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A search for flavour-changing neutral currents in b decay at petra

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>1983
<mark>Journal</mark>Physics Letters B
Issue number1-3
Volume132
Number of pages5
Pages (from-to)241-245
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

A study of the reaction e+e− → μ+μ−+ anything at a mean centre of mass energy of ≈35 GeV has been carried out to investigate the possible flavour-changing neutral current decay of the b quark. An upper limit of 0.7% at 95% CL has been placed on the branching ratio for this process. This limit conflicts with the predictions of a five-quark model (without top) which assigns the b quark to left- and right-handed singlets.