Search for intermediate resonances and dark gauge bosons in $J/\psi\rightarrow\gamma\pi^0\eta^{\prime}$

Abstract

We report on an analysis of the decay $J/\psi\rightarrow\gamma\pi^0\eta^{\prime}$ using a sample of $(1310.6 \pm 7.0) \times ~10^6~ J/\psi$ events collected with the BESIII detector. We search for the CP-violating process $\eta_c\rightarrow\pi^0\eta^{\prime}$ and a dark gauge boson $U'$ in $J/\psi\rightarrow U^{\prime}\eta^{\prime},~U^{\prime}\rightarrow\gamma\pi^0,~\pi^0\rightarrow\gamma\gamma$. No evidence of an $\eta_{c}$ signal is observed in the $\pi^0\eta^{\prime}$ invariant-mass spectrum and the upper limit of the branching fraction is determined to be $7.2 \times~10^{-5}$ at the 90\% confidence level. We also find no evidence of $U'$ production and set upper limits at the 90\% confidence level on the product branching fraction $\mathcal{B}(J/\psi \rightarrow U^{\prime} \eta^{\prime}) \times \mathcal{B}(U^{\prime} \rightarrow \pi^{0} \gamma)$ in the range between $(0.8 - 6.5)\times 10^{-7}$ for 0.2 $\leq m_{U^{\prime}} \leq 2.1 $GeV$/c^{2}$. In addition, we study the process $J/\psi\rightarrow\omega\eta^{\prime}$ with $\omega\rightarrow\gamma\pi^0$. The branching fraction of $J/\psi\rightarrow\omega\eta^{\prime}$ is found to be $(1.87\pm0.09\pm0.12) \times 10^{-4}$, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic, with a precision that is improved by a factor of 1.4 over the previously published BESIII measurement.