LHCb CollaborationAdeva Andany, BernardoBoente García, ÓscarChobanova, VeronikaCid Vidal, XabierDosil Suárez, ÁlvaroFernández Prieto, AntonioGallas Torreira, Abraham AntonioGarcía Plana, BeatrizLucio Martínez, MiriamMartínez Santos, DiegoPlo Casasus, MáximoPrisciandaro, James J.Ramos Pernas, MiguelRomero Vidal, AntonioSaborido Silva, Juan JoséSanmartín Sedes, BraisSantamarina Ríos, CibránVázquez Regueiro, PabloVieites Díaz, María2020-05-122020-05-122018Aaij, R., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M. et al. Evidence for the decay B0S→K¯∗0μ+μ−. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 20 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2018)0201029-8479http://hdl.handle.net/10347/22219A search for the decay B0S→K¯∗0μ+μ− is presented using data sets corresponding to 1.0, 2.0 and 1.6 fb−1 of integrated luminosity collected during pp collisions with the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8 and 13 TeV, respectively. An excess is found over the background-only hypothesis with a significance of 3.4 standard deviations. The branching fraction of the B0S→K¯∗0μ+μ− decay is determined to be B(B0s→K¯∗0μ+μ−)=[2.9±1.0(stat)±0.2(syst)±0.3(norm)]×10−8, where the first and second uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. The third uncertainty is due to limited knowledge of external parameters used to normalise the branching fraction measurement.eng© CERN, for the benefit of the LHCb Collaboration. Article funded by SCOAP3. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/B physicsFCNC InteractionFlavor physicsHadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)Rare decayjournal article10.1007/JHEP07(2018)020open access