Measurement of the Bs to mu mu branching fraction and search for B0 to mu mu with the CMS Experiment
S. Chatrchyan
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M. Besançon
(1)
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F. Couderc
(1)
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M. Dejardin
(1)
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D. Denegri
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B. Fabbro
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J.L. Faure
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F. Ferri
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S. Ganjour
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A. Givernaud
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P. Gras
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G. Hamel de Monchenault
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P. Jarry
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E. Locci
(1)
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J. Malcles
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L. Millischer
(1)
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A. Nayak
(1)
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J. Rander
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A. Rosowsky
(1)
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M. Titov
(1)
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S. Baffioni
(2)
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F. Beaudette
(2)
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L. Benhabib
(2)
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M. Bluj
(2)
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Pierre Busson
(2)
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C. Charlot
(2)
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N. Daci
(2)
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T. Dahms
(2)
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M. Dalchenko
(2)
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L. Dobrzynski
(2)
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A. Florent
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R. Granier de Cassagnac
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M. Haguenauer
(2)
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P. Mine
(2)
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C. Mironov
(2)
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I.N. Naranjo
(2)
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M. Nguyen
(2)
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C. Ochando
(2)
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P. Paganini
(2)
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D. Sabes
(2)
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R. Salerno
(2)
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Y. Sirois
(2)
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C. Veelken
(2)
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A. Zabi
(2)
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J.-L. Agram
(3)
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J. Andrea
(3)
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D. Bloch
(3)
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J.-M. Brom
(3)
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E.C. Chabert
(3)
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C. Collard
(3)
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E. Conte
(3)
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F. Drouhin
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J.-C. Fontaine
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D. Gele
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U. Goerlach
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C. Goetzmann
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P. Juillot
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A.-C. Le Bihan
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P. van Hove
(3)
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S. Gadrat
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S. Beauceron
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N. Beaupere
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G. Boudoul
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S. Brochet
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J. Chasserat
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R. Chierici
(5)
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D. Contardo
(5)
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P. Depasse
(5)
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H. El Mamouni
(5)
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J. Fan
(5)
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J. Fay
(5)
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S. Gascon
(5)
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M. Gouzevitch
(5)
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B. Ille
(5)
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T. Kurca
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M. Lethuillier
(5)
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L. Mirabito
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S. Perries
(5)
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L. Sgandurra
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V. Sordini
(5)
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M. Vander Donckt
(5)
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P. Verdier
(5)
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S. Viret
(5)
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H. Xiao
(5)
S. Chatrchyan
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Abstract
Results are presented from a search for the rare decays Bs to mu mu and B0 to mu mu in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 and 8 TeV, with data samples corresponding to integrated luminosities of 5 and 20 inverse femtobarns, respectively, collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. An unbinned maximum-likelihood fit to the dimuon invariant mass distribution gives a branching fraction B(Bs to mu mu) = (3 +1.0/-0.9)E-9, where the uncertainty includes both statistical and systematic contributions. An excess of Bs to mu mu events with respect to background is observed with a significance of 4.3 standard deviations. For the decay B0 to mu mu an upper limit of B(B0 to mu mu) < 1.1E-9 at the 95% confidence level is determined. Both results are in agreement with the expectations from the standard model.