Search for photoproduction of axionlike particles at GlueX

(The gluex Collaboration)

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Abstract

We present a search for axionlike 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→γγ and a→π+π-π0 decays, and a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 168 pb-1 collected with the GlueX detector. The search for a→γγ decays is performed in the mass range of 180<ma<480 MeV, while the search for a→π+π-π0 decays explores the 600<ma<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.

Original languageEnglish
Article number052007
Number of pages8
JournalPhysical review d
Volume105
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We would like to acknowledge the outstanding efforts of the staff of the Accelerator and the Physics Division at Jefferson Lab that made the experiment possible. This work was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the German Research Foundation, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council, the Chilean Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the China Scholarship Council. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics under Contract No. DE-AC05-06OR23177.

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© 2022 authors. Published by the American Physical Society.

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