Observation of the decay Λb 0→Λc +pp‾π

LHCb Collaboration

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Abstract

The decay Λb 0→Λc +pp‾π is observed using pp collision data collected with the LHCb detector at centre-of-mass energies of s=7 and 8 Tev, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb−1. The ratio of branching fractions between Λb 0→Λc +pp‾π and Λb 0→Λc +π decays is measured to be [Formula presented]=0.0540±0.0023±0.0032. Two resonant structures are observed in the Λc +π mass spectrum of the Λb 0→Λc +pp‾π decays, corresponding to the Σc(2455)0 and Σc (2520)0 states. The ratios of branching fractions with respect to the decay Λb 0→Λc +pp‾π are [Formula presented]=0.089±0.015±0.006,[Formula presented]=0.119±0.020±0.014. In all of the above results, the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. The phase space is also examined for the presence of dibaryon resonances. No evidence for such resonances is found.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)101-111
Number of pages11
JournalPhysics Letters. Section B, Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume784
Early online date5 Jul 2018
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 Sept 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); 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).

FundersFunder number
Not addedST/J004332/1, ST/N000250/1, 1681016, ST/K003410/1, 1796908, 1708182, ST/N000463/1, ST/N000455/1, ST/L003163/1, ST/N000242/1
AvH Foundation
CNRS/IN2P3
EPLANET
FASO
Herchel Smith Fund
MinES
OCEVU
Yandex LLC
National Science Foundation
Office of Strategic Coordination
California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Ministry of Science and Technology
Poultry Industry Council
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
School of Energy Resources, University of Wyoming
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
University of South Alabama
CERN
University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences
Science and Technology Facilities CouncilST/N000447/1, LHCb, GRIDPP, LHCb Upgrades
Leverhulme Trust
Royal Society
English-Speaking Union
European Commission
European Research Council
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung166208
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
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
Generalitat Valenciana
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Ministry of Science and Technology
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Labex
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
Narodowym 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
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Frauen
Russian Science Foundation
National Science Foundation
Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Recruitment Program of Global Experts

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