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First Observation of the Decay Bs0 →K-μ+νμ and a Measurement of |Vub | / |Vcb |

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Abstract

The first observation of the suppressed semileptonic Bs0→K-μ+νμ decay is reported. Using a data sample recorded in pp collisions in 2012 with the LHCb detector, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2 fb-1, the branching fraction B(Bs0→K-μ+νμ) is measured to be [1.06±0.05(stat)±0.08(syst)]×10-4, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second one represents the combined systematic uncertainties. The decay Bs0→Ds-μ+νμ, where Ds- is reconstructed in the final state K+K-π-, is used as a normalization channel to minimize the experimental systematic uncertainty. Theoretical calculations on the form factors of the Bs0→K- and Bs0→Ds- transitions are employed to determine the ratio of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix elements |Vub|/|Vcb| at low and high Bs0→K- momentum transfer.

Original languageEnglish
Article number081804
Pages (from-to)1-11
Number of pages11
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume126
Issue number8
Early online date25 Feb 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Feb 2021

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Funding

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), MSHE (Russia), MICINN (Spain), SNSF and SER (Switzerland), NASU (Ukraine), STFC (United Kingdom), and DOE NP and NSF (US). 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 (US). 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), A*MIDEX, ANR, Labex P2IO, and OCEVU, and Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (France), Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS, CAS PIFI, CAS CCEPP, Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities, and Sci. and Tech. Program of Guangzhou (China), RFBR, RSF, and Yandex LLC (Russia), GVA, XuntaGal, and GENCAT (Spain), and the Royal Society and the Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom).

FundersFunder number
Agence Nationale de la Recherche
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Ministerul Educaţiei Naţionale
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
OCEVU
National Science Foundation
Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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
MSHE
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos
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
European Commission
Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
U.S. Department of Energy
Institutul de Fizică Atomică
CAS CCEPP
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Sociedad Española de Reumatología
European Research Council
EPLANET
Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego
CERN
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Science and Technology Facilities CouncilST/S000712/1
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme714536

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