@article{254b8b37495244cba54a20100e158ee1,
title = "Search for an Axionlike Particle in B Meson Decays",
abstract = "Axionlike particles (ALPs) are predicted in many extensions of the standard model, and their masses can naturally be well below the electroweak scale. In the presence of couplings to electroweak bosons, these particles could be emitted in flavor-changing B meson decays. We report herein a search for an ALP, a, in the reaction B±→K±a, a→γγ using data collected by the BABAR experiment at SLAC. No significant signal is observed, and 90% confidence level upper limits on the ALP coupling to electroweak bosons are derived as a function of ALP mass, improving current constraints by several orders of magnitude in the range 0.175 GeV",
author = "{<i>B<span class={"}sc{"}>a</span>B<span class={"}sc{"}>ar</span></i> Collaboration} and Lees, {J. P.} and V. Poireau and V. Tisserand and E. Grauges and A. Palano and G. Eigen and Brown, {D. N.} and Kolomensky, {Yu G.} and M. Fritsch and H. Koch and T. Schroeder and R. Cheaib and C. Hearty and Mattison, {T. S.} and McKenna, {J. A.} and So, {R. Y.} and Blinov, {V. E.} and Buzykaev, {A. R.} and Druzhinin, {V. P.} and Golubev, {V. B.} and Kozyrev, {E. A.} and Kravchenko, {E. A.} and Onuchin, {A. P.} and Serednyakov, {S. I.} and Skovpen, {Yu I.} and Solodov, {E. P.} and Todyshev, {K. Yu} and Lankford, {A. J.} and B. Dey and Gary, {J. W.} and O. Long and Eisner, {A. M.} and Lockman, {W. S.} and {Panduro Vazquez}, W. and Chao, {D. S.} and Cheng, {C. H.} and B. Echenard and Flood, {K. T.} and Hitlin, {D. G.} and J. Kim and Y. Li and Lin, {D. X.} and S. Middleton and Miyashita, {T. S.} and P. Ongmongkolkul and J. Oyang and Porter, {F. C.} and M. R{\"o}hrken and Z. Huard and Meadows, {B. T.}",
note = "Funding Information: We are grateful for the extraordinary contributions of our PEP-II2 colleagues in achieving the excellent luminosity and machine conditions that have made this work possible. The success of this project also relies critically on the expertise and dedication of the computing organizations that support BABAR. The collaborating institutions wish to thank SLAC for its support and the kind hospitality extended to them. This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and National Science Foundation, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada), the Commissariat {\`a} l{\textquoteright}Energie Atomique and Institut National de Physique Nucl{\'e}aire et de Physique des Particules (France), the Bundesministerium f{\"u}r Bildung und Forschung and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Germany), the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Italy), the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (Netherlands), the Research Council of Norway, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Ministerio de Econom{\'i}a y Competitividad (Spain), the Science and Technology Facilities Council (United Kingdom), and the Binational Science Foundation (U.S.-Israel). Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie IEF program (European Union) and the A. P. Sloan Foundation (USA). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 authors. Published by the American Physical Society.",
year = "2022",
month = apr,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.131802",
language = "English",
volume = "128",
journal = "Physical Review Letters",
issn = "0031-9007",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "13",
}