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Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 201801 (2009) [8 pages]

Search for the Decays B(s)0e+μ- and B(s)0e+e- in CDF Run II

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T. Aaltonen et al. CDF Collaboration
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Received 23 January 2009; published 21 May 2009

We report results from a search for the lepton flavor violating decays Bs0e+μ- and B0e+μ-, and the flavor-changing neutral-current decays Bs0e+e- and B0e+e-. The analysis uses data corresponding to 2  fb-1 of integrated luminosity of pp̅ collisions at s=1.96  TeV collected with the upgraded Collider Detector (CDF II) at the Fermilab Tevatron. The observed number of B0 and Bs0 candidates is consistent with background expectations. The resulting Bayesian upper limits on the branching ratios at 90% credibility level are B(Bs0e+μ-)<2.0×10-7, B(B0e+μ-)<6.4×10-8, B(Bs0e+e-)<2.8×10-7, and B(B0e+e-)<8.3×10-8. From the limits on B(B(s)0e+μ-), the following lower bounds on the Pati-Salam leptoquark masses are also derived: MLQ(Bs0e+μ-)>47.8  TeV/c2, and MLQ(B0e+μ-)>59.3  TeV/c2, at 90% credibility level.

© 2009 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.201801
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.201801
PACS:
13.20.He, 11.30.Hv, 12.15.Mm, 12.60.−i