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Search for B − → μ − ν ¯ μ Decays at the Belle Experiment

We report the results of a search for the rare, purely leptonic decay B−→μ−ν¯μ performed with a 711  fb−1 data sample that contains 772×106  BB¯ pairs, collected near the ϒ(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e− collider. The signal events are selected based on the...

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Published in:Physical review letters 2018-07, Vol.121 (3), p.031801, Article 031801
Main Authors: Adachi, I., Al Said, S., Asner, D. M., Ayad, R., Barberio, E., Bhuyan, B., Biswal, J., Bračko, M., Červenkov, D., Chang, P., Chilikin, K., Choi, Y., Drásal, Z., Dutta, D., Epifanov, D., Ferber, T., Fulsom, B. G., Gaur, V., Guan, Y., Guido, E., Hirose, S., Hou, W.-S., Hsu, C.-L., Iijima, T., Ishikawa, A., Itoh, R., Iwasaki, M., Iwasaki, Y., Jacobs, W. W., Jin, Y., Julius, T., Kaliyar, A. B., Kawasaki, T., Kiesling, C., Kim, J. B., Kodyš, P., Korpar, S., Križan, P., Krokovny, P., Kumar, R., Kuzmin, A., Kwon, Y.-J., Lee, I. S., Libby, J., Liventsev, D., Lubej, M., Luo, T., Merola, M., Miyabayashi, K., Mizuk, R., Mohanty, G. B., Moon, H. K., Mori, T., Nakano, E., Nath, K. J., Natkaniec, Z., Nayak, M., Okuno, S., Ono, H., Pakhlov, P., Pal, B., Park, C. W., Park, H., Paul, S., Pedlar, T. K., Pestotnik, R., Ritter, M., Rostomyan, A., Rozanska, M., Sandilya, S., Sato, Y., Schnell, G., Schwanda, C., Seino, Y., Senyo, K., Shebalin, V., Shen, C. P., Shibata, T.-A., Shiu, J.-G., Simon, F., Solovieva, E., Starič, M., Sumihama, M., Sumiyoshi, T., Takizawa, M., Tanida, K., Uchida, M., Uehara, S., Uno, S., Van Hulse, C., Varner, G., Wang, M.-Z., Wang, P., Watanuki, S., Yamashita, Y., Yelton, J., Yuan, C. Z., Zhilich, V., Zhulanov, V., Zupanc, A.
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Summary:We report the results of a search for the rare, purely leptonic decay B−→μ−ν¯μ performed with a 711  fb−1 data sample that contains 772×106  BB¯ pairs, collected near the ϒ(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e− collider. The signal events are selected based on the presence of a high momentum muon and the topology of the rest of the event showing properties of a generic B-meson decay, as well as the missing energy and momentum being consistent with the hypothesis of a neutrino from the signal decay. We find a 2.4 standard deviation excess above background including systematic uncertainties, which corresponds to a branching fraction of B(B−→μ−ν¯μ)=(6.46±2.22±1.60)×10−7 or a frequentist 90% confidence level interval on the B−→μ−ν¯μ branching fraction of [2.9,10.7]×10−7.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.031801