“…The semileptonic decay B s → φµ + µ − , which is closely relevant to the decay B → K * µ + µ − , offers an alternative scene to check out the same fundamental quark process, in a different hadronic background. On the theoretical side, various studies on the quark level b → s transition and the exclusive B (s) → V ℓ + ℓ − decays by using rather different theories or models have been performed within the SM, such as the constituent quark model or covariant quark model [15,16], the light front quark model [17], the QCD factorization (QCDF) [18] and the light-cone sum rule (LCSR) [19][20][21][22][23], and beyond the SM, such as the universal extra dimension [24,25] and the supersymmetric theory [26]. On the experimental side, the B s → φµ + µ − decay mode was first observed and studied by the CDF collaboration [27] and subsequently by the LHCb collaboration [28,29].…”