Aaij, R. et al. In particular, in the RK ratio, the denominator is affected by larger statistical uncertainties than the numerator, owing to the larger number of non-resonant muonic signal candidates. The theory predicts that the different charged leptons, the electron, muon and tau, have . Other experiments should also be able to determine RH ratios, with the Belle II experiment in particular expected to have competitive sensitivity72. Serra, N., Silva Coutinho, R. & van Dyk, D. Measuring the breaking of lepton flavor universality in BK*+. Compared with the previous LHCb RK result11, the experimental method is essentially identical but the analysis uses an additional 4fb1 of data collected in 2017 and 2018. Search for the decays \({B}_{s}^{0}\to {\tau }^{+}{\tau }^{-}\) and B0+. To accommodate possible lepton universality violation in these partially reconstructed processes, which are underpinned by the same \(\overline{b}\to \overline{s}\) quark-level transitions as those of interest, the overall yield of such decays is left to vary freely in the fit. Nucl. For the electron modes, in addition to combinatorial background, other specific background decays contribute significantly in the signal region. Observables studied include rare meson decays, flavor oscillations of neutral mesons, rare lepton decays, and dipole moments. 8 Candidate invariant mass distributions. The y axis in each panel shows the number of candidates in an interval of the indicated width. {6\ }_{-\ 1.4}^{+\ 1.5}\ \pm 1.3)\times 1{0}^{-9}\ {c}^{4}\,{{{{\rm{GeV}}}}}^{-2}\ .\end{array}$$, \(\overline{b}\to \overline{s}{\ell }^{+}{\ell }^{-}\), \(\overline{b}\to \overline{s}{\tau }^{+}{\tau }^{-}\), \(B\to {H}_{c}(\to {K}^{+}{\ell }^{-}{\overline{\nu }}_{\ell }X){\ell }^{+}{\nu }_{\ell }Y\), $$\begin{array}{rcl}{R}_{K}&=&\frac{N({B}^{+}\to {K}^{+}{\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-})}{\varepsilon ({B}^{+}\to {K}^{+}{\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-})}\cdot \frac{\varepsilon ({B}^{+}\to {K}^{+}{e}^{+}{e}^{-})}{N({B}^{+}\to {K}^{+}{e}^{+}{e}^{-})}\\ &&\times \frac{\varepsilon ({B}^{+}\to J/\psi (\to {\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}){K}^{+})}{N({B}^{+}\to J/\psi (\to {\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}){K}^{+})}\cdot \frac{N({B}^{+}\to J/\psi (\to {e}^{+}{e}^{-}){K}^{+})}{\varepsilon ({B}^{+}\to J/\psi (\to {e}^{+}{e}^{-}){K}^{+})}\ ,\end{array}$$, \(\overline{B}\to \overline{K}{{{{\rm{\ell }}}}}^{+}{{{{\rm{\ell }}}}}^{-}\), \({\Lambda }_{b}^{0}\to p{K}^{-}{\ell }^{+}{\ell }^{-}\), \({B}_{d}^{0}\to {K}^{* }{\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}\), \({B}_{s}^{0}\to \phi {\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}\), \({\Lambda }_{b}^{0}\to \Lambda {\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}\), \({B}_{s}^{0}\to \ \ \phi {\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}\), \(\overline{B}\to \ \ {D}^{(*)}{\tau }^{-}{\overline{\nu }}_{\tau }\), \({{{\mathcal{B}}}}({B}_{c}^{+}\to J/\psi {\tau }^{+}{\nu }_{\tau })/{{{\mathcal{B}}}}{{{\mathcal{B}}}}({B}_{c}^{+}\to J/\psi {\mu }^{+}{\nu }_{\mu })\), \({\overline{B}}^{0}\to {D}^{* +}{\tau }^{-}{\overline{\nu }}_{\tau }\), \({\overline{B}}^{0}\to {D}^{* +}{\ell }^{-}{\overline{\nu }}_{\ell }\), \({{{\mathcal{B}}}}({\overline{B}}^{0}\to {D}^{* +}{\tau }^{-}{\overline{\nu }}_{\tau })/{{{\mathcal{B}}}}({\overline{B}}^{0}\to {D}^{* +}{\mu }^{-}{\overline{\nu }}_{\mu })\), \({B}^{0}\to \ \ {D}^{(*)}{\tau }^{-}{\overline{\nu }}_{\tau }\), \(\overline{B}\to \ \ {D}^{(*)}{\ell }^{-}{\overline{\nu }}_{\ell }\), \(\overline{B}\to {D}^{* }{\tau }^{-}{\overline{\nu }}_{\tau }\), \({{{\mathcal{B}}}}[\psi (3686)\to \ \ {\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}J/\psi ]\), \({{{\mathcal{B}}}}[J/\psi \to \ \ {\ell }^{+}{\ell }^{-}]\), \({B}_{s}^{0}\to {\tau }^{+}{\tau }^{-}\), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-021-01478-8. J. 12, 104 (2020). This estimate takes into account the spectrum of the relevant variables in the non-resonant decay modes of interest and is compatible with the estimated systematic uncertainties on RK. & Virto, J. Assessing lepton-flavour non-universality from BK* angular analyses. Phys. Lett. Energy Phys. Hirose, S. et al. Such background is reduced to a negligible level by particle identification criteria. To take into account the correlation between the selection efficiencies, the m(K+e+e) and m(K++) distributions of non-resonant candidates in each of the different trigger categories and data-taking periods are fitted simultaneously, with a common value of RK. The latter also tend to accumulate around specific values of m(K++). The selection requirements applied to the non-resonant and resonant decays are otherwise identical. 1, left). Descotes-Genon, S., Hofer, L., Matias, J. Rev. High. Performance of the ATLAS level-1 topological trigger in run 2. For each of the classifiers, a requirement is placed on the output variable to maximize the predicted significance of the non-resonant signal yield. $$\overline B_{\mathrm{s}}^0$$ Similar considerations apply to decays with other B hadrons, BH+ and BHe+e, where B= B+, B0, \({B}_{s}^{0}\) or \({\Lambda }_{b}^{0}\), and H can be, for example, an excited kaon, K*0, or a combination of particles such as a proton and charged kaon, pK. In addition, if the simulation is correctly calibrated, the measured rJ/ value will not depend on any variable. & Rusov, A. V. BsK and B(s)(K)+ decays at large recoil and CKM matrix elements. Electroweak Penguin Decays at LHCb - ResearchGate Other sources of systematic uncertainty, such as the calibration of B+ production kinematics, the trigger calibration and the determination of the particle identification efficiencies, contribute at the few-permille or permille level, depending strongly on the data-taking period and the trigger category. Extended Data Fig. The distributions are all normalised to unity. The B+ production kinematics are corrected using B+J/(+)K+ events. Test of lepton universality in beauty-quark decays - ResearchGate Long-distance effects in BK* from analyticity. Lett. Uncertainties on the data points are statistical only and represent one standard deviation. The experiment is designed to study decays of particles containing a beauty quark, a fundamental particle that has roughly four times the mass of the proton. However, the strong force does not couple directly to leptons, hence its effect on the B+K++ and B+K+e+e decays is identical. Capdevila, B., Descotes-Genon, S., Matias, J. Google Scholar. Jger, S. and Martin, J. Pion electronic decay and lepton universality License CC BY 4.0 Authors: Dinko Pocanic Abstract In common with a number of simple processes involving elementary particles, charged pion decays. (Bottom) the single ratio rJ/ relative to its average value \(< {r}_{J/\psi } >\) as a function of these variables. The dominant such background for the non-resonant and resonant modes comes from partially reconstructed B(0,+)K+(,0)e+e and B(0,+)J/(e+e)K+(,0) decays, respectively, where the pion is not included in the B+ candidate. Test of lepton universality in beauty-quark decays LHCb Collaboration Roel Aaij( NIKHEF, Amsterdam Show All(961) Mar 22, 2021 25 pages Published in: Nature Phys.18(2022)3,277-282 Published: Mar 15, 2022 e-Print: 2103.11769[hep-ex] DOI: 10.1038/s41567-021-01478-8 Report number: LHCb-PAPER-2021-004, CERN-EP-2021-042 Experiments: CERN-LHC-LHCb Phys. 1, right) and could have non-universal interactions, hence giving branching fractions of B+K++ decays with different leptons that differ from the SM predictions. Hiller, G. & Krger, F. More model-independent analysis of bs processes. Extended Data Table 1 Nonresonant and resonant mode. Internet Explorer). J. 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