Dark sectors and τ physics at Belle II

Laura Zani

Published 2023-05-15Version 1

The possibility of a dark sector weakly coupling to Standard Model (SM) particles through new light mediators is explored at the Belle II experiment. We present here results from three different searches, for a long-lived (pseudo)scalar particle in rare $B$ decays; for a di-tau resonance in four-muon final states, and the update on the search for a \zprime\ boson decaying invisibly. We also look for lepton flavor violation by searching for $\tau\rightarrow\ell \alpha$ decays, with $\alpha$ a new invisible boson, and we report the first untagged reconstruction of $\tau$ pairs events searching for the neutrinoless decays $\tau \to \ell \phi$. Finally, we present the world's most precise measurement of the $\tau$ lepton mass. These studies are performed on samples from the data collected by the Belle II detector during 2019-2021 data taking.