1. Search for the decay b→Xμ+μ−
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B. Abbott, M. Abolins, B.S. Acharya, I. Adam, D.L. Adams, M. Adams, S. Ahn, H. Aihara, G.A. Alves, N. Amos, E.W. Anderson, R. Astur, M.M. Baarmand, A. Baden, V. Balamurali, J. Balderston, B. Baldin, S. Banerjee, J. Bantly, E. Barberis, J.F. Bartlett, K. Bazizi, A. Belyaev, S.B. Beri, I. Bertram, V.A. Bezzubov, P.C. Bhat, V. Bhatnagar, M. Bhattacharjee, N. Biswas, G. Blazey, S. Blessing, P. Bloom, A. Boehnlein, N.I. Bojko, F. Borcherding, C. Boswell, A. Brandt, R. Brock, A. Bross, D. Buchholz, V.S. Burtovoi, J.M. Butler, W. Carvalho, D. Casey, Z. Casilum, H. Castilla-Valdez, D. Chakraborty, S.-M. Chang, S.V. Chekulaev, L.-P. Chen, W. Chen, S. Choi, S. Chopra, B.C. Choudhary, J.H. Christenson, M. Chung, D. Claes, A.R. Clark, W.G. Cobau, J. Cochran, L. Coney, W.E. Cooper, C. Cretsinger, D. Cullen-Vidal, M.A.C. Cummings, D. Cutts, O.I. Dahl, K. Davis, K. De, K. Del Signore, M. Demarteau, D. Denisov, S.P. Denisov, H.T. Diehl, M. Diesburg, G. Di Loreto, P. Draper, Y. Ducros, L.V. Dudko, S.R. Dugad, D. Edmunds, J. Ellison, V.D. Elvira, R. Engelmann, S. Eno, G. Eppley, P. Ermolov, O.V. Eroshin, V.N. Evdokimov, T. Fahland, M.K. Fatyga, S. Feher, D. Fein, T. Ferbel, G. Finocchiaro, H.E. Fisk, Y. Fisyak, E. Flattum, G.E. Forden, M. Fortner, K.C. Frame, S. Fuess, E. Gallas, A.N. Galyaev, P. Gartung, T.L. Geld, R.J. Genik II, K. Genser, C.E. Gerber, B. Gibbard, S. Glenn, B. Gobbi, A. Goldschmidt, B. Gómez, G. Gómez, P.I. Goncharov, J.L. González Solı́s, H. Gordon, L.T. Goss, K. Gounder, A. Goussiou, N. Graf, P.D. Grannis, D.R. Green, H. Greenlee, G. Grim, S. Grinstein, N. Grossman, P. Grudberg, S. Grünendahl, G. Guglielmo, J.A. Guida, J.M. Guida, A. Gupta, S.N. Gurzhiev, P. Gutierrez, Y.E. Gutnikov, N.J. Hadley, H. Haggerty, S. Hagopian, V. Hagopian, K.S. Hahn, R.E. Hall, P. Hanlet, S. Hansen, J.M. Hauptman, D. Hedin, A.P. Heinson, U. Heintz, R. Hernández-Montoya, T. Heuring, R. Hirosky, J.D. Hobbs, B. Hoeneisen, J.S. Hoftun, F. Hsieh, Ting Hu, Tong Hu, T. Huehn, A.S. Ito, E. James, J. Jaques, S.A. Jerger, R. Jesik, J.Z.-Y. Jiang, T. Joffe-Minor, K. Johns, M. Johnson, A. Jonckheere, M. Jones, H. Jöstlein, S.Y. Jun, C.K. Jung, S. Kahn, G. Kalbfleisch, J.S. Kang, D. Karmanov, D. Karmgard, R. Kehoe, M.L. Kelly, C.L. Kim, S.K. Kim, A. Klatchko, B. Klima, C. Klopfenstein, V.I. Klyukhin, V.I. Kochetkov, J.M. Kohli, D. Koltick, A.V. Kostritskiy, J. Kotcher, A.V. Kotwal, J. Kourlas, A.V. Kozelov, E.A. Kozlovski, J. Krane, M.R. Krishnaswamy, S. Krzywdzinski, S. Kunori, S. Lami, R. Lander, F. Landry, G. Landsberg, B. Lauer, A. Leflat, H. Li, J. Li, Q.Z. Li-Demarteau, J.G.R. Lima, D. Lincoln, S.L. Linn, J. Linnemann, R. Lipton, Y.C. Liu, F. Lobkowicz, S.C. Loken, S. Lökös, L. Lueking, A.L. Lyon, A.K.A. Maciel, R.J. Madaras, R. Madden, L. Magaña-Mendoza, V. Manankov, S. Mani, H.S. Mao, R. Markeloff, T. Marshall, M.I. Martin, K.M. Mauritz, B. May, A.A. Mayorov, R. McCarthy, J. McDonald, T. McKibben, J. McKinley, T. McMahon, H.L. Melanson, M. Merkin, K.W. Merritt, H. Miettinen, A. Mincer, C.S. Mishra, N. Mokhov, N.K. Mondal, H.E. Montgomery, P. Mooney, H. da Motta, C. Murphy, F. Nang, M. Narain, V.S. Narasimham, A. Narayanan, H.A. Neal, J.P. Negret, P. Nemethy, D. Norman, L. Oesch, V. Oguri, E. Oliveira, E. Oltman, N. Oshima, D. Owen, P. Padley, A. Para, Y.M. Park, R. Partridge, N. Parua, M. Paterno, B. Pawlik, J. Perkins, M. Peters, R. Piegaia, H. Piekarz, Y. Pischalnikov, V.M. Podstavkov, B.G. Pope, H.B. Prosper, S. Protopopescu, J. Qian, P.Z. Quintas, R. Raja, S. Rajagopalan, O. Ramirez, L. Rasmussen, S. Reucroft, M. Rijssenbeek, T. Rockwell, M. Roco, N.A. Roe, P. Rubinov, R. Ruchti, J. Rutherfoord, A. Sánchez-Hernández, A. Santoro, L. Sawyer, R.D. Schamberger, H. Schellman, J. Sculli, E. Shabalina, C. Shaffer, H.C. Shankar, R.K. Shivpuri, M. Shupe, H. Singh, J.B. Singh, V. Sirotenko, W. Smart, E. Smith, R.P. Smith, R. Snihur, G.R. Snow, J. Snow, S. Snyder, J. Solomon, P.M. Sood, M. Sosebee, N. Sotnikova, M. Souza, A.L. Spadafora, G. Steinbrück, R.W. Stephens, M.L. Stevenson, D. Stewart, F. Stichelbaut, D.A. Stoianova, D. Stoker, M. Strauss, K. Streets, M. Strovink, A. Sznajder, P. Tamburello, J. Tarazi, M. Tartaglia, T.L.T. Thomas, J. Thompson, T.G. Trippe, P.M. Tuts, N. Varelas, E.W. Varnes, D. Vititoe, A.A. Volkov, A.P. Vorobiev, H.D. Wahl, G. Wang, J. Warchol, G. Watts, M. Wayne, H. Weerts, A. White, J.T. White, J.A. Wightman, S. Willis, S.J. Wimpenny, J.V.D. Wirjawan, J. Womersley, E. Won, D.R. Wood, H. Xu, R. Yamada, P. Yamin, J. Yang, T. Yasuda, P. Yepes, C. Yoshikawa, S. Youssef, J. Yu, Y. Yu, Z.H. Zhu, D. Zieminska, A. Zieminski, E.G. Zverev, and A. Zylberstejn
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Neutral current ,Branching fraction ,Detector ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Fermilab ,Limit (mathematics) - Abstract
We have searched for the flavor-changing neutral current decay b -> s mu+ mu- in p pbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV with the DO detector at Fermilab. We determine the 90% confidence level limit for the branching fraction to be B(b -> X_s mu+ mu-) < 3.2 x 10^{-4}. We argue that this limit is more stringent than the best published limit on this decay rate.
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- 1998