Improved upper limits on the flavor-changing neutral current decays B→Kℓ+ℓ- and B→K*(892)ℓ+ℓ-

CLEO Collaboration

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Abstract

We have searched a sample of 9.6×106 B¯B events for the flavor-changing neutral current decays B→Kℓ+ℓ- and B→K*(892)ℓ+ℓ-. We subject the latter decay to the requirement that the dilepton mass mℓℓ exceed 0.5 GeV. There is no indication of a signal. We obtain the 90% confidence level upper limits B(B→Kℓ+ℓ-) < 1.7×10-6 and B(B→K*(892)ℓ+ℓ-)mℓℓ>0.5Gev< 3.3×10-6. We also obtain an upper limit on the weighted average 0.65B B(B→Kℓ+ℓ-)+0.35B(B→K*(892)ℓ+ℓ-)mℓℓ>0.5Gev < 1.5×10-6. The weighted-average limit is only 50% above the standard model prediction.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)181803
Number of pages1
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume87
Issue number18
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2001

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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