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200 1 _aSearch for pseudoscalar bosons decaying into e+e− pairs in the NA64 experiment at the CERN SPS
_fYu. M. Andreev, D. Banerjee, J. Bernhard [et al.]
203 _aText
_celectronic
300 _aTitle screen
320 _a[References: 36 tit.]
330 _aWe report the results of a search for a light pseudoscalar particle a that couples to electrons and decays to e+e− performed using the high-energy CERN SPS H4 electron beam. If such light pseudoscalar exists, it could explain the ATOMKI anomaly (an excess of e+e− pairs in the nuclear transitions of 8Be and 4He nuclei at the invariant mass ≃17  MeV observed by the experiment at the 5 MV Van de Graaff accelerator at ATOMKI, Hungary). We used the NA64 data collected in the “visible mode” configuration with a total statistics corresponding to 8.4×1010 electrons on target (EOT) in 2017 and 2018. In order to increase sensitivity to small coupling parameter ε we also used the data collected in 2016-2018 in the “invisible mode” configuration of NA64 with a total statistics corresponding to 2.84×1011 EOT. The background and efficiency estimates for these two configurations were retained from our previous analyses searching for light vector bosons and axionlike particles (ALP) (the latter were assumed to couple predominantly to γ). In this work we recalculate the signal yields, which are different due to different cross section and lifetime of a pseudoscalar particle a, and perform a new statistical analysis. As a result, the region of the two dimensional parameter space ma−ε in the mass range from 1 to 17.1 MeV is excluded. At the mass of the central value of the ATOMKI anomaly (the first result obtained on the beryllium nucleus, 16.7 MeV) the values of ε in the range 2.1×10−4<ε<3.2×10−4 are excluded.
461 _tPhysical Review D
_ocovering particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology
463 _tVol. 104, iss. 11
_v[L111102, 5 p.]
_d2021
610 1 _aэлектронный ресурс
610 1 _aтруды учёных ТПУ
701 1 _aAndreev
_bYu. M.
_gYury Mikhaylovich
701 1 _aBanerjee
_bD.
701 1 _aBernhard
_bJ.
701 1 _aBurtsev
_bV. E.
701 1 _aChumakov
_bA. G.
_cphysicist
_claboratory assistant-researcher of Tomsk Polytechnic University
_f1992-
_gAleksandr Grigorjevich
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701 1 _aDusaev
_bR. R.
_cspecialist in the field of nuclear physics
_cEngineer of Tomsk Polytechnic University
_f1988-
_gRenat Ramilyevich
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701 1 _aLyubovitskiy (Lyubovitskij)
_bV. E.
_cphysicist
_cProfessor of Tomsk Polytechnic University, Doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, Professor of the University of Tubingen (Germany)
_f1963-
_gValery Efimovich
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701 1 _aTrifonov
_bA. Yu.
_cphysicist, mathematician
_cProfessor of Tomsk Polytechnic University, Doctor of physical and mathematical sciences
_f1963-
_gAndrey Yurievich
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701 1 _aVasilishin
_bB. I.
_cengineer-physicist
_claboratory researcher at Tomsk Polytechnic University
_f1990-
_gBogdan Ivanovich
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712 0 2 _aНациональный исследовательский Томский политехнический университет
_bШкола базовой инженерной подготовки
_bОтделение математики и информатики
_h8031
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712 0 2 _aНациональный исследовательский Томский политехнический университет
_bИсследовательская школа физики высокоэнергетических процессов
_c(2017- )
_h8118
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856 4 _uhttp://earchive.tpu.ru/handle/11683/74897
856 4 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.L111102
942 _cCF