Published August 27, 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Search for B0 decays to invisible final states and to νν-barγ

  • 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

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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

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Notes
(c) 2004 The American Physical Society
Collaborations
BABAR Collaboration