Title: | Search for the rare decays B -> Kl(+)l(-) and B -> K*l(+)l(-) |
Authors: | Aubert, B Boutigny, D Gaillard, JM Hicheur, A Karyotakis, Y Lees, JP Robbe, P Tisserand, V Palano, A Pompili, A Chen, GP Kozanecki, W Wenzel, WA Langer, M London, GW Mayer, B Azzopardi, DE Serfass, B Vasseur, G Chen, E Taras, P Bucci, F Breon, AB Yeche, C Zito, M Purohit, MV Singh, H Weidemann, AW Harrison, TJ Back, JJ Yumiceva, FX Adam, I Campagna, E Swain, JE Aston, D Berger, N de Sangro, R Dubois-Felsmann, GP Boyarski, AM Calderini, G Convery, MR Coupal, DP Bellodi, G Carpinelli, M Dong, D Payne, DJ Dorfan, J Hawkes, CM Dunwoodie, W Field, RC Falciai, D Glanzman, T Dvoretskii, A Gowdy, S Gorti, F Haas, T Groysman, Y Kral, JF Himel, T Hryn'ova, T Huffer, ME Innes, WR Jessop, C Knowles, DJ Finocchiaro, G Giorgi, MA Kelsey, MH Kim, P Hitlin, DG Nicholson, H Dixon, P Kocian, ML Langenegger, U Luitz, DWGSL Luth, V Lynch, HL Dittongo, S Marsiske, H Menke, S Patteri, P Messner, R Cartaro, C Neale, SWO Harrison, PF Muller, DR Rong, G O'Grady, CP Lusiani, A Ozcan, VE Perazzo, A Perl, M Petrak, S Quinn, H De Nardo, NCG Peruzzi, IM Ratcliff, BN Verderi, M Robertson, SH Marchiori, G Roodman, A Penny, RC Metzler, S Salnikov, AA Schietinger, T Schindler, RH Fabozzi, F Schwiening, J Snyder, A Piccolo, M Roe, NA Lu, A Soha, A Spanier, SM Stelzer, J Su, D Sullivan, MK Oyang, J Gatto, C Watson, AT Tanaka, HA Eschrich, I Va'vra, J Wagner, SR Potter, RJL Xie, Y Weinstein, AJR Wisniewski, WJ Wright, DH Young, CC Lista, L Burchat, PR Cremaldi, L Cheng, CH Porter, FC Meyer, TI Watson, NK Shorthouse, HW Roat, C Zallo, A Henderson, R Bugg, W Heusch, CA Schumm, BA Cohn, H Izen, JM Kitayama, I Lou, XC Bianchi, F Ryd, A Strother, P Bona, M Gamba, D Bagnasco, S Martinez-Vidal, F Paolucci, P Deppermann, T Bosisio, L Della Ricca, G Lanceri, L Poropat, P Vuagnin, G Panvini, RS Vidal, PB Brown, CM Morganti, M Samuel, A Piccolo, D Jackson, PD Sharma, V Kowalewski, R Roney, JM Goetzen, K Band, HR Charles, E Dasu, S Neri, N Cowan, G Eichenbaum, AM Sloane, RJ Hu, H Johnson, JR Weaver, M Buzzo, A Liu, R Di Lodovico, F Pan, Y Paoloni, E Prepost, R Koch, H George, S Borgland, AW Scott, IJ Sekula, SJ von Wimmersperg-Toeller, JH Wu, SL Yu, Z Breon, DN Rama, M Yang, S Kordich, TMB Neal, H BABAR Collaboration Sciacca, C Green, MG Kunze, M Lewandowski, B Peters, K Schmuecker, H Rizzo, G Steinke, M Barlow, NR Contri, R Bhimji, W Zhu, RY LoSecco, JM Chevalier, N Kurup, A Clark, PJ Cottingham, WN Piemontese, L Foster, B Mackay, C Wilson, FF Abe, K Hearty, C Crosetti, G LeClerc, C Mattison, TS McKenna, JA Jacobsen, RG Sandrelli, F Devmal, S Thiessen, D Jolly, S McKemey, AK Blinov, VE Bukin, AD Bukin, DA Alsmiller, JRG Buzykaev, AR Lo Vetere, M Simi, G Golubev, VB Anjomshoaa, A Ivanchenko, VN Korol, AA Geld, TL Kravchenko, EA Onuchin, AP Serednyakov, SI Gabriel, TA Skovpen, YI Eschenburg, V Telnov, VI Yushkov, AN Macri, M Marker, CE Best, D Chao, M Kirkby, D Lankford, AJ Wang, P Brau, J Long, O Mandelkern, M McMahon, S Stoker, DP Arisaka, K Buchanan, C Chen, JC Monge, MR Chun, S MacFarlane, DB Prell, S Triggiani, G Frey, R Jayatilleke, S Mancinelli, G Meadows, BT Sokoloff, MD Barillari, T Bloom, P McGrath, P Dima, MO Passaggio, S Walsh, J Ford, WT Grauges, E Nauenberg, U Olivas, A Zhu, YS Rankin, P Roy, J Smith, JG van Hoek, WC McMahon, TT Seiden, A Blouw, J Harton, JL Lockman, WS Pastore, FC Krishnamurthy, M Soffer, A Toki, WH Wilson, RJ Eigen, G Zhang, J Romosan, A Brandt, T Ricciardi, S Brose, J Touramanis, C Colberg, T Dickopp, M Patrignani, C Dubitzky, RS Hauke, A Maly, E Haire, M Muller-Pfefferkorn, R Otto, S Stugu, B Salvatore, F Iwasaki, M Schubert, KR Schwierz, R Spaan, B Wilden, L Campagnari, C Judd, D Bernard, D Bonneaud, GR Brochard, F Cohen-Tanugi, J Ferrag, S Rahatlou, S Vaitsas, G T'Jampens, S Abrams, GS Thiebaux, C Paick, K Pia, MG Robutti, E Shafer, JB Santroni, A Tosi, S Morii, M Sinev, NB Bartoldus, R Brown, D Hamilton, R Turnbull, L Mallik, U Cochran, J Dahmes, B Crawley, HB Fischer, PA Lamsa, J Cahn, RN Strom, D Meyer, WT Rosenberg, EI Treadwell, E Davis, CL Grosdidier, G Hast, C Hocker, A Lacker, HM Hart, PA Laplace, S Lepeltier, V Colecchia, F Lutz, AM Kroeger, R Plaszczynski, S Clark, AR Allison, J Schune, MH Trincaz-Duvoid, S Wormser, G Bionta, RM Brigljevic, V Kuznetsova, N Dal Corso, F Wagoner, DE Lange, D Mugge, M van Bibber, K Wright, DM Bernet, R Bevan, AJ Gill, MS Fry, JR Gabathuler, E Gamet, R Vasileiadis, G Levi, ME George, M Levy, SL Kay, M Barlow, RJ Kadel, RW Richman, JD Boyd, JT Forti, AC Fullwood, J Albert, J Jackson, F Dorigo, A Lafferty, GD Savvas, N Weatherall, JH Khan, A Williams, JC Farbin, A Jawahery, A Verkerke, W Elmer, P Kadyk, J Lillard, V Galeazzi, F Olsen, J Roberts, DA Schieck, JR Blaylock, G Lavin, D Dallapiccola, C Flood, K Lu, C Hertzbach, SS Kofler, R Beringer, J Margoni, M Koptchev, VB Kerth, LT Moore, TB Staengle, H Willocq, S Muheim, F Miftakov, V Brau, B Cowan, R Sciolla, G Taylor, F Aspinwall, ML Yamamoto, RK Eisner, AM Milek, M Patel, PM Kolomensky, YG Turri, M Palombo, F Playfer, S Bauer, JM Michelon, G Pulliam, T Tinslay, J Morandin, M Posocco, M Rotondo, M Simonetto, F Schaffner, SF Stroili, R Torassa, E Lynch, G Bowerman, DA Voci, C Benayoun, M Briand, H Falbo, M Schalk, T Chauveau, J Ronan, MT David, P de la Vaissiere, C Del Buono, L Hamon, O Gritsan, AV Le Diberder, F Leruste, P Oddone, PJ Ocariz, J Borean, C Smith, AJS Roos, L Schmitz, RE Stark, J Manfredi, PF Speziali, VRV Dauncey, PD Frank, ED Gladney, L Guo, QH Panetta, J Reidy, J Angelini, C Bozzi, C Pripstein, M Batignani, G Qi, ND Bettarini, S Egede, U Bondioli, M Tumanov, A Anulli, F Gunawardane, NJW Varnes, EW Cavoto, G del Re, D Faccini, R Ferrarotto, F Ferroni, F Walkowiak, W Sanders, DA Lamanna, E Mazzoni, MA Shelkov, VG Nash, JA Baldini-Ferroli, R Morganti, S Piredda, G Tehrani, FS Serra, M Voena, C Grothe, M Christ, S Waldi, R Williams, DC Adye, T Sanders, P De Groot, N Calcaterra, A Franek, B Telnov, AV Geddes, NI Summers, DJ Gopal, GP Xella, SM Aleksan, R Emery, S Gaidot, A Smith, D Wilson, MG Ganzhur, SF Raven, G Giraud, PF Nief, JY de Monchenault, GH |
Issue Date: | 2002 |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Citation: | Physical Review Letters 88(24): Artn 241801, Jun 2002 |
Abstract: | We present results from a search for the flavor-changing neutral current decays B→Kℓ+ℓ- and B→K*ℓ+ℓ-, where ℓ+ℓ- is either an e+e- or μ+μ- pair. The data sample comprises 22.7×106 ϒ(4S)→BB̅ decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II B Factory. We obtain the 90% C.L. upper limits B(B→Kℓ+ℓ-)<0.51×10-6 and B(B→K*ℓ+ℓ-)<3.1×10-6, close to standard model predictions for these branching fractions. We have also obtained limits on the lepton-family-violating decays B→Ke±μ∓ and B→K*e±μ∓. |
Description: | This is the pre-print version of the Article. The official published version can be accessed from the links below. Copyright @ 2002 APS. |
URI: | http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v88/i24/e241801 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7559 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.241801 |
ISSN: | 0031-9007 |
Appears in Collections: | Electronic and Electrical Engineering Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers
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