Search for a Light CP-odd Higgs Boson and Low-Mass Dark Matter at the Belle Experiment

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  • 1 University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
  • 2 SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama 240-0193
  • 3 Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033
  • 4 Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589
  • 5 Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
  • 6 Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090
  • 7 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow Region 141700
  • 8 Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Tabuk, Tabuk 71451
  • 9 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai 400005
  • 10 School of Physics, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006
  • 11 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352
  • 12 Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036
  • 13 Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, SAS Nagar, 140306
  • 14 Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam 781039
  • 15 Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, 121 16 Prague
  • 16 J. Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana
  • 17 Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202
  • 18 H. Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow 31-342
  • 19 Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, 76131 Karlsruhe
  • 20 Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617
  • 21 Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, 80805 München
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  • 23 Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791
  • 24 P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991
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  • 27 Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Telangana 502285
  • 28 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, 22607 Hamburg
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  • 30 LAL, University Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay
  • 31 University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn
  • 32 II. Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 37073 Göttingen
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  • 38 Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8583
  • 39 Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602
  • 40 Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578
  • 41 Osaka City University, Osaka 558-8585
  • 42 High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801
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  • 48 School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010
  • 49 Kitasato University, Tokyo 108-0072
  • 50 Soongsil University, Seoul 156-743
  • 51 Korea University, Seoul 136-713
  • 52 University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221
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  • 54 Ludwig Maximilians University, 80539 Munich
  • 55 Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo 192-0397
  • 56 Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749
  • 57 Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, 35392 Gießen
  • 58 Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049
  • 59 Peking University, Beijing 100871
  • 60 Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE) and Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200443
  • 61 Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0032
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  • 70 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne 1015
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  • 74 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8550
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  • 81 Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics, Vienna 1090
  • 82 University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611
  • 83 University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026
Phys Rev Lett, 2019 Jan 11;122(1):011801.
PMID: 31012694 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.011801

Abstract

We report on the first Belle search for a light CP-odd Higgs boson, A^{0}, that decays into low mass dark matter, χ, in final states with a single photon and missing energy. We search for events produced via the dipion transition ϒ(2S)→ϒ(1S)π^{+}π^{-}, followed by the on-shell process ϒ(1S)→γA^{0} with A^{0}→χχ, or by the off-shell process ϒ(1S)→γχχ. Utilizing a data sample of 157.3×10^{6} ϒ(2S) decays, we find no evidence for a signal. We set limits on the branching fractions of such processes in the mass ranges M_{A^{0}}<8.97  GeV/c^{2} and M_{χ}<4.44  GeV/c^{2}. We then use the limits on the off-shell process to set competitive limits on WIMP-nucleon scattering in the WIMP mass range below 5  GeV/c^{2}.

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