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Published April 1, 2012 | Published
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Search for lepton-number violating processes in B^+ → h^-l^+l^+ decays

Abstract

We have searched for the lepton-number violating processes B^+→h^-ℓ^+ℓ^+ with h^-=K^-/π^- and ℓ^+=e^+/μ^+, using a sample of 471±3 million BB̅ events collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e^+e^- collider at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. We find no evidence for these decays and place 90%-confidence-level upper limits on their branching fractions B(B^+→π^-e^+e^+)<2.3×10^(-8), B(B^+→K^-e^+e^+)<3.0×10^(-8), B(B^+→π^-μ^+μ^+)<10.7×10^(-8), and B(B^+→K^-μ^+μ^+)<6.7×10^(-8).

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© 2012 American Physical Society. Received 22 February 2012; published 19 April 2012. We are grateful for the excellent luminosity and machine conditions provided by our PEP-II colleagues, and for the substantial dedicated effort from the computing organizations that support BABAR. The collaborating institutions wish to thank SLAC for its support and kind hospitality. This work is supported by DOE and NSF (USA), NSERC (Canada), CEA and CNRS-IN2P3 (France), BMBF and DFG (Germany), INFN (Italy), FOM (The Netherlands), NFR (Norway), MES (Russia), MICIIN (Spain), and STFC (United Kingdom). Individuals have received support from the Marie Curie EIF (European Union) and the A. P. Sloan Foundation (USA).

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