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The first limit on invisible decays of $B_s$ mesons comes from LEP

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-06-06 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Motivated by the recent evidence for B+K+νˉνB^+\to K^+\bar{\nu} \nu decays at Belle II, we point out that fully invisible BdB_d and BsB_s meson decays are strongly constrained by LEP. A reinterpretation of an old inclusive ALEPH search for bb-hadron decays with large missing energy allows us to place the limits Br(Bdinvisible)<1.4×104\mathrm{Br}(B_d \rightarrow \mathrm{invisible}) < 1.4\times10^{-4} and Br(Bsinvisible)<5.6×104\mathrm{Br}(B_s \rightarrow \mathrm{invisible}) < 5.6\times10^{-4}, both at 90%90\% CL. The BdB_d limit is only a factor of 6 looser than the world-leading one provided by the BaBar collaboration, while the BsB_s one is the first limit in the literature on this decay mode. These results are relevant in the context of new light states coupled to quarks and exemplify the power of a future Tera-ZZ factory at FCC-ee to look for BB meson decays containing missing energy.

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@article{arxiv.2310.13043,
  title  = {The first limit on invisible decays of $B_s$ mesons comes from LEP},
  author = {Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez and Miguel Escudero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.13043},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

3.5 pages + references. v2: minor improvement on the analysis by using mean PDG value of B fragmentation ratios. Added appendix with recasted ALEPH bounds on partially invisible flavor-violating B decays such as B -> tau a and B -> rho a, with a being an axion-like particle. v3: matches published version. Added clarifications about the analysis. We now use the CLs method to derive the bounds