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Search for an Invisible Z' in a Final State with Two Muons and Missing Energy at Belle II

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2023-06-07, 2023-06-07

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American Physical Society

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The Lμ-Lτ extension of the standard model predicts the existence of a lepton-flavor-universality-violating Z′ boson that couples only to the heavier lepton families. We search for such a Z′ through its invisible decay in the process e+e-→μ+μ-Z′. We use a sample of electron-positron collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 10.58 GeV collected by the Belle II experiment in 2019-2020, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 79.7 fb-1. We find no excess over the expected standard-model background. We set 90%-confidence-level upper limits on the cross section for this process as well as on the coupling of the model, which ranges from 3×10-3 at low Z′ masses to 1 at Z′ masses of 8 GeV/c2.

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Science & Technology, Physical Sciences, Physics, Multidisciplinary, Physics, L-MU, COLLISIONS, PARTICLE, Belle II Collaboration, 5106 Nuclear and Plasma Physics, 5107 Particle and High Energy Physics, 51 Physical Sciences, 40 Engineering, 49 Mathematical sciences

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