Study of the kinematic dependences of Λ 0b production in pp collisions and a measurement of the Λ 0b → Λ +c π − branching fraction
Title: | Study of the kinematic dependences of Λ 0b production in pp collisions and a measurement of the Λ 0b → Λ +c π − branching fraction
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Author: | LHCb Collaboration
Adeva Andany, Bernardo
Álvarez Cartelle, Paula
Dosil Suárez, Álvaro
Fernández Albor, Víctor Manuel
Gallas Torreira, Abraham Antonio
Hernando Morata, José Ángel
Pazos Álvarez, Antonio
Pérez Trigo, Eliseo
Plo Casasus, Máximo
Rodríguez Pérez, Pablo
Romero Vidal, Antonio
Sanmartín Sedes, Brais
Seco Miguélez, Marcos Antonio
Vázquez Regueiro, Pablo
Vázquez Sierra, Carlos
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Affiliation: | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Física de Partículas Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías (IGFAE)
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Subject: | Hadron-Hadron Scattering | B physics | Heavy quark production | Branching fraction | Particle and resonance production | |
Date of Issue: | 2014
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Publisher: | Springer
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Citation: | Aaij, R., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M. et al. Study of the kinematic dependences of Λ 0b production in pp collisions and a measurement of the Λ 0b → Λ +c π − branching fraction. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 143 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2014)143
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Abstract: | The kinematic dependences of the relative production rates, fΛ0b/fd, of Λ 0b baryons and B 0 mesons are measured using Λ 0b → Λ +c π − and B¯0 →D+π− decays. The measurements use proton-proton collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1 fb−1 at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, recorded in the forward region with the LHCb experiment. The relative production rates are observed to depend on the transverse momentum, p T, and pseudorapidity, η, of the beauty hadron, in the studied kinematic region 1.5 < p T < 40 GeV/c and 2 < η < 5. Using a previous LHCb measurement of fΛ0b/fd in semileptonic decays, the branching fraction ℬ(Λ 0b → Λ +c π −) = (4.30 ± 0.03 + 0.12− 0.11 ± 0.26 ± 0.21) × 10− 3 is obtained, where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second is systematic, the third is from the previous LHCb measurement of fΛ0b/fd and the fourth is due to the b B¯0 →D+π− branching fraction. This is the most precise measurement of a Λ 0b branching fraction to date. |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2014)143 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10347/21935
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DOI: | 10.1007/JHEP08(2014)143 |
ISSN: | 1029-8479
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Rights: | © CERN, for the benefit of the LHCb Collaboration. Article funded by SCOAP3. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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