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We search for rare decays of $D$ mesons to hadrons accompany with an electron-positron pair (h(h)$e^+e^-$), using an $e^+e^-$ collision sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.93 fb$^{-1}$ collected with the BESIII detector at $sqrt{s}$ = 3.773 GeV. No significant signals are observed, and the corresponding upper limits on the branching fractions at the $90%$ confidence level are determined. The sensitivities of the results are at the level of $10^{-5} sim 10^{-6}$, providing a large improvement over previous searches.
We have searched for flavor-changing neutral current decays and lepton-number-violating decays of D^+ and D^+_s mesons to final states of the form h^+- e^-+ e^+, where h is either pi or K. We use the complete samples of CLEO-c open-charm data, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 818 pb^-1 at the center-of-mass energy E_CM = 3.774 GeV containing 2.4 x 10^6 D^+D^- pairs and 602 pb^-1 at E_CM = 4.170 GeV containing 0.6 x 10^6 D^*+-_s D^-+_s pairs. No signal is observed in any channel, and we obtain 90% confidence level upper limits on branching fractions B(D^+ --> pi^+ e^+ e^-) < 5.9 x 10^-6, B(D^+ --> pi^- e^+ e^+) < 1.1 x 10^-6, B(D^+ --> K^+ e^+ e^-) < 3.0 x 10^-6, B(D^+ --> K^- e^+ e^+) < 3.5 x 10^-6, B(D^+_s --> pi^+ e^+ e^-) < 2.2 x 10^-5, B(D^+_s --> pi^- e^+ e^+) < 1.8 x 10^-5, B(D^+_s --> K^+ e^+ e^-) < 5.2 x 10^-5, and B(D^+_s --> K^- e^+ e^+) < 1.7 x 10^-5.
A search for the decays $B^0_sto e^+e^-$ and $B^0to e^+e^-$ is performed using data collected with the LHCb experiment in proton-proton collisions at center-of-mass energies of $7$, $8$ and $13,text{TeV}$, corresponding to integrated luminosities of $1$, $2$ and $2,text{fb}^{-1}$, respectively. No signal is observed. Assuming no contribution from $B^0to e^+e^-$ decays, an upper limit of $mathcal{B}(B^0_sto e^+e^-)<9.4,(11.2)times10^{-9}$ is obtained at $90,(95),%$ confidence level. If no $B^0_sto e^+e^-$ contribution is assumed, a limit of $mathcal{B}(B^0to e^+e^-)<2.5,(3.0)times10^{-9}$ is determined at $90,(95),%$ confidence level. These upper limits are more than one order of magnitude lower than the previous values.
Using the data samples of $(1310.6pm7.2 )times 10^{6}$ $J/psi$ events and $(448.1pm2.9)times 10^{6}$ $psi(3686)$ events collected with the BESIII detector, we search for the rare decays $J/psi to D^{0} e^{+}e^{-} +c.c.$ and $psi(3686) to D^{0} e^{+}e^{-} +c.c.$. No significant signals are observed and the corresponding upper limits on the branching fractions at the $90%$ confidence level are determined to be $Br(J/psi to D^{0} e^{+}e^{-} +c.c.)< 8.5times 10^{-8}$ and $Br (psi(3686) to D^{0} e^{+}e^{-} +c.c.)<1.4times 10^{-7}$, respectively. Our limit on $Br(J/psi to D^{0} e^{+}e^{-} +c.c.)$ is more stringent by two orders of magnitude than the previous results, and the $Br(psi(3686) to D^{0} e^{+}e^{-} +c.c.)$ is measured for the first time.
Using a data sample of $448.1times10^6$ $psi(3686)$ events collected at $sqrt{s}=$ 3.686 GeV with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII, we search for the rare decay $J/psi to phi e^+ e^-$ via $psi(3686) to pi^+pi^- J/psi $. No signal events are observed and the upper limit on the branching fraction is set to be $mathcal{B}(J/psi to phi e^+ e^-) < 1.2 times 10^{-7}$ at the 90% confidence level, which is still about one order of magnitude higher than the Standard Model prediction.
A search for the rare decay $eta^{prime} to e^+e^-$ has been performed with the SND detector at the VEPP-2000 $e^+e^-$ collider. The inverse reaction $e^+e^- to eta^{prime}$ and $eta^{prime}$ five decay chains have been used for this search. The upper limit $Gamma_{eta^{prime} to e^+e^-}<0.002$ eV at the 90% confidence level has been set. A sensitivity of SND in a search for $eta to e^+e^-$ decay has been studied. For this perpose we have analyzed a data sample with an integrated luminosity of 108 nb$^{-1}$ collected in the center-of-mass energy range 520-580 MeV. There are no background events for the reaction $e^+e^- to eta$ with decay $eta to pi^0pi^0pi^0$ have been found. In the absence of background, a sensitivity to $B(eta to e^+e^-)$ of 10$^{-6}$ can be reached during two weeks of VEPP-2000 operation.