Evidence for $B^{+}\to K^{+}ν\barν$ decays
Creators: name: Belle II Collaboration
name: Adachi, I.
name: Adamczyk, K.
name: Aggarwal, L.
name: Ahmed, H.
name: Aihara, H.
name: Akopov, N.
name: Aloisio, A.
name: Ky, N. Anh
name: Asner, D. M.
name: Atmacan, H.
name: Aushev, T.
name: Aushev, V.
name: Aversano, M.
name: Babu, V.
name: Bae, H.
name: Bahinipati, S.
name: Bambade, P.
name: Banerjee, Sw.
name: Bansal, S.
name: Barrett, M.
name: Baudot, J.
name: Bauer, M.
name: Baur, A.
name: Beaubien, A.
name: Becherer, F.
name: Becker, J.
name: Behera, P. K.
name: Bennett, J. V.
name: Bernlochner, F. U.
name: Bertacchi, V.
name: Bertemes, M.
name: Bertholet, E.
name: Bessner, M.
name: Bettarini, S.
name: Bhuyan, B.
name: Bianchi, F.
name: Bilka, T.
name: Biswas, D.
name: Bobrov, A.
name: Bodrov, D.
name: Bolz, A.
name: Borah, J.
name: Bozek, A.
name: Bračko, M.
name: Branchini, P.
name: Briere, R. A.
name: Browder, T. E.
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name: Bussino, S.
name: Campajola, M.
name: Cao, L.
name: Casarosa, G.
name: Cecchi, C.
name: Cerasoli, J.
name: Chang, M. -C.
name: Chang, P.
name: Cheaib, R.
name: Cheema, P.
name: Chekelian, V.
name: Chen, C.
name: Cheon, B. G.
name: Chilikin, K.
name: Chirapatpimol, K.
name: Cho, H. -E.
name: Cho, K.
name: Cho, S. -J.
name: Choi, S. -K.
name: Choudhury, S.
name: Cochran, J.
name: Corona, L.
name: Cremaldi, L. M.
name: Cunliffe, S.
name: Das, S.
name: Dattola, F.
name: De La Cruz-Burelo, E.
name: De La Motte, S. A.
name: De Nardo, G.
name: De Nuccio, M.
name: De Pietro, G.
name: de Sangro, R.
name: Destefanis, M.
name: Dey, S.
name: De Yta-Hernandez, A.
name: Dhamija, R.
name: Di Canto, A.
name: Di Capua, F.
name: Dingfelder, J.
name: Doležal, Z.
name: Jiménez, I. Domínguez
name: Dong, T. V.
name: Dorigo, M.
name: Dort, K.
name: Dossett, D.
name: Dreyer, S.
name: Dubey, S.
name: Dujany, G.
name: Ecker, P.
name: Eliachevitch, M.
name: Epifanov, D.
name: Fan, Y.
name: Feichtinger, P.
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name: Ferlewicz, D.
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name: Finocchiaro, G.
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name: Kim, K. -H.
name: Kim, Y. -K.
name: Kindo, H.
name: Kinoshita, K.
name: Kodyš, P.
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name: Kohani, S.
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Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We search for the rare decay $B^{+}\rightarrow K^{+}ν\barν$ in a $362\ \rm{fb}^{-1}$ sample of electron-positron collisions at the $Υ(4S)$ resonance collected with the Belle II detector at the SuperKEKB collider. We use the inclusive properties of the accompanying $B$ meson in $Υ(4S) \to B\kern 0.18em\overline{\kern -0.18em B}{}$ events to suppress background from other decays of the signal $B$ candidate and light-quark pair production. We validate the measurement with an auxiliary analysis based on a conventional hadronic reconstruction of the accompanying $B$ meson. For background suppression, we exploit distinct signal features using machine learning methods tuned with simulated data. The signal-reconstruction efficiency and background suppression are validated through various control channels. The branching fraction is extracted in a maximum likelihood fit. Our inclusive and hadronic analyses yield consistent results for the $B^{+}\rightarrow K^{+}ν\barν$ branching fraction of $\left[2.7\pm 0.5(\mathrm{stat})\pm 0.5(\mathrm{syst})\right] \times 10^{-5}$ and $\left[1.1^{+0.9}_{-0.8}(\mathrm{stat}){}^{+0.8}_{-0.5}(\mathrm{syst})\right] \times 10^{-5}$, respectively. Combining the results, we determine the branching fraction of the decay $B^{+}\rightarrow K^{+}ν\barν$ to be $\left[2.3 \pm 0.5(\mathrm{stat})^{+0.5}_{-0.4}(\mathrm{syst})\right]\times 10^{-5}$, providing the first evidence for this decay at $3.5$ standard deviations. The combined result is $2.7$ standard deviations above the standard model expectation.
description: 29 pages, 23 figures