A search for the dark photon in the OKA experiment
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2026-05-25 v1
Abstract
A search for the massless dark photon in the decay is performed with the OKA detector exposed to 17.7 GeV/c RF separated secondary beam of the U70 Proton Synchrotron. A high-statistics data sample of the decays is used for a missing mass search of the stable massless invisible dark photon () in the final state. In the absence of a statistically valuable signal the upper limit on the branching ratio of the decay is obtained with a 90% confidence level based on a realistic matrix element of the process. Currently, it is the best upper limit for this hypothetical decay channel.
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@article{arxiv.2605.23533,
title = {A search for the dark photon in the OKA experiment},
author = {The OKA Collaboration and A. S. Sadovsky and A. P. Filin and A. V. Artamonov and S. V. Donskov and A. M. Gorin and A. V. Inyakin and G. V. Khaustov and S. A. Kholodenko and V. N. Kolosov and A. K. Konoplyannikov and V. F. Kurshetsov and V. A. Lishin and M. V. Medynsky and A. G. Miagkov and V. F. Obraztsov and A. V. Okhotnikov and V. I. Romanovsky and V. I. Rykalin and V. D. Samoylenko and M. M. Shapkin and S. R. Slabospitsky and A. E. Sobol and I. S. Tiurin and V. A. Uvarov and O. P. Yushchenko and S. N. Filippov and E. N. Gushchin and A. A. Khudyakov and V. I. Kravtsov and Yu. G. Kudenko and A. V. Kulik and A. Yu. Polyarush and V. N. Bychkov and G. D. Kekelidze and V. M. Lysan and V. A. Polyakov and B. Zh. Zalikhanov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.23533},
year = {2026}
}
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9 pages 5 figures