Abstract
From samples of pp collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at s=7, 8 and 13 TeV, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 1.0, 2.0 and 1.5 fb-1, respectively, a peak in both the Λb0K- and Ξb0π- invariant mass spectra is observed. In the quark model, radially and orbitally excited Ξb- resonances with quark content bds are expected. Referring to this peak as Ξb(6227)-, the mass and natural width are measured to be mΞb(6227)-=6226.9±2.0±0.3±0.2 MeV/c2 and ΓΞb(6227)-=18.1±5.4±1.8 MeV/c2, where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second is systematic, and the third, on mΞb(6227)-, is due to the knowledge of the Λb0 baryon mass. Relative production rates of the Ξb(6227)-→Λb0K- and Ξb(6227)-→Ξb0π- decays are also reported.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 072002 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-12 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Physical Review Letters |
Volume | 121 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 15 Aug 2018 |
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 (The Netherlands); MNiSW and NCN (Poland); MEN/IFA (Romania); MinES and FASO (Russia); Generalitat Valenciana and MinECo (Spain); SNSF and SER (Switzerland); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); NSF (USA). We acknowledge the computing resources that are provided by CERN, IN2P3 (France), KIT and DESY (Germany), INFN (Italy), SURF (The 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), Herchel Smith Fund, the Royal Society, the English-Speaking Union and the Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom).
Funders | Funder number |
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Not added | ST/J004332/1, ST/N000250/1, ST/N000447/1, 1681016, ST/K003410/1, 1796908, 1708182, ST/N000234/1, ST/N000463/1, ST/L003163/1, ST/N000242/1 |
EPLANET | |
Generalitat Valenciana and MinECo | |
Herchel Smith Fund | |
MinES | |
OCEVU | |
Yandex LLC | |
National Science Foundation | |
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung | |
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions | |
CERN | |
Science and Technology Facilities Council | LHCb, GRIDPP, LHCb Upgrades, ST/N000455/1 |
Leverhulme Trust | |
Royal Society | |
English-Speaking Union | |
European Commission | |
European Research Council | |
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | |
Agence Nationale de la Recherche | |
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung | 166208 |
National Natural Science Foundation of China | |
Russian Foundation for Basic Research | |
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior | |
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung | |
Chinese Academy of Sciences | |
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek | |
Generalitat Valenciana | |
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico | |
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 | |
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan | |
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine | |
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | |
Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos | |
Russian Science Foundation | |
Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
Recruitment Program of Global Experts | |
Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules | |
Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations | |
Sociedad Española de Reumatología |