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Search for a low-mass Higgs boson () at BABAR
The BABAR Collaboration has performed three searches for a light Higgs boson,
, in radiative Upsilon () decays: ,
; ,
(); and , invisible. Such a Higgs
boson () appears in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric extensions of the
Standard Model, where a light CP-odd Higgs boson couples strongly to
-quarks. The searches are based on data samples that consist of and decays, collected by
the BABAR detector at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The searches
reveal no evidence for an , and product of branching fractions upper
limits, at 90% C.L., of , ,
and were obtained for these searches, respectively.
Also, we set the upper limits and
.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of the 2009 Europhysics Conference on
High Energy Physics, July 16-22, 2009, Krakow, Polan
Studies of charmonium-like states at BABAR
Several charmonium-like states above threshold have been
discovered at the Belle and BABAR B-factories. Some of these states are
produced via Initial State Radiation (e.g. Y(4260) and Y(4350)), and some are
observed in B-meson decays (e.g. X(3872), and Y(3940)). The Belle observations
of the enhancements in the and , i.e. the
Z(4430)-, Z_1(4050)-, and Z_2(4250)-, have generated a great deal of interest,
because such states must have minimum quark content , i.e.
these are candidate four-quark state. The BABAR Collaboration does not confirm
the existinence of the .Comment: To appear in the proceedings of the 2009 Europhysics Conference on
High Energy Physics, July 16-22, 2009, Krakow, Polan
Evidence for a narrow baryonic state decaying to K0Sp and KOSp in deep inelastic scattering at HERA
A resonance search has been made in the K0Sp and KOSp invariant-mass spectrum measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 121 pbβ1. The search was performed in the central rapidity region of inclusive deep inelastic scattering at an ep centre-of-mass energy of 300β318 GeV for exchanged photon virtuality, Q2, above 1 GeV2. Recent results from fixed-target experiments give evidence for a narrow baryon resonance decaying to K+n and K0Sp, interpreted as a pentaquark. The results presented here support the existence of such state, with a mass of 1521.5Β±1.5(stat.)+2.8β1.7(syst.) MeV and a Gaussian width consistent with the experimental resolution of 2 MeV. The signal is visible at high Q2 and, for Q2>20 GeV2, contains 221Β±48 events. The probability of a similar signal anywhere in the range 1500β1560 MeV arising from fluctuations of the background is below 6Γ10β5
Search for Low-Mass Dark-Sector Higgs Bosons
Recent astrophysical and terrestrial experiments have motivated the proposal of a dark sector with GeV-scale gauge boson force carriers and new Higgs bosons. We present a search for a dark Higgs boson using 516ββfb^(-1) of data collected with the BABAR detector. We do not observe a significant signal and we set 90% confidence level upper limits on the product of the standard model-dark-sector mixing angle and the dark-sector coupling constant
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