Search for resonances decaying to photon pairs with masses between 4.9 and 19.4 {GeV}
A search is presented for axion-like particles (ALPs) with masses between 4.9 and 19.4 GeV decaying to a pair of photons, using proton-proton collisions collected with the LHCb detector during 2018 at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.1 fb−1. The same strategy and sample is used to search for the decays of the B0s, B0 and $\eta_b$ mesons into photon pairs.
No significant excess is found. Upper limits on the photon-pair branching fraction times the cross-section of ALP production are determined as a function of the ALP mass.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14390
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: Search for resonances decaying to photon pairs with masses between 4.9 and 19.4 {GeV}, arxiv, 2025, July, https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14390, LHCb.etal.2025a,
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title={Search for resonances decaying to photon pairs with masses between 4.9 and 19.4 {GeV}},
journal={arxiv},
month={July},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14390},
year={2025},
abstract={A search is presented for axion-like particles (ALPs) with masses between 4.9 and 19.4 GeV decaying to a pair of photons, using proton-proton collisions collected with the LHCb detector during 2018 at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.1 fb−1. The same strategy and sample is used to search for the decays of the B0s, B0 and $\eta_b$ mesons into...}}