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Observation of Bc+→J/ψDs+ and Bc+→J/ψDs*+ decays

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 87:11 (2013)

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R Aaij, C Abellan Beteta, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, C Adrover, A Affolder, Z Ajaltouni, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, S Ali, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, AA Alves, S Amato, S Amerio, Y Amhis, L Anderlini, J Anderson, R Andreassen, RB Appleby, O Aquines Gutierrez, F Archilli, A Artamonov, M Artuso, E Aslanides, G Auriemma, S Bachmann, JJ Back, C Baesso, V Balagura, W Baldini, RJ Barlow, C Barschel, S Barsuk, W Barter, T Bauer, A Bay, J Beddow, F Bedeschi, I Bediaga, S Belogurov, K Belous, I Belyaev, E Ben-Haim, M Benayoun, G Bencivenni, S Benson, J Benton, A Berezhnoy, R Bernet, MO 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, TJV Bowcock, E Bowen, C Bozzi, T Brambach, J Van Den Brand, J Bressieux, D Brett, M Britsch, T Britton, NH Brook, H Brown, I Burducea, A Bursche, G Busetto, J Buytaert, S Cadeddu, O Callot, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, A Camboni, P Campana, D Campora Perez, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, H Carranza-Mejia, L Carson, K Carvalho Akiba, G Casse, M Cattaneo, C Cauet

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The decays Bc+→J/ψDs+ and Bc+→J/ψDs*+ are observed for the first time using a dataset, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb-1, collected by the LHCb experiment in proton-proton collisions at center-of-mass energies of √s=7 and 8 TeV. The statistical significance for both signals is in excess of 9 standard deviations. The following ratios of branching fractions are measured to be B(Bc+→J/ ψDs+)B(Bc+→J/ψπ+)=2.90±0.57±0.24, B(Bc+→J/ψDs*+)B(Bc+→J/ψDs+)=2.37±0.56±0. 10, where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second systematic. The mass of the Bc+ meson is measured to be mBc+=6276.28±1. 44(stat)±0.36(syst) MeV/c2, using the Bc+→J/ψDs+ decay mode. © 2013 CERN.
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Improved Measurement of Absolute Hadronic Branching Fractions of the Ds+ Meson

ArXiv 1306.5363 (2013)

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CLEO Collaboration, PUE Onyisi, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, MJ Smith, P Zhou, P Naik, J Rademacker, KW Edwards, RA Briere, H Vogel, JL Rosner, JP Alexander, DG Cassel, S Das, R Ehrlich, L Gibbons, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, DL Kreinick, VE Kuznetsov, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, A Ryd, AJ Sadoff, X Shi, WM Sun, J Yelton, P Rubin, N Lowrey, S Mehrabyan, M Selen, J Wiss, J Libby, M Kornicer, RE Mitchell, D Besson, TK Pedlar, D Cronin-Hennessy, J Hietala, S Dobbs, Z Metreveli, KK Seth, A Tomaradze, T Xiao, A Powell, C Thomas, G Wilkinson, DM Asner, G Tatishvili, JY Ge, DH Miller, IPJ Shipsey, B Xin, GS Adams, J Napolitano, KM Ecklund, J Insler, H Muramatsu, LJ Pearson, EH Thorndike, M Artuso, S Blusk, R Mountain, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, LM Zhang

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The branching fractions of Ds meson decays serve to normalize many measurements of processes involving charm quarks. Using 586 pb^-1 of e+ e- collisions recorded at a center of mass energy of 4.17 GeV, we determine absolute branching fractions for 13 Ds decays in 16 reconstructed final states with a double tag technique. In particular we make a precise measurement of the branching fraction B(Ds -> K- K+ pi+) = (5.55 +- 0.14 +- 0.13)%, where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic respectively. We find a significantly reduced value of B(Ds -> pi+ pi0 eta') compared to the world average, and our results bring the inclusively and exclusively measured values of B(Ds -> eta' X)$ into agreement. We also search for CP-violating asymmetries in Ds decays and measure the cross-section of e+ e- -> Ds* Ds at Ecm = 4.17 GeV.
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Improved Measurement of Absolute Hadronic Branching Fractions of the Ds+ Meson

(2013)

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CLEO Collaboration, PUE Onyisi, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, MJ Smith, P Zhou, P Naik, J Rademacker, KW Edwards, RA Briere, H Vogel, JL Rosner, JP Alexander, DG Cassel, S Das, R Ehrlich, L Gibbons, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, DL Kreinick, VE Kuznetsov, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, A Ryd, AJ Sadoff, X Shi, WM Sun, J Yelton, P Rubin, N Lowrey, S Mehrabyan, M Selen, J Wiss, J Libby, M Kornicer, RE Mitchell, D Besson, TK Pedlar, D Cronin-Hennessy, J Hietala, S Dobbs, Z Metreveli, KK Seth, A Tomaradze, T Xiao, A Powell, C Thomas, G Wilkinson, DM Asner, G Tatishvili, JY Ge, DH Miller, IPJ Shipsey, B Xin, GS Adams, J Napolitano, KM Ecklund, J Insler, H Muramatsu, LJ Pearson, EH Thorndike, M Artuso, S Blusk, R Mountain, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, LM Zhang
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Measurement of CP violation and the Bs0 meson decay width difference with Bs0→J/ψK+K- and Bs0→J/ψπ +π - Decays

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 87:11 (2013)

Authors:

R Aaij, C Abellan Beteta, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, C Adrover, A Affolder, Z Ajaltouni, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, S Ali, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, AA Alves, S Amato, S Amerio, Y Amhis, L Anderlini, J Anderson, R Andreassen, RB Appleby, O Aquines Gutierrez, F Archilli, A Artamonov, M Artuso, E Aslanides, G Auriemma, S Bachmann, JJ Back, C Baesso, V Balagura, W Baldini, RJ Barlow, C Barschel, S Barsuk, W Barter, T Bauer, A Bay, J Beddow, F Bedeschi, I Bediaga, S Belogurov, K Belous, I Belyaev, E Ben-Haim, M Benayoun, G Bencivenni, S Benson, J Benton, A Berezhnoy, R Bernet, MO 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, TJV Bowcock, E Bowen, C Bozzi, T Brambach, J Van Den Brand, J Bressieux, D Brett, M Britsch, T Britton, NH Brook, H Brown, I Burducea, A Bursche, G Busetto, J Buytaert, S Cadeddu, O Callot, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, A Camboni, P Campana, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, H Carranza-Mejia, L Carson, K Carvalho Akiba, G Casse, M Cattaneo, C Cauet, M Charles

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The time-dependent CP asymmetry in Bs0→J/ψK+K - decays is measured using pp collision data at √s=7 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb-1, collected with the LHCb detector. The decay-time distribution is characterized by the decay widths ΓL and ΓH of the light and heavy mass eigenstates of the Bs0-B̄s0 system and by a CP-violating phase s. In a sample of 27 617 Bs0→J/ψK+K- decays, where the dominant contribution comes from Bs0→J/ψ decays, these parameters are measured to be s=0.07±0.09(stat) ±0.01(syst) rad, Γs≡(ΓL+Γ H)/2=0.663±0.005(stat)±0.006(syst) ps-1, and ΔΓs≡ΓL-ΓH=0. 100±0.016(stat)±0.003(syst) ps-1, corresponding to the single most precise determination of s, ΔΓs, and Γs. The result of performing a combined analysis with Bs0→J/ψπ+π- decays gives s=0.01±0.07(stat)±0.01(syst) rad, Γs= 0.661±0.004(stat)±0.006(syst) ps-1, and ΔΓs=0.106±0.011(stat)±0.007(syst) ps -1. All measurements are in agreement with the Standard Model predictions. © 2013 CERN. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.
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Observations of BS0→ψ(2S)η and B(S)0→ψ(2S)π+π- decays

Nuclear Physics B 871:3 (2013) 403-419

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R Aaij, C Abellan Beteta, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, C Adrover, A Affolder, Z Ajaltouni, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, S Ali, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, AA Alves, S Amato, S Amerio, Y Amhis, L Anderlini, J Anderson, R Andreassen, RB Appleby, O Aquines Gutierrez, F Archilli, A Artamonov, M Artuso, E Aslanides, G Auriemma, S Bachmann, JJ Back, C Baesso, V Balagura, W Baldini, RJ Barlow, C Barschel, S Barsuk, W Barter, T Bauer, A Bay, J Beddow, F Bedeschi, I Bediaga, S Belogurov, K Belous, I Belyaev, E Ben-Haim, M Benayoun, G Bencivenni, S Benson, J Benton, A Berezhnoy, R Bernet, MO 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, TJV Bowcock, E Bowen, C Bozzi, T Brambach, J van den Brand, J Bressieux, D Brett, M Britsch, T Britton, NH Brook, H Brown, I Burducea, A Bursche, G Busetto, J Buytaert, S Cadeddu, O Callot, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, A Camboni, P Campana, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, H Carranza-Mejia, L Carson, K Carvalho Akiba, G Casse, M Cattaneo, C Cauet, M Charles

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First observations of the BS0→ψ(2S)η, B0→ψ(2S)π+π- and BS0→ψ(2S)π+π- decays are made using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb-1 collected by the LHCb experiment in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of √s=7 TeV. The ratios of the branching fractions of each of the ψ(2S) modes with respect to the corresponding J/ψ decays are where the third uncertainty corresponds to the uncertainties of the dilepton branching fractions of the J/ψ and ψ(2S) meson decays. © 2013 CERN.
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