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Observation of B0(s)J/ψp¯p decays and precision measurements of the B0(s) masses

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Abstract

The first observation of the decays B0(s)J/ψp¯p is reported, using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.2 fb1, collected with the LHCb detector. These decays are suppressed due to limited available phase space, as well as due to Okubo-Zweig-Iizuka or Cabibbo suppression. The measured branching fractions are B(B0J/ψp¯p)=(4.51±0.40(stat)±0.44(syst))×107,B(B0sJ/ψp¯p)=(3.58±0.19(stat)±0.39(syst))×106. For the B0s meson, the result is much higher than the expected value of O(109). The small available phase space in these decays also allows for the most precise single measurement of both the B0 mass as 5279.74±0.30(stat)±0.10(syst) MeV, and the B0s mass as 5366.85±0.19(stat)±0.13(syst) MeV.

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Leading Feynman diagrams for (a) B0J/ψp¯p and (b) B0sJ/ψp¯p decays.

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Fit to the J/ψp¯p invariant-mass distribution of the B0\scaleto(6.6pts\scaleto)6.6pt signal modes.

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The three angular variables {θ,θh,χ} for the decay BJ/ψ(μ+μ)h+h, where h{p,K}. The dihadron (in red) and dilepton (in blue) coordinate systems lie back-to-back with a common vertical ˆy axis. The angle between the decay planes is χ(π,π], while the two helicity angles, θh and θ, are defined in the dihadron and dilepton rest frames, respectively.

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Signal yields and masses for B0 and B0s mesons.

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Systematic uncertainties on the branching fraction measurements for Run 1 and Run 2. The total uncertainties on the branching fraction ratios (BFR) are the sum of the systematic uncertainties, added in quadrature. The total uncertainties on the absolute branching fractions (B) include the normalization and the uncertainties on the ratio fs/fd from external measurments as well.

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Systematic uncertainties of B0 and B0s mass measurements.

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This ZIP file contains supplemetary material for the publication LHCb-PAPER-2018-046. The files are: LHCb-PAPER-2018-046_supplementary.pdf : An overview of the extra figures *.pdf, *.png, *.eps : The figures in variuous formats to compile, just do ``pdflatex main``

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Created on 04 April 2025.