Search for a new gauge boson in $π^{0}$ decays

Details Search for a new gauge boson in $π^{0}$ decays Search for a new gauge boson in $π^{0}$ decays

1998-04-05

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/9804003v1

Phys.Lett.B428:197-205,1998

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Experiment

15 pages, LaTex, 6 eps figures included, submitted to Physics Letters B

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00402-X

A search was made for a new light gauge boson $X$ which might be produced in $\pi^{0}\to\gamma + X$ decay from neutral pions generated by 450-GeV protons in the CERN SPS neutrino target. The X's would penetrate the downstream shielding and be observed in the NOMAD detector via the Primakoff effect, in the process of $X \to\pi^{0}$ conversion in the external Coulomb field of a nucleus. With $1.45\times10^{18}$ protons on target, 20 candidate events with energy between 8 and 140 GeV were found from the analysis of neutrino data. This number is in agreement with the expectation of 18.1$\pm$2.8 background events from standard neutrino processes. A new 90% C.L. upper limit on the branching ratio $Br(\pi^{0}\to\gamma + X)< (3.3 to 1.9) \times10^{-5}$ for $X$ masses ranging from 0 to 120 MeV/c^2 is obtained.

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