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Search for Rare B[0 over (s)]→μ[superscript +]μ[superscript -]μ[superscript +]μ[superscript -] Decays

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Williams, Michael
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Abstract
A search for the decays B[0 over s]→μ[superscript +]μ[superscript -]μ[superscript +]μ[superscript -] and B[superscript 0]→μ[superscript +]μ[superscript -]μ[superscript +]μ[superscript -] is performed using data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0  fb[superscript -1], collected with the LHCb detector in 2011. The number of candidates observed is consistent with the expected background and, assuming phase-space models of the decays, limits on the branching fractions are set: B(B[0 over s]→μ[superscript +]μ[superscript -]μ[superscript +]μ[superscript -])<1.6(1.2)×10[superscript -8] and B(B[superscript 0]→μ[superscript +]μ[superscript -]μ[superscript +]μ[superscript -])<6.6(5.3)×10[superscript -9] at 95% (90%) confidence level. In addition, limits are set in the context of a supersymmetric model which allows for the B[0 over (s)] meson to decay into a scalar (S) and pseudoscalar particle (P), where S and P have masses of 2.5  GeV/c and 214.3  MeV/c, respectively, both resonances decay into μ[superscript +]μ[superscript -]. The branching fraction limits for these decays are B(B[0 over s]→SP)<1.6(1.2)×10[superscript -8] and B(B[superscript 0]→SP)<6.3(5.1)×10[superscript -9] at 95% (90%) confidence level.
Date issued
2013-05
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80300
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Aaij, R., C. Abellan Beteta, A. Adametz, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi, C. Adrover, A. Affolder, et al. “Search for Rare B_{(s)}^{0}→μ^{+}μ^{-}μ^{+}μ^{-} Decays.” Physical Review Letters 110, no. 21 (May 2013). © 2013 CERN
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0031-9007
1079-7114

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