The Cabibbo-suppressed semileptonic decay B+→ pp¯ μ+νμ is observed for the first time using a sample of pp collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0, 2.0 and 1.7 fb−1 at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8 and 13 TeV, respectively. The differential branching fraction is measured as a function of the pp¯ invariant mass using the decay mode B+→ J/ψK+ for normalisation. The total branching fraction is measured to be ℬ(B+→pp¯μ+νμ)=(5.27−0.24+0.23±0.21±0.15)×10−6, where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second systematic and the third is from the uncertainty on the branching fraction of the normalisation channel. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]

Aaij, R., Abellan Beteta, C., Ackernley, T., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Afsharnia, H., et al. (2020). Observation of the semileptonic decay B+→ pp¯ μ+νμ. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2020(3) [10.1007/JHEP03(2020)146].

Observation of the semileptonic decay B+→ pp¯ μ+νμ

Borsato M.;Calvi M.;Carniti P.;Fazzini D.;Gotti C.;Martinazzoli L.;Martinelli M.;Meloni S.;Petruzzo M.;
2020

Abstract

The Cabibbo-suppressed semileptonic decay B+→ pp¯ μ+νμ is observed for the first time using a sample of pp collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0, 2.0 and 1.7 fb−1 at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8 and 13 TeV, respectively. The differential branching fraction is measured as a function of the pp¯ invariant mass using the decay mode B+→ J/ψK+ for normalisation. The total branching fraction is measured to be ℬ(B+→pp¯μ+νμ)=(5.27−0.24+0.23±0.21±0.15)×10−6, where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second systematic and the third is from the uncertainty on the branching fraction of the normalisation channel. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
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B physics; Branching fraction; Flavor physics; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
English
2020
2020
3
146
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Aaij, R., Abellan Beteta, C., Ackernley, T., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Afsharnia, H., et al. (2020). Observation of the semileptonic decay B+→ pp¯ μ+νμ. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2020(3) [10.1007/JHEP03(2020)146].
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