New Exclusion Limits on Dark Gauge Forces from Proton Bremsstrahlung in Beam-Dump Data

Abstract

We re-analyze published proton beam dump data taken at the U70 accelerator at IHEP Serpukhov with the $\nu$-calorimeter I experiment in 1989 to set mass-coupling limits for dark gauge forces. The corresponding data have been used for axion and light Higgs particle searches in Refs. \cite{Blumlein:1990ay,Blumlein:1991xh} before. More recently, limits on dark gauge forces have been derived from this data set, considering a dark photon production from ${\pi }^0$-decay \cite{Blumlein:2011mv}. Here we determine extended mass and coupling exclusion bounds for dark gauge bosons ranging to masses $m_{{\gamma }^{\prime }}$ of 624 MeV at admixture parameters $\epsilon \simeq 10^{-6}$ considering high-energy Bremsstrahlung of the $U$-boson off the initial proton beam and different detection mechanisms.

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