Evidence for the Rare Decay Σ+ →pμ+μ-

LHCb Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.221803

Evidence for the Rare Decay Σ+ →pμ+μ-

LHCb Collaboration

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A search for the rare decay Σ+→pμ+μ- is performed using pp collision data recorded by the LHCb experiment at center-of-mass energies s=7 and 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb-1. An excess of events is observed with respect to the background expectation, with a signal significance of 4.1 standard deviations. No significant structure is observed in the dimuon invariant mass distribution, in contrast with a previous result from the HyperCP experiment. The measured Σ+→pμ+μ- branching fraction is (2.2-1.3+1.8)×10-8, where statistical and systematic uncertainties are included, which is consistent with the standard model prediction.

Original language	English
Article number	221803
Pages (from-to)	1-10
Number of pages	10
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	120
Issue number	22
Early online date	31 May 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.221803
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2018

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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); MEN/ IFA (Romania); MinES and FASO (Russia); MinECo (Spain); SNSF and SER (Switzerland); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); 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), RRCKI and Yandex LLC (Russia), CSCS (Switzerland), IFIN-HH (Romania), CBPF (Brazil), PL-GRID (Poland) and OSC (USA). 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 AvH Foundation (Germany), EPLANET, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and ERC (European Union), ANR, Labex P2IO and OCEVU, and Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (France), RFBR, RSF and Yandex LLC (Russia), GVA, XuntaGal and GENCAT (Spain), Herchel Smith Fund, the Royal Society, the English-Speaking Union and the Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom).

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Not added	ST/J004332/1, ST/N000250/1, 1681016, ST/K001604/1, ST/K003410/1, 1796908, ST/H000992/1, ST/N000463/1, ST/N000455/1, ST/L003163/1
AvH Foundation
CNRS/IN2P3
EPLANET
FASO
Herchel Smith Fund
MinES
OCEVU
Yandex LLC
National Science Foundation
School of Energy Resources, University of Wyoming
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
CERN
Science and Technology Facilities Council	LHCb, GRIDPP, LHCb Upgrades, ST/N000242/1
Leverhulme Trust
Royal Society
English-Speaking Union
European Commission
European Research Council
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung	166208
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Russian Foundation for Basic Research
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Generalitat Valenciana
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Ministry of Science and Technology
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos
Russian Science Foundation
Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Institutul de Fizică Atomică

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