Search for a dark photon and an invisible dark Higgs boson in $μ^+μ^-$ and missing energy final states with the Belle II experiment
Creators: name: Belle II Collaboration
name: Abudinén, F.
name: Adachi, I.
name: Aggarwal, L.
name: Aihara, H.
name: Akopov, N.
name: Aloisio, A.
name: Ky, N. Anh
name: Asner, D. M.
name: Atmacan, H.
name: Aushev, T.
name: Aushev, V.
name: Babu, V.
name: Bahinipati, S.
name: Bambade, P.
name: Banerjee, Sw.
name: Bansal, S.
name: Baudot, J.
name: Baur, A.
name: Beaubien, A.
name: Becker, J.
name: Behera, P. K.
name: Bennett, J. V.
name: Bernieri, E.
name: Bernlochner, F. U.
name: Bertemes, M.
name: Bertholet, E.
name: Bessner, M.
name: Bhuyan, B.
name: Bianchi, F.
name: Bilka, T.
name: Biswas, D.
name: Bobrov, A.
name: Bodrov, D.
name: Bolz, A.
name: Bozek, A.
name: Bračko, M.
name: Branchini, P.
name: Browder, T. E.
name: Budano, A.
name: Bussino, S.
name: Campajola, M.
name: Casarosa, G.
name: Cecchi, C.
name: Chekelian, V.
name: Chen, C.
name: Chen, Y. Q.
name: Cheon, B. G.
name: Chilikin, K.
name: Chirapatpimol, K.
name: Cho, H. -E.
name: Cho, K.
name: Cho, S. -J.
name: Choi, S. -K.
name: Choudhury, S.
name: Cinabro, D.
name: Corona, L.
name: Cunliffe, S.
name: Dattola, F.
name: de Marino, G.
name: De Nardo, G.
name: De Nuccio, M.
name: De Pietro, G.
name: de Sangro, R.
name: Destefanis, M.
name: Dey, S.
name: De Yta-Hernandez, A.
name: Dhamija, R.
name: Di Canto, A.
name: Di Capua, F.
name: Dingfelder, J.
name: Doležal, Z.
name: Jiménez, I. Domínguez
name: Dong, T. V.
name: Dorigo, M.
name: Dort, K.
name: Dossett, D.
name: Dreyer, S.
name: Dubey, S.
name: Dujany, G.
name: Ecker, P.
name: Eliachevitch, M.
name: Epifanov, D.
name: Feichtinger, P.
name: Ferber, T.
name: Ferlewicz, D.
name: Fillinger, T.
name: Finck, C.
name: Finocchiaro, G.
name: Flood, K.
name: Fodor, A.
name: Forti, F.
name: Frey, A.
name: Fulsom, B. G.
name: Ganiev, E.
name: Garcia-Hernandez, M.
name: Gaur, V.
name: Gaz, A.
name: Gellrich, A.
name: Giordano, R.
name: Giri, A.
name: Gobbo, B.
name: Godang, R.
name: Goldenzweig, P.
name: Gradl, W.
name: Granderath, S.
name: Graziani, E.
name: Greenwald, D.
name: Gu, T.
name: Gudkova, K.
name: Guilliams, J.
name: Hadjivasiliou, C.
name: Hara, K.
name: Hara, T.
name: Hayasaka, K.
name: Hayashii, H.
name: Hazra, S.
name: Hearty, C.
name: Hedges, M. T.
name: de la Cruz, I. Heredia
name: Villanueva, M. Hernández
name: Hershenhorn, A.
name: Higuchi, T.
name: Hill, E. C.
name: Hoek, M.
name: Hohmann, M.
name: Hsu, C. -L.
name: Iijima, T.
name: Inami, K.
name: Inguglia, G.
name: Ipsita, N.
name: Ishikawa, A.
name: Ito, S.
name: Itoh, R.
name: Iwasaki, M.
name: Jackson, P.
name: Jacobs, W. W.
name: Jaffe, D. E.
name: Jang, E. -J.
name: Ji, Q. P.
name: Jia, S.
name: Jin, Y.
name: Junkerkalefeld, H.
name: Kakuno, H.
name: Kaliyar, A. B.
name: Kandra, J.
name: Kang, K. H.
name: Karl, R.
name: Karyan, G.
name: Kawasaki, T.
name: Ketter, C.
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name: Kim, C. -H.
name: Kim, D. Y.
name: Kim, K. -H.
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name: Kowalewski, R.
name: Kraetzschmar, T. M. G.
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name: Krokovny, P.
name: Kuhr, T.
name: Kumar, R.
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name: Kunigo, T.
name: Kwon, Y. -J.
name: Lacaprara, S.
name: Lai, Y. -T.
name: Lam, T.
name: Lange, J. S.
name: Laurenza, M.
name: Leboucher, R.
name: Lee, S. C.
name: Li, L. K.
name: Li, Y. B.
name: Libby, J.
name: Lieret, K.
name: Liu, Q. Y.
name: Liventsev, D.
name: Longo, S.
name: Lozar, A.
name: Lueck, T.
name: Lyu, C.
name: Maggiora, M.
name: Maiti, R.
name: Maity, S.
name: Manfredi, R.
name: Manoni, E.
name: Marcello, S.
name: Marinas, C.
name: Martel, L.
name: Martini, A.
name: Massaccesi, L.
name: Masuda, M.
name: Matsuoka, K.
name: McKenna, J. A.
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name: Moneta, S.
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name: Mrvar, M.
name: Nakamura, I.
name: Nakamura, K. R.
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name: Park, H.
name: Park, S. -H.
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name: Piccolo, M.
name: Piilonen, L. E.
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name: Prim, M. T.
name: Purwar, H.
name: Rad, N.
name: Rados, P.
name: Raiz, S.
name: Morales, A. Ramirez
name: Reif, M.
name: Reiter, S.
name: Remnev, M.
name: Ripp-Baudot, I.
name: Rizzo, G.
name: Robertson, S. H.
name: Pérez, D. Rodríguez
name: Roney, J. M.
name: Rostomyan, A.
name: Rout, N.
name: Sahoo, D.
name: Sanders, D. A.
name: Sandilya, S.
name: Santelj, L.
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name: Scavino, B.
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name: Schwanda, C.
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name: Selce, A.
name: Senyo, K.
name: Serrano, J.
name: Sevior, M. E.
name: Sfienti, C.
name: Shillington, T.
name: Shiu, J. -G.
name: Sibidanov, A.
name: Simon, F.
name: Singh, J. B.
name: Skorupa, J.
name: Soffer, A.
name: Sokolov, A.
name: Solovieva, E.
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name: Spruck, B.
name: Starič, M.
name: Stefkova, S.
name: Stottler, Z. S.
name: Stroili, R.
name: Sumihama, M.
name: Sumisawa, K.
name: Sutcliffe, W.
name: Suzuki, S. Y.
name: Svidras, H.
name: Tabata, M.
name: Takizawa, M.
name: Tamponi, U.
name: Tanaka, S.
name: Tanida, K.
name: Tanigawa, H.
name: Tenchini, F.
name: Tiwary, R.
name: Tonelli, D.
name: Torassa, E.
name: Toutounji, N.
name: Trabelsi, K.
name: Uchida, M.
name: Ueda, I.
name: Uematsu, Y.
name: Uglov, T.
name: Unger, K.
name: Unno, Y.
name: Uno, K.
name: Uno, S.
name: Urquijo, P.
name: Ushiroda, Y.
name: Vahsen, S. E.
name: van Tonder, R.
name: Varner, G. S.
name: Varvell, K. E.
name: Vinokurova, A.
name: Vitale, L.
name: Vobbilisetti, V.
name: Waheed, E.
name: Wakeling, H. M.
name: Wang, E.
name: Wang, M. -Z.
name: Warburton, A.
name: Watanabe, M.
name: Watanuki, S.
name: Welsch, M.
name: Wessel, C.
name: Windel, H.
name: Won, E.
name: Xu, X. P.
name: Yabsley, B. D.
name: Yamada, S.
name: Yan, W.
name: Yang, S. B.
name: Ye, H.
name: Yin, J. H.
name: Yoshihara, K.
name: Yuan, C. Z.
name: Yusa, Y.
name: Zani, L.
name: Zhang, Y.
name: Zhilich, V.
name: Zhou, Q. D.
name: Zhou, X. Y.
name: Zhukova, V. I.
name: Žlebčík, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dark photon $A^\prime$ and the dark Higgs boson $h^\prime$ are hypothetical particles predicted in many dark sector models. We search for the simultaneous production of $A^\prime$ and $h^\prime$ in the dark Higgsstrahlung process $e^{+}e^{-}\rightarrow A^\prime \, h^\prime$ with $A^\prime \rightarrow μ^+μ^-$ and $ h^\prime$ invisible in electron-positron collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 10.58 GeV collected by the Belle II experiment in 2019. With an integrated luminosity of 8.34 fb$^{-1}$, we observe no evidence for signal. We obtain exclusion limits at 90% Bayesian credibility in the range of 1.7--5.0 fb on the cross section and in the range of $1.7 \times10^{-8}$--$200 \times10^{-8}$ on the effective coupling $\varepsilon^2 \times α_D$ for the $A^\prime$ mass in the range of 4.0 GeV/$c^2$ $&lt; M_{A^\prime}&lt; 9.7$ GeV/$c^2$ and for the $h^\prime$ mass $M_{h^\prime} &lt; M_{A^\prime}$, where $\varepsilon$ is the mixing strength between the standard model and the dark photon and $α_D$ is the coupling of the dark photon to the dark Higgs boson. Our limits are the first in this mass range.
description: Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters