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Search for Rare B-(s)(0) -> mu(+)mu(-)mu(+)mu(-) Decays

Aaij, R.
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Beteta, C. Abellan
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Adametz, A.
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2013
Physical Review Letters

A search for the decays B-s(0) -> mu(+)mu(-)mu(+)mu(-) and B-0 -> mu(+)mu(-)mu(+)mu(-) is performed using data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb(-1), collected with the LHCb detector in 2011. The number of candidates observed is consistent with the expected background and, assuming phase-space models of the decays, limits on the branching fractions are set: B(B-s(0) -> mu(+)mu(-)mu(+)mu(-)) <1.6(1.2) x 10(-8) and B(B-0 -> mu(+)mu(-)mu(+)mu(-)) <6.6(5.3) x 10(-9) at 95% (90%) confidence level. In addition, limits are set in the context of a supersymmetric model which allows for the B-(s)(0) meson to decay into a scalar ( S) and pseudoscalar particle (P), where S and P have masses of 2.5 GeV/c and 214.3 MeV/c, respectively, both resonances decay into mu(+)mu(-). The branching fraction limits for these decays are B(B-s(0) -> SP) <1.6(1.2) x 10(-8) and B(B-0 -> SP) <6.3(5.1) x 10(-9) at 95% (90%) confidence level.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.211801
Web of Science ID

WOS:000319277300005

Author(s)
Aaij, R.
Beteta, C. Abellan
Adametz, A.
Adeva, B.
Adinolfi, M.
Adrover, C.
Affolder, A.
Ajaltouni, Z.
Albrecht, J.
Alessio, F.
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Corporate authors
LHCb Collaboration
Date Issued

2013

Publisher

Amer Physical Soc

Published in
Physical Review Letters
Volume

110

Issue

21

Article Number

211801

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REVIEWED

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