Erratum: Precision Mass Measurements on Neutron-Rich Rare-Earth Isotopes at JYFLTRAP: Reduced Neutron Pairing and Implications for r -Process Calculations [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120 , 262701 (2018)]

Vilen, M.; Kelly, J. M.; Kankainen, A.; Brodeur, M.; Aprahamian, A.; Canete, L.; Eronen, T.; Jokinen, A.; Kuta, T.; Moore, I. D.; Mumpower, M. R.; Nesterenko, D. A.; Penttilä, H.; Pohjalainen, I.; Porter, W. S.; Rinta-Antila, S.; Surman, R.; Voss, A.; Äystö, J.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.129901

In this Letter, we perform fits to

B \to P P

decays, where

B = {B^{0}, B^{+}, B_{s}^{0}}

and the pseudoscalar

P = {π, K}

, under the assumption of flavor SU(3) symmetry [

{SU (3)}_{F}

]. Although the fits to

Δ S = 0

or

Δ S = 1

decays individually are good, the combined fit is very poor: there is a

3.6 σ

disagreement with the

{SU (3)}_{F}

limit of the standard model (

{SM}_{{SU (3)}_{F}}

). One can remove this discrepancy by adding

{SU (3)}_{F}

-breaking effects, but 1000%

{SU (3)}_{F}

breaking is required. The above results are rigorous, group theoretically—no dynamical assumptions have been made. When one adds an assumption motivated by QCD factorization, the discrepancy with the

{SM}_{{SU (3)}_{F}}

grows to

4.4 σ

. Published by the American Physical Society2024

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