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Observation of B (s)0 →j/ψp p Decays and Precision Measurements of the B (s)0 Masses

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Abstract

The first observation of the decays B(s)0→J/ψpp is reported, using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.2 fb-1, collected with the LHCb detector. These decays are suppressed due to limited available phase space, as well as due to Okubo-Zweig-Iizuka or Cabibbo suppression. The measured branching fractions are B(B0→J/ψpp)=[4.51±0.40(stat)±0.44(syst)]×10-7, B(Bs0→J/ψpp)=[3.58±0.19(stat)±0.39(syst)]×10-6. For the Bs0 meson, the result is much higher than the expected value of O(10-9). The small available phase space in these decays also allows for the most precise single measurement of both the B0 mass as 5279.74±0.30(stat)±0.10(syst) MeV and the Bs0 mass as 5366.85±0.19(stat)±0.13(syst) MeV.

Original languageEnglish
Article number191804
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume122
Issue number19
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 17 May 2019

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 following 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 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), (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 Fondazione Fratelli Confalonieri (Italy), 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); the Royal Society and the Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom); and Laboratory Directed Research and Development program of LANL (USA).

FundersFunder number
Agence Nationale de la Recherche
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
OCEVU
National Science Foundation
Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Leverhulme Trust
MSHE
Fondazione Fratelli Confalonieri
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Russian Foundation for Basic Research
Yandex LLC
Russian Science Foundation
Laboratory Directed Research and Development
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Recruitment Program of Global Experts
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 Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego
Generalitat Valenciana
CERN
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Science and Technology Facilities CouncilST/N000250/1, ST/J004332/1, ST/K003410/1, 1796908, ST/N000331/1, ST/N000234/1, GRIDPP, ST/L003163/1, ST/N000242/1
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme771642

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