Evidence for the decay B-c(+) -> J/psi 3 pi(+)2 pi(-)

  • R. Aaij*
  • , B. Adeva
  • , M. Adinolfi
  • , A. Affolder
  • , Z. Ajaltouni
  • , J. Albrecht
  • , F. Alessio
  • , M. Alexander
  • , S. Ali
  • , G. Alkhazov
  • , P. Alvarez Cartelle
  • , A. A. Alves
  • , S. Amato
  • , S. Amerio
  • , Y. Amhis
  • , L. An
  • , L. Anderlini
  • , J. Anderson
  • , R. Andreassen
  • , M. Andreotti
  • J. E. Andrews, R. B. Appleby, O. Aquines Gutierrez, F. Archilli, A. Artamonov, M. Artuso, E. Aslanides, G. Auriemma, M. Baalouch, S. Bachmann, J. J. Back, A. Badalov, V. Balagura, W. Baldini, R. J. Barlow, C. Barschel, S. Barsuk, W. Barter, V. Batozskaya, Th. Bauer, A. Bay, J. Beddow, F. Bedeschi, I. Bediaga, S. Belogurov, K. Belous, I. Belyaev, E. Ben-Haim, G. Onderwater, A. Pellegrino, LHCb Collaboration
*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Evidence is presented for the decay B-c(+) -> J/psi 3 pi(+)2 pi(-) using proton-proton collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb(-1), collected with the LHCb detector. A signal yield of 32 +/- 8 decays is found with a significance of 4.5 standard deviations. The ratio of the branching fraction of the B-c(+) -> J/psi 3 pi(+)2 pi(-) decay to that of the B-c(+) -> J/psi pi(+) decay is measured to be B(B-c(+) -> J/psi 3 pi(+)2 pi(-))/B(B-c(+) -> J/psi pi(+)) = 1.74 +/- 0.44 +/- 0.24, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic.

Original languageEnglish
Article number148
Number of pages17
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30-May-2014

Keywords

  • Hadron-Hadron Scattering
  • QCD
  • Branching fraction
  • B physics
  • Flavor physics
  • B-C MESON
  • PP COLLISIONS
  • TEV
  • TOOL

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