Search for lepton flavor violating decays of BB mesons

Collaboration
Apr, 2002
8 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 65 (2002) 111102
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CLNS-02-1781,
  • CLEO-02-4
Experiments:
  • CESR-CLEO-II

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We have searched a sample of 9.6 million BB-bar events for the lepton-flavor-violating decays B --> h e^{+-} mu^{-+}, B^+ --> h^- e^+ e^+, B^+ --> h^- e^+ mu^+, and B^+ --> h^- mu^+ mu^+, where h is pi, K, rho, and K*(892), a total of sixteen modes. We find no evidence for these decays, and place 90% confidence level upper limits on their branching fractions that range from 1.0 to 8.3 X 10^{-6}.
  • 14.40.Nd
  • 11.30.Hv
  • 13.20.He
  • electron positron: colliding beams
  • electron positron: annihilation
  • Upsilon(10570): electroproduction
  • B: pair production
  • B: semileptonic decay
  • pi
  • K