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Probing the explanation of the muon (g-2) anomaly and thermal light dark matter with the semi-visible dark photon channel

Cazzaniga, C.
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Odagiu, P.
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Depero, E.
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October 1, 2021
The European Physical Journal C

We report the results of a search for a new vector boson (A') decaying into two dark matter particles chi 1 chi 2 of different mass. The heavier chi(2) particle subsequently decays to chi 1 and an off-shell Dark Photon A'* -> e(+)e(-). For a sufficiently largemass splitting, this model can explain in terms of new physics the recently confirmed discrepancy observed in themuon anomalous magnetic moment at Fermilab. Remark- ably, it also predicts the observed yield of thermal dark matter relic abundance. A detailed Monte-Carlo simulation was used to determine the signal yield and detection efficiency for this channel in the NA64 setup. The results were obtained reanalyzing the previous NA64 searches for an invisible decay A' -> chi(chi) over bar and axion-like or pseudo-scalar particles -> gamma gamma. With this method, we exclude a significant portion of the parameter space justifying the muon g-2 anomaly and being compatible with the observed dark matter relic density for A' masses from 2m(e) up to 390 MeV and mixing parameter e between 3 x 10(-5) and 2 x 10(-2).

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DOI
10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09705-5
Web of Science ID

WOS:000712961200001

Author(s)
Cazzaniga, C.
Odagiu, P.
Depero, E.
Bueno, L. Molina
Andreev, Yu M.
Banerjee, D.
Bernhard, J.
Burtsev, V. E.
Charitonidis, N.  
Chumakov, A. G.
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Date Issued

2021-10-01

Publisher

SPRINGER

Published in
The European Physical Journal C
Volume

81

Issue

10

Start page

959

Subjects

Physics, Particles & Fields

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Physics

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exclusion limits

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gauge forces

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search

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electron

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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November 20, 2021
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