Search for the Flavor-Changing Neutral Current Decays B⁺→ μ⁺μ^-K⁺ and B⁰→ μ⁺μ^-K^*0

Authors

T. Affolder, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California
Kenneth A. Bloom, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Collider Detector at Fermilab Collaboration

Date of this Version

10-25-1999

Comments

Published by American Physical Society. Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3378 (1999). http://prl.aps.org. Copyright © 1999 American Physical Society. Permission to use.

Abstract

We report on a search for the flavor-changing neutral current decays B⁺→ μ⁺μ^-K⁺ and i>B⁰→ μ⁺μ^-K^*0 using 88 pb^-1 of data from p̅p collisions at √s =1.8 TeV, collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab. Finding no evidence for these decays, we set upper limits on the branching fractions Ɓ(B⁺→ μ⁺μ^-K⁺) < 5.2 X 10^-6 and Ɓ(B⁺→ μ⁺μ^-K^*0) -6 at the 90% confidence level.