A search for the rare two-body charmless baryonic decay B+→ pΛ¯ 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+→pΛ¯ 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+→KS0π+ decay for normalisation,(Formula Presented.)where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].

Aaij, R., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Ajaltouni, Z., Akar, S., Albrecht, J., et al. (2017). Evidence for the two-body charmless baryonic decay B+→ pΛ¯. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2017(4) [10.1007/JHEP04(2017)162].

Evidence for the two-body charmless baryonic decay B+→ pΛ¯

Belloli, N.;Borgheresi, A.;Borsato, M.;Calvi, M.;Carniti, P.;Cassina, L.;Fazzini, D.;Gotti, C.
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Grillo, L.;Martinelli, M.;Matteuzzi, C.;Petruzzo, M.;
2017

Abstract

A search for the rare two-body charmless baryonic decay B+→ pΛ¯ 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+→pΛ¯ 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+→KS0π+ decay for normalisation,(Formula Presented.)where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].
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B physics; Branching fraction; Flavor physics; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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2017
2017
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Aaij, R., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Ajaltouni, Z., Akar, S., Albrecht, J., et al. (2017). Evidence for the two-body charmless baryonic decay B+→ pΛ¯. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2017(4) [10.1007/JHEP04(2017)162].
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