LHCb Collaboration (Including: Dossett, D., Gershon, T. J., Harrison, P. F., Latham, Thomas, Poluektov, Anton, Whitehead, M. (Mark) and Williams, M. P.). (2011) Search for the rare decays B0s→μ+μ− and B0→μ+μ−. Physics Letters B, Volume 699 (Number 5). pp. 330-340. ISSN 0370-2693

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Abstract

A search for the decays and B0→μ+μ− is performed with about 37 pb−1 of pp collisions at collected by the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The observed numbers of events are consistent with the background expectations. The resulting upper limits on the branching ratios are and B(B0→μ+μ−)<1.5×10−8 at 95% confidence level.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > Physics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Hadrons -- Decay, CP violation (Nuclear physics), Proton-proton interactions, Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland)
Journal or Publication Title:	Physics Letters B
Publisher:	Elsevier Science BV
ISSN:	0370-2693
Date:	20 April 2011
Volume:	Volume 699
Number:	Number 5
Page Range:	pp. 330-340
Identification Number:	10.1016/j.physletb.2011.04.031
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access
Funder:	Brazil. Coordenação do Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (Brazil) (FINEP), European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Guo jia zi ran ke xue ji jin wei yuan hui (China) [National Natural Science Foundation of China] (NSFC), Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) (CNRS), Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules (IN2P3), Germany. Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Hermann von Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften [Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science], Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), Istituto nazionale di fisica nucleare (INFN), Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek [Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research] (NWO), Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM) [Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter], Autoritatea Nationala pentru Cercetare Stiintifica (ANCS), SCSR (Poland), Russia (Federation). Ministerstvo obrazovanii︠a︡ i nauki [Ministry of Education and Science], Federalʹnoe agentstvo po atomnoĭ ėnergii (Russia), Spain. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN), Galicia (Spain : Region). Xunta, Catalonia (Spain), Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung [Swiss National Science Foundation] (SNSF), Switzerland. Staatssekretariat für Ausbildung und Forschung (SER), Nat︠s︡ionalʹna akademii︠a︡ nauk Ukraïny (NAS), Science and Technology Facilities Council (Great Britain) (STFC), National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF), Seventh Framework Programme (European Commission) (FP7), Auvergne (France)
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URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/40160

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