Search for decays of neutral beauty mesons into four muons



Aaij, R, Adeva, B, Adinolfi, M, Ajaltouni, Z, Akar, S, Albrecht, J, Alessio, F, Alexander, M, Ali, S, Alkhazov, G
et al (show 763 more authors) (2017) Search for decays of neutral beauty mesons into four muons. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 03 (3). 001-.

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Abstract

A search for the non-resonant decays $B^0_s \rightarrow \mu^{+}\mu^{-}\mu^{+}\mu^{-}$ and $B^0 \rightarrow \mu^{+}\mu^{-}\mu^{+}\mu^{-}$ is presented. The measurement is performed using the full Run 1 data set collected in proton-proton collisions by the LHCb experiment at the LHC. The data correspond to integrated luminosities of $1$ and $2~\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$ collected at centre-of-mass energies of $7$ and $8~\mathrm{TeV}$, respectively. No signal is observed and upper limits on the branching fractions of the non-resonant decays at $95\%$ confidence level are determined to be \mathcal{B}(B^0_s \rightarrow \mu^{+}\mu^{-}\mu^{+}\mu^{-}) & < 2.5 \times 10^{-9} \mathcal{B}(B^0 \rightarrow \mu^{+}\mu^{-}\mu^{+}\mu^{-}) & < 6.9 \times 10^{-10}.

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Uncontrolled Keywords: B physics, Flavour Changing Neutral Currents, Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments), Rare decay, Supersymmetry
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 07 Apr 2017 13:07
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2023 07:06
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2017)001
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3006871