Search for the doubly heavy $$ {\Xi}_{bc}^0 $$ baryon via decays to D0pK−



Aaij, R, Abellán Beteta, C, Ackernley, T, Adeva, B, Adinolfi, M, Afsharnia, H, Aidala, CA, Aiola, S, Ajaltouni, Z, Akar, S
et al (show 987 more authors) (2020) Search for the doubly heavy $$ {\Xi}_{bc}^0 $$ baryon via decays to D0pK−. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020 (11).

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<jats:title>A<jats:sc>bstract</jats:sc></jats:title><jats:p>A search for the doubly heavy<jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$ {\Xi}_{bc}^0 $$</jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>Ξ</mml:mi><mml:mi>bc</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msubsup></mml:math></jats:alternatives></jats:inline-formula>baryon using its decay to the<jats:italic>D</jats:italic><jats:sup>0</jats:sup><jats:italic>pK</jats:italic><jats:sup><jats:italic>–</jats:italic></jats:sup>final state is performed using proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected by the LHCb experiment between 2016 and 2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.4 fb<jats:sup><jats:italic>−</jats:italic>1</jats:sup>. No significant signal is found in the invariant mass range from 6.7 to 7.2 GeV/<jats:italic>c</jats:italic><jats:sup>2</jats:sup>. Upper limits are set at 95% credibility level on the ratio of the<jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$ {\Xi}_{bc}^0 $$</jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>Ξ</mml:mi><mml:mi>bc</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msubsup></mml:math></jats:alternatives></jats:inline-formula>production cross-section times its branching fraction to<jats:italic>D</jats:italic><jats:sup>0</jats:sup><jats:italic>pK</jats:italic><jats:sup><jats:italic>−</jats:italic></jats:sup>relative to that of the<jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$ {\Lambda}_b^0\to {D}^0{pK}^{-} $$</jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>Λ</mml:mi><mml:mi>b</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msubsup><mml:mo>→</mml:mo><mml:msup><mml:mi>D</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msup><mml:msup><mml:mi>pK</mml:mi><mml:mo>−</mml:mo></mml:msup></mml:math></jats:alternatives></jats:inline-formula>decay. The limits are set as a function of the<jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$ {\Xi}_{bc}^0 $$</jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>Ξ</mml:mi><mml:mi>bc</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msubsup></mml:math></jats:alternatives></jats:inline-formula>mass and lifetime hypotheses, in the rapidity range from 2.0 to 4.5 and in the transverse momentum region from 5 to 25 GeV/<jats:italic>c</jats:italic>. Upper limits range from 1<jats:italic>.</jats:italic>7<jats:italic>×</jats:italic>10<jats:sup><jats:italic>−</jats:italic>2</jats:sup>to 3<jats:italic>.</jats:italic>0<jats:italic>×</jats:italic>10<jats:sup><jats:italic>−</jats:italic>1</jats:sup>for the considered<jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$ {\Xi}_{bc}^0 $$</jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:msubsup><mml:mi>Ξ</mml:mi><mml:mi>bc</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msubsup></mml:math></jats:alternatives></jats:inline-formula>mass and lifetime hypotheses.</jats:p>

Item Type: Article
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 24 Feb 2021 15:15
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DOI: 10.1007/jhep11(2020)095
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3116044