Search for the lepton flavour violating decay $B^{+}\to K^{+}{\mu }^{-}{\tau }^{+}$ using $B_{s2}^{\ast 0}$ decays

Abstract

A search is presented for the lepton flavour violating decay $B^{+}\to K^{+}{\mu }^{-}{\tau }^{+}$ using a sample of proton--proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13 TeV, collected with the LHCb detector and corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 9 fb${}^{-1}$. The $\tau$ leptons are selected inclusively, primarily via decays with a single charged particle. The four-momentum of the $\tau$ lepton is determined by using $B^{+}$ mesons from $B_{s2}^{\ast 0}\to B^{+}{K}^{-}$ decays. No significant excess is observed, and an upper limit is set on the branching fraction $B(B^{+}\to K^{+}{\mu }^{-}{\tau }^{+})<3.9\times 10^{-5}$ at 90% confidence level. The obtained limit is comparable to the world-best limit.

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