Search for decays of B0 mesons into pairs of leptons: B0↑e+e-, B0→μ+μ-, and B0→e±μ∓ Article

Bergfeld, T, Eisenstein, BI, Ernst, J et al. (2000). Search for decays of B0 mesons into pairs of leptons: B0↑e+e-, B0→μ+μ-, and B0→e±μ∓ . PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 62(9), 1-5. 10.1103/PhysRevD.62.091102

cited authors

  • Bergfeld, T; Eisenstein, BI; Ernst, J; Gladding, GE; Gollin, GD; Hans, RM; Johnson, E; Karliner, I; Marsh, MA; Palmer, M; Plager, C; Sedlack, C; Selen, M; Thaler, JJ; Williams, J; Edwards, KW; Janicek, R; Patel, PM; Sadoff, AJ; Ammar, R; Bean, A; Besson, D; Davis, R; Kwak, N; Zhao, X; Anderson, S; Frolov, VV; Kubota, Y; Lee, SJ; Mahapatra, R; O'Neill, JJ; Poling, R; Riehle, T; Smith, A; Stepaniak, CJ; Urheim, J; Ahmed, S; Alam, MS; Athar, SB; Jian, L; Ling, L; Saleem, M; Timm, S; Wappler, F; Anastassov, A; Duboscq, JE; Eckhart, E; Gan, KK; Gwon, C; Hart, T; Honscheid, K; Hufnagel, D; Kagan, H; Kass, R; Pedlar, TK; Schwarthoff, H; Thayer, JB; Von Toerne, E; Zoeller, MM; Richichi, SJ; Severini, H; Skubic, P; Undrus, A; Chen, S; Fast, J; Hinson, JW; Lee, J; Miller, DH; Shibata, EI; Shipsey, IPJ; Pavlunin, V; Cronin-Hennessy, D; Lyon, AL; Thorndike, EH; Jessop, CP; Marsiske, H; Perl, ML; Savinov, V; Zhou, X; Coan, TE; Fadeyev, V; Maravin, Y; Narsky, I; Stroynowski, R; Ye, J; Wlodek, T; Artuso, M; Ayad, R; Boulahouache, C; Bukin, K; Dambasuren, E; Karamov, S; Majumder, G; Moneti, GC; Mountain, R; Schuh, S; Skwarnicki, T; Stone, S; Viehhauser, G; Wang, JC

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abstract

  • We search for the decay of the B0 meson into a pair of leptons in the suppressed channels B0→e+e-, B0→μ+μ- and in the lepton number violating channel B0→e±μ∓ in a sample of 9.7×106 BB̄ pairs recorded by CLEO detector. No signal is found, and the following upper limits on the branching fractions are established: B(B0→e+e-)<8.3×10-7, B(B0→μ+μ-)<6.1×10 -7, B(B0→e±μ ∓)<15×10-7 at 90% confidence level. A new lower limit on the Pati-Salam leptoquark mass MLQ>27 TeV is established at 90% confidence level. © 2000 The American Physical Society.

publication date

  • November 1, 2000

published in

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start page

  • 1

end page

  • 5

volume

  • 62

issue

  • 9