Search for Muonic Dark Forces at BABAR

Abstract

Many models of physics beyond Standard Model predict the existence of light Higgs states, dark photons, and new gauge bosons mediating interactions between dark sectors and the Standard Model. Using a full data sample collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ collider, we report searches for a light non-Standard Model Higgs boson, dark photon, and a new muonic dark force mediated by a gauge boson ($Z^{\prime }$) coupling only to the second and third lepton families. Our results significantly improve upon the current bounds and further constrain the remaining region of the allowed parameter space.

Contributed to the Proceedings of the XLVI International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, Jeju island, South Korea, 2016. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy

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