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Title: BICEP/Keck  XII: Constraints on axionlike polarization oscillations in the cosmic microwave background
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  1. Abstract A test of lepton flavor universality in B±K±μ+μ and B±K±e+e decays, as well as a measurement of differential and integrated branching fractions of a nonresonant B±K±μ+μ decay are presented. The analysis is made possible by a dedicated data set of proton-proton collisions at s=13TeV recorded in 2018, by the CMS experiment at the LHC, using a special high-rate data stream designed for collecting about 10 billion unbiased b hadron decays. The ratio of the branching fractions B(B±K±μ+μ) to B(B±K±e+e) is determined from the measured double ratio R(K) of these decays to the respective branching fractions of the B±J/ψK± with J/ψμ+μ and e+e decays, which allow for significant cancellation of systematic uncertainties. The ratio R(K) is measured in the range 1.1<q2<6.0GeV2 , whereqis the invariant mass of the lepton pair, and is found to be R(K)= 0.780.23+0.47 , in agreement with the standard model expectation R(K)1 . This measurement is limited by the statistical precision of the electron channel. The integrated branching fraction in the sameq2range, B(B±K±μ+μ)=(12.42±0.68)×108 , is consistent with the present world-average value and has a comparable precision. 
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