Search for B+ c decays to the ppπ+ final state

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Aaij, R, Abellán Beteta, C, Adeva, B, Adinolfi, M, Ajaltouni, Z, Akar, S, Albrecht, J, Alessio, F, Alexander, M, Ali, S et al (show 90 more authors) , Alkhazov, G, Alvarez Cartelle, P, Alves, AA, Amato, S, Amerio, S, Amhis, Y, An, L, Anderlini, L, Andreassi, G, Andreotti, M, Andrews, JE, Appleby, RB, Aquines Gutierrez, O, Archilli, F, d'Argent, P, Artamonov, A, Artuso, M, Aslanides, E, Auriemma, G, Baalouch, M, Bachmann, S, Back, JJ, Badalov, A, Baesso, C, Baker, S, Baldini, W, Barlow, RJ, Barschel, C, Barsuk, S, Barter, W, Batozskaya, V, Battista, V, Bay, A, Beaucourt, L, Beddow, J, Bedeschi, F, Bediaga, I, Bel, LJ, Bellee, V, Belloli, N, Belyaev, I, Ben-Haim, E, Bencivenni, G, Benson, S, Benton, J, Berezhnoy, A, Bernet, R, Bertolin, A, Betti, F, Bettler, MO, van Beuzekom, M, Bifani, S, Billoir, P, Bird, T, Birnkraut, A, Bizzeti, A, Blake, T, Blanc, F, Blouw, J, Blusk, S, Bocci, V, Bondar, A, Bondar, N, Bonivento, W, Borgheresi, A, Borghi, S, Borisyak, M, Borsato, M, Boubdir, M, Bowcock, TJV ORCID: 0000-0002-3505-6915, Bowen, E, Bozzi, C, Braun, S, Britsch, M, Britton, T, Brodzicka, J, Buchanan, E, Burr, C, Bursche, A, Buytaert, J, Cadeddu, S, Calabrese, R, Calvi, M, Calvo Gomez, M, Campana, P, Campora Perez, D, Capriotti, L, Carbone, A, Carboni, G and Cardinale, R (2016) Search for B+ c decays to the ppπ+ final state Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics, 759. pp. 313-321. ISSN 0370-2693, 1873-2445

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Abstract

A search for the decays of the B<sup>+</sup> <inf>c</inf> meson to pp-π<sup>+</sup> is performed for the first time using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb<sup>-1</sup> collected by the LHCb experiment in pp collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. No signal is found and an upper limit, at 95% confidence level, is set, fcfu×B(B<sup>+</sup> <inf>c</inf>→ppπ<sup>+</sup>)<3.6×10-8 in the kinematic region m(pp)<2.85 GeV/c2, p<inf>T</inf>(B)<20 GeV/c and 2.0<y(B)<4.5, where B is the branching fraction and f<inf>c</inf> (f<inf>u</inf>) is the fragmentation fraction of the b quark into a B<inf>c</inf>+ (B<sup>+</sup>) meson.

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Uncontrolled Keywords:	hep-ex, hep-ex
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	01 Jul 2016 09:38
Last Modified:	22 Jan 2026 07:35
DOI:	10.1016/j.physletb.2016.05.074
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3001965
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