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Rare Decays of Neutral B Mesons into Four Charged Leptons in the Standard Model

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As part of the Standard Model (SM), we present new theoretical predictions for the branching ratio and differential distributions for the \({{\bar {B}}_{d}} \to {{\mu }^{ + }}{{\mu }^{ - }}{{e}^{ + }}{{e}^{ - }}\) decay. We take into consideration the contributions \({{\rho }^{0}}(770)\) and \(\omega (782)\) of resonances; the main contributions of four charmonium resonances: \(\psi (3770)\), \(\psi (4040)\), \(\psi (4160)\), and \(\psi (4415)\); the contributions of the tails from \({J \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {J \psi }} \right. \kern-0em} \psi }\) and \(\psi (2S)\) resonances; and the nonresonant contribution of the \(b{\kern 1pt} \bar {b}\) pairs, bremsstrahlung, and the contribution of the weak annihilation. We use the model of vector meson dominance (VMD) for calculating resonances contributions.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank I.M. Belyaev (Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP)), E.E. Boos (Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University (SINP MSU)), L.V. Dudko (SINP MSU), D.I. Melikhov (SINP MSU), V.Yu. Egorycheva (ITEP), and D.V. Savrina (ITEP, SINP MSU) for fruitful discussions.

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This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, grant no. 22-22-00297.

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Danilina, A.V., Nikitin, N.V. Rare Decays of Neutral B Mesons into Four Charged Leptons in the Standard Model. Phys. Part. Nuclei Lett. 20, 336–340 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1547477123030184

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