Attention:The NSF Public Access Repository (PAR) system and access will be unavailable from 5:00 PM ET until 8:00 PM ET on Friday, September 11 due to maintenance. We apologize for the inconvenience.


Title: Improved constraint on the MINERνA medium energy neutrino flux using ν¯e−→ν¯e− data
More Like this
  1. We search for the rare decay B+K+νν¯ in a 362fb1 sample of electron-positron collisions at the ϒ(4S) resonance collected with the Belle II detector at the SuperKEKB collider. We use the inclusive properties of the accompanying B meson in ϒ(4S) B B¯ events to suppress background from other decays of the signal B candidate and light-quark pair production. We validate the measurement with an auxiliary analysis based on a conventional hadronic reconstruction of the accompanying B meson. For background suppression, we exploit distinct signal features using machine learning methods tuned with simulated data. The signal-reconstruction efficiency and background suppression are validated through various control channels. The branching fraction is extracted in a maximum likelihood fit. Our inclusive and hadronic analyses yield consistent results for the B+K+νν¯ branching fraction of [2.7±0.5(stat)±0.5(syst)]×105 and [ 1.10.8+0.9 (stat )0.5+0.8 (syst)] ×105 , respectively. Combining the results, we determine the branching fraction of the decay B+K+νν¯ to be [2.3±0.5(stat )0.4+0.5 (syst)]×105 , providing the first evidence for this decay at 3.5 standard deviations. The combined result is 2.7 standard deviations above the standard model expectation. Published by the American Physical Society2024 
    more » « less