1. Search for photoproduction of axionlike particles at GlueX
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GlueX Collaboration, Adhikari, S., Akondi, C. S., Albrecht, M., Ali, A., Amaryan, M., Asaturyan, A., Austregesilo, A., Baldwin, Z., Barbosa, F., Barlow, J., Barriga, E., Barsotti, R., Beattie, T. D., Berdnikov, V. V., Black, T., Boeglin, W., Briscoe, W. J., Britton, T., Brooks, W. K., Chudakov, E., Cole, S., Cole, P. L., Cortes, O., Crede, V., Dalton, M. M., Deur, A., Dobbs, S., Dolgolenko, A., Dotel, R., Dugger, M., Dzhygadlo, R., Ebersole, D., Egiyan, H., Erbora, T., Ernst, A., Eugenio, P., Fanelli, C., Fegan, S., Fitches, J., Foda, A. M., Furletov, S., Gan, L., Gao, H., Gasparian, A., Gleason, C., Goetzen, K., Goryachev, V. S., Guo, L., Hagen, M., Hakobyan, H., Hamdi, A., Hernandez, J., Hoffman, N. D., Hou, G., Huber, G. M., Hurley, A., Ireland, D. G., Ito, M. M., Jaegle, I., Jarvis, N. S., Jones, R. T., Kakoyan, V., Kalicy, G., Kamel, M., Khachatryan, V., Khatchatryan, M., Kourkoumelis, C., Kuleshov, S., LaDuke, A., Larin, I., Lawrence, D., Lersch, D. I., Li, H., Li, W. B., Liu, B., Livingston, K., Lolos, G. J., Lorenti, L., Luckas, K., Lyubovitskij, V., Mack, D., Mahmood, A., Marukyan, H., Matveev, V., McCaughan, M., McCracken, M., Meyer, C. A., Miskimen, R., Mitchell, R. E., Mizutani, K., Neelamana, V., Nerling, F., Ng, L., Ostrovidov, A. I., Papandreou, Z., Paudel, C., Pauli, P., Pedroni, R., Pentchev, L., Peters, K. J., Reinhold, J., Ritchie, B. G., Ritman, J., Rodriguez, G., Romanov, D., Romero, C., Saldana, K., Salgado, C., Schadmand, S., Schertz, A. M., Schick, A., Schmidt, A., Schumacher, R. A., Schwiening, J., Sharp, P., Shen, X., Shepherd, M. R., Smith, A., Smith, E. S., Sober, D. I., Somov, A., Somov, S., Soto, O., Stevens, J. R., Strakovsky, I. I., Sumner, B., Suresh, K., Tarasov, V. V., Taylor, S., Teymurazyan, A., Thiel, A., Vasileiadis, G., Viducic, T., Whitlatch, T., Wickramaarachchi, N., Williams, M., Yang, Y., Yoon, S., Zarling, J., Zhang, Z., Zhao, Z., Zhou, J., Zhou, X., and Zihlmann, B.
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Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,фотоны ,FOS: Physical sciences ,глюоны ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,ddc:530 ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) ,Nuclear Experiment ,протон-протонные столкновения ,аксионоподобные частицы - Abstract
We present a search for axion-like particles, $a$, produced in photon-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of approximately 4 GeV, focusing on the scenario where the $a$-gluon coupling is dominant. The search uses $a\to\gamma\gamma$ and $a\to\pi^+\pi^-\pi^0$ decays, and a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 168 pb$^{-1}$ collected with the GlueX detector. The search for $a\to\gamma\gamma$ decays is performed in the mass range of $180 < m_a < 480$ MeV, while the search for $a\to\pi^+\pi^-\pi^0$ decays explores the $600 < m_a < 720$ MeV region. No evidence for a signal is found, and 90% confidence-level exclusion limits are placed on the $a$-gluon coupling strength. These constraints are the most stringent to date over much of the mass ranges considered., Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables; updated to published version
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- 2022
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