Abstract:
An amplitude analysis of the <a:math xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><a:mrow><a:msup><a:mrow><a:mi>B</a:mi></a:mrow><a:mrow><a:mn>0</a:mn></a:mrow></a:msup><a:mo stretchy="false">→</a:mo><a:msup><a:mrow><a:mi>K</a:mi></a:mrow><a:mrow><a:mo>*</a:mo><a:mn>0</a:mn></a:mrow></a:msup><a:msup><a:mrow><a:mi>μ</a:mi></a:mrow><a:mrow><a:mo>+</a:mo></a:mrow></a:msup><a:msup><a:mrow><a:mi>μ</a:mi></a:mrow><a:mrow><a:mo>−</a:mo></a:mrow></a:msup></a:mrow></a:math> decay is presented using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of <d:math xmlns:d="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><d:mrow><d:mn>4.7</d:mn><d:mtext> </d:mtext><d:mtext> </d:mtext><d:msup><d:mrow><d:mi>fb</d:mi></d:mrow><d:mrow><d:mo>−</d:mo><d:mn>1</d:mn></d:mrow></d:msup></d:mrow></d:math> of <f:math xmlns:f="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><f:mi>p</f:mi><f:mi>p</f:mi></f:math> 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 <h:math xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><h:msup><h:mi>q</h:mi><h:mn>2</h:mn></h:msup></h:math>-unbinned amplitude analysis, where <j:math xmlns:j="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><j:msup><j:mi>q</j:mi><j:mn>2</j:mn></j:msup></j:math> is the <l:math xmlns:l="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><l:msup><l:mi>μ</l:mi><l:mo>+</l:mo></l:msup><l:msup><l:mi>μ</l:mi><l:mo>−</l:mo></l:msup></l:math> 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 <n:math xmlns:n="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><n:mi>b</n:mi></n:math>- to <p:math xmlns:p="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><p:mi>s</p:mi></p:math>-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. © 2024 CERN, for the LHCb Collaboration 2024 CERN
Tópico:
Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies