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Search for the rare decays B0 →j /ψγ and Bs0 →j /ψγ

  • R. Aaij
    ,
  • C. Abellán Beteta
    ,
  • B. Adeva
    ,
  • M. Adinolfi
    ,
  • A. Affolder
    ,
  • Z. Ajaltouni
  • CERN
    ,
  • University of Zurich
    ,
  • University of Santiago de Compostela
    ,
  • University of Bristol
    ,
  • University of Liverpool
    ,
  • Université Clermont Auvergne
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Abstract

A search for the rare decay of a B0 or Bs0 meson into the final state J/ψγ is performed, using data collected by the LHCb experiment in pp collisions at s=7 and 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb-1. The observed number of signal candidates is consistent with a background-only hypothesis. Branching fraction values larger than 1.5×10-6 for the B0→J/ψγ decay mode are excluded at 90% confidence level. For the Bs0→J/ψγ decay mode, branching fraction values larger than 7.3×10-6 are excluded at 90% confidence level; this is the first branching fraction limit for this decay.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Article number

112002

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology (Volume 92, Issue 11)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 07/12/2015

Publication status

Published - 07/12/2015

ISSN

1550-7998

Publication IDs

  • Scopus: 84950326860
  • WOS: 000366095600002

Funding Details

FundersFunding numbers
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1681016
NSF
1205805, 1505719
NSF
-
STFC
ST/N000250/1, PP/E003095/1, ST/L001195/1, ST/M001407/1, ST/K001256/1, GRIDPP, ST/J005495/1, ST/M000729/1, ST/K001310/1, ST/J50094X/1, ST/K001604/1, ST/L00352X/1, ST/J004855/1, LHCb, ST/H00100X/1, ST/L003538/1, ST/K003534/1, ST/L003112/1, ST/H00100X/2, ST/K000705/1, ST/K004646/1, ST/M000761/1, PP/E000355/1, ST/H006737/1, ST/K001418/1, ST/M004791/1, ST/K00140X/1, ST/M001474/1, LHCb Upgrades, ST/I003576/1, ST/J004332/1, ST/M004058/1, ST/K001302/1, ST/K003410/1, ST/I000097/1, ST/K00137X/1, ST/L006146/1, ST/L003163/1, ST/L003392/1
STFC
-
SNF
152784
SNF
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