Measurement of the Bs to mu mu branching fraction and search for B0 to mu mu with the CMS Experiment

Abstract : Results are presented from a search for the rare decays Bs to mu mu and B0 to mu mu in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 and 8 TeV, with data samples corresponding to integrated luminosities of 5 and 20 inverse femtobarns, respectively, collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. An unbinned maximum-likelihood fit to the dimuon invariant mass distribution gives a branching fraction B(Bs to mu mu) = (3 +1.0/-0.9)E-9, where the uncertainty includes both statistical and systematic contributions. An excess of Bs to mu mu events with respect to background is observed with a significance of 4.3 standard deviations. For the decay B0 to mu mu an upper limit of B(B0 to mu mu) < 1.1E-9 at the 95% confidence level is determined. Both results are in agreement with the expectations from the standard model.
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S. Chatrchyan, M. Besançon, F. Couderc, M. Dejardin, D. Denegri, et al.. Measurement of the Bs to mu mu branching fraction and search for B0 to mu mu with the CMS Experiment. Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society, 2013, 111, pp.101804. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.101804⟩. ⟨in2p3-00846337⟩

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