Observation of the doubly charmed baryon $\Xi_{cc}^{++}$

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LHCb-PAPER-2017-018
CERN-EP-2017-156
arXiv:1707.01621 [PDF]

(Submitted on 06 Jul 2017)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119 (2017) 112001
Inspire 1608879

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Abstract

A highly significant structure is observed in the $\Lambda_c^+K^-\pi^+\pi^+$ mass spectrum, where the $\Lambda_c^+$ baryon is reconstructed in the decay mode $pK^-\pi^+$. The structure is consistent with originating from a weakly decaying particle, identified as the doubly charmed baryon $\Xi_{cc}^{++}$. The difference between the masses of the $\Xi_{cc}^{++}$ and $\Lambda_c^+$ states is measured to be $1334.94 \pm 0.72 (\mathrm{stat}) \pm 0.27 (\mathrm{syst} \mathrm{MeV}/c^2$, and the $\Xi_{cc}^{++}$ mass is then determined to be $3621.40 \pm 0.72 (\mathrm{stat}) \pm 0.27 (\mathrm{syst} \pm 0.14 (\Lambda_c^+) \mathrm{MeV}/c^2$, where the last uncertainty is due to the limited knowledge of the $\Lambda_c^+$ mass. The state is observed in a sample of proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.7 $\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$, and confirmed in an additional sample of data collected at 8 TeV.

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Example Feynman diagram contributing to the decay $\Xi ^{++}_{ c c } \rightarrow \Lambda ^+_ c K ^- \pi ^+ \pi ^+ $ .	Fig1.pdf [34 KiB] HiDef png [32 KiB] Thumbnail [18 KiB] *.C file
Mass spectra of (left) $\Lambda ^+_ c $ and (right) $\Xi ^{++}_{ c c }$ candidates. The full selection is applied, except for the $\Lambda ^+_ c $ mass requirement in the case of the left plot. For the $\Lambda ^+_ c $ mass distribution the (cross-hatched) signal and (vertical line) sideband regions are indicated; to avoid duplication, the histogram is filled only once in events that contain more than one $\Xi ^{++}_{ c c }$ candidate. In the right plot the right-sign (RS) signal sample $\Xi ^{++}_{ c c } \rightarrow \Lambda ^+_ c K ^- \pi ^+ \pi ^+ $ is shown, along with the control samples: $\Lambda ^+_ c $ sideband (SB) $\Lambda ^+_ c K ^- \pi ^+ \pi ^+ $ candidates and wrong-sign (WS) $\Lambda ^+_ c K ^- \pi ^+ \pi ^- $ candidates, normalized to have the same area as the RS sample in the $ m_{\mathrm{cand}} (\Xi ^{++}_{ c c } )$ sidebands.	Fig2a.pdf [15 KiB] HiDef png [341 KiB] Thumbnail [253 KiB] *.C file
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Invariant mass distribution of $\Lambda ^+_ c K ^- \pi ^+ \pi ^+ $ candidates with fit projections overlaid.	Fig3.pdf [23 KiB] HiDef png [272 KiB] Thumbnail [236 KiB] *.C file
Mass spectra of (left) $\Lambda ^+_ c $ and (right) $\Xi ^{++}_{ c c }$ candidates in the $8\mathrm{ Te V} $ data sample. The full selection is applied, except for the $\Lambda ^+_ c $ mass requirement in the case of the left plot. For the $\Lambda ^+_ c $ mass distribution the (cross-hatched) signal and (vertical lines) sideband regions are indicated; to avoid duplication, the histogram is filled only once in events that contain more than one $\Xi ^{++}_{ c c }$ candidate. In the right plot the right-sign (RS) signal sample $\Xi ^{++}_{ c c } \rightarrow \Lambda ^+_ c K ^- \pi ^+ \pi ^+ $ is shown, along with the control samples: $\Lambda ^+_ c $ sideband (SB) $\Lambda ^+_ c K ^- \pi ^+ \pi ^+ $ candidates and wrong-sign (WS) $\Lambda ^+_ c K ^- \pi ^+ \pi ^- $ candidates, normalized to have the same area as the RS sample in the $ m_{\mathrm{cand}} (\Xi ^{++}_{ c c } )$ sidebands.	Fig4a.pdf [15 KiB] HiDef png [310 KiB] Thumbnail [236 KiB] *.C file
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Invariant mass distribution of $\Lambda ^+_ c K ^- \pi ^+ \pi ^+ $ candidates for the 8 TeV data sample with fit projections overlaid.	Fig5.pdf [22 KiB] HiDef png [253 KiB] Thumbnail [221 KiB] *.C file
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Systematic uncertainties on the $\Xi ^{++}_{ c c }$ mass measurement.

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