We report on a search for a resonance X decaying to a pair of muons in eþe− → μþμ−X events in the 0.212–9.000 GeV=c2 mass range, using 178 fb−1 of data collected by the Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB collider at a center of mass energy of 10.58 GeV. The analysis probes two different models of X beyond the standard model: a Z0 vector boson in the Lμ − Lτ model and a muonphilic scalar. We observe no evidence for a signal and set exclusion limits at the 90% confidence level on the products of cross section and branching fraction for these processes, ranging from 0.046 fb to 0.97 fb for the Lμ − Lτ model and from 0.055 fb to 1.3 fb for the muonphilic scalar model. For masses below 6 GeV=c2, the corresponding constraints on the couplings of these processes to the standard model range from 0.0008 to 0.039 for the Lμ − Lτ model and from 0.0018 to 0.040 for the muonphilic scalar model. These are the first constraints on the muonphilic scalar from a dedicated search.

Search for a μ+μ- resonance in four-muon final states at Belle II

F. Bianchi;S. Das;M. Destefanis;M. Maggiora;S. Marcello;G. Pinna Angioni;S. Spataro;
2024-01-01

Abstract

We report on a search for a resonance X decaying to a pair of muons in eþe− → μþμ−X events in the 0.212–9.000 GeV=c2 mass range, using 178 fb−1 of data collected by the Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB collider at a center of mass energy of 10.58 GeV. The analysis probes two different models of X beyond the standard model: a Z0 vector boson in the Lμ − Lτ model and a muonphilic scalar. We observe no evidence for a signal and set exclusion limits at the 90% confidence level on the products of cross section and branching fraction for these processes, ranging from 0.046 fb to 0.97 fb for the Lμ − Lτ model and from 0.055 fb to 1.3 fb for the muonphilic scalar model. For masses below 6 GeV=c2, the corresponding constraints on the couplings of these processes to the standard model range from 0.0008 to 0.039 for the Lμ − Lτ model and from 0.0018 to 0.040 for the muonphilic scalar model. These are the first constraints on the muonphilic scalar from a dedicated search.
2024
109
11
112015-1
112015-13
https://journals.aps.org/prd/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.112015
electron-positron collider, resonance
I. Adachi , K. Adamczyk , L. Aggarwal , H. Ahmed , H. Aihara , N. Akopov , A. Aloisio , N. Anh Ky , D. M. Asner , H. Atmacan , V. Aushev , M. Aversan...espandi
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