Improved upper limit on flavor-changing neutral-current decays of thebquark

1 June 1987

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D

Vol. 35 (11) , 3533-3536
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.35.3533

Abstract

We report the results of a new search for flavor-changing neutral-current decays of the b quark and present a 90%-confidence-level upper limit for the branching fraction for B→

l^{+}

l^{-}

X of 1.2×

10^{- 3}

Keywords

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