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  • Adachi, I; Bae, H; Bahinipati, S; Bambade, P; Becherer, F; Behera, P. K; Bertemes, M; Bessner, M; Bračko, M; Branchini, P; Bussino, S; Campajola, M; Chang, M. -C; Cho, S. -J; Choi, S. -K; Choudhury, S; Cremaldi, L. M; Cunliffe, S; De La Cruz-Burelo, E; De Nardo, G; De Nuccio, M; De Pietro, G; Di Capua, F; Dossett, D; Eliachevitch, M; Ferlewicz, D; Finck, C; Fulsom, B. G; Ganiev, E; Gellrich, A; Ghevondyan, G; Giordano, R; Gudkova, K; Hazra, S; Hohmann, M; Itoh, R; Jackson, P; Ji, Q. P; Kaleta, M; Kaliyar, A. B; Kandra, J; Ketter, C; Kim, K. -H; Kim, Y. -K; Kinoshita, K; Kodyš, P; Križan, P; Kuhr, T; Kumar, R; Lacaprara, S; Diberder, F. R. Le; Luo, T; Maggiora, M; Manfredi, R; Marcello, S; Martini, A; Masuda, M; Maurya, S. K; Merola, M; Milesi, M; Miyake, H; Moser, H. -G; Naruki, M; Nisar, N. K; Ono, H; Pakhlova, G; Paoloni, E; Park, S. -H; Paschen, B; Patra, S; Paul, S; Polat, L; Prim, M. T; Rados, P; Rauls, N; Rout, N; Russo, G; Savinov, V; Schmitt, C; Shi, X. D; Shimasaki, T; Sobotzik, M; Solovieva, E; Spruck, B; Strube, J; Takahashi, M; Tanaka, S; Tiwary, R; Torassa, E; Toutounji, N; Uematsu, Y; Varner, G. S; Varvell, K. E; Vitale, L; Wallner, S; Wang, E; Warburton, A; Yamada, S; Yin, J. H; Zhilich, V

    11/2023
    Journal Article

    Phys. Rev. D 109, 112006 (2024) We search for the rare decay $B^{+}\rightarrow K^{+}\nu\bar{\nu}$ in a $362\ \rm{fb}^{-1}$ sample of electron-positron collisions at the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance collected with the Belle II detector at the SuperKEKB collider. We use the inclusive properties of the accompanying $B$ meson in $\Upsilon(4S) \to B\kern 0.18em\overline{\kern -0.18em B}{}$ events to suppress background from other decays of the signal $B$ candidate and light-quark pair production. We validate the measurement with an auxiliary analysis based on a conventional hadronic reconstruction of the accompanying $B$ meson. For background suppression, we exploit distinct signal features using machine learning methods tuned with simulated data. The signal-reconstruction efficiency and background suppression are validated through various control channels. The branching fraction is extracted in a maximum likelihood fit. Our inclusive and hadronic analyses yield consistent results for the $B^{+}\rightarrow K^{+}\nu\bar{\nu}$ branching fraction of $\left2.7\pm 0.5(\mathrm{stat})\pm 0.5(\mathrm{syst})\right \times 10^{-5}$ and $\left1.1^{+0.9}_{-0.8}(\mathrm{stat}){}^{+0.8}_{-0.5}(\mathrm{syst})\right \times 10^{-5}$, respectively. Combining the results, we determine the branching fraction of the decay $B^{+}\rightarrow K^{+}\nu\bar{\nu}$ to be $\left2.3 \pm 0.5(\mathrm{stat})^{+0.5}_{-0.4}(\mathrm{syst})\right\times 10^{-5}$, providing the first evidence for this decay at $3.5$ standard deviations. The combined result is $2.7$ standard deviations above the standard model expectation.