A search for the decay B-0 -> phi mu(+) mu(-) is performed using proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13 TeV collected by the LHCb experiment and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 fb(-1). No evidence for the B-0 -> phi mu(+) mu(-) decay is found and an upper limit on the branching fraction, excluding the 0 and charmonium regions in the dimuon spectrum, of 4.4 x 10(-3) at a 90% credibility level, relative to that of the B-s(0) -> phi mu(+) mu(-) decay, is established. Using the measured B-s(0) -> phi mu(+) mu(-) branching fraction and assuming a phase-space model, the absolute branching fraction of the decay B-0 -> phi mu(+) mu(-) in the full q(2) range is determined to be less than 3.2 x 10(-9) at a 90% credibility level.
Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Tatsuya Nakada, Frédéric Blanc, Lesya Shchutska, Elena Graverini, Sebastian Schulte, Marie Theres Christin Bachmayer, Serhii Cholak, Ettore Zaffaroni, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Federico Ronchetti, Radoslav Marchevski, Anni Matilda Kauniskangas, Dimitrios Kaminaris, Raphaël van Laak, Pierre Paul Louis Mayencourt, Brianna Leililani Thielen, Arnaud Merlin Gauthey, Gianluca Zunica, Abdul-Kerim Guseinov, Esteban Curras Rivera, Yifei Song, Roberto Ribatti, Alexandre Brea Rodriguez, Rita De Sousa Ataíde Da Silva, Spencer Edward Collaviti
Aurelio Bay, Frédéric Blanc, Marie Theres Christin Bachmayer