arxiv: 1512.00322 · v2 · submitted 2015-12-01 · ✦ hep-ex
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Search for the lepton-flavour violating decay D⁰ to e^pmμ^mp
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A search for the lepton-flavour violating decay $D^0 \to e^\pm \mu^\mp$ is made with a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of $7$ TeV and $8$ TeV, collected by the LHCb experiment. Candidate $D^0$ mesons are selected using the decay $D^{*+} \to D^0 \pi^+$ and the $D^0 \to e^\pm \mu^\mp$ branching fraction is measured using the decay mode $D^0 \to K^-\pi^+$ as a normalisation channel. No significant excess of $D^0 \to e^\pm \mu^\mp$ candidates over the expected background is seen, and a limit is set on the branching fraction, $\mathcal{B}(D^0 \to e^\pm \mu^\mp) < 1.3 \times 10^{-8}$, at 90 % confidence level. This is an order of magnitude lower than the previous limit and it further constrains the parameter space in some leptoquark models and in supersymmetric models with R-parity violation.
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