Measurement of Form-Factor-Independent Observables in the Decay B-0 -> K*(0)mu(+)mu(-)

LHCb collaboration

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Abstract

We present a measurement of form-factor-independent angular observables in the decay B-0 -> K*(892)(0)mu(+)mu(-). The analysis is based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb(-1), collected by the LHCb experiment in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. Four observables are measured in six bins of the dimuon invariant mass squared q(2) in the range 0.1 < q(2) < 19.0 GeV2/c(4). Agreement with recent theoretical predictions of the standard model is found for 23 of the 24 measurements. A local discrepancy, corresponding to 3.7 Gaussian standard deviations is observed in one q(2) bin for one of the observables. Considering the 24 measurements as independent, the probability to observe such a discrepancy, or larger, in one is 0.5%.
Original languageEnglish
Article number191801
Number of pages8
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume111
Issue number19
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Nov 2013
Externally publishedYes

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