on a search for an Axion-like particle (ALP), $a$, produced in the Flavor-Changing Neutral-Current decay $B\to K a$, with $a\to \gamma\gamma$, which is expected to be competitive with the corresponding Standard-Model electroweak processes. This search, performed by using a dataset of about 470 million $B\bar{B}$ pairs collected by the $BABAR$ experiment at the PEP-II $e^+e^-$ collider, is sensitive to ALP masses in the range 0 - 4.78 GeV.

Primary author

Brian Shuve (Harvey Mudd College)

Presentation Materials

 Shuve_ICHEP_BABAR_ALP.pdf Zoom discussion