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High Energy Physics - Experiment, hep-ex
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LHCb - Abteilung Hofmann
Abstract:
A measurement of the ratio of the branching fractions of the
$B^{+}\rightarrow K^{+}\mu^{+}\mu^{-}$ and $B^{+}\rightarrow K^{+}e^{+}e^{-}$
decays is presented using proton-proton collision data, corresponding to an
integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb$^{-1}$, recorded with the LHCb experiment at
center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 $\mathrm{\,Te\kern -0.1em V}$. The value of
the ratio of branching fractions for the dilepton invariant mass squared range
$1<q^{2}<6\mathrm{\,Ge\kern -0.1em V^2\!/}c^4$ is measured to be
$0.745^{+0.090}_{-0.074}\mathrm{\,(stat)}\,\pm0.036\mathrm{\,(syst)}$. This
value is the most precise measurement of the ratio of branching fractions to
date and is compatible with the SM prediction within $2.6$ standard deviations.
