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Improved exclusion limit for light dark matter from e+e- annihilation in NA64

Andreev, YM; Banerjee, D; Bernhard, J; Bondì, M; Burtsev, VE; Celentano, A; Charitonidis, N; ... Volkov, VY; + view all (2021) Improved exclusion limit for light dark matter from e+e- annihilation in NA64. Physical Review D , 104 (9) , Article L091701. 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.L091701. Green open access

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Abstract

The current most stringent constraints for the existence of sub-GeV dark matter coupling to Standard Model via a massive vector boson A′ were set by the NA64 experiment for the mass region mA′≲250 MeV, by analyzing data from the interaction of 2.84×1011 100-GeV electrons with an active thick target and searching for missing-energy events. In this work, by including A′ production via secondary positron annihilation with atomic electrons, we extend these limits in the 200-300 MeV region by almost an order of magnitude, touching for the first time the dark matter relic density constrained parameter combinations. Our new results demonstrate the power of the resonant annihilation process in missing energy dark-matter searches, paving the road to future dedicated e+ beam efforts.

Type: Article
Title: Improved exclusion limit for light dark matter from e+e- annihilation in NA64
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.L091701
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.L091701
Language: English
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10140433
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