Improved limit on the branching fraction of the rare decay K0                         s→μ+                      μ-

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Improved limit on the branching fraction of the rare decay K⁰ _s→μ⁺ μ^-

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Abstract

A search for the decay KS0→μ+μ- is performed, based on a data sample of proton-proton collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3fb-1, collected by the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8TeV. The observed yield is consistent with the background-only hypothesis, yielding a limit on the branching fraction of B(KS0→μ+μ-)<0.8(1.0)×10-9 at 90%(95%) confidence level. This result improves the previous upper limit on the branching fraction by an order of magnitude.

Original language	English
Article number	678
Journal	European Physical Journal C
Volume	77
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5230-x
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2017
Externally published	Yes

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Improved limit on the branching fraction of the rare decay K⁰ _s→μ⁺ μ^-

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