Search for the rare hadronic decay $B_s^0\to p\bar{p}$

Abstract

A search for the rare hadronic decay $B_s^0\to p\bar{p}$ is performed using proton-proton collision data recorded by the LHCb experiment at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 6 fb${}^{-1}$. No evidence of the decay is found and an upper limit on its branching fraction is set at $\mathcal{B}(B_s^0\to p\bar{p})<4.4(5.1)\times 10^{-9}$ at 90% (95%) confidence level; this is currently the world's best upper limit. The decay mode $B^0\to p\bar{p}$ is measured with very large significance, confirming the first observation by the LHCb experiment in 2017. The branching fraction is determined to be $\mathcal{B}(B^0\to p\bar{p})=(1.27\pm 0.15\pm 0.05\pm 0.04)\times 10^{-8}$, where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second is systematic and the third is due to the external branching fraction of the normalization channel $B^0\to K^{+}{\pi }^{-}$. The combination of the two LHCb measurements of the $B^0\to p\bar{p}$ branching fraction yields $\mathcal{B}(B^0\to p\bar{p})=(1.27\pm 0.13\pm 0.05\pm 0.03)\times 10^{-8}$.

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