Evidence for the two-body charmless baryonic decay {B}+\to p\overline{Λ}

A search for the rare two-body charmless baryonic decay {B}+\to p\overline{Λ} is performed with pp collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb-1, collected by the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. An excess of {B}+\to p\overline{Λ} candidates with respe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Camboni, Alessandro, Coquereau, Samuel, Garrido Beltrán, Lluís, Gascón Fora, David, Graciani Díaz, Ricardo, Graugés Pous, Eugeni, Marin Benito, Carla, Picatoste Olloqui, Eduardo, Rives Molina, Vicente José, LHCb Collaboration
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/186425
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/186425
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Hadrons
Gran Col·lisionador d'Hadrons
Física de partícules
Experiments
Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland)
Particle physics
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Sumario:A search for the rare two-body charmless baryonic decay {B}+\to p\overline{Λ} is performed with pp collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb-1, collected by the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. An excess of {B}+\to p\overline{Λ} candidates with respect to background expectations is seen with a statistical significance of 4.1 standard deviations, and constitutes the first evidence for this decay. The branching fraction, measured using the B + → K S 0 π + decay for normalisation, is {B}({B}+\to p\overline{Λ})=(2.{4}_{-0.8}^{+1.0}± 0.3)× 1{0}^{-7}, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic.