First observation of a baryonic $B_s^0$ decay

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LHCb-PAPER-2017-012
CERN-EP-2017-067
arXiv:1704.07908 [PDF]

(Submitted on 25 Apr 2017)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119 (2017) 041802
Inspire 1596893

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Abstract

We report the first observation of a baryonic $B_s^0$ decay, $B_s^0 \to p \overline{\Lambda} K^-$, using proton-proton collision data recorded by the LHCb experiment at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $3.0 \mathrm{fb}^{-1}$. The branching fraction is measured to be $ \mathcal{B}(B_s^0 \to p \overline{\Lambda} K^-) + \mathcal{B}(B_s^0 \to \bar{p} \Lambda K^+) = \left[5.46 \pm 0.61 \pm 0.57 \pm 0.50 (\mathcal{B}) \pm 0.32 (f_s/f_d)\right]\times 10^{-6}, $ where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic, the third uncertainty accounts for the experimental uncertainty on the branching fraction of the $B^0 \to p \overline{\Lambda} \pi^-$ decay used for normalization, and the fourth uncertainty relates to the knowledge of the ratio of $b$-quark hadronization probabilities $f_s/f_d$.

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Mass distributions for $b$-hadron candidates for (left) the $ p \overline{\Lambda} \pi ^- $ and (right) the $ p \overline{\Lambda} K ^- $ sample for the combined long and downstream categories. The black points represent the data, the solid blue curve the result of the fit, the red dashed curve the $ B ^0_ s \rightarrow p \overline{\Lambda} K ^- $ contribution, the black (magenta) dotted curve the $ B ^0 \rightarrow p \overline{\Lambda} \pi ^- $ ( $ B ^0_ s \rightarrow p \overline \Sigma {}^0 K ^- $ ) and the green dash-dotted curve the contribution from $ B ^0 \rightarrow p \overline \Sigma {}^0 \pi ^- $ decays. The combinatorial background distribution is indicated by the shaded histogram.	Fig1a.pdf [62 KiB] HiDef png [501 KiB] Thumbnail [378 KiB] *.C file
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Efficiency-corrected and background-subtracted $m( p \overline{\Lambda} )$ invariant mass distributions for (left) $ B ^0 \rightarrow p \overline{\Lambda} \pi ^- $ and (right) $ B ^0_ s \rightarrow p \overline{\Lambda} K ^- $ candidates. The distributions are normalized to unity.	Fig2a.pdf [32 KiB] HiDef png [103 KiB] Thumbnail [57 KiB] *.C file
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