Search for the rare decays B+ → μ+μ-K+, B0 → μ+μ- K*(892)0, and Bs0 → μ+μ-φ at CDF

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作者
Aaltonen, T. [1 ,65 ]
Adelman, J. [15 ]
Akimoto, T. [58 ]
Albrow, M. G. [19 ]
Alvarez Gonzalez, B. [13 ]
Amerio, S. [41 ,42 ]
Amidei, D. [34 ]
Anastassov, A. [37 ]
Annovi, A. [21 ]
Antos, J. [16 ,66 ]
Apollinari, G. [19 ]
Apresyan, A. [50 ]
Arisawa, T. [60 ]
Artikov, A. [17 ]
Ashmanskas, W. [19 ]
Attal, A. [4 ]
Aurisano, A. [5 ,75 ]
Azfar, F. [4 ,74 ]
Azzurri, P. [48 ]
Badgett, W. [19 ]
Barbaro-Galtieri, A. [29 ]
Barnes, V. E. [50 ]
Barnett, B. A. [26 ]
Bartsch, V. [3 ,71 ]
Bauer, G. [32 ]
Beauchemin, P.-H. [33 ]
Bedeschi, F. [45 ]
Bednar, P. [16 ,66 ,72 ]
Beecher, D. [3 ,71 ]
Behari, S. [26 ]
Bellettini, G. [46 ]
Bellinger, J. [62 ]
Benjamin, D. [18 ]
Beretvas, A. [19 ]
Beringer, J. [29 ]
Bhatti, A. [52 ]
Binkley, M. [19 ]
Bisello, D. [41 ,42 ]
Bizjak, I. [3 ,71 ]
Blair, R. E. [2 ]
Blocker, C. [8 ]
Blumenfeld, B. [26 ]
Bocci, A. [18 ]
Bodek, A. [51 ]
Boisvert, V. [51 ]
Bolla, G. [50 ]
Bortoletto, D. [50 ]
Boudreau, J. [49 ]
Boveia, A. [12 ]
Brau, B. [12 ]
机构
[1] Univ Helsinki, Dept Phys, Div High Energy Phys, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
[2] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[3] Univ Athens, Athens 15771, Greece
[4] Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Inst Fis Altes Energies, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
[5] Baylor Univ, Waco, TX 76798 USA
[6] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-40127 Bologna, Italy
[7] Univ Bologna, I-40127 Bologna, Italy
[8] Brandeis Univ, Waltham, MA 02254 USA
[9] Univ Calif Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA
[10] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA
[11] Univ Calif San Diego, San Diego, CA 92093 USA
[12] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[13] Univ Cantabria, CSIC, Inst Fis Cantabria, E-39005 Santander, Spain
[14] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[15] Univ Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[16] Comenius Univ, Bratislava 84248, Slovakia
[17] Joint Inst Nucl Res, RU-141980 Dubna, Russia
[18] Duke Univ, Durham, NC 27708 USA
[19] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[20] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[21] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Frascati, I-00044 Frascati, Italy
[22] Univ Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
[23] Univ Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[24] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[25] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[26] Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[27] Univ Karlsruhe, Inst Expt Kernphys, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
[28] Kyungpook Natl Univ, Ctr High Energy Phys, Taegu 702701, South Korea
[29] Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[30] Univ Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, Merseyside, England
[31] Ctr Invest Energet Medioambientales & Tecnol, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
[32] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[33] McGill Univ, Inst Particle Phys, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada
[34] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[35] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[36] Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
[37] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[38] Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[39] Okayama Univ, Okayama 7008530, Japan
[40] Osaka City Univ, Osaka 588, Japan
[41] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Padova Trento, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[42] Univ Padua, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[43] Univ Paris 06, CNRS, IN2P3, LPNHE,UMR7585, F-75252 Paris, France
[44] Univ Penn, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[45] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[46] Univ Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[47] Univ Siena, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[48] Scuola Normale Super Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[49] Univ Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
[50] Purdue Univ, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2009年 / 79卷 / 01期
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 芬兰科学院; 美国国家科学基金会; 英国科学技术设施理事会; 俄罗斯基础研究基金会; 瑞士国家科学基金会;
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10.1103/PhysRevD.79.011104
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P1 [天文学];
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摘要
We search for b --> s mu(+)mu(-) transitions in B meson (B+, B-0, or B-s(0)) decays with 924 pb(-1) of p (p) over bar collisions at root s = 1.96 TeV collected with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. We find excesses with significances of 4.5, 2.9, and 2.4 standard deviations in the B+ --> mu(+)mu K--(+), B-0 --> mu(+)mu(-) K*(892)(0), and B-s(0) --> mu(+)mu(-)phi decay modes, respectively. Using B --> J/psi h (h = K+, K*(892)(0), phi) decays as normalization channels, we report branching fractions for the previously observed B+ and B-0 decays, B(B+ --> mu(+)mu K--(+)) = (0.59 +/- 0.15 +/- 0.04) x 10(-6), and B(B-0 --> mu(+)mu K-*(892)(0)) = (0.81 +/- 0.30 +/- 0.10) x 10(-6), where the first uncertainty is statistical, and the second is systematic. We set an upper limit on the relative branching fraction B(B-s(0) --> mu(+)mu(-)phi)/B(B-s(0) --> J/psi phi) < 2.6(2.3) x 10(-3) at the 95(90)% confidence level, which is the most stringent to date.
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