On the decays B K^() + leptonium

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Abstract: We determine the rates of the B meson decays into a K() and an ell+ell bound state, the leptonium, where ell=e,mu,au. The two spin states of the leptonium, the spin singlet and the spin triplet, couple to the axial current and to the vector current, respectively, thus probing different helicity structures of the underlying bosell+ell effective Hamiltonian. Since ortho- and para-leptonia have different decay modes, a distinction between the two is relatively easy and these decays may become a cross check for the results of lepton-flavour-violation searches obtained with free leptons. We find that some of the decays involving muon and tau have a branching ratio of the order of 1013 and they may become accessible at the LHCb with 50 fb1 of integrated luminosity. In addition, since the tau-pair threshold lies right between the J/psi and the psi(2S) resonances, we estimate the charm-loop contribution to the decays BoK()+tauonium.









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