Search for the rare decay B→Kνν̅
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Author(s)
Dujmic, Denis
Sciolla, Gabriella
Cowan, Ray F
Fisher, Peter H
Zhao, M.
Date Issued
December 2010
Journal
Physical review D
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
del Amo Sanchez, P. et al. “Search for the rare decay B→Kνν[over ¯].” Physical Review D 82.11 (2010) : n. pag. © 2010 The American Physical Society
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Abstract
We present a search for the rare decays B+→K+νν̅ [B superscript + → K superscript + νν̅] and B0→K0νν̅ [B superscript 0 → K superscript 0 νν̅] using 459×106 [459 X 10 superscript -6] BB̅ pairs collected with the BABAR detector at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Flavor-changing neutral-current decays such as these are forbidden at tree level but can occur through one-loop diagrams in the standard model (SM), with possible contributions from new physics at the same order. The presence of two neutrinos in the final state makes identification of signal events challenging, so reconstruction in the semileptonic decay channels B→D(*)lν of the B meson recoiling from the signal B is used to suppress backgrounds. We set an upper limit at the 90% confidence level (CL) of 1.3×10-5 [1.3 X 10 superscript -5] on the total branching fraction for B+→K+νν̅ [B superscript + → K superscript + νν̅], and 5.6×10-5 [5.6 X 10 superscript -5] for B0→K0νν̅ [B superscript 0 → K superscript 0 νν̅]. We additionally report 90% CL upper limits on partial branching fractions in two ranges of dineutrino mass squared for B+→K+νν̅ [B superscript + → K superscript + νν̅].
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.82.112002
