Strong constraints on the rare decays Bs0→μ +μ - and B0→μ +μ -

R. Aaij, C. Abellan Beteta, A. Adametz, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi, C. Adrover, A. Affolder, Z. Ajaltouni, J. Albrecht, F. Alessio, M. Alexander, S. Ali, G. Alkhazov, P. Alvarez Cartelle, A. A. Alves, S. Amato, Y. Amhis, J. Anderson, R. B. Appleby, O. Aquines GutierrezF. Archilli, A. Artamonov, M. Artuso, E. Aslanides, G. Auriemma, S. Bachmann, J. J. Back, V. Balagura, W. Baldini, R. J. Barlow, C. Barschel, S. Barsuk, W. Barter, A. Bates, C. Bauer, Th Bauer, A. Bay, J. Beddow, I. Bediaga, S. Belogurov, K. Belous, I. Belyaev, E. Ben-Haim, M. Benayoun, G. Bencivenni, S. Benson, J. Benton, R. Bernet, M. O. Bettler, M. Van Beuzekom, A. Bien, S. Bifani, T. Bird, A. Bizzeti, P. M. Bjørnstad, T. Blake, F. Blanc, C. Blanks, J. Blouw, S. Blusk, A. Bobrov, V. Bocci, A. Bondar, N. Bondar, W. Bonivento, S. Borghi, A. Borgia, T. J.V. Bowcock, C. Bozzi, T. Brambach, J. Van Den Brand, J. Bressieux, D. Brett, M. Britsch, T. Britton, N. H. Brook, H. Brown, A. Büchler-Germann, I. Burducea, A. Bursche, J. Buytaert, S. Cadeddu, O. Callot, M. Calvi, M. Calvo Gomez, A. Camboni, P. Campana, A. Carbone, G. Carboni

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Abstract

A search for Bs0→μ +μ - and B0→μ +μ - decays is performed using 1.0fb -1 of pp collision data collected at √s=7TeV with the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. For both decays, the number of observed events is consistent with expectation from background and standard model signal predictions. Upper limits on the branching fractions are determined to be B(Bs0→μ +μ -)<4.5(3.8)×10 -9 and B(B0→μ +μ -)<1.0(0.81)×10 -9 at 95% (90%) confidence level.

Original languageEnglish
Article number231801
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume108
Issue number23
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Jun 2012
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by the China Post-doctoral Foundation No. 2012M520572 , Tianjin Municipal Education Commission Grant No. 20120401 , and Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Commission Key Project No. ( 14JCZDJC39500 ).

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Physics and Astronomy(all)

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