Test of lepton flavor universality in semileptonic Bc+ meson decays in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV

A measurement of the ratio of branching fractions R(J/ψ) = B(B+c → J/ψτ+ντ )/B(B+c → J/ψμ+νμ ) in the J/ψ → μ+μ−, τ+ → μ+νμ ντ decay chan- nel is presented. This measurement uses a sample of proton-proton collision data collected at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV by the CMS experiment in 2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 59.7 fb−1. The measured ratio, R(J/ψ) = 0.17+0.18 −0.17 (stat)+0.21 −0.22 (syst)+0.19 −0.18 (theo) = 0.17 ± 0.33, agrees with the value of 0.2582 ± 0.0038 predicted by the standard model, which assumes lepton flavor universality. By testing lepton flavor universality, this measurement is a probe of new physics using B+ c mesons, which are currently only produced at the LHC.