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Search for hadronic decays of feebly-interacting particles at NA62

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Article number571
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>25/05/2025
<mark>Journal</mark>European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
Issue number5
Volume85
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

The NA62 experiment at CERN has the capability to collect data in a beam-dump mode, where 400 GeV protons are dumped on an absorber. In this configuration, New Physics particles, including dark photons, dark scalars, and axion-like particles, may be produced in the absorber and decay in the instrumented volume beginning approximately 80 m downstream of the dump. A search for these particles decaying in flight to hadronic final states is reported, based on an analysis of a sample of 1.4×1017 protons on dump collected in 2021. No evidence of a New Physics signal is observed, excluding new regions of parameter spaces of multiple models.