Precision measurement of the Bc+ meson mass

LHCb Collaboration

doi:10.1007/JHEP07(2020)123

Precision measurement of the Bc+ meson mass

LHCb Collaboration

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Abstract

A precision measurement of the Bc+ meson mass is performed using proton- proton collision data collected with the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8 and 13 TeV, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 9.0 fb⁻¹. The Bc+ mesons are reconstructed via the decays Bc+→ J/ψπ⁺, Bc+→ J/ψπ⁺π⁻π⁺, Bc+→J/ψpp¯π+, Bc+→J/ψDs+, Bc+→ J/ψ D⁰K⁺ and Bc+→Bs0π+. Combining the results of the individual decay channels, the Bc+ mass is measured to be 6274.47 ± 0.27 (stat) ± 0.17 (syst) MeV/c². This is the most precise measurement of the Bc+ mass to date. The difference between the Bc+ and Bs0 meson masses is measured to be 907.75 ± 0.37 (stat) ± 0.27 (syst) MeV/c. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]

Original language	English
Article number	123
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2020
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2020)123
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2020

Keywords

B physics
Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
QCD
Spectroscopy

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Precision measurement of the Bc+ meson mass

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