Characterizing dark bosons at Chiral Belle

We explore the advantages of a polarized electron beam at Belle II, as proposed for “Chiral Belle,” in the search for invisibly decaying (dark) bosons that weakly couple to the Standard Model. By measuring the polarization dependence of the production cross section of dark bosons in association with a photon, the dark boson’s spin and Lorentz structure of its couplings can potentially be determined. We analyze the mono-photon channel <a:math xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <a:msup> <a:mi>e</a:mi> <a:mo>+</a:mo> </a:msup> <a:msup> <a:mi>e</a:mi> <a:mo>−</a:mo> </a:msup> <a:mo stretchy="false">→</a:mo> <a:mi>γ</a:mi> <a:mo>+</a:mo> <a:mtext>invisible</a:mtext> </a:math> in detail, focusing on the production of an on-shell spin-1 boson. We explore this in the context of three separate scenarios for a new dark vector: a dark photon, a mass-mixed “dark <d:math xmlns:d="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <d:mi>Z</d:mi> </d:math> ,” and a vector that couples to right-handed electrons, and we estimate how well the couplings of such bosons to electrons can be constrained in the event of a positive signal.