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Precision measurement of the Λc+, Ξc+, and Ξc0 baryon lifetimes

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Abstract

We report measurements of the lifetimes of the Λc+, Ξc+ and Ξc0 charm baryons using proton-proton collision data at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb-1, collected by the LHCb experiment. The charm baryons are reconstructed through the decays Λc+→pK-π+, Ξc+→pK-π+ and Ξc0→pK-K-π+, and originate from semimuonic decays of beauty baryons. The lifetimes are measured relative to that of the D+ meson, and are determined to be τΛc+=203.5±1.0±1.3±1.4 fs, τΞc+=456.8±3.5±2.9±3.1 fs, τΞc0=154.5±1.7±1.6±1.0 fs, where the uncertainties are statistical, systematic, and due to the uncertainty in the D+ lifetime. The measurements are approximately 3-4 times more precise than the current world average values. The Λc+ and Ξc+ lifetimes are in agreement with previous measurements; however, the Ξc0 baryon lifetime is approximately 3.3 standard deviations larger than the world average value.

Original languageEnglish
Article number032001
Pages (from-to)1-12
Number of pages12
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume100
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Aug 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 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); Institul de Fizica Atomica (Romania); Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (Russia); MinECo (Spain); SNSF and State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (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 AvH Foundation (Germany); EPLANET, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and ERC (European Union); ANR, Labex P2IO and Labex OCEVU, Origine Constituants et Evolution de l’Univers, 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); Generalitat Valenciana, the regional government of Valencia, in Spain, XuntaGal and Generalitat de Catalunya (Spain); the Royal Society and the Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom).

FundersFunder number
Agence Nationale de la Recherche
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
National Science Foundation
Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules
Labex OCEVU
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Institul de Fizica Atomica
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
Staatssekretariat für Bildung, Forschung und Innovation
Generalitat de Catalunya
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
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Russian Foundation for Basic Research
U.S. Department of Energy
Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
Yandex LLC
Russian Science Foundation
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Recruitment Program of Global Experts
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS
Royal Society
European Research Council
EPLANET
Ministerstwo Edukacji i Nauki
Generalitat Valenciana
CERN
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme792684
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

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