Precision measurement of the mass and lifetime of the Ξ0 b Baryon


Aaij R., Aaijsp R., Adeva B., Adinolfi M., Affolder A., Ajaltouni Z., ...Daha Fazla

Physical Review Letters, cilt.113, sa.3, 2014 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 113 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2014
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1103/physrevlett.113.032001
  • Dergi Adı: Physical Review Letters
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Manisa Celal Bayar Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Using a proton-proton collision data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb-1 collected by LHCb at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, about 3800 Ξ0b Ξ+ cπ-, Ξc+ pK-π+ signal decays are reconstructed. From this sample, the first measurement of the Ξ0 b baryon lifetime is made, relative to that of the Λ0 b baryon. The mass differences M(Ξ0 b) - M(Λ0 b) and M(Ξc+) - M(Λc+) are also measured with precision more than 4 times better than the current world averages. The resulting values are (Equation presented) where the first factor is the ratio of fragmentation fractions, b Ξ0 b relative to b Λ0 b. Relative production rates as functions of transverse momentum and pseudorapidity are also presented.