Observation of an Excited B[± over c] Meson State with the ATLAS Detector
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Taylor, Frank E.
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A search for excited states of the B[± over c] meson is performed using 4.9 fb[superscript −1] of 7 TeV and 19.2 fb[superscript −1] of 8 TeV pp collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. A new state is observed through its hadronic transition to the ground state, with the latter detected in the decay B[± over c] → J/ψπ[superscript ±]. The state appears in the m(B[± over c]π[superscript +]π[superscript −]) − m(B[± over c]) − 2m(π[superscript ±]) mass difference distribution with a significance of 5.2 standard deviations. The mass of the observed state is 6842 ± 4 ± 5 MeV, where the first error is statistical and the second is systematic. The mass and decay of this state are consistent with expectations for the second S-wave state of the B[± over c] meson, B[± over c](2S).
Date issued
2014-11Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of PhysicsJournal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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Aad, G., B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, S. Abdel Khalek, O. Abdinov, R. Aben, B. Abi, et al. “Observation of an Excited B[superscript ± subscript c] Meson State with the ATLAS Detector” Physical Review Letters 113, no. 21 (November 2014). © 2014 CERN, for the ATLAS Collaboration
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0031-9007
1079-7114