Search for a Nonrelativistic Boson in Two-Body Antimuon Decay

Collar, Juan  I.; Cooper, P.  S.; Lewis, C.  Mark

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.131.241802

Title: Search for a Nonrelativistic Boson in Two-Body Antimuon Decay

Journal Article · 14 December 2023 · Physical Review Letters

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.131.241802 · OSTI ID:1997539

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Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Enrico Fermi Inst. and Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP); Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), San Sebastian (Spain)
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

We demonstrate the feasibility of probing the charged lepton-flavor-violating decay μ⁺ → e⁺ X⁰ for the presence of a slow-moving neutral boson X⁰ capable of undergoing gravitational binding to large structures and, as such, able to participate in some cosmological scenarios. A short exposure to surface antimuons from beam line M20 at TRIUMF generates a branching ratio limit of ≲ 10^–5. This is comparable to or better than previous searches for this channel, although in a thus-far-unexplored region of X⁰ phase space very close to the kinematic limit of the decay, where m_X0 approaches m_μ+. The future improved sensitivity of the method using a customized p -type point-contact germanium detector is described.

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Research Organization:: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359

OSTI ID:: 1997539

Report Number(s):: FERMILAB-PUB-23-445-CSAID; arXiv:2308.05064; oai:inspirehep.net:2686628; TRN: US2405280

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 131, Issue 24; ISSN 0031-9007

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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