Search for low-mass dark-sector Higgs bosons

Phys Rev Lett. 2012 May 25;108(21):211801. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.211801. Epub 2012 May 21.

Abstract

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 516 fb(-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.