1. Search for B+→K+νν¯ Decays Using an Inclusive Tagging Method at Belle II
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T. Pang, S. Patra, A. Pathak, K. Adamczyk, G.V. Russo, J. Libby, D. M. Asner, T. Matsuda, Enrico Bernieri, K. Hayasaka, T. V. Dong, Tomoyuki Konno, E. Kovalenko, L. Zani, S. Fiore, F. R. Le Diberder, C. Lyu, A. Vinokurova, S. Dubey, I. Heredia-De La Cruz, P. Grace, J. Baudot, C. H. Li, I. M. Peruzzi, S.-J. Cho, Y. Seino, A. De Yta-Hernandez, O. Hartbrich, Y. Ushiroda, C. Niebuhr, X. Y. Zhou, B. Wach, H. Windel, E. Graziani, E. De La Cruz-Burelo, M. T. Prim, D. Liventsev, P. Krokovny, Rakesh Kumar, C. La Licata, B.A. Shwartz, Takeo Kawasaki, F. Bianchi, H. M. Wakeling, L. E. Piilonen, I. Domínguez Jiménez, Hitoshi Hirata, K. H. Kang, K. Cho, P. Oskin, Agnese Martini, S. Sandilya, A. Kuzmin, M. Welsch, R. Mizuk, E. Ganiev, P. Taras, D. Biswas, A. B. Kaliyar, T. Iijima, C. W. Joo, A. Sangal, T. M. G. Kraetzschmar, S. Stefkova, M. Starič, M. Z. Wang, Andrey Sokolov, Nils Braun, K. Matsuoka, T. Kuhr, Y.-T. Lai, S. Ogawa, D. Cinabro, R. Giordano, A. Baur, H. Ye, J. Schueler, M. E. Sevior, Claudia Cecchi, A. Panta, M. Merola, W. Gradl, P. L. M. Podesta-Lerma, Antonio Budano, K. Chilikin, N. Akopov, G. Inguglia, G. Nazaryan, T. Kunigo, C. Ketter, P. Goldenzweig, A. Gaz, A. Korobov, P. Chang, M. Kumar, M. De Nuccio, K. Nishimura, Frank Simon, R. M. Seddon, D. E. Jaffe, Abner Soffer, N. Anh Ky, H. Ozaki, V. Babu, K. Senyo, S. H. Robertson, S. Nishida, C. H. Chen, S. E. Vahsen, A. J. Schwartz, Kazuhiko Hara, A. Frey, D. Epifanov, Marco Milesi, M. Hernandez Villanueva, G. Finocchiaro, Dipak Kumar Sahoo, P. Bambade, K. Tanida, Y. M. Yook, J. Serrano, T. Ferber, S. Cunliffe, X. L. Wang, Yizeng Li, A. Di Canto, S. Bussino, Sunil Bansal, J. Bennett, Andreas Warburton, Y. Iwasaki, F. Abudinén, Y. J. Kwon, Somnath Choudhury, Tagir Aushev, S. Kurz, Semen Eidelman, S. Pardi, S. Spataro, T. Humair, K. Nakamura, V. Zhukova, Y. Onuki, Makoto Tabata, V. Chekelian, D. Rodríguez Pérez, G. De Nardo, S. Y. Suzuki, S. Hazra, T. K. Pedlar, N. Taniguchi, M. Takizawa, J. G. Shiu, R. Mussa, Jakub Kandra, M. Campajola, N. Rout, X. P. Xu, B. Paschen, Paul Jackson, Y.-T. Chen, Soumen Paul, M. Uchida, Felix Metzner, A. Gellrich, S. Raiz, H. Svidras, A. Garmash, C. Hadjivasiliou, Daniel Greenwald, John Yelton, L. K. Li, R. Van Tonder, M. Hohmann, A. Lozar, Z. Doležal, A. Natochii, A. Ishikawa, K. Inami, N. Toutounji, N. Rad, R. Pestotnik, E. Paoloni, M. Nakao, Stefano Longo, F. Tenchini, I. Ripp-Baudot, F. Meier, P. Križan, M. Remnev, H. Miyake, C.-L. Hsu, L. Cao, B. Scavino, D. A. Sanders, D. Matvienko, J. Wiechczynski, Seongbae Yang, H. Tanigawa, T. Podobnik, B. Spruck, K. Dort, B. Golob, Melissa K. Takahashi, S. Prell, S. Bettarini, Bruce Yabsley, Shih-Chang Lee, S. Duell, C. Miller, C. Hearty, E. Prencipe, Q. Y. Liu, P. Ahlburg, Martin Ritter, Dmytro Levit, M. Maggiora, Phillip Urquijo, N. K. Nisar, K. Lieret, K. Trabelsi, C. H. Kim, Z. Liptak, E. C. Hill, H. Park, S. X. Li, A. Bozek, W. A. T. Wan Abdullah, H. G. Moser, H. Atmacan, D. J. Summers, J. S. Lange, K. Uno, T. Koga, A. Selce, A. Passeri, M. Piccolo, Peter Kodys, R. Karl, T. D. Kimmel, E. Waheed, V.N. Zhilich, V. Aushev, Carlos Marinas, W. W. Jacobs, M. Bertemes, D. Ferlewicz, H. Hayashii, W. Sutcliffe, Elisa Manoni, R. J. Sobie, John Webb, L. Vitale, K. Chirapatpimol, M. Eliachevitch, J. Kumar, S.-H. Park, Yuki Sato, V. Popov, C. Z. Yuan, L. Santelj, S. Dey, K. Miyabayashi, Y. Guan, A. Paladino, R. Manfredi, E. Solovieva, T. Lueck, A. Sibidanov, A. Glazov, M. Laurenza, L. B. Rizzuto, G. de Marino, G. S. Varner, A. Hershenhorn, J. H. Yin, R. Cheaib, P. Branchini, G. Karyan, K. Kumara, Florian Urs Bernlochner, K. Gudkova, S. Lacaprara, V. Savinov, C. Kiesling, R. de Sangro, Z. S. Stottler, G. B. Mohanty, Alberto Aloisio, F. Krinner, A. K. Giri, Y. Yusa, S. Marcello, S. Baehr, G. Rizzo, M. Bračko, M. Destefanis, R. Itoh, K. Yoshihara, Concettina Sfienti, M. Masuda, G. Dujany, M. Iwasaki, F. Dattola, Sw. Banerjee, Satoshi Tanaka, E. Torassa, B. G. Cheon, L. M. Cremaldi, C. Murphy, C. Wessel, N. Gabyshev, D. Červenkov, A. Rostomyan, S. Korpar, F. Forti, M. Mrvar, B. G. Fulsom, R. Godang, S. Watanuki, Prafulla Kumar Behera, K. Sumisawa, S. Kohani, L. Corona, J. Irakkathil Jabbar, M. Garcia-Hernandez, G. Pakhlova, A. Fodor, H. Kichimi, Kevin Varvell, E. Bertholet, Takeo Higuchi, H. Aihara, F. Müller, Y. Usov, K. Lautenbach, Pere Rados, G. De Pietro, J. M. Roney, V. Gaur, M. Sumihama, C. Praz, M. Nayak, Ya-Qiu Jin, D. Tonelli, M. Hoek, Yongsun Kim, B. Gobbo, S. Uno, C. Schwanda, H. Ono, P. Leitl, R. Stroili, Y. Unno, D. Y. Kim, Q. D. Zhou, Iki Adachi, G. Polat, T. Fillinger, S. Pokharel, F. Di Capua, Y. Onishchuk, P. Pakhlov, P. Lewis, G. Casarosa, T. Czank, Jürgen Becker, S. Yamada, Jochen Dingfelder, W. B. Yan, Z. Natkaniec, U. Tamponi, M. Bessner, Surajit Maity, L. Lanceri, H. Junkerkalefeld, S. Halder, T. Bilka, and T. E. Browder
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Physics ,Particle physics ,Luminosity (scattering theory) ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Branching fraction ,Electron–positron annihilation ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Resonance ,01 natural sciences ,law.invention ,Pair production ,law ,0103 physical sciences ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,B meson ,010306 general physics ,Collider ,Energy (signal processing) - Abstract
A search for the flavor-changing neutral-current decay B^{+}→K^{+}νν[over ¯] is performed at the Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB asymmetric energy electron-positron collider. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 63 fb^{-1} collected at the ϒ(4S) resonance and a sample of 9 fb^{-1} collected at an energy 60 MeV below the resonance. Because the measurable decay signature involves only a single charged kaon, a novel measurement approach is used that exploits not only the properties of the B^{+}→K^{+}νν[over ¯] decay, but also the inclusive properties of the other B meson in the ϒ(4S)→BB[over ¯] event, to suppress the background from other B meson decays and light-quark pair production. This inclusive tagging approach offers a higher signal efficiency compared to previous searches. No significant signal is observed. An upper limit on the branching fraction of B^{+}→K^{+}νν[over ¯] of 4.1×10^{-5} is set at the 90% confidence level.
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- 2021