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Search for dimuon decays of a light scalar boson in radiative transitions upsilon ->gamma A(0)

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BaBar Collaboration (Including:

Aubert, B., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., Prudent, X., Tisserand, V., Garra Tico, J., Grauges, E., Martinelli, M. et al.

). (2009) Search for dimuon decays of a light scalar boson in radiative transitions upsilon ->gamma A(0). Physical Review Letters, Vol.103 (No.8). article no. 081803 . ISSN 0031-9007

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.081803

Abstract

We search for evidence of a light scalar boson in the radiative decays of the Upsilon(2S) and Upsilon(3S) resonances: Upsilon(2S,3S)->gamma A(0), A(0)->mu(+)mu(-). Such a particle appears in extensions of the standard model, where a light CP-odd Higgs boson naturally couples strongly to b quarks. We find no evidence for such processes in the mass range 0.212 < m(A)(0)< 9.3 GeV in the samples of 99x10(6) Upsilon(2S) and 122x10(6) Upsilon(3S) decays collected by the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II B factory and set stringent upper limits on the effective coupling of the b quark to the A(0). We also limit the dimuon branching fraction of the eta(b) meson: B(eta(b)->mu(+)mu(-))< 0.9% at 90% confidence level.

Item Type:

Journal Article

Subjects:

Q Science > QC Physics

Divisions:

Faculty of Science > Physics

Journal or Publication Title:

Physical Review Letters

Publisher:

American Physical Society

ISSN:

0031-9007