Evidence for the decay B-s(0) -> (K)over-bar(*0) mu(+)mu(-)
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Journal Article
Abstract
A search for the decay B0S→K⎯⎯⎯⎯∗0μ+μ− is presented using data sets corresponding to 1.0, 2.0 and 1.6 fb−1 of integrated luminosity collected during pp collisions with the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8 and 13 TeV, respectively. An excess is found over the background-only hypothesis with a significance of 3.4 standard deviations. The branching fraction of the B0S→K⎯⎯⎯⎯∗0μ+μ− decay is determined to be (B0s→K⎯⎯⎯⎯∗0μ+μ−)=[2.9±1.0(stat)±0.2(syst)±0.3(norm)]×10−8, where the first and second uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. The third uncertainty is due to limited knowledge of external parameters used to normalise the branching fraction measurement.
Date Issued
2018-07
Date Acceptance
2018-06-19
Citation
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018, 2018 (7)
ISSN
1029-8479
Publisher
Springer Verlag (Germany)
Journal / Book Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume
2018
Issue
7
Copyright Statement
© CERN, for the benefit of the LHCb Collaboration. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Physics, Particles & Fields
Physics
B physics
FCNC Interaction
Flavor physics
Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
Rare decay
PACKAGE
B-0
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
20
Date Publish Online
2018-07-03