Observation of two new Ξ(b)(-) baryon resonances.
Physical review letters 114:6 (2015) 062004
Authors:
R Aaij, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, A Affolder, Z Ajaltouni, S Akar, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, S Ali, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, AA Alves, S Amato, S Amerio, Y Amhis, L An, L Anderlini, J Anderson, R Andreassen, M Andreotti, JE Andrews, RB Appleby, O Aquines Gutierrez, F Archilli, A Artamonov, M Artuso, E Aslanides, G Auriemma, M Baalouch, S Bachmann, JJ Back, A Badalov, C Baesso, W Baldini, RJ Barlow, C Barschel, S Barsuk, W Barter, V Batozskaya, V Battista, A Bay, L Beaucourt, J Beddow, F Bedeschi, I Bediaga, S Belogurov, K Belous, I Belyaev, E Ben-Haim, G Bencivenni, S Benson, J Benton, A Berezhnoy, R Bernet, A Bertolin, M-O Bettler, M van Beuzekom, A Bien, S Bifani, T Bird, A Bizzeti, PM Bjørnstad, T Blake, F Blanc, J Blouw, S Blusk, V Bocci, A Bondar, N Bondar, W Bonivento, S Borghi, A Borgia, M Borsato, TJV Bowcock, E Bowen, C Bozzi, D Brett, M Britsch, T Britton, J Brodzicka, NH Brook, A Bursche, J Buytaert, S Cadeddu, R Calabrese, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, P Campana, D Campora Perez, L Capriotti, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, L Carson, K Carvalho Akiba, RCM Casanova Mohr, G Casse, L Cassina, L Castillo Garcia, M Cattaneo, Ch Cauet, R Cenci, M Charles, Ph Charpentier, M Chefdeville, S Chen, S-F Cheung, N Chiapolini, M Chrzaszcz, X Cid Vidal, G Ciezarek, PEL Clarke, M Clemencic, HV Cliff, J Closier, V Coco, J Cogan, E Cogneras, V Cogoni, L Cojocariu, G Collazuol, P Collins, A Comerma-Montells, A Contu, A Cook, M Coombes, S Coquereau, G Corti, M Corvo, I Counts, B Couturier, GA Cowan, DC Craik, AC Crocombe, M Cruz Torres, S Cunliffe, R Currie, C D'Ambrosio, J Dalseno, P David, PNY David, A Davis, K De Bruyn, S De Capua, M De Cian, JM De Miranda, L De Paula, W De Silva, P De Simone, C-T Dean, D Decamp, M Deckenhoff, L Del Buono, N Déléage, D Derkach, O Deschamps, F Dettori, B Dey, A Di Canto, A Di Domenico, H Dijkstra, S Donleavy, F Dordei, M Dorigo, A Dosil Suárez, D Dossett, A Dovbnya, K Dreimanis, G Dujany, F Dupertuis, P Durante, R Dzhelyadin, A Dziurda, A Dzyuba, S Easo, U Egede, V Egorychev, S Eidelman, S Eisenhardt, U Eitschberger, R Ekelhof, L Eklund, I El Rifai, Ch Elsasser, S Ely, S Esen, H-M Evans, T Evans, A Falabella, C Färber, C Farinelli, N Farley, S Farry, R Fay, D Ferguson, V Fernandez Albor, F Ferreira Rodrigues, M Ferro-Luzzi, S Filippov, M Fiore, M Fiorini, M Firlej, C Fitzpatrick, T Fiutowski, P Fol, M Fontana, F Fontanelli, R Forty, O Francisco, M Frank, C Frei, M Frosini, J Fu, E Furfaro, A Gallas Torreira, D Galli, S Gallorini, S Gambetta, M Gandelman, P Gandini, Y Gao, J García Pardiñas, J Garofoli, J Garra Tico, L Garrido, D Gascon, C Gaspar, U Gastaldi, R Gauld, L Gavardi, G Gazzoni, A Geraci, E Gersabeck, M Gersabeck, T Gershon, Ph Ghez, A Gianelle, S Gianì, V Gibson, L Giubega, VV Gligorov, C Göbel, D Golubkov, A Golutvin, A Gomes, C Gotti, M Grabalosa Gándara, R Graciani Diaz, LA Granado Cardoso, E Graugés, E Graverini, G Graziani, A Grecu, E Greening, S Gregson, P Griffith, L Grillo, O 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Gac, J van Leerdam, J-P Lees, R Lefèvre, A Leflat, J Lefrançois, O Leroy, T Lesiak, B Leverington, Y Li, T Likhomanenko, M Liles, R Lindner, C Linn, F Lionetto, B Liu, S Lohn, I Longstaff, JH Lopes, P Lowdon, D Lucchesi, H Luo, A Lupato, E Luppi, O Lupton, F Machefert, IV Machikhiliyan, F Maciuc, O Maev, S Malde, A Malinin, G Manca, G Mancinelli, A Mapelli, J Maratas, JF Marchand, U Marconi, C Marin Benito, P Marino, R Märki, J Marks, G Martellotti, M Martinelli, D Martinez Santos, F Martinez Vidal, D Martins Tostes, A Massafferri, R Matev, Z Mathe, C Matteuzzi, A Mazurov, M McCann, J McCarthy, A McNab, R McNulty, B McSkelly, B Meadows, F Meier, M Meissner, M Merk, DA Milanes, M-N Minard, N Moggi, J Molina Rodriguez, S Monteil, M Morandin, P Morawski, A Mordà, MJ Morello, J Moron, A-B Morris, R Mountain, F Muheim, K Müller, M Mussini, B Muster, P Naik, T Nakada, R Nandakumar, I Nasteva, M Needham, N Neri, S Neubert, N Neufeld, M Neuner, AD Nguyen, TD Nguyen, C Nguyen-Mau, M Nicol, V 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Abstract:
Two structures are observed close to the kinematic threshold in the Ξ(b)(0)π(-) mass spectrum in a sample of proton-proton collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb(-1), recorded by the LHCb experiment. In the quark model, two baryonic resonances with quark content bds are expected in this mass region: the spin-parity J(P)=(1/2)(+) and J(P)=(3/2)(+) states, denoted Ξ(b)('-) and Ξ(b)(*-). Interpreting the structures as these resonances, we measure the mass differences and the width of the heavier state to be m(Ξ(b)('-))-m(Ξ(b)(0))-m(π(-))=3.653±0.018±0.006 MeV/c(2), m(Ξ(b)(*-))-m(Ξ(b)(0))-m(π(-))=23.96±0.12±0.06 MeV/c(2), Γ(Ξ(b)(*-))=1.65±0.31±0.10 MeV, where the first and second uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. The width of the lighter state is consistent with zero, and we place an upper limit of Γ(Ξ(b)('-))<0.08 MeV at 95% confidence level. Relative production rates of these states are also reported.
