Search for the CP-violating strong decays η → π+π and η'(958)→π+π

R. Aaij, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi, Z. Ajaltouni, S. Akar, J. Albrecht, F. Alessio, M. Alexander, S. Ali, G. Alkhazov, P. Alvarez Cartelle, A. A. Alves, S. Amato, S. Amerio, Y. Amhis, LA Everse, L. Anderlini, G. Andreassi, M. Andreotti, J.E. AndrewsR. B. Appleby, F. Archilli, P. d'Argent, J. Arnau Romeu, A. Artamonov, M. Artuso, E. Aslanides, G. Auriemma, M. Baalouch, K. Carvalho Akiba, V. Coco, P. N Y David, K. De Bruyn, M. Ferro-Luzzi, T. Ketel, R. F. Koopman, R. F. Koopman, J. van Leerdam, M. Merk, C. J G Onderwater, G. Raven, M. Schiller, N. Serra, H. Snoek, B. Storaci, V. Syropoulos, J. van Tilburg, S. Tolk, P. Tsopelas, N. Tuning, The LHCb Collaboration

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Abstract

A search for the CP-violating strong decays η→π+π and η'(958)→π+π has been performed using approximately 2.5×107 events of each of the decays D+→π+π+π and Ds +→π+π+π, recorded by the LHCb experiment. The data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb−1 of pp collision data recorded during LHC Run 1 and 0.3 fb−1 recorded in Run 2. No evidence is seen for D(s) +→π+η(') with η(')→π+π, and upper limits at 90% confidence level are set on the branching fractions, B(η→π+π)<1.6×10−5 and B(η'→π+π)<1.8×10−5. The limit for the η decay is comparable with the existing one, while that for the η' is a factor of three smaller than the previous limit.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)233-240
Number of pages8
JournalPhysics Letters B
Volume764
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 Jan 2017

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); NSFC (China); CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF , DFG and MPG (Germany); INFN (Italy); FOM and 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), Conseil Général de Haute-Savoie , Labex ENIGMASS and OCEVU , Région Auvergne (France), RFBR and Yandex LLC (Russia), GVA , XuntaGal and GENCAT (Spain), Herchel Smith Fund , The Royal Society , Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 and the Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom).

FundersFunder number
Not added1681016
Conseil Général de Haute-Savoie
EPLANET
Herchel Smith Fund
Labex ENIGMASS
MinES
OCEVU
Région Auvergne
Yandex LLC
National Science Foundation
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
CERN
Science and Technology Facilities CouncilST/N000250/1, ST/H006737/1, ST/N000331/1, ST/K00140X/1, GRIDPP, LHCb Upgrades, 1707993, ST/J004332/1, ST/M004058/1, 1641747, ST/K003410/1, 1708182, LHCb, ST/L003538/1, ST/K004646/1, ST/N001370/1
Leverhulme Trust
Royal Society
Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851
European Commission
European Research Council
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung166208
Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Russian Foundation for Basic Research
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
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
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos
Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules
Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations
Sociedad Española de Reumatología

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