NA48/2 Collaboration / Physics Letters B 746 (2015) 178–185 179
P. Cenci, M. Pepe, M.C. Petrucci
Sezione dell’INFN di Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
G. Anzivino, E. Imbergamo, A. Nappi
1
, M. Piccini, M. Raggi
13
, M. Valdata-Nappi
Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università e Sezione dell’INFN di Perugia, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
C. Cerri, R. Fantechi
Sezione dell’INFN di Pisa, I-56100 Pisa, Italy
G. Collazuol
23
, L. DiLella, G. Lamanna
13
, I. Mannelli, A. Michetti
Scuola Normale Superiore e Sezione dell’INFN di Pisa, I-56100 Pisa, Italy
F. Costantini, N. Doble, L. Fiorini
24
, S. Giudici, G. Pierazzini
1
, M. Sozzi, S. Venditti
11
Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università e Sezione dell’INFN di Pisa, I-56100 Pisa, Italy
B. Bloch-Devaux
25
, C. Cheshkov
26
, J.B. Chèze, M. De Beer, J. Derré, G. Marel, E. Mazzucato,
B. Peyaud, B. Vallage
DSM/IRFU – CEA Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
M. Holder, M. Ziolkowski
Fachbereich Physik, Universität Siegen, D-57068 Siegen, Germany
27
C. Biino, N. Cartiglia, F. Marchetto
Sezione dell’INFN di Torino, I-10125 Torino, Italy
S. Bifani
2
, M. Clemencic
11
, S. Goy Lopez
28
Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università e Sezione dell’INFN di Torino, I-10125 Torino, Italy
H. Dibon, M. Jeitler, M. Markytan, I. Mikulec, G. Neuhofer, L. Widhalm
1
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Institut für Hochenergiephysik, A-10560 Wien, Austria
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a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Received
3 April 2015
Received
in revised form 29 April 2015
Accepted
30 April 2015
Available
online 5 May 2015
Editor:
W.-D. Schlatter
A sample of 1.69 × 10
7
fully reconstructed π
0
→ γ e
+
e
−
decay candidates collected by the NA48/2
experiment at CERN in 2003–2004 is analyzed to search for the dark photon ( A
) production in the π
0
→
γ A
decay followed by the prompt A
→ e
+
e
−
decay. No signal is observed, and an exclusion region in
the plane of the dark photon mass m
A
and mixing parameter ε
2
is established. The obtained upper limits
on ε
2
are more stringent than the previous limits in the mass range 9MeV/c
2
< m
A
< 70 MeV/c
2
. The
NA48/2 sensitivity to the dark photon production in the K
±
→ π
±
A
decay is also evaluated.
© 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Funded by SCOAP
3
.
*
Corresponding author.
E-mail
address: eg@hep.ph.bham.ac.uk (E. Goudzovski).
1
Deceased.
2
Now at: School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
3
Supported by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (UF100308, UF0758946).
4
Funded by the UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, grant PPA/G/O/1999/00559.
5
Now at: Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale e Sezione dell’INFN di Torino, I-10125 Torino, Italy.
6
Now at: Istituto di Cosmogeofisica del CNR di Torino, I-10133 Torino, Italy.
7
Now at: Dipartimento di Fisica e Scienze della Terra dell’Università e Sezione dell’INFN di Ferrara, I-44122 Ferrara, Italy.
8
Now at: Department of Physics, Imperial College, London, SW7 2BW, UK.
9
Now at: Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
10
Supported by ERC Starting Grant 336581.
11
Now at: CERN, CH-1211 Genève 23, Switzerland.
12
Now at: Faculty of Physics, University of Sofia “St. Kl. Ohridski”, 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria, funded by the Bulgarian National Science Fund under contract DID02-22.