First Observation of a Baryonic B[superscript +][subscript c] Decay
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Counts, Ian Thomas Hunt; Ilten, Philip J
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A baryonic decay of the B[superscript +][subscript c] meson, B[superscript +][subscript c] → J/ψp[bar over p]π[superscript +], is observed for the first time, with a significance of 7.3 standard deviations, in pp collision data collected with the LHCb detector and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb[superscript -1] taken at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. With the B[superscript +][subscript c] → J/ψπ[superscript +] decay as the normalization channel, the ratio of branching fractions is measured to be B(B[superscript +][subscript c] → J/ψp[subscript p]π[superscript +])/B(B[superscript +][subscript c] → J/ψπ[superscript +]) = 0.143 +0.039 -0.034 (stat) ± 0.013(syst). The mass of the B[superscript +][subscript c] meson is determined as M(B[superscript +][subscript c]) = 6274.0 ± 1.8(stat) ± 0.4(syst) MeV/c[superscript 2], using the B[superscript +][subscript c] → J/ψp[bar over p]π[superscript +] channel.
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2014-10Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society (APS)
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Aaij, R., et al. “First Observation of a Baryonic B[superscript +][subscript c] Decay.” Physical Review Letters, vol. 113, no. 15, Oct. 2014. © 2014 CERN, for the LHCb Collaboration.
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0031-9007
1079-7114