Published August 27, 2004
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Journal article
Search for B0 decays to invisible final states and to νν-barγ
Creators
- 1. Laboratoire de Physique des Particules, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux (France)
- 2. Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Bari and INFN, I-70126 Bari (Italy)
- 3. Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing 100039 (China)
- 4. Institute of Physics, University of Bergen, N-5007 Bergen (Norway)
Description
We establish upper limits on branching fractions for B0 decays to final states where the decay products are purely invisible (i.e., no observable final state particles) and for B0 decays to νν-barγ. Within the standard model, these decays have branching fractions that are below current experimental sensitivity, but various models of physics beyond the standard model predict significant contributions from these channels. Using 88.5x106 BB-bar pairs collected at the Υ(4S) resonance by the BABAR experiment at the PEP-II e+e- storage ring at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, we establish upper limits at the 90% confidence level of 22x10-5 for the branching fraction of B0→invisible and 4.7x10-5 for the branching fraction of B0→νν-barγ
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.091802;
- arXiv
- arXiv:hep-ex/0405071v1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review Letters
- Journal Volume
- 93
- Journal Issue
- 9
- Journal Page Range
- p. 091802-091802.7
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- CODEN
- PRLTAO
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 36023586
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANTI-B NEUTRAL MESONS; ANTINEUTRINOS; B NEUTRAL MESONS; BRANCHING RATIO; DAUGHTER PRODUCTS; GAMMA RADIATION; LEPTONIC DECAY; NEUTRINOS; PAIR PRODUCTION; PEP STORAGE RINGS; RESONANCE; SENSITIVITY; STANDARD MODEL; STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER
- Descriptors DEC
- ANTILEPTONS; ANTIMATTER; ANTIMESONS; ANTIPARTICLES; B MESONS; B NEUTRAL MESONS; BASIC INTERACTIONS; BEAUTY MESONS; BEAUTY PARTICLES; BOSONS; DECAY; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; HADRONS; INTERACTIONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; ISOTOPES; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATTER; MESONS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NEUTRINOS; PARTICLE DECAY; PARTICLE MODELS; PARTICLE PRODUCTION; PSEUDOSCALAR ANTIMESONS; PSEUDOSCALAR MESONS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; RADIATIONS; STORAGE RINGS; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS; US DOE; US ERDA; US ORGANIZATIONS; WEAK INTERACTIONS; WEAK PARTICLE DECAY
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2004 The American Physical Society
- Collaborations
- BABAR Collaboration