Search for the lepton-flavour violating decays B(s)0 → e± μ∓

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作者
Aaij, R. [42 ]
Adeva, B. [41 ]
Adinolfi, M. [50 ]
Ajaltouni, Z. [5 ]
Akar, S. [61 ]
Albrecht, J. [10 ]
Alessio, F. [42 ]
Alexander, M. [55 ]
Alfonso Albero, A. [40 ]
Ali, S. [45 ]
Alkhazov, G. [33 ]
Cartelle, P. Alvarez [57 ]
Alves, A. A. [61 ]
Amato, S. [2 ]
Amerio, S. [25 ]
Amhis, Y. [7 ]
An, L. [3 ]
Anderlini, L. [19 ]
Andreassi, G. [43 ]
Andreotti, M. [17 ,18 ,80 ]
Andrews, J. E. [62 ]
Appleby, R. B. [58 ]
Archilli, F. [45 ]
d'Argent, P. [12 ]
Romeu, J. Arnau [6 ]
Artamonov, A. [39 ]
Artuso, M. [63 ]
Aslanides, E. [6 ]
Atzeni, M. [44 ]
Auriemma, G. [28 ]
Baalouch, M. [5 ]
Babuschkin, I. [58 ]
Bachmann, S. [12 ]
Back, J. J. [52 ]
Badalov, A. [40 ,86 ]
Baesso, C. [64 ]
Baker, S. [57 ]
Balagura, V. [7 ,75 ]
Baldini, W. [17 ,18 ]
Baranov, A. [37 ]
Barlow, R. J. [58 ]
Barschel, C. [42 ]
Barsuk, S. [7 ]
Barter, W. [58 ]
Baryshnikov, F. [34 ]
Batozskaya, V. [31 ]
Battista, V. [43 ]
Bay, A. [43 ]
Beaucourt, L. [4 ]
Beddow, J. [55 ]
机构
[1] CBPF, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[2] Univ Fed Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
[3] Tsinghua Univ, Ctr High Energy Phys, Beijing, Peoples R China
[4] Univ Savoie Mt Blanc, LAPP, CNRS, IN2P3, Annecy Le Vieux, France
[5] Univ Blaise Pascal, Clermont Univ, CNRS, IN2P3,LPC, Clermont Ferrand, France
[6] Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France
[7] Univ Paris Sud, LAL, CNRS, IN2P3, Orsay, France
[8] Univ Paris Diderot, Univ Pierre & Marie Curie, LPNHE, CNRS,IN2P3, Paris, France
[9] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Phys Inst 1, Aachen, Germany
[10] Tech Univ Dortmund, Fak Phys, Dortmund, Germany
[11] MPIK, Heidelberg, Germany
[12] Heidelberg Univ, Phys Inst, Heidelberg, Germany
[13] Univ Coll Dublin, Sch Phys, Dublin, Ireland
[14] Sez INFN Bari, Bari, Italy
[15] Sez INFN Bologna, Bologna, Italy
[16] Sez INFN Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
[17] Univ Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
[18] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Ferrara, Italy
[19] Sez INFN Firenze, Florence, Italy
[20] Lab Nazl INFN Frascati, Frascati, Italy
[21] Sez INFN Genova, Genoa, Italy
[22] Univ Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy
[23] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Milan, Italy
[24] Sez Milano, Milan, Italy
[25] Sez INFN Padova, Padua, Italy
[26] Sez INFN Pisa, Pisa, Italy
[27] Sez INFN Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
[28] Sez INFN Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
[29] Polish Acad Sci, Henryk Niewodniczanski Inst Nucl Phys Polish, Krakow, Poland
[30] AGH Univ Sci & Technol, Fac Phys & Appl Comp Sci, Krakow, Poland
[31] Natl Ctr Nucl Res NCBJ, Warsaw, Poland
[32] Horia Hulubei Natl Inst Phys & Nucl Engn, Bucharest, Romania
[33] PNPI, Gatchina, Russia
[34] ITEP, Moscow, Russia
[35] MSU, SINP, Inst Nucl Phys, Moscow, Russia
[36] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res, RAN, Moscow, Russia
[37] Yandex Sch Data Anal, Moscow, Russia
[38] RAS, Budker Inst Nucl Phys SB, Novosibirsk, Russia
[39] IHEP, Protvino, Russia
[40] Univ Barcelona, ICCUB, Barcelona, Spain
[41] Univ Santiago de Compostela, Santiago De Compostela, Spain
[42] European Org Nucl Res CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
[43] Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne, Inst Phys, Lausanne, Switzerland
[44] Univ Zurich, Phys Inst, Zurich, Switzerland
[45] Nikhef Natl Inst Subat Phys, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[46] Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[47] KIPT, NSC, Kharkov, Ukraine
[48] Natl Acad Sci KINR, Inst Nucl Res, Kiev, Ukraine
[49] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham, W Midlands, England
[50] Univ Bristol, HH Wills Phys Lab, Bristol, Avon, England
来源
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS | 2018年 / 03期
关键词
B physics; Branching fraction; Flavor physics; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); Rare decay; MODEL;
D O I
10.1007/JHEP03(2018)078
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
学科分类号
摘要
A search for the lepton-flavour violating decays B-(s)(0) -> e(+/-)mu(-/+) and B-(s)(0) -> e(+/-)mu(-/+) performed based on a sample of proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb(-1), collected with the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8TeV. The observed yields are consistent with the background-only hypothesis. Upper limits on the branching fraction of the B-(s)(0) -> e(+/-)mu(-/+) decays are evaluated both in the hypotheses of an amplitude completely dominated by the heavy eigenstate and by the light eigenstate. The results are B(B-s(0) -> e(+/-)mu(-/+)) < 6.3 (5.4) x 10(-9) and B(B-s(0) -> e(+/-)mu(-/+)) < 7.2(6.0) x 10(-9) at 95% (90%) confidence level, respectively. The upper limit on the branching fraction of the B-0 -> e(+/-)mu(-/+) decay is also evaluated, obtaining B(B-0 -> e(+/-)mu(-/+)) < 1.3 (1.0) x 10(-9) at 95% (90%) confidence level. These are the strongest limits on these decays to date.
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