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Search for Lepton Number Violating Decays B+ -> pi(-)mu(+)mu(+) and B+ -> K-mu(+)mu(+)
Jian Wang, Olivier Schneider, Yi Zhang, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Christoph Frei, Frédéric Blanc, Tatsuya Nakada, Michel De Cian, Christophe Salzmann, Lei Zhang, Jessica Prisciandaro, Mark Tobin, Minh Tâm Tran, Niko Neufeld, Matthew Needham, Marc-Olivier Bettler, Greig Alan Cowan, Vladislav Balagura, Cédric Potterat, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Frédéric Guillaume Dupertuis, Julien Rouvinet, Barinjaka Rakotomiaramanana, Pierre Jaton, Joël Bressieux, Raluca Anca Muresan, Johan Luisier, Anne Keune, Albert Puig Navarro, Vincent Fave, Christophe Bauer, Mathias Oleg Knecht, Neal Gauvin, Géraldine Conti, Hans Dijkstra, Gerhard Raven, Peter Clarke, Frédéric Teubert, Giovanni Carboni, Victor Coco, Wenyu Zhang
2012
Journal paper
2012
Journal paper
Abstract
A search is performed for the lepton number violating decay B+ -> h(-)mu(+)mu(+), where h(-) represents a K- or a pi(-), using an integrated luminosity of 36 pb(-1) of data collected with the LHCb detector. The decay is forbidden in the standard model but allowed in models with a Majorana neutrino. No signal is observed in either channel and limits of B(B+ -> h(-)mu(+)mu(+)) < 5.4 X 10(-8) and B(B+ -> h(-)mu(+)mu(+)) < 5.8 X 10(-8) are set at the 95% confidence level. These improve the previous best limits by factors of 40 and 30, respectively.
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