A search for the light pseudoscalar sgoldstino production in three-body K- decay K- --> pi-pi0 P has been performed with the ISTRA+ detector exposed to the 25 GeV negative secondary of the U-70 proton synchrotron. No signal is seen. Upper limits for the branching ratio at 90% confidence level vary between 2.0 10**-5 and 0.5 10**-5 in the effective mass m(P) range from 0 up to 190 MeV. Our results improve the limits published by the E787 Collaboration in the mass interval between 0 and 120 MeV and are the first ones at higher masses.
A search for the light pseudoscalar sgoldstino production in the three body K- decay K-->pipi0P has been performed with the ISTRA+ detector exposed to the 25 GeV negative secondary beam of the U70 proton synchrotron. No signal is seen. An upper limit for the branching ratio Br(K->pipi0P), at 90% confidence level, is found to be around 9*10**-6 in the effective mass m(P) range from 0 till 200 MeV, excluding the region near m(pi0) where it degrades to 3.5*10**-5.
A search for $B^{+} to D_s^{+}K^{+}K^{-}$ decays is performed using $pp$ collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.8 fb$^{-1}$, collected at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8 and 13$,$TeV with the LHCb experiment. A significant signal is observed for the first time and the branching fraction is determined to be begin{equation*} mathcal{B}(B^{+} to D_s^{+}K^{+}K^{-} ) = (7.1 pm 0.5 pm 0.6 pm 0.7) times 10^{-6}, end{equation*} where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second systematic and the third due to the uncertainty on the branching fraction of the normalisation mode $B^{+} to D_s^{+} overline{kern -0.2em D}^{0}$. A search is also performed for the pure annihilation decay $B^{+} to D_s^{+}phi$. No significant signal is observed and a limit of begin{equation*} mathcal{B}(B^{+} to D_s^{+}phi) < 4.9 times 10^{-7}~(4.2 times 10^{-7}) end{equation*} is set on the branching fraction at 95$%$ (90$%$) confidence level.
We performed a search for a light pseudoscalar particle $X$ in the decay $K_L^0->pi0pi0X$, $X->gammagamma$ with the E391a detector at KEK. Such a particle with a mass of 214.3 MeV/$c^2$ was suggested by the HyperCP experiment. We found no evidence for $X$ and set an upper limit on the product branching ratio for $K_L^0->pi0pi0X$, $X->gammagamma$ of $2.4 times 10^{-7}$ at the 90% confidence level. Upper limits on the branching ratios in the mass region of $X$ from 194.3 to 219.3 MeV/$c^2$ are also presented.
The first observation of the B0->J/psi K+K- decay is presented with a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0/fb of pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV collected with the LHCb detector. The branching fraction is measured to be B(B0->J/psi K+K-) = (2.53 +/- 0.31 +/- 0.19)x10^{-6}, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. An amplitude analysis of the final state in the B0->J/psi K+K- decay is performed to separate resonant and nonresonant contributions in the K+K- spectrum. Evidence of the a0(980) resonance is reported with statistical significance of 3.9 standard deviations. The corresponding product branching fraction is measured to be B(B0->J/psi a0(980), a0(980)->K+K-)=(4.70 +/- 3.31 +/- 0.72)x10^{-7}, yielding an upper limit of B(B0->J/psi a0(980), a0(980)->K+K-)<9.0x10^{-7} at 90% confidence level. No evidence of the resonant decay B0->J/psiphi; is found, and an upper limit on its branching fraction is set to be B(B0->J/psiphi)< 1.9x10^{-7} at 90% confidence level.
A search for lepton flavor violating decays, kmmp, keep, kpem, kmep and pizem, was performed using the data collected in E865 at the Brookhaven Alternating Gradient Synchrotron. No signal was found in any of the decay modes. At the 90% confidence level, the branching ratios are less than $3.0times10^{-9}$, $6.4times10^{-10}$, $5.2times10^{-10}$, $5.0times10^{-10}$ and $3.4times10^{-9}$ respectively.