Exploring Bosonic Mediator of Interaction at BESIII

TL;DR

This paper investigates the potential to discover a new force-carrying boson at BESIII through $e^+e^-$ collisions and $J/$ decays, providing exclusion limits on its coupling strength across various masses.

Contribution

It offers the first comprehensive analysis of the $X$ boson search at BESIII, including production, decay properties, and exclusion limits based on current data.

Findings

Exclusion limits on coupling strength range from 10^{-3} to 10^{-4}.

Searches are feasible with current BESIII data.

Constraints depend on the $X$ boson mass and decay width.

Abstract

We present a comprehensive investigation on the possibility of the search for new force mediator $X$ boson in $e^+e^-$ collision and $J/\psi$ decay at the BESIII experiment. The typical interactions of $X$ boson coupling to leptons and quarks are explored. The production and decay properties of this $X$ particle, the product/decay chains $e^+e^-\to X\gamma \to e^+e^-\gamma$ and $J/\psi \to X\gamma\to\mu^+\mu^-\gamma$, and exclusion limits on the reduced coupling strength parameters as functions of $X$ boson mass are presented. With the data set of tens of fb$^{-1}~e^+e^-$ or $10^{10}~J/\psi$, we find that the exclusion limits on the coupling strength parameters fall in the range of $10^{-3}\sim10^{-4}$, depending on $m_X$ assuming the decay width 10 eV$<\Gamma_X<$100 eV reasonably, for various hypotheses in the literature. According to our estimation, the search for new force mediator $X$ boson in both $e^+e^-$ collision and $J/\psi$ decay are accessible in nowadays BESIII experiment.