Allbrooke, B M M, Asquith, L, Cerri, A, Chavez Barajas, C A, De Santo, A, Salvatore, F, Santoyo Castillo, I, Suruliz, K, Sutton, M R, Vivarelli, I and The ATLAS Collaboration, (2014) Observation of an excited B±c meson state with the ATLAS detector. Physical Review Letters, 113 (21). p. 212004. ISSN 0031-9007

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Abstract

A search for excited states of the B±c meson is performed using 4.9  fb−¹ of 7 TeV and 19.2  fb−¹ of 8 TeV pp collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. A new state is observed through its hadronic transition to the ground state, with the latter detected in the decay B±c→J/ψπ±. The state appears in the m(B±cπ+π−)−m(B±c)−2m(π±) mass difference distribution with a significance of 5.2 standard deviations. The mass of the observed state is 6842±4±5  MeV, where the first error is statistical and the second is systematic. The mass and decay of this state are consistent with expectations for the second S-wave state of the B±c meson, B±c(2S).

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Research Centres and Groups:	Experimental Particle Physics Research Group
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Depositing User:	Billy Wichaidit
Date Deposited:	03 May 2017 09:19
Last Modified:	02 Jul 2019 19:36
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/67631

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