26–30 May 2025
Centro Culturale Altinate San Gaetano
Europe/Rome timezone

Searches for dark sector particles at Belle and Belle II

29 May 2025, 15:00
20m
P4C (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia - Edificio Paolotti)

P4C

Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia - Edificio Paolotti

Via Belzoni 7, Padova

Speaker

Savino Longo (University of Manitoba)

Description

The Belle and Belle II experiment have collected samples of $e^+e^-$
collision data at centre-of-mass energies near the $\Upsilon(nS)$
resonances. These data have constrained kinematics and low
multiplicity, which allow searches for dark sector particles in the mass
range from a few MeV to 10~GeV. Using a 426 fb$^{-1}$ sample collected
by Belle~II, we search for inelastic dark matter accompanied by a dark
Higgs. Using a 711 fb$^{-1}$ sample collected by Belle, we search for
$B\to h + \mathrm{invisible}$ decays, where $h$ is a $\pi$, $K$, $D$,
$D_{s}$ or $p$, and $B\to Ka$, where $a$ is an axion-like particle.

Authors

Savino Longo (University of Manitoba) Steven Robertson (IPP / UofA)

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