Phys Rev Lett. 2023 Feb 17;130(7):071804. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.071804.
The dark photon A^{'} and the dark Higgs boson h^{'} are hypothetical particles predicted in many dark sector models. We search for the simultaneous production of A^{'} and h^{'} in the dark Higgsstrahlung process e^{+}e^{-}→A^{'}h^{'} with A^{'}→μ^{+}μ^{-} and h^{'} invisible in electron-positron collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 10.58 GeV in data 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 1.7×10^{-8}-200×10^{-8} on the effective coupling ϵ^{2}×α_{D} for the A^{'} mass in the range of 4.0 GeV/c^{2}<M_{A^{'}}<9.7 GeV/c^{2} and for the h^{'} mass M_{h^{'}}<M_{A^{'}}, where ϵ 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.
暗光子 A^{'}和暗希格斯玻色子 h^{'}是许多暗物质模型中预测的假设粒子。我们在 Belle II 实验 2019 年在质心能量为 10.58 GeV 的电子-正电子碰撞中搜索暗 Higgs 辐射过程 e^{+}e^{-}→A^{'}h^{'}中同时产生 A^{'}和 h^{'}的信号,其中 A^{'}→μ^{+}μ^{-}且 h^{'}是不可见的。在 8.34 fb^{-1}的积分亮度下,我们没有观察到信号的证据。我们在 90%贝叶斯置信度范围内获得了排除限制,在 4.0 GeV/c^{2}<M_{A^{'}}<9.7 GeV/c^{2}范围内,对于 A^{'}质量的截面范围为 1.7-5.0 fb,对于 h^{'}质量 M_{h^{'}}<M_{A^{'}}的有效耦合ϵ^{2}×α_{D}范围为 1.7×10^{-8}-200×10^{-8},其中 ϵ 是标准模型与暗光子之间的混合强度,α_{D}是暗光子与暗希格斯玻色子的耦合。我们的限制是该质量范围内的首次限制。