First Observation of the Decay Bs0 →K-μ+νμ and a Measurement of |Vub | / |Vcb |

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doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.081804

First Observation of the Decay B_s⁰ →K^-μ⁺ν_μand a Measurement of |V_ub | / |V_cb |

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Abstract

The first observation of the suppressed semileptonic B_s⁰ →K^-μ⁺ν_μ decay is reported. Using a data sample recorded in pp collisions in 2012 with the LHCb detector, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2 fb^-1, the branching fraction B(B_s⁰ →K^-μ⁺ν_μ ) is measured to be [1.06±0.05(stat)±0.08(syst)]×10^-4, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second one represents the combined systematic uncertainties. The decay B_s⁰ →D_s^-μ⁺ν_μ, where D_s^- is reconstructed in the final state K⁺K^-π^-, is used as a normalization channel to minimize the experimental systematic uncertainty. Theoretical calculations on the form factors of the B_s⁰→K^- and B_s⁰→D_s^-transitions are employed to determine the ratio of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix elements |V_ub|/|V_cb| at low and high B_s⁰→K^-momentum transfer.

Original language	English
Article number	081804
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	126
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.081804
Publication status	Published - 25 Feb 2021

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Funding Information:
We express our gratitude to our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC. We thank the technical and administrative staff at the LHCb institutes. We acknowledge support from CERN and from the national agencies CAPES, CNPq, FAPERJ, and FINEP (Brazil), MOST and NSFC (China), CNRS/IN2P3 (France), BMBF, DFG, and MPG (Germany), INFN (Italy), NWO (Netherlands), MNiSW and NCN (Poland), MEN/IFA (Romania), MSHE (Russia), MICINN (Spain), SNSF and SER (Switzerland), NASU (Ukraine), STFC (United Kingdom), and DOE NP and NSF (US). We acknowledge the computing resources that are provided by CERN, IN2P3 (France), KIT and DESY (Germany), INFN (Italy), SURF (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), GridPP (United Kingdom), RRCKI and Yandex LLC (Russia), CSCS (Switzerland), IFIN-HH (Romania), CBPF (Brazil), PL-GRID (Poland), and OSC (US). We are indebted to the communities behind the multiple open-source software packages on which we depend. Individual groups or members have received support from AvH Foundation (Germany), EPLANET, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, and ERC (European Union), A*MIDEX, ANR, Labex P2IO, and OCEVU, and Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (France), Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS, CAS PIFI, CAS CCEPP, Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities, and Sci. and Tech. Program of Guangzhou (China), RFBR, RSF, and Yandex LLC (Russia), GVA, XuntaGal, and GENCAT (Spain), and the Royal Society and the Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom).

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abstract = "The first observation of the suppressed semileptonic Bs0 →K-μ+νμ decay is reported. Using a data sample recorded in pp collisions in 2012 with the LHCb detector, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2 fb-1, the branching fraction B(Bs0 →K-μ+νμ ) is measured to be [1.06±0.05(stat)±0.08(syst)]×10-4, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second one represents the combined systematic uncertainties. The decay Bs0 →Ds-μ+νμ, where Ds- is reconstructed in the final state K+K-π-, is used as a normalization channel to minimize the experimental systematic uncertainty. Theoretical calculations on the form factors of the Bs0→K- and Bs0→Ds- transitions are employed to determine the ratio of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix elements |Vub|/|Vcb| at low and high Bs0→K- momentum transfer.",

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AU - Afsharnia, H.

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AU - Amhis, Y.

AU - An, L.

AU - Anderlini, L.

AU - Andreianov, A.

AU - Andreotti, M.

AU - Archilli, F.

AU - Artamonov, A.

AU - Artuso, M.

AU - Arzymatov, K.

AU - Aslanides, E.

AU - Atzeni, M.

AU - Audurier, B.

AU - Bachmann, S.

AU - Bachmayer, M.

AU - Back, J. J.

AU - Baker, S.

AU - Bifani, S.

AU - Calladine, R.

AU - Chatzikonstantinidis, G.

AU - Cooke, N.

AU - Duk, V.

AU - Farley, N.

AU - Griffith, P.

AU - Ilten, P.

AU - Parkinson, C. J.

AU - Plews, J.

AU - Popov, D.

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AU - Slater, M. W.

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