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Phys Rev Lett. 2020 May 29;124(21):211802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.211802.

Search for the Rare Decays B_{s}^{0}→e^{+}e^{-} and B^{0}→e^{+}e^{-}.

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Affiliations

  1. Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  2. Physik-Institut, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
  3. Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
  4. Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías (IGFAE), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
  5. H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.
  6. Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
  7. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA (associated with Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA).
  8. INFN Sezione di Milano, Milano, Italy.
  9. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
  10. INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy.
  11. Fakultät Physik, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany.
  12. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland.
  13. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
  14. ICCUB, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
  15. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute NRC Kurchatov Institute (PNPI NRC KI), Gatchina, Russia.
  16. Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
  17. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  18. Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, Orsay, France.
  19. INFN Sezione di Firenze, Firenze, Italy.
  20. Institute of Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
  21. INFN Sezione di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
  22. Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
  23. Institute for High Energy Physics NRC Kurchatov Institute (IHEP NRC KI), Protvino, Russia, Protvino, Russia.
  24. Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA.
  25. Yandex School of Data Analysis, Moscow, Russia.
  26. Aix Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France.
  27. Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.
  28. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
  29. INFN Sezione di Genova, Genova, Italy.
  30. National University of Science and Technology "MISIS", Moscow, Russia [associated with Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics NRC Kurchatov Institute (ITEP NRC KI), Moscow, Russia, Moscow, Russia].
  31. I. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
  32. INFN Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
  33. National Center for Nuclear Research (NCBJ), Warsaw, Poland.
  34. Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  35. INFN Sezione di Cagliari, Monserrato, Italy.
  36. Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics NRC Kurchatov Institute (ITEP NRC KI), Moscow, Russia, Moscow, Russia.
  37. LPNHE, Sorbonne Université, Paris Diderot Sorbonne Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France.
  38. Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University (SINP MSU), Moscow, Russia.
  39. INFN Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy.
  40. INFN Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
  41. Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
  42. Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland.
  43. University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
  44. Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
  45. INFN Sezione di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy.
  46. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  47. National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia (associated with Yandex School of Data Analysis, Moscow, Russia).
  48. Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (SB RAS), Novosibirsk, Russia.
  49. University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.
  50. Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INR RAS), Moscow, Russia.
  51. School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China (associated with Center for High Energy Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China).
  52. INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy.
  53. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
  54. INFN Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy.
  55. Institute Of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Beijing, China.
  56. Université Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, IN2P3-LAPP, Annecy, France.
  57. Center for High Energy Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
  58. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
  59. Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania.
  60. INFN Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy.
  61. Universiteit Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands (associated with Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands).
  62. AGH-University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, Kraków, Poland.
  63. Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
  64. Institute for Nuclear Research of the National Academy of Sciences (KINR), Kyiv, Ukraine.
  65. NSC Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology (NSC KIPT), Kharkiv, Ukraine.
  66. STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom.
  67. School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (associated with Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom).
  68. School of Physics State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China.
  69. Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular, Centro Mixto Universidad de Valencia - CSIC, Valencia, Spain.
  70. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [associated with Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil].
  71. Laboratory of Mathematical and Subatomic Physics, Constantine, Algeria [associated with Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil].
  72. Guangdong Provencial Key Laboratory of Nuclear Science, Institute of Quantum Matter, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China (associated with Center for High Energy Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China).
  73. Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics and VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  74. National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia [associated with Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics NRC Kurchatov Institute (ITEP NRC KI), Moscow, Russia, Moscow, Russia].
  75. National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia [associated with Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics NRC Kurchatov Institute (ITEP NRC KI), Moscow, Russia, Moscow, Russia].
  76. School of Physics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
  77. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
  78. Institut für Physik, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany (associated with Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany).
  79. Departamento de Fisica, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia (associated with LPNHE, Sorbonne Université, Paris Diderot Sorbonne Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France).
  80. Van Swinderen Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands (associated with Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands).
  81. Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK), Heidelberg, Germany.

PMID: 32530675 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.211802

Abstract

A search for the decays B_{s}^{0}→e^{+}e^{-} and B^{0}→e^{+}e^{-} is performed using data collected with the LHCb experiment in proton-proton collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13 TeV, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 1, 2, and 2  fb^{-1}, respectively. No signal is observed. Assuming no contribution from B^{0}→e^{+}e^{-} decays, an upper limit on the branching fraction B(B_{s}^{0}→e^{+}e^{-})<9.4(11.2)×10^{-9} is obtained at 90(95)% confidence level. If no B_{s}^{0}→e^{+}e^{-} contribution is assumed, a limit of B(B^{0}→e^{+}e^{-})<2.5(3.0)×10^{-9} is determined at 90(95)% confidence level. These upper limits are more than one order of magnitude lower than the previous values.

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