We report the first observation of a baryonic Bs0 decay, Bs0→pΛK-, 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 fb-1. The branching fraction is measured to be B(Bs0→pΛK-)+B(Bs0→pΛK+)=[5.46±0.61±0.57±0.50(B)±0.32(fs/fd)]×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 B0→pΛπ- decay used for normalization, and the fourth uncertainty relates to the knowledge of the ratio of b-quark hadronization probabilities fs/fd.

Aaij, R., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Ajaltouni, Z., Akar, S., Albrecht, J., et al. (2017). First Observation of a Baryonic Bs0 Decay. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 119(4) [10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.041802].

First Observation of a Baryonic Bs0 Decay

BELLOLI, NICOLETTA;BORGHERESI, ALESSIO;Borsato, M;CALVI, MARTA;CARNITI, PAOLO;CASSINA, LORENZO;FAZZINI, DAVIDE;GOTTI, CLAUDIO;GRILLO, LUCIA;Martinelli, M;MATTEUZZI, CLARA;Petruzzo, M;
2017

Abstract

We report the first observation of a baryonic Bs0 decay, Bs0→pΛK-, 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 fb-1. The branching fraction is measured to be B(Bs0→pΛK-)+B(Bs0→pΛK+)=[5.46±0.61±0.57±0.50(B)±0.32(fs/fd)]×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 B0→pΛπ- decay used for normalization, and the fourth uncertainty relates to the knowledge of the ratio of b-quark hadronization probabilities fs/fd.
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Branching fraction, hadronic decays
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2017
119
4
041802
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Aaij, R., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Ajaltouni, Z., Akar, S., Albrecht, J., et al. (2017). First Observation of a Baryonic Bs0 Decay. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 119(4) [10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.041802].
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