First observation of the radiative decay $\Lambda_{b}^{0} \to \Lambda \gamma$

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LHCb-PAPER-2019-010
CERN-EP-2019-060
arXiv:1904.06697 [PDF]

(Submitted on 14 Apr 2019)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123 (2019) 031801
Inspire 1729839

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Abstract

The radiative decay $\Lambda_{b}^{0} \to \Lambda \gamma$ is observed for the first time using a data sample of proton-proton collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $1.7 fb^{-1}$ collected by the LHCb experiment at a center-of-mass energy of $13 TeV$. Its branching fraction is measured exploiting the $B^{0} \to K^{*0} \gamma$ decay as a normalization mode and is found to be $\mathcal{B}(\Lambda_{b}^{0} \to \Lambda \gamma)= (7.1 \pm 1.5 \pm 0.6 \pm 0.7) \times 10^{-6}$, where the quoted uncertainties are statistical, systematic and systematic from external inputs, respectively. This is the first observation of a radiative decay of a beauty baryon.

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Simultaneous fit to the (left) $\Lambda ^0_ b \rightarrow \Lambda \gamma $ and (right) $ B ^0 \rightarrow K ^{*0} \gamma $ invariant-mass distributions of selected candidates. The data are represented by black dots and the result of the fit by a solid blue curve while individual contributions are represented in different line styles (see legend).	data_s[..].pdf [19 KiB] HiDef png [281 KiB] Thumbnail [246 KiB]
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Dominant systematic uncertainties on the measurement of $\mathcal{B} (\Lambda ^0_ b \rightarrow \Lambda \gamma )$ . The uncertainties arising from external measurements are given separately.

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