Search for decays of B-0 mesons into pairs of leptons: B-0 -> e(+)e(-), B-0 ->mu(+)mu(-), and B-0 -> e(+/-)mu(-/+) - art. no. 091102

Authors
Bergfeld, T Eisenstein, BI Ernst, J Gladding, GE Gollin, GD Hans, RM Johnson, E Karliner, I Marsh, MA Palmer, M Plager, C Sedlack, C Selen, M Thaler, JJ Williams, J Edwards, KW Janicek, R Patel, PM Sadoff, AJ Ammar, R Bean, A Besson, D Davis, R Kwak, N Zhao, X Anderson, S Frolov, VV Kubota, Y Lee, SJ Mahapatra, R O'Neill, JJ Poling, R Riehle, T Smith, A Stepaniak, CJ Urheim, J Ahmed, S Alam, MS Athar, SB Jian, L Ling, L Saleem, M Timm, S Wappler, F Anastassov, A Duboscq, JE Eckhart, E Gan, KK Gwon, C Hart, T Honscheid, K Hufnagel, D Kagan, H Kass, R Pedlar, TK Schwarthoff, H Thayer, JB von Toerne, E Zoeller, MM Richichi, SJ Severini, H Skubic, P Undrus, A Chen, S Fast, J Hinson, JW Lee, J Miller, DH Shibata, EI Shipsey, IPJ Pavlunin, V Cronin-Hennessy, D Lyon, AL Thorndike, EH Jessop, CP Marsiske, H Perl, ML Savinov, V Zhou, X Coan, TE Fadeyev, V Maravin, Y Narsky, I Stroynowski, R Ye, J Wlodek, T Artuso, M Ayad, R Boulahouache, C Bukin, K Dambasuren, E Karamov, S Majumder, G Moneti, GC Mountain, R Schuh, S Skwarnicki, T Stone, S Viehhauser, G Wang, JC Wolf, A Wu, J Kopp, S Mahmood, AH Csorna, SE Danko, I McLean, KW Marka, S Xu, Z Godang, R Kinoshita, K Lai, IC Schrenk, S Bonvicini, G Cinabro, D McGee, S Perera, LP Zhou, GJ Lipeles, E Pappas, SP Schmidtler, M Shapiro, A Sun, WM Weinstein, AJ Wurthwein, F Jaffe, DE Masek, G Paar, HP Potter, EM Prell, S Sharma, V Asner, DM Eppich, A Hill, TS Morrison, RJ Briere, RA Chen, GP Behrens, BH Ford, WT Gritsan, A Roy, J Smith, JG Alexander, JP Baker, R Bebek, C Berger, BE Berkelman, K Blanc, F Boisvert, V Cassel, DG Dickson, M Drell, PS Ecklund, KM Ehrlich, R Foland, AD Gaidarev, P Gibbons, L Gittelman, B Gray, SW Hartill, DL Heltsley, BK Hopman, PI Jones, CD Kreinick, DL Lohner, M Magerkurth, A Meyer, TO Mistry, NB Nordberg, E Patterson, JR Peterson, D Riley, D Thayer, JG Urner, D Valant-Spaight, B Warburton, A Avery, P Prescott, C Rubiera, AI Yelton, J Zheng, J Brandenburg, G Ershov, A Gao, YS Kim, DYJ Wilson, R Browder, TE Li, Y Rodriguez, JL Yamamoto, H
Citation
T. Bergfeld et al., Search for decays of B-0 mesons into pairs of leptons: B-0 -> e(+)e(-), B-0 ->mu(+)mu(-), and B-0 -> e(+/-)mu(-/+) - art. no. 091102, PHYS REV D, 6209(9), 2000, pp. 1102
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
ISSN journal
05562821 → ACNP
Volume
6209
Issue
9
Year of publication
2000
Database
ISI
SICI code
0556-2821(20001101)6209:9<1102:SFDOBM>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
We search for the decay of the B-0 meson into a pair of leptons in the supp ressed channels B-0-->e(+)e(-), B-0-->mu (+)mu (-) and in the lepton number violating channel B-0-->e(+/-)mu (-/+) in a sample of 9.7 x 10(6) B(B) ove r bar pairs recorded corded by CLEO detector. No signal is found, and the f ollowing upper limits on the branching fractions are established: B(B-0-->e (+)e(-))<8.3 x 10(-7), B(B-0-->mu (+)mu (-))<6.1 x 10(-7), B(B-0-->e(+/-)mu (-/+))<15 x 10(-7) at 90% confidence level. A new lower limit on the Pati- Salam leptoquark mass M-LQ>27 TeV is established at 90% confidence level.