Search for the rare decays Bs -->mumu and Bd -->mumu
ArXiv 1103.2465 (2011)
Authors:
LHCb Collaboration, R Aaij, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, C Adrover, A Affolder, Z Ajaltouni, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, P Alvarez Cartelle, AA Alves Jr, S Amato, Y Amhis, J Amoraal, J Anderson, RB Appleby, O Aquines Gutierrez, L Arrabito, M Artuso, E Aslanides, G Auriemma, S Bachmann, DS Bailey, V Balagura, W Baldini, RJ Barlow, C Barschel, S Barsuk, A Bates, C Bauer, Th Bauer, A Bay, I Bediaga, K Belous, I Belyaev, E Ben-Haim, M Benayoun, G Bencivenni, R Bernet, M-O Bettler, M van Beuzekom, A Bien, S Bifani, A Bizzeti, PM Bjørnstad, T Blake, F Blanc, C Blanks, J Blouw, S Blusk, A Bobrov, V Bocci, A Bondar, N Bondar, W Bonivento, S Borghi, A Borgia, E Bos, TJV Bowcock, C Bozzi, T Brambach, J van den Brand, J Bressieux, S Brisbane, M Britsch, T Britton, NH Brook, H Brown, A Büchler-Germann, A Bursche, J Buytaert, S Cadeddu, JM Caicedo Carvajal, O Callot, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, A Camboni, P Campana, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, L Carson, K Carvalho Akiba, G Casse, M Cattaneo, M Charles, Ph Charpentier, N Chiapolini, X Cid Vidal, PJ Clark, PEL Clarke, M Clemencic, HV Cliff, J Closier, C Coca, V Coco, J Cogan, P Collins, F Constantin, G Conti, A Contu, M Coombes, G Corti, GA Cowan, R Currie, B D'Almagne, C D'Ambrosio, W Da Silva, P David, I De Bonis, S De Capua, M De Cian, F De Lorenzi, JM De Miranda, L De Paula, P De Simone, D Decamp, H Degaudenzi, M Deissenroth, L Del Buono, C Deplano, O Deschamps, F Dettori, J Dickens, H Dijkstra, M Dima, P Diniz Batista, S Donleavy, D Dossett, A Dovbnya, F Dupertuis, R Dzhelyadin, C Eames, S Easo, U Egede, V Egorychev, S Eidelman, D van Eijk, F Eisele, S Eisenhardt, L Eklund, Ch Elsasser, DG d'Enterria, D Esperante Pereira, L Estève, A Falabella, E Fanchini, C Färber, G Fardell, C Farinelli, S Farry, V Fave, V Fernandez Albor, M Ferro-Luzzi, S Filippov, C Fitzpatrick, F Fontanelli, R Forty, M Frank, C Frei, M Frosini, S Furcas, A Gallas Torreira, D Galli, M Gandelman, P Gandini, Y Gao, J-C Garnier, J Garofoli, L Garrido, C Gaspar, N Gauvin, M Gersabeck, T Gershon, Ph Ghez, V Gibson, VV Gligorov, C Göbel, D Golubkov, A Golutvin, A Gomes, H Gordon, M Grabalosa Gándara, R Graciani Diaz, LA Granado Cardoso, E Graugés, G Graziani, A Grecu, S Gregson, B Gui, E Gushchin, Yu Guz, T Gys, G Haefeli, SC Haines, T Hampson, S Hansmann-Menzemer, R Harji, N Harnew, PF Harrison, J He, K Hennessy, P Henrard, JA Hernando Morata, E van Herwijnen, A Hicheur, E Hicks, W Hofmann, K Holubyev, P Hopchev, W Hulsbergen, P Hunt, T Huse, RS Huston, D Hutchcroft, V Iakovenko, P Ilten, J Imong, R Jacobsson, M Jahjah Hussein, E Jans, F Jansen, P Jaton, B Jean-Marie, F Jing, M John, D Johnson, CR Jones, B Jost, F Kapusta, TM Karbach, J Keaveney, U Kerzel, T Ketel, A Keune, B Khanji, YM Kim, M Knecht, S Koblitz, A Konoplyannikov, P Koppenburg, A Kozlinskiy, L Kravchuk, G Krocker, P Krokovny, F Kruse, K Kruzelecki, M Kucharczyk, S Kukulak, R Kumar, T Kvaratskheliya, VN La Thi, D Lacarrere, G Lafferty, A Lai, RW Lambert, G Lanfranchi, C Langenbruch, T Latham, R Le Gac, J van Leerdam, J-P Lees, R Lefèvre, A Leflat, J Lefrançois, O Leroy, T Lesiak, L Li, YY Li, L Li Gioi, M Lieng, M Liles, R Lindner, C Linn, B Liu, G Liu, JH Lopes, E Lopez Asamar, N Lopez-March, J Luisier, B M'charek, F Machefert, IV Machikhiliyan, F Maciuc, O Maev, J Magnin, A Maier, S Malde, RMD Mamunur, G Manca, G Mancinelli, N Mangiafave, U Marconi, R Märki, J Marks, G Martellotti, A Martens, L Martin, A Martín Sánchez, D Martinez Santos, A Massafferri, Z Mathe, C Matteuzzi, M Matveev, V Matveev, E Maurice, B Maynard, A Mazurov, G McGregor, R McNulty, C Mclean, M Meissner, M Merk, J Merkel, M Merkin, R Messi, S Miglioranzi, DA Milanes, M-N Minard, S Monteil, D Moran, P Morawski, JV Morris, R Mountain, I Mous, F Muheim, K Müller, R Muresan, F Murtas, B Muryn, M Musy, J Mylroie-Smith, P Naik, T Nakada, R Nandakumar, J Nardulli, M Nedos, M Needham, N Neufeld, M Nicol, S Nies, V Niess, N Nikitin, A Oblakowska-Mucha, V Obraztsov, S Oggero, O Okhrimenko, R Oldeman, M Orlandea, A Ostankov, B Pal, J Palacios, M Palutan, J Panman, A Papanestis, M Pappagallo, C Parkes, CJ Parkinson, G Passaleva, GD Patel, M Patel, SK Paterson, GN Patrick, C Patrignani, C Pavel-Nicorescu, A Pazos Alvarez, A Pellegrino, G Penso, M Pepe Altarelli, S Perazzini, DL Perego, E Perez Trigo, A Pérez-Calero Yzquierdo, P Perret, A Petrella, A Petrolini, B Pie Valls, B Pietrzyk, D Pinci, R Plackett, S Playfer, M Plo Casasus, G Polok, A Poluektov, E Polycarpo, D Popov, B Popovici, C Potterat, A Powell, T du Pree, V Pugatch, A Puig Navarro, W Qian, JH Rademacker, B Rakotomiaramanana, I Raniuk, G Raven, S Redford, W Reece, AC dos Reis, S Ricciardi, K Rinnert, DA Roa Romero, P Robbe, E Rodrigues, F Rodrigues, C Rodriguez Cobo, P Rodriguez Perez, GJ Rogers, V Romanovsky, J Rouvinet, T Ruf, H Ruiz, G Sabatino, JJ Saborido Silva, N Sagidova, P Sail, B Saitta, C Salzmann, A Sambade Varela, M Sannino, R Santacesaria, R Santinelli, E Santovetti, M Sapunov, A Sarti, C Satriano, A Satta, M Savrie, D Savrina, P Schaack, M Schiller, S Schleich, M Schmelling, B Schmidt, O Schneider, A Schopper, M-H Schune, R Schwemmer, A Sciubba, M Seco, A Semennikov, K Senderowska, N Serra, J Serrano, B Shao, M Shapkin, I Shapoval, P Shatalov, Y Shcheglov, T Shears, L Shekhtman, O Shevchenko, V Shevchenko, A Shires, E Simioni, HP Skottowe, T Skwarnicki, AC Smith, K Sobczak, FJP Soler, A Solomin, P Somogy, F Soomro, B Souza De Paula, B Spaan, A Sparkes, E Spiridenkov, P Spradlin, F Stagni, O Steinkamp, O Stenyakin, S Stoica, S Stone, B Storaci, U Straumann, N Styles, M Szczekowski, P Szczypka, T Szumlak, S T'Jampens, V Talanov, E Teodorescu, F Teubert, C Thomas, E Thomas, J van Tilburg, V Tisserand, M Tobin, S Topp-Joergensen, MT Tran, A Tsaregorodtsev, N Tuning, A Ukleja, P Urquijo, U Uwer, V Vagnoni, G Valenti, R Vazquez Gomez, P Vazquez Regueiro, S Vecchi, JJ Velthuis, M Veltri, K Vervink, B Viaud, I Videau, X Vilasis-Cardona, J Visniakov, A Vollhardt, D Voong, A Vorobyev, An Vorobyev, H Voss, K Wacker, S Wandernoth, J Wang, DR Ward, AD Webber, M Whitehead, D Wiedner, L Wiggers, G Wilkinson, MP Williams, M Williams, FF Wilson, J Wishahi, M Witek, W Witzeling, SA Wotton, K Wyllie, Y Xie, F Xing, Z Yang, G Ybeles Smit, R Young, O Yushchenko, M Zavertyaev, L Zhang, WC Zhang, Y Zhang, A Zhelezov, L Zhong, E Zverev
Abstract:
A search for the decays Bs-->mumu and Bd-->mumu is performed with about 37
pb^{-1} of pp collisions at sqrt{s} = 7 TeV collected by the LHCb experiment at
the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The observed numbers of events are
consistent with the background expectations. The resulting upper limits on the
branching ratios are BR(Bs-->mumu) < 5.6 x 10^{-8} and BR(Bd-->mumu) <1.5 x
10^{-8} at 95% confidence level.
