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First observations of the rare decays B+→ K+π+π-μ+μ-and B+→ φK+μ+μ-

  • R. Aaij
    ,
  • B. Adeva
    ,
  • M. Adinolfi
    ,
  • A. Affolder
    ,
  • Z. Ajaltouni
    ,
  • S. Akar
  • National Institute for Subatomic Physics
    ,
  • University of Santiago de Compostela
    ,
  • University of Bristol
    ,
  • University of Liverpool
    ,
  • Université Clermont Auvergne
    ,
  • CNRS
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Abstract

First observations of the rare decays B +→ K +π +π -μ +μ -and B +→ φK +μ +μ -are presented using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb -1, collected by the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8TeV. The branching fractions of the decays are (Formula Presented.) where the uncertainties are statistical, systematic, and due to the uncertainty on the branching fractions of the normalisation modes. A measurement of the differential branching fraction in bins of the invariant mass squared of the dimuon system is also presented for the decay B +→ K +π +π -μ +μ -.

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Research Output:
Contribution to journal
Article
Peer-review

Original language

English

Article number

64

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 1-18 (18 pages)

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Journal of High Energy Physics (Volume 2014, Issue 10)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 09/10/2014

Publication status

Published - 09/10/2014

ISSN

1126-6708

Publication IDs

  • Scopus: 84959859168

Funding Details

FundersFunding numbers
NSF
1205805
NSF
-
STFC
PP/E000347/1, PP/E003095/1, ST/H001069/2, ST/L001195/1, ST/H001026/1, ST/K001256/1, ST/K001361/1, GRIDPP, ST/J005495/1, ST/K001310/1, ST/L00352X/1, ST/J004855/1, ST/G005974/1, LHCb, ST/H00100X/1, ST/L006340/1, ST/L003538/1, ST/K003534/1, ST/L001144/1, ST/L003112/1, ST/K00073X/1, ST/H00100X/2, ST/K000705/1, ST/K004646/1, ST/K502236/1, ST/M000761/1, PP/E000355/1, ST/H006737/1, ST/H001093/2, ST/M001431/1, ST/K001418/1, ST/K00140X/1, ST/M001474/1, LHCb Upgrades, ST/H001093/1, ST/I003576/1, ST/J004332/1, ST/I505572/1, ST/K001302/1, ST/K003410/1, ST/I000097/1, ST/K00137X/1, ST/L006146/1, ST/H001026/2, ST/F007094/1, ST/L003392/1
STFC
-
SNF
152784
SNF
-