Measurement of the phase difference between short- and long-distance amplitudes in the B+K+μ+μB^{+}\to K^{+}\mu^{+}\mu^{-} decay

Collaboration
Dec 20, 2016
25 pages
Published in:
  • Eur.Phys.J.C 77 (2017) 3, 161
  • Published: Mar 16, 2017
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CERN-EP-2016-301,
  • LHCB-PAPER-2016-045
Experiments:

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Abstract: (Springer)
A measurement of the phase difference between the short- and long-distance contributions to the B+ ⁣K+μ+μ{{B} ^+} \!\rightarrow {{{K}} ^+} {\mu ^+\mu ^-} decay is performed by analysing the dimuon mass distribution. The analysis is based on pp collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb1\mathrm{\,fb}^{-1} collected by the LHCb experiment in 2011 and 2012. The long-distance contribution to the B+ ⁣K+μ+μ{{B} ^+} \!\rightarrow {{{K}} ^+} {\mu ^+\mu ^-} decay is modelled as a sum of relativistic Breit–Wigner amplitudes representing different vector meson resonances decaying to muon pairs, each with their own magnitude and phase. The measured phases of the J/ψ{{J}/\psi } and ψ(2S)\psi {(2S)} resonances are such that the interference with the short-distance component in dimuon mass regions far from their pole masses is small. In addition, constraints are placed on the Wilson coefficients, C9\mathcal {C}_{9} and C10\mathcal {C}_{10} , and the branching fraction of the short-distance component is measured.
Note:
  • p p: colliding beams
  • B+: semileptonic decay
  • muon: pair production
  • mass spectrum: (muon+ muon-)
  • dimuon: mass spectrum
  • mass: pole
  • p p: scattering
  • meson resonance
  • resonance: width
  • Breit-Wigner