Differential branching fraction and angular analysis of Λ0 b → Λμ+μ− decays

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,Aaij R.,Adeva B.,Adinolfi M.,Affolder A.,Ajaltouni Z.,Akar S.,Albrecht J.,Alessio F.,Alexander M.,Ali S.,Alkhazov G.,Alvarez Cartelle P.,Alves A. A.,Amato S.,Amerio S.,Amhis Y.,An L.,Anderlini L.,Anderson J.,Andreotti M.,Andrews J. E.,Appleby R. B.,Aquines Gutierrez O.,Archilli F.,Artamonov A.,Artuso M.,Aslanides E.,Auriemma G.,Baalouch M.,Bachmann S.,Back J. J.,Badalov A.,Baesso C.,Baldini W.,Barlow R. J.,Barschel C.,Barsuk S.,Barter W.,Batozskaya V.,Battista V.,Bay A.,Beaucourt L.,Beddow J.,Bedeschi F.,Bediaga I.,Bel L. J.,Belyaev I.,Ben-Haim E.,Bencivenni G.,Benson S.,Benton J.,Berezhnoy A.,Bernet R.,Bertolin A.,Bettler M.-O.,van Beuzekom M.,Bien A.,Bifani S.,Bird T.,Bizzeti A.,Blake T.,Blanc F.,Blouw J.,Blusk S.,Bocci V.,Bondar A.,Bondar N.,Bonivento W.,Borghi S.,Borsato M.,Bowcock T. J. V.,Bowen E.,Bozzi C.,Braun S.,Brett D.,Britsch M.,Britton T.,Brodzicka J.,Brook N. H.,Bursche A.,Buytaert J.,Cadeddu S.,Calabrese R.,Calvi M.,Calvo Gomez M.,Campana P.,Campora Perez D.,Capriotti L.,Carbone A.,Carboni G.,Cardinale R.,Cardini A.,Carniti P.,Carson L.,Carvalho Akiba K.,Casanova Mohr R.,Casse G.,Cassina L.,Castillo Garcia L.,Cattaneo M.,Cauet Ch.,Cavallero G.,Cenci R.,Charles M.,Charpentier Ph.,Chefdeville M.,Chen S.,Cheung S.-F.,Chiapolini N.,Chrzaszcz M.,Cid Vidal X.,Ciezarek G.,Clarke P. E. L.,Clemencic M.,Cliff H. V.,Closier J.,Coco V.,Cogan J.,Cogneras E.,Cogoni V.,Cojocariu L.,Collazuol G.,Collins P.,Comerma-Montells A.,Contu A.,Cook A.,Coombes M.,Coquereau S.,Corti G.,Corvo M.,Counts I.,Couturier B.,Cowan G. A.,Craik D. C.,Crocombe A. C.,Torres M. Cruz,Cunliffe S.,Currie R.,D’Ambrosio C.,Dalseno J.,David P. N. Y.,Davis A.,De Bruyn K.,De Capua S.,De Cian M.,De Miranda J. 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Abstract

Abstract The differential branching fraction of the rare decay Λ b 0  → Λμ + μ is measured as a function of q 2, the square of the dimuon invariant mass. The analysis is performed using proton-proton collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb−1, collected by the LHCb experiment. Evidence of signal is observed in the q 2 region below the square of the J/ψ mass. Integrating over 15 < q 2 < 20 GeV2 /c 4 the differential branching fraction is measured as $$ \mathrm{d}\mathrm{\mathcal{B}}\left({\varLambda}_b^0\to \varLambda {\mu}^{+}{\mu}^{-}\right)/d{q}^2=\left({1.18}_{-0.08}^{+0.09}\pm 0.03\pm 0.27\right)\times {10}^{-7}{\left({\mathrm{GeV}}^2/{c}^4\right)}^{-1}, $$ d Λ b 0 Λ μ + μ / d q 2 = 1.18 0.08 + 0.09 ± 0.03 ± 0.27 × 10 7 GeV 2 / c 4 1 , where the uncertainties are statistical, systematic and due to the normalisation mode, Λ b 0  → J/ψΛ, respectively. In the q 2 intervals where the signal is observed, angular distributions are studied and the forward-backward asymmetries in the dimuon (A FB ) and hadron (A FB h ) systems are measured for the first time. In the range 15 < q 2 < 20 GeV2 /c 4 they are found to be $$ \begin{array}{l}{A}_{\mathrm{FB}}^{\ell }=-0.05\pm 0.09\left(\mathrm{stat}\right)\pm 0.03\left(\mathrm{syst}\right)\;\mathrm{and}\hfill \\ {}{A}_{\mathrm{FB}}^h=-0.29\pm 0.07\left(\mathrm{stat}\right)\pm 0.03\left(\mathrm{syst}\right).\hfill \end{array} $$ A F B = 0.05 ± 0.09 stat ± 0.03 syst and A F B h = 0.29 ± 0.07 stat ± 0.03 syst .

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Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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