First Observation of the Radiative Decay Λ b 0 → Λ γ
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PhysRevLett.123.031801.pdf
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The LHCb Collaboration
Boettcher, Thomas Julian
Craik, Daniel C
Weisser, Constantin
Williams, Michael
Date Issued
2019
Journal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society (APS)
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Final published version
Abstract
© 2019 CERN, for the LHCb Collaboration. The radiative decay Λb0→Λγ is observed for the first time using a data sample of proton-proton collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.7 fb-1 collected by the LHCb experiment at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. Its branching fraction is measured exploiting the B0→K∗0γ decay as a normalization mode and is found to be B(Λb0→Λγ)=(7.1±1.5±0.6±0.7)×10-6, where the quoted uncertainties are statistical, systematic, and systematic from external inputs, respectively. This is the first observation of a radiative decay of a beauty baryon.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.123.031801
