PT Journal AU ATLAS Collaboration (Aaboud, Mea Alvarez Piqueras, D Aparisi Pozo, JA Bailey, AJ Barranco Navarro, L Cabrera Urban, S Castillo, FL Castillo Gimenez, V Cerda Alberich, L Costa, MJ Escobar, C Estrada Pastor, O Ferrer, A Fiorini, L Fullana Torregrosa, E Fuster, J Garcia, C Garcia Navarro, JE Gonzalez de la Hoz, S Higon-Rodriguez, E Jimenez Pena, J Lacasta, C Lozano Bahilo, JJ Madaffari, D Mamuzic, J Marti-Garcia, S Melini, D Miñano, M Mitsou, VA Rodriguez Bosca, S Rodriguez Rodriguez, D Ruiz-Martinez, A Salt, J Santra, A Soldevila, U Sanchez, J Valero, A Valls Ferrer, JA Vos, M TI Study of the rare decays of B0 and B-0 mesons into muon pairs using data collected during 2015 and 2016 with the ATLAS detector SO Journal of High Energy Physics JI J. High Energy Phys. PY 2019 BP 098 EP 47pp VL 04 IS 4 DI 10.1007/JHEP04(2019)098 LA English DE Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments) AB A study of the decays B0 s ! + and B0 ! + has been performed using 26 : 3 fb of 13 TeV LHC proton-proton collision data collected with the ATLAS detector in 2015 and 2016. Since the detector resolution in + invariant mass is comparable to the B0 s -B0 mass di ff erence, a single fi t determines the signal yields for both decay modes. This results in a measurement of the branching fraction B (B0 s ! +) = 3 : 2 +1:1 10 and an upper limit B (B0 ! +) < 4 : 3 10 at 95% con fi dence level. The result is combined with the Run 1 ATLAS result, yielding B (B0 s ! +) = 2 : 8 +0:8 10 and B (B0 ! +) < 2 : 1 10 at 95% con fi dence level. The combined result is consistent with the Standard Model prediction within 2.4 standard deviations in the B (B0 ! +)B (B0 s ! +) plane. ER