Measurement of the branching fraction ratio RK at large dilepton invariant mass



Aaij, R, Abdelmotteleb, ASW, Beteta, C Abellan, Abudinen, F, Ackernley, T, Adefisoye, AA, Adeva, B, Adinolfi, M, Adlarson, P, Agapopoulou, C
et al (show 1130 more authors) (2025) Measurement of the branching fraction ratio RK at large dilepton invariant mass JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2025 (7). 198-. ISSN 1126-6708, 1029-8479

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Abstract

A test of lepton universality between muons and electrons is performed using B+ → K++ decays (where ℓ = e, μ), in the dilepton invariant-mass-squared region above 14.3 GeV2/c4. The data used for the measurement consists of beauty meson decays produced in proton-proton collisions, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 fb−1, collected by the LHCb experiment between 2011 and 2018. The ratio of branching fractions for B+→ K+μ+μ and B+→ K+e+e decays is measured to be RK=1.08−0.09+0.11stat−0.04+0.04syst, which is consistent with the Standard Model prediction of unity. This constitutes the most precise test of lepton flavour universality using B+ → K++ decays with dilepton invariant-mass-squared above the ψ(2S) mass, whilst being the first of its kind at a hadron collider.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Flavour Changing Neutral Currents, Flavour Physics, B Physics, Hadron-Hadron Scattering
Divisions: Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Faculty of Science & Engineering
Faculty of Science & Engineering > School of Engineering
Faculty of Science & Engineering > School of Physical Sciences
Faculty of Science & Engineering > School of Physical Sciences > Physics
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences > School of the Arts
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences > School of the Arts > Architecture
Faculty of Science & Engineering > School of Engineering > Civil and Environmental Engineering
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 09 Dec 2025 09:04
Last Modified: 23 May 2026 10:26
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2025)198
Open Access URL: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP...
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3196002
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