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Discovering True Muonium at LHCb

17 Apr 2019arXiv:1904.08458links table onlyarchive 2025-07-28

Xabier Cid Vidal, Philip Ilten, Jonathan Plews, Brian Shuve, Yotam Soreq

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We study the potential of the LHCb experiment to discover, for the first time, the μ^+μ^- true muonium bound state. We propose a search for the vector 1³S₁ state, 𝒯ℳ, which kinetically mixes with the photon and dominantly decays to e^+e^-. We demonstrate that a search for η→γ𝒯ℳ, 𝒯ℳ→e^+e^- in a displaced vertex can exceed a significance of 5 standard deviations assuming statistical uncertainties. We present two possible searches: an inclusive search for the e^+e^- vertex, and an exclusive search which requires an additional photon and a reconstruction of the η mass.

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