@article{3d534e589b5e41a295ee099374c3c407,
title = "Search for the lepton-flavour violating decays B (s) 0 → e ± μ ∓",
abstract = "A search for the lepton-flavour violating decays Bs 0 → e±μ∓ and B0 → e±μ∓ is performed based on a sample of proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb−1, collected with the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. The observed yields are consistent with the background-only hypothesis. Upper limits on the branching fraction of the Bs 0 → e±μ∓ decays are evaluated both in the hypotheses of an amplitude completely dominated by the heavy eigenstate and by the light eigenstate. The results are @@ℬ(Bs0→e)<6.3(5.4)×10−9 and @@ℬ(Bs0→e)<7.2(6.0)×10−9 at 95% (90%) confidence level, respectively. The upper limit on the branching fraction of the B0 → e±μ∓ decay is also evaluated, obtaining @@ℬ(B0→e)<1.3(1.0)×10−9 at 95% (90%) confidence level. These are the strongest limits on these decays to date.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].",
keywords = "B physics, Branching fraction, Flavor physics, Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments), Rare decay, MODEL",
author = "{The LHCb Collaboration} and R. Aaij and B. Adeva and M. Adinolfi and Z. Ajaltouni and S. Akar and J. Albrecht and F. Alessio and M. Alexander and {Alfonso Albero}, A. and S. Ali and G. Alkhazov and {Alvarez Cartelle}, P. and Alves, {A. A.} and S. Amato and S. Amerio and Y. Amhis and L. An and L. Anderlini and G. Andreassi and M. Andreotti and Andrews, {J. E.} and Appleby, {R. B.} and F. Archilli and P. d{\textquoteright}Argent and {Arnau Romeu}, J. and A. Artamonov and M. Artuso and E. Aslanides and M. Atzeni and G. Auriemma and M. Baalouch and I. Babuschkin and S. Bachmann and Back, {J. J.} and A. Badalov and C. Baesso and S. Baker and V. Balagura and W. Baldini and A. Baranov and Barlow, {R. J.} and C. Barschel and S. Barsuk and W. Barter and F. Baryshnikov and A. Bondar and S. Eidelman and P. Krokovny and L. Shekhtman and V. Vorobyev",
year = "2018",
month = mar,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/JHEP03(2018)078",
language = "English",
volume = "2018",
journal = "Journal of High Energy Physics",
issn = "1029-8479",
publisher = "Springer US",
number = "3",
}