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Recent Results from BABAR: Dark Matter, Axion-like Particles and Heavy Neutral Leptons, a contribution to the 2023 Electroweak session of the 57th Rencontres de Moriond

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arxiv 2305.00808 v1 pith:MS5CUM4X submitted 2023-05-01 hep-ex hep-ph

Recent Results from BABAR: Dark Matter, Axion-like Particles and Heavy Neutral Leptons, a contribution to the 2023 Electroweak session of the 57th Rencontres de Moriond

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Three independent searches for new physics using data collected at BABAR are presented. Firstly, two searches for dark matter and baryogenesis: $B^{0}\rightarrow \Lambda + \psi_{D}$ and $B^{+} \rightarrow p + \psi_{D}$ are detailed, where $\psi_{D}$ is a new dark fermion. Neither signal is observed and new upper limits on the branching fractions, at the 90 $\%$ confidence level (C.L), are placed at $\mathcal{O}(10^{-5} - 10^{-6})$ across the mass range $1.0< m_{\psi_{D}}<4.3$ GeV/c$^{2}$. Secondly, new limits on the coupling, $g_{aW}$, of an axion-like particle ($a$) to the $W$ boson, at the 90 $\%$ C.L, are presented at $\mathcal{O}(10^{-5})$ GeV$^{-1}$ for $a$ masses in the mass range 0.175 $<m_{a}<$ 4.78 GeV/c$^{2}$. Thirdly, a model-independent search for heavy neutral leptons (HNL) found new upper limits at the 95 $\%$ C.L on the extended Pontecorvo-Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata (PMNS) matrix element, $|U_{\tau 4}|^{2}$, which depend on the HNL mass hypothesis and vary from $2.31 \times 10^{-2}$ to $5.04 \times 10^{-6}$, across the mass range $100 < m_{4} < 1300$ MeV/c$^{2}$, with more stringent limits on higher HNL masses.

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