Search for Bs,d->mumu at LHCb with 300 pb-1

Abstract

A search for the Bs->mumu and Bd->mumu decays is performed in ~300 pb-1 of pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV collected by the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The measured limit on the branching fraction of the Bs->mumu decay is BR(Bsmumu) < 1.6 10^{-8} at 95% confidence level, while that of the Bd->mumu decay is BR(Bd->mumu) < 5.1 x 10^{-9} at 95% confidence level. A combination with the 2010 dataset of LHCb yields a limit of BR(Bs->mumu) <1.5 x 10^{-8} at 95% confidence level.

Comments: To be published in the proceedings of the DPF-2011 Conference, Providence, RI, August 8-13, 2011; added one reference