Search for the baryon- and lepton-number violating decays $B^0\to p\mu^-$ and $B^0_s\to p\mu^-$

Abstract

A search for the baryon- and lepton-number violating decays $B^0\to p\mu^-$ and $B^0_s\to p\mu^-$ is performed at the LHCb experiment using data collected in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7, 8 and 13 TeV, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 1, 2 and 6 fb$^{-1}$, respectively. No significant signal for $B^0\to p\mu^-$ and $B^0_s\to p\mu^-$ decays is found and the upper limits on the branching fractions are determined to be ${\cal B}(B^0\to p\mu^-)<2.6\,(3.1)\times10^{-9}$ and ${\cal B}(B^0_s\to p\mu^-)<12.1\,(14.0)\times10^{-9}$, respectively, at 90$\%$ (95$\%$) confidence level. These are the first limits on these decays to date.