1. Search for B−→μ−ν¯μ Decays at the Belle Experiment
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V. Zhukova, G. Inguglia, K. Sumisawa, P. Chang, S. Nishida, E. L. Barberio, D. Liventsev, Elisa Guido, Vikas Bansal, E. Nakano, V.E. Shebalin, Vladimir Zhulanov, Y. Jin, G. Schnell, T. Iijima, C. Van Hulse, Frank Simon, Y. Choi, K. J. Nath, S. Sandilya, Liangbin Li, J. Libby, M. E. Sevior, I. S. Lee, P. Goldenzweig, M. Starič, M. Lubej, K. Hayasaka, C. H. Li, U. Tamponi, T. Kuhr, Kevin Varvell, C. L. Hsu, M. Uchida, A. M. Bakich, Dipanwita Dutta, A. Rostomyan, A. B. Kaliyar, S. Al Said, Y. Iwasaki, Y. J. Kwon, R. Ayad, Y. Seino, O. Schneider, Andrey Sokolov, H. K. Moon, Seema Bahinipati, J. S. Lange, M. T. Hedges, Shoichi Watanuki, Z. Drásal, V. Chekelian, T. Mori, H. Aihara, D. Greenwald, A. Kuzmin, M. Nayak, Soumen Paul, S. Okuno, G. S. Varner, Yongsun Kim, A. Zupanc, C. H. Wang, S. Uno, C. Schwanda, T. Luo, S. Ogawa, James E. Fast, I. Jaegle, N. K. Nisar, J. Haba, N. Gabyshev, D. Červenkov, D. Y. Kim, Peter Kodys, R. Itoh, W. W. Jacobs, M. Merola, V. Gaur, A.L. Sibidanov, W. S. Hou, P. Pakhlov, S. Eidelman, Z. P. Zhang, B. Pal, Tara Nanut, K. K. Joo, Y. Guan, T. Uglov, B. G. Fulsom, Eberhard Widmann, K. Tanida, K. Senyo, J. Stypula, V. Vorobyev, Sadaharu Uehara, D. M. Asner, S. Di Carlo, E. Solovieva, G. Pakhlova, M. Watanabe, T. E. Browder, R. Mussa, C. Z. Yuan, Z. Natkaniec, M. Salehi, H. B. Jeon, G. B. Mohanty, A. Ishikawa, N. Dash, Y. Yamashita, Iki Adachi, G. Karyan, M. Nakao, H. Park, C. W. Park, A. Bozek, P. Križan, H. Ye, Jyoti Prakash Biswal, L. E. Piilonen, M. Rozanska, P. L. Wang, Y. Yusa, V.N. Zhilich, Meng Wang, E. Won, K. Chilikin, B. Bhuyan, J. B. Kim, Yuki Sato, T. Julius, K. Miyabayashi, I. Badhrees, R. Pestotnik, R. Kulasiri, C. Kiesling, V. Savinov, M. Sumihama, F. Tenchini, Yoshinobu Unno, T. Sumiyoshi, M. Takizawa, H. Ono, M. Bračko, L. Li Gioi, R. Mizuk, Martin Ritter, John Yelton, M. Masuda, A. Garmash, C. S. Park, S. Hirose, A. Chen, Z. Doležal, S. K. Choi, K. Trabelsi, J. Kahn, C. P. Shen, V. Babu, T. Aushev, T. Ferber, M. Niiyama, T. Matsuda, K. Inami, T. A. Shibata, H. Miyata, Prafulla Kumar Behera, J. F. Strube, Y. Sakai, H. Hayashii, M. Iwasaki, B. G. Cheon, S. H. Kim, P. Krokovny, K. Kinoshita, T. Czank, Rakesh Kumar, K. H. Kang, K. Cho, S. Korpar, D. Epifanov, D. Kotchetkov, J. G. Shiu, T. Kawasaki, T. K. Pedlar, Phillip Urquijo, and D. Cinabro
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Physics ,Particle physics ,Muon ,Missing energy ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Branching fraction ,Electron–positron annihilation ,General Physics and Astronomy ,01 natural sciences ,Belle experiment ,KEKB ,0103 physical sciences ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Neutrino ,010306 general physics ,Bar (unit) - Abstract
We report the results of a search for the rare, purely leptonic decay B- -> mu(-)(nu) over bar (mu) performed with a 711 fb(-1) data sample that contains 772 x 10(6) B (B) over bar pairs, collected near the Upsilon(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- -> mu(-)(nu) over bar (mu)) = (6.46 +/- 2.22 +/- 1.60) x 10(-7) or a frequentist 90% confidence level interval on the B- -> mu(-)(nu) over bar (mu) branching fraction of [2.9, 10.7] x 10(-7).
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- 2018