Search for hadronic decays of feebly-interacting particles at NA62
Abstract The NA62 experiment at CERN has the capability to collect data in a beam-dump mode, where 400 GeV protons are dumped on an absorber. In this configuration, New Physics particles, including dark photons, dark scalars, and axion-like particles, may be produced in the absorber and decay in the instrumented volume beginning approximately 80 m downstream of the dump. A search for these particles decaying in flight to hadronic final states is reported, based on an analysis of a sample of $$1.4 \times 10^{17}$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mn>1.4</mml:mn> <mml:mo>×</mml:mo> <mml:msup> <mml:mn>10</mml:mn> <mml:mn>17</mml:mn> </mml:msup> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> protons on dump collected in 2021. No evidence of a New Physics signal is observed, excluding new regions of parameter spaces of multiple models.
Authors
- R. Fantechi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6243-5726)
- A. Briano Olvera (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6121-3905)
- E. Gamberini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6040-4985)
- L. Federici (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3401-9522)
- F. Spinella (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9607-7920)
- M. Napolitano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1074-9552)
- R. Piandani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2226-8924)
- A. Antonelli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7671-7890)
- I. Rosa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-7564-1825)
- P. Rubin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6678-4985)
- G. Saracino (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0714-5777)
- A. Okhotnikov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1404-3522)
- I. Mannelli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0445-7422)
- R. Volpe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1782-2978)
- G. Lanfranchi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9467-8001)
- Babette Döbrich (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6008-8601)
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Institutions
- L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (KZ)
- University of Rome Tor Vergata (IT)
- University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (IT)
- Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro” (IT)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Universidad de Guanajuato (MX)
- TRIUMF (CA)
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- Université de Toulon (FR)
- Scuola Normale Superiore (IT)
- George Mason University (US)
- Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KZ)
- Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí (MX)
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (DE)
- Charles University (CZ)
- Aix-Marseille Université (FR)
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)
- Mandat International (CH)
- University of Bristol (GB)
- Max Planck Institute for Physics (DE)
- Horia Hulubei National Institute for R and D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering (RO)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino (IT)
- Lancaster University Ghana (GH)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Ferrara (IT)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli (IT)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Roma Tor Vergata (IT)
- Helmholtz Institute Mainz (DE)
- Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy (BG)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova (IT)
- National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan (KZ)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Firenze (IT)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT)
- Gran Sasso Science Institute (IT)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma I (IT)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa (IT)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia (IT)
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH)
- Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" (BG)
- Technical University of Munich (DE)
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CH)
- Lancaster University (GB)
- Syracuse University (US)
- Comenius University Bratislava (SK)
- University of Glasgow (GB)
- University of Birmingham (GB)
- UCLouvain (BE)
- Stanford University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The European Physical Journal C
- Published
- 2025-05-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14133-w
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 7.48
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Univerzita Karlova v Praze
- CERN
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche
- Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy
- Grantová Agentura České Republiky
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
- Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología
- Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca
- Forskningsrådet om Hälsa, Arbetsliv och Välfärd
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Science and Technology Facilities Council