Isospin Amplitudes in Λb0 →J/ψ Λ (ς0) and Ξb0 →J/ψ Ξ0 (Λ) Decays

LHCb Collaboration

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Abstract

Ratios of isospin amplitudes in hadron decays are a useful probe of the interplay between weak and strong interactions and allow searches for physics beyond the standard model. We present the first results on isospin amplitudes in b-baryon decays, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 8.5 fb-1, collected with the LHCb detector in pp collisions at center of mass energies of 7, 8, and 13 TeV. The isospin amplitude ratio |A1(Λb0→J/ψς0)/A0(Λb0→J/ψΛ)|, where the subscript on A indicates the final-state isospin, is measured to be less than 1/21.8 at 95% confidence level. The Cabibbo suppressed Ξb0→J/ψΛ decay is observed for the first time, allowing for the measurement |A0(Ξb0→J/ψΛ)/A1/2(Ξb0→J/ψΞ0)|=0.37±0.06±0.02, where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Article number111802
Pages (from-to)1-11
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume124
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Mar 2020

Funding

We express our gratitude to our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC. We thank A. Ali, Y. Grossman, G. Isidori, Z. Ligeti, and J. Rosner for useful discussions. We thank the technical and administrative staff at the LHCb institutes. We acknowledge support from CERN and from the national agencies CAPES, CNPq, FAPERJ, and FINEP (Brazil), MOST and NSFC (China), CNRS/IN2P3 (France), BMBF, DFG, and MPG (Germany), INFN (Italy), NWO (Netherlands), MNiSW and NCN (Poland), MEN/IFA (Romania), MSHE (Russia), MinECo (Spain), SNSF and SER (Switzerland), NASU (Ukraine), STFC (United Kingdom), and DOE NP and NSF (USA). We acknowledge the computing resources that are provided by CERN, IN2P3 (France), KIT and DESY (Germany), INFN (Italy), SURF (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), GridPP (United Kingdom), RRCKI and Yandex LLC (Russia), CSCS (Switzerland), IFIN-HH (Romania), CBPF (Brazil), PL-GRID (Poland), and OSC (USA). We are indebted to the communities behind the multiple open-source software packages on which we depend. Individual groups or members have received support from AvH Foundation (Germany), EPLANET, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and ERC (European Union), ANR, Labex P2IO and OCEVU, and Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (France), Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS, CAS PIFI, and the Thousand Talents Program (China), RFBR, RSF, and Yandex LLC (Russia), GVA, XuntaGal, and GENCAT (Spain), and the Royal Society and the Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom).

FundersFunder number
AvH Foundation
CNRS/IN2P3
DOE NP
EPLANET
MEN/IFA
MSHE
OCEVU
XuntaGal
Yandex LLC
National Science Foundation
School of Energy Resources, University of Wyoming
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme792684
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
CERN
College of Arts and Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Science and Technology Facilities CouncilGRIDPP
Leverhulme Trust
Royal Society
European Commission
European Research Council
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Russian Foundation for Basic Research
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
Generalitat Valenciana
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Ministry of Science and Technology
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos
Russian Science Foundation
Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Recruitment Program of Global Experts

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