Limits on axion and light Higgs boson production in ϒ (1S) decays

Abstract We have searched for axion and light Higgs boson production in the channel ϒ (1 S ) → (a 0 or h 0 ) + γ , where the non-interacting axion a 0 and the Higgs boson h 0 do not decay in the detector. We find no evidence for an axion and give an upper limit, Br( ϒ (1S) → a 0 γ ) −5 (90% CL), for long-lived axions. Combining our limit with the previous search in J / ψ decays, we are able to rule out the axion in the standard model with first order QCD corrections. Our ϒ (1S) data also rule out a Higgs boson with mass m h