Observation of an Excited B±c Meson State with the ATLAS Detector
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Observation of an Excited B±c Meson State with the ATLAS Detector
Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdallah, J.; Abdinov, O.; Aben, R.; Abolins, M. & AbouZeid, O. S. et al. (2014)
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 113 art. 212004. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.212004
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- Authors Group
- ATLAS Collaboration
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- Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdallah, J.; Abdinov, O.; Aben, R.; Abolins, M.; AbouZeid, O. S.; Abramowicz, H.; Abreu, H.; Abreu, R.; Zwalinski, L.
- 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).
- Issue Date
- 2014
- Journal
- PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
- Project
- info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/246806/EU/European Particle physics Latin American NETwork/EPLANET
- Organization
- Fakultät für Physik
- ISSN
- 1079-7114
- Extent
- 18
- Language
- English
