Search for B_s⁰→ μ⁺ μ^- decays at D0

Authors

• V. M. Abazov, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
• Kenneth A. Bloom, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
• Gregory R. Snow, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
• D0 Collaboration

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

11-1-2007

Comments

Published by American Physical Society. Phys. Rev. D76, 092001 (2007). http://prd.aps.org. Copyright © 2007 American Physical Society. Permission to use.

Abstract

We report results from a search for the decay B_s⁰ → μ⁺μ^- using 1.3 fb^-1 of pp̅ collisions at √s= 1.96 TeV collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider.We find two candidate events, consistent with the expected background of 1.24 ± 0.99, and set an upper limit on the branching fraction of Ɓ(B_s⁰ → μ⁺μ^-) < 1.2 x 10^-7 at the 95% C.L.