Study of the B- → Λc+ Λ ¯ c- K- decay

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Abstract

The decay B-→Λc+Λ¯c-K- is studied in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of s=13 TeV using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5 fb-1 collected by the LHCb experiment. In the Λc+K- system, the Ξc(2930)0 state observed at the BABAR and Belle experiments is resolved into two narrower states, Ξc(2923)0 and Ξc(2939)0, whose masses and widths are measured to be m(Ξc(2923)0)=2924.5±0.4±1.1 MeV, m(Ξc(2939)0)=2938.5±0.9±2.3 MeV, Γ(Ξc(2923)0)=4.8±0.9±1.5 MeV, Γ(Ξc(2939)0)=11.0±1.9±7.5 MeV, where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second systematic. The results are consistent with a previous LHCb measurement using a prompt Λc+K- sample. Evidence of a new Ξc(2880)0 state is found with a local significance of 3.8σ, whose mass and width are measured to be 2881.8±3.1±8.5 MeV and 12.4±5.3±5.8 MeV, respectively. In addition, evidence of a new decay mode Ξc(2790)0→Λc+K- is found with a significance of 3.7σ. The relative branching fraction of B-→Λc+Λ¯c-K- with respect to the B-→D+D-K- decay is measured to be 2.36±0.11±0.22±0.25, where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second systematic and the third originates from the branching fractions of charm hadron decays.

Original languageEnglish
Article number012020
Pages (from-to)1-15
Number of pages15
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume108
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2023

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
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); MEN/IFA (Romania); MICINN (Spain); SNSF and SER (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), CSCS (Switzerland), IFIN-HH (Romania), CBPF (Brazil), Polish WLCG (Poland) and NERSC (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 ARC and ARDC (Australia); Minciencias (Colombia); AvH Foundation (Germany); EPLANET, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and ERC (European Union); A*MIDEX, ANR, IPhU and Labex P2IO, and Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (France); Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS, CAS PIFI, CAS CCEPP, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and Sci. & Tech. Program of Guangzhou (China); GVA, XuntaGal, GENCAT and Prog. Atracción Talento, CM (Spain); SRC (Sweden); the Leverhulme Trust, the Royal Society and UKRI (United Kingdom).

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© 2023 CERN.

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); MEN/IFA (Romania); MICINN (Spain); SNSF and SER (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), CSCS (Switzerland), IFIN-HH (Romania), CBPF (Brazil), Polish WLCG (Poland) and NERSC (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 ARC and ARDC (Australia); Minciencias (Colombia); AvH Foundation (Germany); EPLANET, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and ERC (European Union); A*MIDEX, ANR, IPhU and Labex P2IO, and Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (France); Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS, CAS PIFI, CAS CCEPP, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and Sci. & Tech. Program of Guangzhou (China); GVA, XuntaGal, GENCAT and Prog. Atracción Talento, CM (Spain); SRC (Sweden); the Leverhulme Trust, the Royal Society and UKRI (United Kingdom).

FundersFunder number
Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Australian Research Data Commons
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
National Science Foundation
Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Automotive Research Center
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
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
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China
CAS CCEPP
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS
Sociedad Española de Reumatología
European Research Council
EPLANET
Ministerstwo Edukacji i Nauki
CERN
Nuclear Physics
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
National Natural Science Foundation of China
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