Evidence for the Rare Decay Σ+ → pμ+μ-

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Aaij, R. [41 ]
Adeva, B. [40 ]
Adinolfi, M. [49 ]
Ajaltouni, Z. [5 ]
Akar, S. [60 ]
Albrecht, J. [10 ]
Alessio, F. [41 ]
Alexander, M. [54 ]
Alfonso Albero, A. [39 ,44 ]
Ali, S. [44 ]
Alkhazov, G. [32 ]
Alvarez Cartelle, P. [56 ]
Alves, A. A., Jr. [60 ]
Amato, S. [2 ]
Amerio, S. [24 ]
Amhis, Y. [7 ]
An, L. [3 ]
Anderlini, L. [19 ]
Andreassi, G. [42 ]
Andreotti, M. [17 ,18 ]
Andrews, J. E. [61 ]
Appleby, R. B. [57 ]
Archilli, F. [44 ]
d'Argent, P. [12 ]
Arnau Romeu, J. [6 ]
Artamonov, A. [38 ]
Artuso, M. [62 ]
Aslanides, E. [6 ]
Atzeni, M. [43 ]
Auriemma, G. [27 ]
Baalouch, M. [5 ]
Babuschkin, I. [57 ]
Bachmann, S. [12 ]
Back, J. J. [51 ]
Badalov, A. [39 ,84 ]
Baesso, C. [63 ,64 ]
Baker, S. [56 ]
Balagura, V. [7 ,85 ]
Baldini, W. [17 ,18 ]
Baranov, A. [36 ]
Barlow, R. J. [57 ]
Barschel, C. [41 ]
Barsuk, S. [7 ]
Barter, W. [57 ]
Baryshnikov, F. [33 ]
Batozskaya, V. [30 ]
Battista, V. [42 ]
Bay, A. [42 ]
Beaucourt, L. [4 ]
Beddow, J. [54 ]
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 Mont Blanc, Univ Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IN2P3,LAPP, Annecy, France
[5] Univ Blaise Pascal, Clermont Univ, CNRS, IN2P3,LPC, Clermont Ferrand, France
[6] Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, CPPM, IN2P3, Marseille, France
[7] Univ Paris Saclay, Univ Paris Sud, CNRS, IN2P3,LAL, Orsay, France
[8] Univ Paris Diderot, Univ Pierre & Marie Curie, CNRS, LPNHE,IN2P3, Paris, France
[9] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Phys Inst 1, Aachen, Germany
[10] Tech Univ Dortmund, Fac 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] Sez INFN Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy
[23] Sez Milano, Milan, Italy
[24] Sez INFN Padova, Padua, Italy
[25] Sez INFN Pisa, Pisa, Italy
[26] Sez INFN Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
[27] Sez INFN Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
[28] Polish Acad Sci, Henryk Niewodniczanski Inst Nucl Phys, Krakow, Poland
[29] AGH Univ Sci & Technol, Fac Phys & Appl Comp Sci, Krakow, Poland
[30] Natl Ctr Nucl Res NCBJ, Warsaw, Poland
[31] Horia Hulubei Natl Inst Phys & Nucl Engn, Bucharest, Romania
[32] PNPI, Gatchina, Russia
[33] ITEP, Moscow, Russia
[34] Moscow State Univ SINP MSU, Inst Nucl Phys, Moscow, Russia
[35] RAS, INR, Moscow, Russia
[36] Yandex Sch Data Anal, Moscow, Russia
[37] RAS, SB, Budker Inst Nucl Phys, Novosibirsk, Russia
[38] IHEP, Protvino, Russia
[39] Univ Barcelona, ICCUB, Barcelona, Spain
[40] Univ Santiago de Compostela, IGFAE, Santiago De Compostela, Spain
[41] European Org Nucl Res CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
[42] Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne, Inst Phys, Lausanne, Switzerland
[43] Univ Zurich, Phys Inst, Zurich, Switzerland
[44] Nikhef Natl Inst Subat Phys, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[45] Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[46] NSC Kharkiv Inst Phys & Technol NSC KIPT, Kharkov, Ukraine
[47] Natl Acad Sci KINR, Inst Nucl Res, Kiev, Ukraine
[48] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham, W Midlands, England
[49] Univ Bristol, HH Wills Phys Lab, Bristol, Avon, England
[50] Univ Cambridge, Cavendish Lab, Cambridge, England
关键词
HYPERCP; PARTICLE; SEARCH; BOSON; TOOL;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.221803
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
A search for the rare decay Sigma(+) -> p mu(+)mu(-) is performed using pp collision data recorded by the LHCb experiment at center-of-mass energies root s = 7 and 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb(-1). An excess of events is observed with respect to the background expectation, with a signal significance of 4.1 standard deviations. No significant structure is observed in the dimuon invariant mass distribution, in contrast with a previous result from the HyperCP experiment. The measured Sigma(+) -> p mu(+)mu(-) branching fraction is (2.2(-1.3)(+1.8)) x 10(-8), where statistical and systematic uncertainties are included, which is consistent with the standard model prediction.
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