Search for excited B<inf>c</inf>⁺ states

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Aaij, R, Adeva, B, Adinolfi, M, Ajaltouni, Z, Akar, S, Albrecht, J, Alessio, F, Alexander, M, Alfonso Albero, A, Ali, S et al (show 82 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, Archilli, F, d Argent, P, Arnau Romeu, J, Artamonov, A, Artuso, M, Aslanides, E, Atzeni, M, Auriemma, G, Baalouch, M, Babuschkin, I, Bachmann, S, Back, JJ, Badalov, A, Baesso, C, Baker, S, Balagura, V, Baldini, W, Baranov, A, Barlow, RJ, Barschel, C, Barsuk, S, Barter, W, Baryshnikov, F, Batozskaya, V, Battista, V, Bay, A, Beaucourt, L, Beddow, J, Bedeschi, F, Bediaga, I, Beiter, A, Bel, LJ, Beliy, N, Bellee, V, Belloli, N, Belous, K, Belyaev, I, Ben-Haim, E, Bencivenni, G, Benson, S, Beranek, S, Berezhnoy, A, Bernet, R, Berninghoff, D, Bertholet, E, Bertolin, A, Betancourt, C, Betti, F, Bettler, MO, van Beuzekom, M, Bezshyiko, I, Bifani, S, Billoir, P, Birnkraut, A, Bizzeti, A, Bjørn, M, Blake, T, Blanc, F, Blusk, S, Bocci, V, Boettcher, T, Bondar, A, Bondar, N, Bordyuzhin, I, Borghi, S, Borisyak, M, Borsato, M, Bossu, F, Boubdir, M and Bowcock, TJV ORCID: 0000-0002-3505-6915 (2018) Search for excited B<inf>c</inf>⁺ states. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018 (1).

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Abstract

© 2018, The Author(s). A search is performed in the invariant mass spectrum of the Bc+π+π− system for the excited Bc+ states Bc(21S0)+ and Bc(23S1)+ using a data sample of pp collisions collected by the LHCb experiment at the centre-of-mass energy of s=8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2 fb−1. No evidence is seen for either state. Upper limits on the ratios of the production cross-sections of the Bc(21S0)+ and Bc(23S1)+ states times the branching fractions of Bc(21S0)+ → Bc+π+π− and Bc(23S1)+ → Bc*+π+π− over the production cross-section of the Bc+ state are given as a function of their masses. They are found to be between 0.02 and 0.14 at 95% confidence level for Bc(21S0)+ and Bc(23S1)+ in the mass ranges [6830, 6890] MeV/c2 and [6795, 6890] MeV/c2, respectively.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].

Item Type:	Article
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	23 Apr 2018 07:50
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 06:35
DOI:	10.1007/JHEP01(2018)138
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3020505