Test of lepton-flavor universality in ${B\to K^\ast\ell^+\ell^-}$ decays at Belle
hep-ex
/ Authors
Belle Collaboration, S. Wehle, I. Adachi, K. Adamczyk, H. Aihara, D. M. Asner, H. Atmacan, V. Aulchenko, T. Aushev, R. Ayad
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V. Babu, P. Behera, M. Berger, V. Bhardwaj, J. Biswal, A. Bozek, M. Bračko, T. E. Browder, M. Campajola, L. Cao, M. -C. Chang, A. Chen, B. G. Cheon, K. Chilikin, K. Cho, Y. Choi, S. Choudhury, D. Cinabro, S. Cunliffe, N. Dash, G. De Nardo, F. Di Capua, S. Dubey, S. Eidelman
/ Abstract
We present a measurement of $R_{K^{\ast}}$, the branching fraction ratio ${{\cal B}(B\to K^\ast μ^+ μ^-)}$/ ${{\cal B}(B\to K^\ast e^+ e^-)}$, for both charged and neutral $B$ mesons. The ratio for the charged case, $R_{K{^{\ast +}}}$, is the first measurement ever performed. In addition, we report absolute branching fractions for the individual modes in bins of the squared dilepton invariant mass, $q^2$. The analysis is based on a data sample of $711~\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$, containing $772\times 10^{6}$ $B\bar B$ events, recorded at the $Υ(4S)$ resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy $e^+e^-$ collider. The obtained results are consistent with Standard Model expectations.