Search for Lepton-Flavor Violating Decays B+ → K+μ±e∓

Peter Clarke; Robert Currie; Stephan Eisenhardt; Silvia Gambetta; Franz Muheim; Matthew Needham; Marco Pappagallo; Mark Williams; LHCb Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.241802

Search for Lepton-Flavor Violating Decays B⁺ → K⁺μ±e∓

Peter Clarke, Robert Currie, Stephan Eisenhardt, Silvia Gambetta, Franz Muheim, Matthew Needham, Marco Pappagallo, Mark Williams, LHCb Collaboration

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Abstract

A search for the lepton-flavor violating decays B+→K+μ±e∓ is performed using a sample of proton-proton collision data, collected with the LHCb experiment at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb-1. No significant signal is observed, and upper limits on the branching fractions are set as B(B+→K+μ-e+)<7.0(9.5)×10-9 and B(B+→K+μ+e-)<6.4(8.8)×10-9 at 90% (95)% confidence level. The results improve the current best limits on these decays by more than one order of magnitude.

Original language	English
Article number	241802
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	123
Issue number	24
Early online date	12 Dec 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.241802
Publication status	Published - 13 Dec 2019

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