Evidence for the decay $B_s^0\to \overline{K}{}^{\ast 0}{\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$

Abstract

A search for the decay $B_s^0\to \overline{K}{}^{\ast 0}{\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$ is presented using data sets corresponding to 1.0, 2.0 and 1.6 ${\text{fb}}^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity collected during $pp$ collisions with the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8 and 13 TeV, respectively. An excess is found over the background-only hypothesis with a significance of 3.4 standard deviations. The branching fraction of the $B_s^0\to \overline{K}{}^{\ast 0}{\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$ decay is determined to be $\mathcal{B}(B_s^0\to \overline{K}{}^{\ast 0}{\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-})=[2.9\pm 1.0(\text{stat})\pm 0.2(\text{syst})\pm 0.3(\text{norm})]\times 10^{-8}$, where the first and second uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. The third uncertainty is due to limited knowledge of external parameters used to normalise the branching fraction measurement.

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