Measurement of the lifetimes of promptly produced Ωc 0 and Ξc 0 baryons

LHCb Collaboration

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Abstract

A measurement of the lifetimes of the Ωc 0 and Ξc 0 baryons is reported using proton–proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.4fb-1 collected by the LHCb experiment. The Ωc 0 and Ξc 0 baryons are produced directly from proton interactions and reconstructed in the pK-K-π+ final state. The Ωc 0 lifetime is measured to be 276.5±13.4±4.4±0.7fs, and the Ξc 0 lifetime is measured to be 148.0±2.3±2.2±0.2fs, where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second systematic, and the third due to the uncertainty on the D0 lifetime. These results confirm previous LHCb measurements based on semileptonic beauty-hadron decays, which disagree with earlier results of a four times shorter Ωc 0 lifetime, and provide the single most precise measurement of the Ωc 0 lifetime.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)479-487
JournalScience Bulletin
Volume67
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Mar 2022

Funding

We express our gratitude to our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC. 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); MICINN (Spain); SNSF and SER (Switzerland); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); 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 ARC and ARDC (Australia); AvH Foundation (Germany); EPLANET, Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie Actions and ERC (European Union); A*MIDEX, ANR, Labex P2IO and OCEVU, and R\u00E9gion Auvergne-Rh\u00F4ne-Alpes (France); Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS, CAS PIFI, CAS CCEPP, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and Sci. & Tech. Program of Guangzhou (China); RFBR, RSF and Yandex LLC (Russia); GVA, XuntaGal and GENCAT (Spain); the Royal Society and the Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom).

FundersFunder number
Institutul National de Cercetare-Dezvoltare pentru Fizica si Inginerie Nucleara 'Horia Hulubei'
Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Australian Research Council
Australian Research Data Commons
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
OCEVU
National Science Foundation
Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules
Science and Technology Facilities Council
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Automotive Research Center
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Program of Guangzhou
Leverhulme Trust
PL-GRID
MSHE
SURF
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Russian Foundation for Basic Research
U.S. Department of Energy
Yandex LLC
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China
CAS CCEPP
GridPP
RRCKI
Russian Science Foundation
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
ARDC
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
XuntaGal
Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS
Royal Society
Sociedad Española de Reumatología
European Research Council
EPLANET
Ministerstwo Edukacji i Nauki
Generalitat Valenciana
CERN
Nuclear Physics
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
National Natural Science Foundation of China

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