TY - JOUR
T1 - Measurement of the mass difference and relative production rate of the Ωb- and Ξb- baryons
AU - Aaij, R.
AU - Abdelmotteleb, A. S.W.
AU - Beteta, C. Abellan
AU - Abudinén, F.
AU - Ackernley, T.
AU - Adeva, B.
AU - Adinolfi, M.
AU - Adlarson, P.
AU - Afsharnia, H.
AU - Agapopoulou, C.
AU - Aidala, C. A.
AU - Ajaltouni, Z.
AU - Akar, S.
AU - Akiba, K.
AU - Albicocco, P.
AU - Albrecht, J.
AU - Alessio, F.
AU - Alexander, M.
AU - Albero, A. Alfonso
AU - Aliouche, Z.
AU - Cartelle, P. Alvarez
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.
AU - Artuso, M.
AU - Aslanides, E.
AU - Atzeni, M.
AU - Audurier, B.
AU - Perea, I. B.Bachiller
AU - Bachmann, S.
AU - Bachmayer, M.
AU - Back, J. J.
AU - Bailly-Reyre, A.
AU - Rodriguez, P. Baladron
AU - Balagura, V.
AU - Baldini, W.
AU - Leite, J. Baptista De Souza
AU - Barbetti, M.
AU - Barlow, R. J.
AU - Barsuk, S.
AU - LHCb collaboration
AU - da silva Bolognani, Carolina
AU - Cámpora Pérez, Daniel Hugo
AU - de Vries, Jacco
AU - Lucio Martinez, Miriam
AU - Merk, Marcel
AU - Nicotra, Davide
AU - Pawley, Chris
AU - Vos, Keri
N1 - 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 Sklodowska-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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PY - 2023/9/18
Y1 - 2023/9/18
N2 - The mass difference between the Ω−b and Ξ−b baryons is measured using proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 fb−1, and is found to be m(Ω−b)−m(Ξ−b)=248.54±0.51(stat)±0.38(syst) MeV/c2. The mass of the Ω−b baryon is measured to be m(Ω−b)=6045.9±0.5(stat)±0.6(syst) MeV/c2. This is the most precise determination of the Ω−b mass to date. In addition, the production rate of Ω−b baryons relative to that of Ξ−b baryons is measured for the first time in pp collisions, using an LHCb dataset collected at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 6 fb−1. Reconstructing beauty baryons in the kinematic region 2<η<6 and pT<20 GeV/c with their decays to a J/ψ meson and a hyperon, the ratio fΩ−bfΞ−b×B(Ω−b→J/ψΩ−)B(Ξ−b→J/ψΞ−)=0.120±0.008(stat)±0.008(syst), is obtained, where fΩ−b and fΞ−b are the fragmentation fractions of b quarks into Ω−b and Ξ−b baryons, respectively, and B represents the branching fractions of their respective decays.
AB - The mass difference between the Ω−b and Ξ−b baryons is measured using proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 fb−1, and is found to be m(Ω−b)−m(Ξ−b)=248.54±0.51(stat)±0.38(syst) MeV/c2. The mass of the Ω−b baryon is measured to be m(Ω−b)=6045.9±0.5(stat)±0.6(syst) MeV/c2. This is the most precise determination of the Ω−b mass to date. In addition, the production rate of Ω−b baryons relative to that of Ξ−b baryons is measured for the first time in pp collisions, using an LHCb dataset collected at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 6 fb−1. Reconstructing beauty baryons in the kinematic region 2<η<6 and pT<20 GeV/c with their decays to a J/ψ meson and a hyperon, the ratio fΩ−bfΞ−b×B(Ω−b→J/ψΩ−)B(Ξ−b→J/ψΞ−)=0.120±0.008(stat)±0.008(syst), is obtained, where fΩ−b and fΞ−b are the fragmentation fractions of b quarks into Ω−b and Ξ−b baryons, respectively, and B represents the branching fractions of their respective decays.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.052008
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.052008
M3 - Article
SN - 1550-7998
VL - 108
JO - Physical Review D
JF - Physical Review D
IS - 5
M1 - 052008
ER -