Study of the rare decays of B 0 s and B0 mesons into muon pairs using data collected during 2015 and 2016 with the ATLAS detector

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dc.contributor.authorAaboud, M.
dc.contributor.authorAad, G.
dc.contributor.authorAbbott, B.
dc.contributor.authorAbbott, D.C.
dc.contributor.authorAbdinov, O.
dc.contributor.authorAbeloos, B.
dc.contributor.authorAbhayasinghe, D.K.
dc.contributor.authorAbidi, S.H.
dc.contributor.authorAbouZeid, O.S.
dc.contributor.authorAbraham, N.L.
dc.contributor.authorAlbert, Justin
dc.contributor.authorAnelli, Christopher R.
dc.contributor.authorChiu, Y. H.
dc.contributor.authorGhasemi Bostanabad, M.
dc.contributor.authorHamano, Kenji
dc.contributor.authorHill, Ewan Chin
dc.contributor.authorKeeler, Richard
dc.contributor.authorKowalewski, Robert
dc.contributor.authorLefebvre, Michel
dc.contributor.authoret al.
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-26T20:27:40Z
dc.date.available2020-10-26T20:27:40Z
dc.date.copyright2019en_US
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractA study of the decays B 0 s → μ+μ− and B0 → μ+μ− has been performed using 26.3 fb−1 of 13 TeV LHC proton-proton collision data collected with the ATLAS detector in 2015 and 2016. Since the detector resolution in μ+μ− invariant mass is comparable to the B 0 s -B0 mass difference, a single fit determines the signal yields for both decay modes. This results in a measurement of the branching fraction B(B0s→μ+μ−)=(3.2+1.1−1.0)×10−9 and an upper limit B(B0→μ+μ−)<4.3×10−10 at 95% confidence level. The result is combined with the Run 1 ATLAS result, yielding B(B0s→μ+μ−)=(2.8+0.8−0.7)×10−9 and B(B0→μ+μ−)<2.1×10−10 at 95% confidence level. The combined result is consistent with the Standard Model prediction within 2.4 standard deviations in the B(B0→μ+μ−)−B(B0s→μ+μ−) plane.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipWe thank CERN for the very successful operation of the LHC, as well as the support staff from our institutions without whom ATLAS could not be operated efficiently. We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWFW and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF and DNSRC, Denmark; IN2P3-CNRS, CEA-DRF/IRFU, France; SRNSFG, Georgia; BMBF, HGF, and MPG, Germany; GSRT, Greece; RGC, Hong Kong SAR, China; ISF and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; NWO, Netherlands; RCN, Norway; MNiSW and NCN, Poland; FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; MES of Russia and NRC KI, Russian Federation; JINR; MESTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZ S, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SERI, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; MOST, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America. In addition, individual groups and members have received support from BCKDF, CANARIE, CRC and Compute Canada, Canada; COST, ERC, ERDF, Horizon 2020, and Marie Sk lodowska-Curie Actions, European Union; Investissements d' Avenir Labex and Idex, ANR, France; DFG and AvH Foundation, Germany; Herakleitos, Thales and Aristeia programmes co- nanced by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF, Greece; BSF-NSF and GIF, Israel; CERCA Programme Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain; The Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom. The crucial computing support from all WLCG partners is acknowledged gratefully, in particular from CERN, the ATLAS Tier-1 facilities at TRIUMF (Canada), NDGF (Denmark, Norway, Sweden), CC-IN2P3 (France), KIT/GridKA (Germany), INFN-CNAF (Italy), NL-T1 (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), ASGC (Taiwan), RAL (U.K.) and BNL (U.S.A.), the Tier-2 facilities worldwide and large non-WLCG resource providers. Major contributors of computing resources are listed in ref.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAaboud, M., Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abbott, D. C., Abdinov, O., Abeloos, B., … Zwalinski, L. (2019). Study of the rare decays of B0 s and B0 mesons into muon pairs using data collected during 2015 and 2016 with the ATLAS detector. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019(4). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2019)098en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2019)098
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/12261
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of High Energy Physicsen_US
dc.subjectHadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)en_US
dc.titleStudy of the rare decays of B 0 s and B0 mesons into muon pairs using data collected during 2015 and 2016 with the ATLAS detectoren_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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