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Phys Rev Lett. 2003 Nov 28;91(22):221802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.221802. Epub 2003 Nov 25.
We present evidence for the flavor-changing neutral current decay B-->Kl+l- and a measurement of the branching fraction for the related process B-->K l+l-, where l+l- is either an epsilon+epsilon- or a mu+mu- pair. These decays are highly suppressed in the standard model, and they are sensitive to contributions from new particles in the intermediate state. The data sample comprises 123 x 10(6) Upsilon(4S)-->B(-)B decays collected with the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II epsilon+epsilon- storage ring. Averaging over K() isospin and lepton flavor, we obtain the branching fractions B(B-->Kl+l-)=(0.65(+0.14)(-0.13)+/-0.04)x10(-6) and B(B-->Kl+l-)=(0.88(+0.33)(-0.29)+/-0.10)x10(-6), where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. The significance of the B-->Kl+l- signal is over 8sigma, while for B-->Kl+l- it is 3.3sigma.
我们给出了味改变中性流衰变B→Kl+l-的证据,并对相关过程B→Kl+l-的分支比进行了测量,其中l+l-为ε+ε-或μ+μ-对。这些衰变在标准模型中受到高度抑制,并且对中间态新粒子的贡献很敏感。数据样本包括在SLAC PEP-II正负电子对撞机上用BABAR探测器收集的123×10⁶个Υ(4S)→B⁻B衰变事例。对K()同位旋和轻子味进行平均,我们得到分支比B(B→Kl+l-)=(0.65(+0.14)(-0.13)±0.04)×10⁻⁶和B(B→Kl+l-)=(0.88(+0.33)(-0.29)±0.10)×10⁻⁶,其中不确定性分别为统计不确定性和系统不确定性。B→Kl+l-信号的显著性超过8σ,而B→Kl+l-的显著性为3.3σ。