Search for photoproduction of axion-like particles at GlueX
Creators: name: GlueX Collaboration
name: Adhikari, S.
name: Akondi, C. S.
name: Albrecht, M.
name: Ali, A.
name: Amaryan, M.
name: Asaturyan, A.
name: Austregesilo, A.
name: Baldwin, Z.
name: Barbosa, F.
name: Barlow, J.
name: Barriga, E.
name: Barsotti, R.
name: Beattie, T. D.
name: Berdnikov, V. V.
name: Black, T.
name: Boeglin, W.
name: Briscoe, W. J.
name: Britton, T.
name: Brooks, W. K.
name: Chudakov, E.
name: Cole, S.
name: Cole, P. L.
name: Cortes, O.
name: Crede, V.
name: Dalton, M. M.
name: Deur, A.
name: Dobbs, S.
name: Dolgolenko, A.
name: Dotel, R.
name: Dugger, M.
name: Dzhygadlo, R.
name: Ebersole, D.
name: Egiyan, H.
name: Erbora, T.
name: Ernst, A.
name: Eugenio, P.
name: Fanelli, C.
name: Fegan, S.
name: Fitches, J.
name: Foda, A. M.
name: Furletov, S.
name: Gan, L.
name: Gao, H.
name: Gasparian, A.
name: Gleason, C.
name: Goetzen, K.
name: Goryachev, V. S.
name: Guo, L.
name: Hagen, M.
name: Hakobyan, H.
name: Hamdi, A.
name: Hernandez, J.
name: Hoffman, N. D.
name: Hou, G.
name: Huber, G. M.
name: Hurley, A.
name: Ireland, D. G.
name: Ito, M. M.
name: Jaegle, I.
name: Jarvis, N. S.
name: Jones, R. T.
name: Kakoyan, V.
name: Kalicy, G.
name: Kamel, M.
name: Khachatryan, V.
name: Khatchatryan, M.
name: Kourkoumelis, C.
name: Kuleshov, S.
name: LaDuke, A.
name: Larin, I.
name: Lawrence, D.
name: Lersch, D. I.
name: Li, H.
name: Li, W. B.
name: Liu, B.
name: Livingston, K.
name: Lolos, G. J.
name: Lorenti, L.
name: Luckas, K.
name: Lyubovitskij, V.
name: Mack, D.
name: Mahmood, A.
name: Marukyan, H.
name: Matveev, V.
name: McCaughan, M.
name: McCracken, M.
name: Meyer, C. A.
name: Miskimen, R.
name: Mitchell, R. E.
name: Mizutani, K.
name: Neelamana, V.
name: Nerling, F.
name: Ng, L.
name: Ostrovidov, A. I.
name: Papandreou, Z.
name: Paudel, C.
name: Pauli, P.
name: Pedroni, R.
name: Pentchev, L.
name: Peters, K. J.
name: Reinhold, J.
name: Ritchie, B. G.
name: Ritman, J.
name: Rodriguez, G.
name: Romanov, D.
name: Romero, C.
name: Saldana, K.
name: Salgado, C.
name: Schadmand, S.
name: Schertz, A. M.
name: Schick, A.
name: Schmidt, A.
name: Schumacher, R. A.
name: Schwiening, J.
name: Sharp, P.
name: Shen, X.
name: Shepherd, M. R.
name: Smith, A.
name: Smith, E. S.
name: Sober, D. I.
name: Somov, A.
name: Somov, S.
name: Soto, O.
name: Stevens, J. R.
name: Strakovsky, I. I.
name: Sumner, B.
name: Suresh, K.
name: Tarasov, V. V.
name: Taylor, S.
name: Teymurazyan, A.
name: Thiel, A.
name: Vasileiadis, G.
name: Viducic, T.
name: Whitlatch, T.
name: Wickramaarachchi, N.
name: Williams, M.
name: Yang, Y.
name: Yoon, S.
name: Zarling, J.
name: Zhang, Z.
name: Zhao, Z.
name: Zhou, J.
name: Zhou, X.
name: Zihlmann, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a search for axion-like particles, $a$, produced in photon-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of approximately 4 GeV, focusing on the scenario where the $a$-gluon coupling is dominant. The search uses $a\toγγ$ and $a\toπ^+π^-π^0$ decays, and a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 168 pb$^{-1}$ collected with the GlueX detector. The search for $a\toγγ$ decays is performed in the mass range of $180 &lt; m_a &lt; 480$ MeV, while the search for $a\toπ^+π^-π^0$ decays explores the $600 &lt; m_a &lt; 720$ MeV region. No evidence for a signal is found, and 90% confidence-level exclusion limits are placed on the $a$-gluon coupling strength. These constraints are the most stringent to date over much of the mass ranges considered.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables; updated to published version