Search for a light <i>CP</i>-odd Higgs boson in radiative decays of <i>J</i>/ψ
PHYSICAL REVIEW D, vol.93, no.5, 2016 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 93 Issue: 5
- Publication Date: 2016
- Doi Number: 10.1103/physrevd.93.052005
- Journal Name: PHYSICAL REVIEW D
- Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Open Archive Collection: AVESIS Open Access Collection
- Bursa Uludag University Affiliated: No
Abstract
We search for a light Higgs boson A(0) in the fully reconstructed decay chain of J/psi -> gamma A(0), A(0)-> mu(+)mu(-) using (225.0 +/- 2.8) x 10(6) J/psi events collected by the BESIII experiment. The A(0) is a hypothetical CP-odd light Higgs boson predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model including two spin-0 doublets plus an extra singlet. We find no evidence for A(0) production and set 90% confidence-level upper limits on the product branching fraction B(J/psi -> gamma A(0)) x B(A(0)-> mu(+)mu(-)) in the range of (2.8-495.3) x 10(-8) for 0.212 <= mA(0) <= 3.0 GeV/c(2). The new limits are five times below our previous results, and the nature of the A(0) is constrained to be mostly singlet.