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Search for the dark photon in $\pi^0$ decays

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A sample of $1.69\times 10^7$ fully reconstructed $\pi^0\to\gamma e^+e^-$ decay candidates collected by the NA48/2 experiment at CERN in 2003--2004 is analysed to search for the dark photon ($A'$) production in the $\pi^0\to\gamma A'$ decay followed by the prompt $A'\to e^+e^-$ decay. No signal is observed, and an exclusion region in the plane of the dark photon mass $m_{A'}$ and mixing parameter $\varepsilon^2$ is established. The obtained upper limits on $\varepsilon^2$ are more stringent than the previous limits in the mass range $9~{\rm MeV}/c^2<m_{A'}<70~{\rm MeV}/c^2$. The NA48/2 sensitivity to the dark photon production in the $K^\pm\to\pi^\pm A'$ decay is also evaluated.

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hep-ph · 2026-05-11 · unverdicted · novelty 4.0

Reactor neutrino data from CONUS+ and Dresden-II combined with COHERENT and IceCube data singles out a region of neutrino and nuclear couplings consistent with the X17 particle.

The Dark Photon

hep-ph · 2020-05-04 · unverdicted · novelty 2.0

The paper surveys theoretical motivations, experimental searches, and bounds on the dark photon as a kinetically mixed gauge boson from a dark sector, covering both massive and massless cases along with related milli-charged fermion constraints.

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    A gauged, flavor-specific U(1)_X two-Higgs-doublet model can realize the axial-vector Z' couplings needed to explain the ATOMKI 8Be and 4He anomalies while evading current bounds.

  • The X17 Existence Hinted at by Nuclear Reactor Neutrinos hep-ph · 2026-05-11 · unverdicted · none · ref 39 · internal anchor

    Reactor neutrino data from CONUS+ and Dresden-II combined with COHERENT and IceCube data singles out a region of neutrino and nuclear couplings consistent with the X17 particle.

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  • Cornering MeV-GeV Axions and Dark Photons with LDMX hep-ph · 2026-04-15 · unverdicted · none · ref 26

    LDMX can close much of the sub-100 MeV blind spot for axions and dark photons via charged track and momentum reconstruction.

  • Constraints on a Light Leptophilic Scalar from Dark-Sector Couplings hep-ph · 2026-05-26 · unverdicted · none · ref 126 · internal anchor

    A parameter space analysis of a leptophilic scalar mediator model for Majorana dark matter yields a viable sub-GeV region after applying relic density, cosmological, astrophysical, and laboratory constraints.

  • The Dark Photon hep-ph · 2020-05-04 · unverdicted · none · ref 187 · internal anchor

    The paper surveys theoretical motivations, experimental searches, and bounds on the dark photon as a kinetically mixed gauge boson from a dark sector, covering both massive and massless cases along with related milli-charged fermion constraints.