{"id":6435,"date":"2022-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/publications\/search-for-an-axionlike-particle-in-b-meson-decays\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T08:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:32:07","slug":"search-for-an-axionlike-particle-in-b-meson-decays","status":"publish","type":"physics_publications","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/publications\/search-for-an-axionlike-particle-in-b-meson-decays\/","title":{"rendered":"Search for an Axionlike Particle in B Meson Decays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BABAR Collaboration<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.128.131802\">Search for an Axionlike Particle in B Meson Decays<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Physical Review Letters 128, 131802 (2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abstract<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>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   meson decays. We report herein a search for an ALP,  , in the reaction  \u00b1 \u2192 \u00b1\u2062 ,   \u2192 \u2062  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 &lt;  &lt;4.78  GeV.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BABAR Collaboration Search for an Axionlike Particle in B Meson Decays Physical Review Letters 128, 131802 (2022) Abstract Axionlike particles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","publication_author":[23],"class_list":["post-6435","physics_publications","type-physics_publications","status-publish","hentry","publication_author-shuve"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_publications\/6435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_publications"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/physics_publications"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_author?post=6435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}