Search for a dark leptophilic scalar produced in association with $τ^+τ^-$ pair in $e^+e^-$ annihilation at center-of-mass energies near 10.58 GeV
Creators: name: Belle Collaboration
name: Biswas, D.
name: Banerjee, Sw.
name: Adachi, I.
name: Aihara, H.
name: Asner, D. M.
name: Aushev, T.
name: Ayad, R.
name: Babu, V.
name: Behera, P.
name: Bennett, J.
name: Bessner, M.
name: Bhardwaj, V.
name: Bhuyan, B.
name: Bilka, T.
name: Bodrov, D.
name: Borah, J.
name: Bozek, A.
name: Bračko, M.
name: Branchini, P.
name: Browder, T. E.
name: Budano, A.
name: Campajola, M.
name: Červenkov, D.
name: Chang, M. -C.
name: Chang, P.
name: Cheon, B. G.
name: Chilikin, K.
name: Cho, H. E.
name: Cho, K.
name: Choi, S. -K.
name: Choi, Y.
name: Choudhury, S.
name: Cinabro, D.
name: Das, S.
name: De Nardo, G.
name: De Pietro, G.
name: Dhamija, R.
name: Di Capua, F.
name: Dingfelder, J.
name: Doležal, Z.
name: Dong, T. V.
name: Dubey, S.
name: Ecker, P.
name: Epifanov, D.
name: Ferber, T.
name: Fulsom, B. G.
name: Gaur, V.
name: Garmash, A.
name: Giri, A.
name: Goldenzweig, P.
name: Graziani, E.
name: Guan, Y.
name: Gudkova, K.
name: Hadjivasiliou, C.
name: Hayasaka, K.
name: Hayashii, H.
name: Hazra, S.
name: Hedges, M. T.
name: Herrmann, D.
name: Villanueva, M. Hernández
name: Hou, W. -S.
name: Hsu, C. -L.
name: Inami, K.
name: Inguglia, G.
name: Ipsita, N.
name: Ishikawa, A.
name: Itoh, R.
name: Iwasaki, M.
name: Jacobs, W. W.
name: Ji, Q. P.
name: Jia, S.
name: Jin, Y.
name: Joo, K. K.
name: Kaliyar, A. B.
name: Kiesling, C.
name: Kim, C. H.
name: Kim, D. Y.
name: Kim, K. -H.
name: Kim, Y. J.
name: Kim, Y. -K.
name: Kodyš, P.
name: Konno, T.
name: Korobov, A.
name: Korpar, S.
name: Križan, P.
name: Krokovny, P.
name: Kumar, M.
name: Kumara, K.
name: Kwon, Y. -J.
name: Lai, Y. -T.
name: Laurenza, M.
name: Lee, S. C.
name: Levit, D.
name: Li, J.
name: Li, L. K.
name: Li, Y.
name: Gioi, L. Li
name: Libby, J.
name: Lieret, K.
name: Lin, Y. -R.
name: Liventsev, D.
name: Luo, T.
name: Ma, Y.
name: Masuda, M.
name: Maurya, S. K.
name: Meier, F.
name: Merola, M.
name: Metzner, F.
name: Miyabayashi, K.
name: Mizuk, R.
name: Nakamura, I.
name: Nakao, M.
name: Natkaniec, Z.
name: Natochii, A.
name: Nayak, L.
name: Niiyama, M.
name: Nisar, N. K.
name: Nishida, S.
name: Ogawa, S.
name: Ono, H.
name: Pakhlov, P.
name: Pakhlova, G.
name: Pardi, S.
name: Park, H.
name: Park, J.
name: Park, S. -H.
name: Passeri, A.
name: Patra, S.
name: Paul, S.
name: Pestotnik, R.
name: Piilonen, L. E.
name: Podobnik, T.
name: Prencipe, E.
name: Prim, M. T.
name: Rout, N.
name: Russo, G.
name: Sandilya, S.
name: Santelj, L.
name: Savinov, V.
name: Schnell, G.
name: Schwanda, C.
name: Seino, Y.
name: Senyo, K.
name: Sevior, M. E.
name: Shan, W.
name: Sharma, C.
name: Shiu, J. -G.
name: Shwartz, B.
name: Singh, J. B.
name: Sokolov, A.
name: Solovieva, E.
name: Starič, M.
name: Stottler, Z. S.
name: Sumihama, M.
name: Takizawa, M.
name: Tanida, K.
name: Tenchini, F.
name: Trabelsi, K.
name: Uchida, M.
name: Uglov, T.
name: Unno, Y.
name: Uno, K.
name: Uno, S.
name: Urquijo, P.
name: Vinokurova, A.
name: Wang, D.
name: Wang, E.
name: Watanuki, S.
name: Won, E.
name: Xu, X.
name: Yabsley, B. D.
name: Yan, W.
name: Yin, J. H.
name: Yuan, C. Z.
name: Yuan, L.
name: Zhang, Z. P.
name: Zhilich, V.
name: Zhukova, V.
name: Zhulanov, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A dark leptophilic scalar $(ϕ_L)$ is a hypothetical particle that couples only to leptons rather than quarks. We report on a search for $ϕ_L$ in the $e^+e^- \to τ^+ τ^- ϕ_L, ~ϕ_L \to \ell^+ \ell^- ~(\ell = e, μ)$ process using 626~\invfb of data collected by the Belle experiment near the \Y4S resonance. We validate the backgrounds with multiple control regions in data, using a novel multiclass multivariate event classifier. In absence of a signal, we quote upper limits at the 90\% confidence level on the coupling between $ϕ_L$ and leptons. Our bounds, obtained in a blinded approach, are 19\% more constraining than the previous limits, averaged over the mass range $0.04 \leq m_{ϕ_L} \leq 6.5~\gev$. We exclude the parameter space below 4~\gev favored by measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures