Precise determination of the <i>B</i><sub>s</sub><SUP>0</SUP>-<i>B</i><sub>s</sub><SUP>-0</SUP> oscillation frequency



Aaij, R, Beteta, C Abellan, Ackernley, T, Adeva, B, Adinolfi, M, Afsharnia, H, Aidala, CA, Aiola, S, Ajaltouni, Z, Akar, S
et al (show 947 more authors) (2022) Precise determination of the <i>B</i><sub>s</sub><SUP>0</SUP>-<i>B</i><sub>s</sub><SUP>-0</SUP> oscillation frequency. NATURE PHYSICS, 18 (1). 54-+.

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Abstract

Mesons comprising a beauty quark and a strange quark can oscillate between particle (B0s) and antiparticle (B0s) flavour eigenstates, with a frequency given by the mass difference between heavy and light mass eigenstates, deltams. Here we present ameasurement of deltams using B0s2DsPi decays produced in proton-proton collisions collected with the LHCb detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The oscillation frequency is found to be deltams = 17.7683 +- 0.0051 +- 0.0032 ps-1, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. This measurement improves upon the current deltams precision by a factor of two. We combine this result with previous LHCb measurements to determine deltams = 17.7656 +- 0.0057 ps-1, which is the legacy measurement of the original LHCb detector.

Item Type: Article
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Uncontrolled Keywords: hep-ex, hep-ex
Divisions: Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Physical Sciences
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 02 Sep 2021 09:21
Last Modified: 07 Oct 2023 11:24
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-021-01394-x
Open Access URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-021-01394-x
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3134957