Study of Bc+ meson decays to charmonia plus multihadron final states

LHCb Collaboration

doi:10.1007/JHEP07(2023)198

Study of B_c⁺ meson decays to charmonia plus multihadron final states

LHCb Collaboration

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Abstract

Four decay modes of the B_c⁺ meson into a J/ψ meson and multiple charged kaons or pions are studied using proton-proton collision data, collected with the LHCb detector at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13 TeV and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 fb⁻¹. The decay B_c⁺→ J/ψK⁺K⁻π⁺π⁺π⁻ is observed for the first time, and evidence for the B_c⁺→ J/ψ4π⁺3π⁻ decay is found. The decay B_c⁺→ J/ψ3π⁺2π⁻ is observed and the previous observation of the B_c⁺→ ψ(2S)π⁺π⁺π⁻ decay is confirmed using the ψ(2S) → J/ψπ⁺π⁻ decay mode. Ratios of the branching fractions of these four B_c⁺ decay channels are measured.

Original language	English
Article number	198
Number of pages	25
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2023
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2023)198
Publication status	Published - 26 Jul 2023

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Funding Information:
We express our gratitude to our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC. We thank the technical and administrative staff at the LHCb institutes. We acknowledge support from CERN and from the national agencies: CAPES, CNPq, FAPERJ and FINEP (Brazil); MOST and NSFC (China); CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG and MPG (Germany); INFN (Italy); NWO (Netherlands); MNiSW and NCN (Poland); MEN/IFA (Romania); MICINN (Spain); SNSF and SER (Switzerland); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE NP and NSF (USA). We acknowledge the computing resources that are provided by CERN, IN2P3 (France), KIT and DESY (Germany), INFN (Italy), SURF (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), GridPP (United Kingdom), CSCS (Switzerland), IFIN-HH (Romania), CBPF (Brazil), Polish WLCG (Poland) and NERSC (USA). We are indebted to the communities behind the multiple open-source software packages on which we depend. Individual groups or members have received support from ARC and ARDC (Australia); Minciencias (Colombia); AvH Foundation (Germany); EPLANET, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and ERC (European Union); A*MIDEX, ANR, IPhU and Labex P2IO, and Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (France); Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS, CAS PIFI, CAS CCEPP, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and Sci. & Tech. Program of Guangzhou (China); GVA, XuntaGal, GENCAT and Prog. Atracción Talento, CM (Spain); SRC (Sweden); the Leverhulme Trust, the Royal Society and UKRI (United Kingdom).

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© The Author(s) 2023.

Keywords

B Physics
Hadron-Hadron Scattering
QCD
Spectroscopy

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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AU - Adinolfi, M.

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AU - Alexander, M.

AU - Alfonso Albero, A.

AU - Aliouche, Z.

AU - Alvarez Cartelle, P.

AU - Amalric, R.

AU - Amato, S.

AU - Amey, J. L.

AU - Amhis, Y.

AU - An, L.

AU - Anderlini, L.

AU - Andersson, M.

AU - Andreianov, A.

AU - Andreotti, M.

AU - Andreou, D.

AU - Ao, D.

AU - Archilli, F.

AU - Artamonov, A.

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AU - Aslanides, E.

AU - Bifani, S.

AU - Calladine, R.

AU - Cooke, N.

AU - Duk, V.

AU - Ilten, P.

AU - Johnson, D.

AU - Plews, J.

AU - Popov, D.

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AU - Sergi, A.

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