Amplitude Analysis of the B0 →k∗0μ+μ- Decay

(LHCb Collaboration)

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Abstract

An amplitude analysis of the B0→K∗0μ+μ- decay is presented using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb-1 of pp collision data collected with the LHCb experiment. For the first time, the coefficients associated to short-distance physics effects, sensitive to processes beyond the standard model, are extracted directly from the data through a q2-unbinned amplitude analysis, where q2 is the μ+μ- invariant mass squared. Long-distance contributions, which originate from nonfactorizable QCD processes, are systematically investigated, and the most accurate assessment to date of their impact on the physical observables is obtained. The pattern of measured corrections to the short-distance couplings is found to be consistent with previous analyses of b- to s-quark transitions, with the largest discrepancy from the standard model predictions found to be at the level of 1.8 standard deviations. The global significance of the observed differences in the decay is 1.4 standard deviations.

Original languageEnglish
Article number131801
Pages (from-to)1-13
Number of pages13
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume132
Issue number13
Early online date28 Mar 2024
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 Mar 2024

Bibliographical note

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Funding

We are very grateful to Nico Gubernari, Méril Reboud, Danny van Dyk, and Javier Virto for the many helpful discussions. We express our gratitude to our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC. We thank the technical and administrative staff at the LHCb institutes. We acknowledge support from CERN and from the national agencies: CAPES, CNPq, FAPERJ, and FINEP (Brazil); MOST and NSFC (China); CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and MPG (Germany); INFN (Italy); NWO (Netherlands); MNiSW and NCN (Poland); MCID/IFA (Romania); MICINN (Spain); SNSF and SER (Switzerland); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE NP and NSF (USA). We acknowledge the computing resources that are provided by CERN, IN2P3 (France), KIT and DESY (Germany), INFN (Italy), SURF (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), GridPP (United Kingdom), CSCS (Switzerland), IFIN-HH (Romania), CBPF (Brazil), and Polish WLCG (Poland). We are indebted to the communities behind the multiple open-source software packages on which we depend. Individual groups or members have received support from ARC and ARDC (Australia); Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS, CAS PIFI, CAS CCEPP, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and Sci. and Tech. Program of Guangzhou (China); Minciencias (Colombia); EPLANET, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, ERC, and NextGenerationEU (European Union); A*MIDEX, ANR, IPhU, and Labex P2IO, and Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (France); AvH Foundation (Germany); ICSC (Italy); GVA, XuntaGal, GENCAT, Inditex, InTalent, and Prog. Atracción Talento, CM (Spain); SRC (Sweden); the Leverhulme Trust, the Royal Society, and UKRI (United Kingdom).

FundersFunder number
Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Australian Research Data Commons
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
National Science Foundation
Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules
Science and Technology Facilities Council
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
NextGenerationEU
Automotive Research Center
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Program of Guangzhou
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos
Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
International Council of Shopping Centers
CAS CCEPP
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS
Sociedad Española de Reumatología
European Research Council
EPLANET
Ministerstwo Edukacji i Nauki
Generalitat Valenciana
CERN
Nuclear Physics
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
National Natural Science Foundation of China

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