Search for Dark Photons Produced in 13 TeV pp Collisions

Searches are performed for both promptlike and long-lived dark photons, A', produced in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, using A'→μ⁺μ⁻ decays and a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.6 fb⁻¹ collected with the LHCb detector. The promptlike A' search covers the mass range from near the dimuon threshold up to 70 GeV, while the long-lived A' search is restricted to the low-mass region 214<m(A')<350 MeV. No evidence for a signal is found, and 90% confidence level exclusion limits are placed on the γ-A' kinetic-mixing strength. The constraints placed on promptlike dark photons are the most stringent to date for the mass range 10.6<m(A')<70 GeV, and are comparable to the best existing limits for m(A')<0.5 GeV. The search for long-lived dark photons is the first to achieve sensitivity using a displaced-vertex signature.