Strong Constraints on the b → sγ photon Polarisation from B0 → K*0e+e− Decays
Journal of High Energy Physics 2020
Kārlis Dreimanis, Collaboration LHCb

An angular analysis of the B0 → K*0e+e− decay is performed using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 fb−1 of pp collisions collected with the LHCb experiment. The analysis is conducted in the very low dielectron mass squared (q2) interval between 0.0008 and 0.257 GeV2, where the rate is dominated by the B0 → K*0γ transition with a virtual photon. The fraction of longitudinal polarisation of the K*0 meson, FL, is measured to be FL = (4.4 ± 2.6 ± 1.4)%, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. The AReT observable, which is related to the lepton forward-backward asymmetry, is measured to be AReT = −0.06 ± 0.08 ± 0.02. The A(2)T and AImT transverse asymmetries, which are sensitive to the virtual photon polarisation, are found to be A(2)T = 0.11 ± 0.10 ± 0.02 and AImT = 0.02 ± 0.10 ± 0.01. The results are consistent with Standard Model predictions and provide the world’s best constraint on the b → sγ photon polarisation.


Keywords
Rare decay Flavour Changing Neutral Currents Polarization B physics Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
DOI
10.1007/jhep12(2020)081
Hyperlink
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FJHEP12%282020%29081

The LHCb Collaboration, Aaij, R., Abellán Beteta, C., Dreimanis, K. ... [et al.] Strong Constraints on the b → sγ Photon Polarisation from B0 → K*0e+e− Decays. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020, Vol. 2020, No. 12, Article number 81. ISSN 1029-8479. Available from: doi:10.1007/jhep12(2020)081

Publication language
English (en)
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