1. Test of lepton flavor universality and search for lepton flavor violation in $B \to K \ell\ell$ decays
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Abdesselam, A., Adachi, I., Adamczyk, K., Ahn, J.K., Aihara, H., Al Said, S., Arinstein, K., Arita, Y., Asner, D.M., Atmacan, H., Aulchenko, V., Aushev, T., Ayad, R., Aziz, T., Babu, V., Badhrees, I., Bahinipati, S., Bakich, A.M., Ban, Y., Bansal, V., Barberio, E., Barrett, M., Bartel, W., Behera, P., Beleño, C., Belous, K., Bennett, J., Berger, M., Bernlochner, F., Besson, D., Bhardwaj, V., Bhuyan, B., Bilka, T., Biswal, J., Bloomfield, T., Bobrov, A., Bondar, A., Bonvicini, G., Bozek, A., Bračko, M., Braun, N., Breibeck, F., Browder, T.E., Campajola, M., Cao, L., Caria, G., Červenkov, D., Chang, M.-C., Chang, P., Chao, Y., Cheaib, R., Chekelian, V., Chen, A., Chen, K.-F., Chen, Y., Cheon, B.G., Chilikin, K., Chistov, R., Cho, H.E., Cho, K., Chobanova, V., Choi, S.-K., Choi, Y., Choudhury, S., Cinabro, D., Crnkovic, J., Cunliffe, S., Czank, T., Danilov, M., Dash, N., De Nardo, G., Di Carlo, S., Di Capua, F., Dingfelder, J., Doležal, Z., Dong, T.V., Dossett, D., Drásal, Z., Drutskoy, A., Dubey, S., Dutta, D., Eidelman, S., Epifanov, D., Fast, J.E., Feindt, M., Ferber, T., Frey, A., Frost, O., Fulsom, B.G., Garg, R., Gaur, V., Gabyshev, N., Garmash, A., Gelb, M., Gemmler, J., Getzkow, D., Giordano, F., Giri, A., Goldenzweig, P., Golob, B., Greenwald, D., Grosse Perdekamp, M., Grygier, J., Grzymkowska, O., Guan, Y., Guido, E., Guo, H., Haba, J., Hamer, P., Hara, K., Hara, T., Hartbrich, O., Hasegawa, Y., Hasenbusch, J., Hayasaka, K., Hayashii, H., He, X.H., Heck, M., Hedges, M.T., Heffernan, D., Heider, M., Heller, A., Higuchi, T., Hirose, S., Hoshi, Y., Hoshina, K., Hou, W.-S., Hsiung, Y.B., Hsu, C.-L., Huang, K., Huschle, M., Igarashi, Y., Iijima, T., Imamura, M., Inami, K., Inguglia, G., Ishikawa, A., Itoh, R., Iwasaki, M., Iwasaki, Y., Iwata, S., Jacobs, W.W., Jaegle, I., Jang, E.-J., Jeon, H.B., Jia, S., Jin, Y., Joffe, D., Jones, M., Joo, C.W., Joo, K.K., Julius, T., Kahn, J., Kakuno, H., Kaliyar, A.B., Kang, J.H., Kang, K.H., Kapusta, P., Karyan, G., Kataoka, S.U., Kato, Y., Katrenko, P., Kawai, H., Kawasaki, T., Keck, T., Kichimi, H., Kiesling, C., Kim, B.H., Kim, C.H., Kim, D.Y., Kim, H.-J., Kim, J.B., Kim, K.T., Kim, S.H., Kim, S.K., Kim, Y.J., Kimmel, T., Kindo, H., Kinoshita, K., Kleinwort, C., Klucar, J., Kobayashi, N., Kodyš, P., Koga, Y., Konno, T., Korpar, S., Kotchetkov, D., Kouzes, R.T., Križan, P., Kroeger, R., Krohn, J.-F., Krokovny, P., Kronenbitter, B., Kuhr, T., Kulasiri, R., Kumar, R., Kumita, T., Kurihara, E., Kuroki, Y., Kuzmin, A., Kvasnička, P., Kwon, Y.-J., Lai, Y.-T., Lalwani, K., Lange, J.S., Lee, I.S., Lee, J.K., Lee, J.Y., Lee, S.C., Leitgab, M., Leitner, R., Levit, D., Lewis, P., Li, C.H., Li, H., Li, L.K., Li, Y.B., Li Gioi, L., Libby, J., Lieret, K., Limosani, A., Liptak, Z., Liu, C., Liu, Y., Liventsev, D., Loos, A., Louvot, R., Lu, P.-C., Lubej, M., Luo, T., MacNaughton, J., Masuda, M., Matsuda, T., Matvienko, D., McNeil, J.T., Merola, M., Metzner, F., Miyabayashi, K., Miyachi, Y., Miyake, H., Miyata, H., Miyazaki, Y., Mizuk, R., Mohanty, G.B., Mohanty, S., Moon, H.K., Moon, T.J., Mori, T., Morii, T., Moser, H.-G., Mrvar, M., Müller, T., Muramatsu, N., Mussa, R., Nagasaka, Y., Nakahama, Y., Nakamura, I., Nakamura, K.R., Nakano, E., Nakano, T., Nakao, M., Nakayama, H., Nakazawa, H., Nanut, T., Nath, K.J., Natkaniec, Z., Nayak, M., Neichi, K., Ng, C., Niebuhr, C., Niiyama, M., Nisar, N.K., Nishida, S., Nishimura, K., Nitoh, O., Ogawa, A., Ogawa, K., Ogawa, S., Ohshima, T., Okuno, S., Olsen, S.L., Ono, H., Onuki, Y., Ostrowicz, W., Oswald, C., Ozaki, H., Pakhlov, P., Pakhlova, G., Pal, B., Pang, T., Panzenböck, E., Pardi, S., Park, C.-S., Park, H., Park, K.S., Park, S.-H., Patra, S., Paul, S., Pavelkin, I., Pedlar, T.K., Peng, T., Pesántez, L., Pestotnik, R., Peters, M., Piilonen, L.E., Popov, V., Prasanth, K., Prencipe, E., Prim, M.T., Prothmann, K., Purohit, M.V., Rabusov, A., Rauch, J., Reisert, B., Resmi, P.K., Ribežl, E., Ritter, M., Rorie, J., Rostomyan, A., Rozanska, M., Russo, G., Sahoo, D., Sahoo, H., Sakai, Y., Salehi, M., Sandilya, S., Santel, D., Santelj, L., Sanuki, T., Sasaki, J., Sasao, N., Sato, Y., Savinov, V., Schlüter, T., Schneider, O., Schnell, G., Schram, M., Schueler, J., Schwanda, C., Schwartz, A.J., Schwenker, B., Seidl, R., Seino, Y., Semmler, D., Senyo, K., Seon, O., Seong, I.S., Sevior, M.E., Shang, L., Shapkin, M., Shebalin, V., Shen, C.P., Shibata, T.-A., Shibuya, H., Shinomiya, S., Shiu, J.-G., Shwartz, B., Sibidanov, A., Simon, F., Singh, J.B., Sinha, R., Smith, K., Sokolov, A., Soloviev, Y., Solovieva, E., Stanič, S., Starič, M., Steder, M., Stottler, Z., Strube, J.F., Stypula, J., Sugihara, S., Sugiyama, A., Sumihama, M., Sumisawa, K., Sumiyoshi, T., Sutcliffe, W., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S.Y., Takeichi, H., Takizawa, M., Tamponi, U., Tanaka, M., Tanaka, S., Tanida, K., Taniguchi, N., Tao, Y., Taylor, G.N., Tenchini, F., Teramoto, Y., Trabelsi, K., Tsuboyama, T., Uchida, M., Ueda, I., Uehara, S., Uglov, T., Unno, Y., Uno, S., Urquijo, P., Ushiroda, Y., Usov, Y., Vahsen, S.E., Van Hulse, C., Van Tonder, R., Vanhoefer, P., Varner, G., Varvell, K.E., Vervink, K., Vinokurova, A., Vorobyev, V., Vossen, A., Wagner, M.N., Waheed, E., Wang, Biao, Wang, C.H., Wang, M.-Z., Wang, P., Wang, X.L., Watanabe, M., Watanabe, Y., Watanuki, S., Wedd, R., Wehle, S., Widmann, E., Wiechczynski, J., Williams, K.M., Won, E., Yabsley, B.D., Yamada, S., Yamamoto, H., Yamashita, Y., Yang, S.B., Yashchenko, S., Ye, H., Yelton, J., Yin, J.H., Yook, Y., Yuan, C.Z., Yusa, Y., Zakharov, S., Zhang, C.C., Zhang, J., Zhang, L.M., Zhang, Z.P., Zhao, L., Zhilich, V., Zhukova, V., Zhulanov, V., Zivko, T., Zupanc, A., Zwahlen, N., Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and BELLE
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FCNC Interaction ,Upsilon(10570): electroproduction ,dilepton: mass spectrum ,B: semileptonic decay ,Flavour Changing Neutral Currents ,isospin: asymmetry ,e+-e− Experiments ,FOS: Physical sciences ,BELLE ,B: branching ratio: measured ,electron positron: annihilation ,B physics ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,electron: pair production ,Flavor physics ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,KEK-B ,lepton: flavor: universality ,+K+electron+positron%22">B --> K electron positron ,+K+muon%2B+muon%22">B --> K muon+ muon ,[PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex] ,B: pair production ,branching ratio: ratio: measured ,electron positron: colliding beams ,mass dependence ,muon: pair production ,muon: final state ,statistical ,experimental results - Abstract
We present measurements of the branching fractions for the decays $B\to K \mu^{+}\mu^{-}$ and $B\to K e^{+}e^{-}$, and their ratio ($R_{K}$), using a data sample of 711 $fb^{-1}$ that contains $772 \times 10^{6}$ $B\bar{B}$ events. The data were collected at the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy $e^{+}e^{-}$ collider. The ratio $R_{K}$ is measured in five bins of dilepton invariant-mass-squared ($q^{2}$): $q^{2} \in (0.1, 4.0), (4.0, 8.12), (1.0, 6.0)$, $(10.2, 12.8)$ and ($>14.18) GeV^{2}/c^{4}$, along with the whole $q^2$ region. The $R_{K}$ value for $q^{2} \in (1.0, 6.0) GeV^{2}/c^{4}$ is $1.03^{+0.28}_{-0.24} \pm 0.01$. The first and second uncertainties listed are statistical and systematic, respectively. All results for $R_{K}$ are consistent with Standard Model predictions. We also measure $C\!P$-averaged isospin asymmetries in the same $q^{2}$ bins. The results are consistent with a null asymmetry, with the largest difference of 2.6 standard deviations occurring for the $q^{2}\in(1.0,6.0) GeV^{2}/c^{4}$ bin in the mode with muon final states. The measured differential branching fractions, ${d\cal B}/{dq^{2}}$, are consistent with theoretical predictions for charged $B$ decays, while the corresponding values are below the expectations for neutral $B$ decays. We have also searched for lepton-flavor-violating $B \rightarrow K\mu^{\pm}e^{\mp}$ decays and set $90\%$ confidence-level upper limits on the branching fraction in the range of $10^{-8}$ for $B^{+} \rightarrow K^{+}\mu^{\pm}e^{\mp}$, and $B^{0} \rightarrow K^{0}\mu^{\pm}e^{\mp}$ modes., Comment: 18 pages, 7 figures
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- 2021