Observation and branching fraction measurement of the decay Ξb → Λ0bπ

LHCb Collaboration

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Abstract

The decay Ξb → Λ0bπ is observed using a proton-proton collision data sample collected at center-of-ffiffi mass energy ps ¼ 13 TeV with the LHCb detector, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.5 fb−1. This process is mediated by the s → uūd quark-level transition, where the b quark in the Ξb baryon is a spectator in the decay. Averaging the results obtained using the two Λ0b decay modes, Λ0b → Λþc π and Λ0b → Λþc ππþπ, the relative production ratio is measured to be ðfΞb =fΛ0 bÞBðΞb → Λ0bπÞ ¼ ð7.3 ± 0.8 ± 0.6Þ × 10−4. Here the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively, and fΞb ðfΛ0 bÞ is the fragmentation fraction for a b quark into a Ξb0b) baryon. Using an independent measurement of fΞb =fΛ0 b, the branching fraction BðΞb → Λ0bπÞ ¼ ð0.89 ± 0.10 ± 0.07 ± 0.29Þ% is obtained, where the last uncertainty is due to the assumed SU(3) flavor symmetry in the determination of fΞb =fΛ0 b,.

Original languageEnglish
Article number072002
Pages (from-to)1-16
Number of pages16
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume108
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2023

Bibliographical note

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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); MCID/IFA (Romania); 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), CSCS (Switzerland), IFIN-HH (Romania), CBPF (Brazil), Polish WLCG (Poland) and NERSC (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); Minciencias (Colombia); AvH Foundation (Germany); EPLANET, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, ERC and NextGenerationEU (European Union); A*MIDEX, ANR, IPhU and Labex P2IO, and Région Auvergne-Rhône-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); GVA, XuntaGal, GENCAT, Inditex, InTalent and Prog. Atracción Talento, CM (Spain); SRC (Sweden); the Leverhulme Trust, the Royal Society and UKRI (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
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
National Science Foundation
Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules
Science and Technology Facilities Council
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
NextGenerationEU
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
SURF
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
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
CAS CCEPP
GridPP
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
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
UK Research and Innovation
National Natural Science Foundation of China

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