PT Journal AU LHCb Collaboration (Aaij, Rea Garcia Martin, LM Henry, L Jashal, BK Martinez-Vidal, F Oyanguren, A Remon Alepuz, C Ruiz Vidal, J Sanchez Mayordomo, C TI Search for Lepton-Flavor Violating Decays B+ -> K+ mu(+/-) e(-/+) SO Physical Review Letters JI Phys. Rev. Lett. PY 2019 BP 241802 - 11pp VL 123 IS 24 DI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.241802 LA English AB A search for the lepton-flavor violating decays B+ -> K+ mu(+/-)e(-/+) is performed using a sample of proton-proton collision data, collected with the LHCb experiment at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb(-1). No significant signal is observed, and upper limits on the branching fractions are set as B(B+ -> K+ mu(+/-)e(+)) < 7.0(95) x 10(-9) and B(B+ -> K+ mu(+/- )e(-)) < 6.4(8.8) x 10(-9) at 90% (95)% confidence level. The results improve the current best limits on these decays by more than one order of magnitude. ER