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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in High Energy Physics Volume 2012, Article ID 514014, 13 pages doi:10.1155/2012/514014 Review Article Search for Light New Physics at B Factories Bertrand Echenard Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Bertrand Echenard, echenard@ Received 18 May 2012; Accepted 10 August 2012 Academic Editor: Gagan B. Mohanty Copyright q 2012 Bertrand Echenard. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Many extensions of the Standard Model include the possibility of light new particles, such as light Higgs bosons or dark matter candidates. These scenarios can be probed using the large datasets collected by B factories, complementing measurements performed at the LHC. This paper sum- marizes recent searches for light new physics conducted by the BABAR and Belle experiments. 1. Introduction From supersymmetry to dark matter, many extensions of the Standard Model SM include the possibility of light new physics. Thanks to their large luminosities, B factories offer an ideal environment to explore these theories. During the last decade, the BABAR Collaboration at PEP-II 1 and the Belle Collaboration at KEKB 2, 3 have, respectively, collected about 550 fb−1 and more than 1 ab−1 of data at several Υ resonances, mostly the Υ4S resonance see Table 1. These datasets have been exploited to explore many aspects of precision physics, including searches for light new particles. In the following, we review searches for light Higgs bosons, dark matter candidates, hidden sectors, sgoldstinos, and Majorana neutrinos. 2. Search for Light CP -Odd Higgs Boson in Υ Decays A light Higgs bo