Department
Physics
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2017
Embargo Period
7-3-2018
Abstract
We report the result of a search for the decay B−→μ−ν¯μ. The signal events are selected based on the presence of a high momentum muon and the topology of the rest of the event showing properties of a generic B-meson decay, as well as the missing energy and momentum being consistent with the hypothesis of a neutrino from the signal decay. We find a 2.4 standard deviation excess above background including systematic uncertainties, which corresponds to a branching fraction of (B−→μ−ν¯μ)=(6.46±2.22±1.60)×10−7 or a frequentist 90% confidence level interval on the B−→μ−ν¯μ branching fraction of [2.9,10.7]×10−7. This result is obtained from a 711 fb−1 data sample that contains 772×106 BB¯ pairs, collected near the Υ(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e− collider.
Journal Title
arXiv
Comments
Preprint.
Also available https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.04123