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15 January 2021
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Search for the lepton flavour violating decay B+→K+μ−τ+ using B∗0s2 decays

Journal of High Energy Physics. 2020. Vol. 06. No. 129. P. 1-18.
K. Arzymatov, V. Belavin, A. Boldyrev, M. Borisyak, D. Derkach, Guschin M., N. Kazeev, A. Maevskiy, F. Ratnikov, A. Ryzhikov, A. Ustyuzhanin.


A search is presented for the lepton flavour violating decay B+→K+μ−τ+using a sample of proton--proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13 TeV, collected with the LHCb detector and corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 9 fb−1. The τ leptons are selected inclusively, primarily via decays with a single charged particle. The four-momentum of the τ lepton is determined by using B+ mesons from B∗0s2→B+K− decays. No significant excess is observed, and an upper limit is set on the branching fraction B(B+→K+μ−τ+)<3.9×10−5 at 90 confidence level. The obtained limit is comparable to the world-best limit.


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Keywords: Experimental High Energy Physics and Elementary Particles Physics
Publication based on the results of: Machine learning to check and improve the quality of data collected at the Large Hadron Collider and other particle physics experiments(2020)
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