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del Amo Sanchez, P., Lees, J., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., Tisserand, V., Garra Tico, J., Grauges, E., Martinelli, M., Palano, A., Pappagallo, M. et al.
. (2010) Search for the rare decay B→Kνν. Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology), Vol.82 (No.11). artticle no. 112002. ISSN 1550-7998

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Abstract

We present a search for the rare decays B+→K+νν̅ and B0→K0νν̅ using 459×106 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 on the total branching fraction for B+→K+νν̅ , and 5.6×10-5 for B0→K0νν̅ . We additionally report 90% CL upper limits on partial branching fractions in two ranges of dineutrino mass squared for B+→K+νν̅ .

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Science > Physics
Journal or Publication Title: Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology)
Publisher: American Physical Society
ISSN: 1550-7998
Date: 2010
Volume: Vol.82
Number: No.11
Number of Pages: 10
Page Range: artticle no. 112002
Identification Number: 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.112002
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
URI: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/40178

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