First evidence for the two-body charmless baryonic decay B0 → pp̄

The LHCb Collaboration

doi:10.1007/JHEP10(2013)005

First evidence for the two-body charmless baryonic decay B⁰ → pp̄

The LHCb Collaboration

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Abstract

The results of a search for the rare two-body charmless baryonic decays B⁰ → pp̄ and B⁰_s → pp̄ are reported. The analysis uses a data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.9 fb^-1, of pp collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. An excess of B⁰ → pp̄ candidates with respect to background expectations is seen with a statistical significance of 3.3 standard deviations. This is the first evidence for a two-body charmless baryonic B⁰ decay. No significant B⁰_s → pp̄ signal is observed, leading to an improvement of three orders of magnitude over previous bounds. If the excess events are interpreted as signal, the 68.3% confidence level intervals on the branching fractions are (Equation) where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic.

Original language	English
Article number	5
Number of pages	17
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2013
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2013)005
Publication status	Published - Oct 2013
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

B physics
Branching fraction
Flavor physics
Hadron-Hadron scattering
QCD

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N2 - The results of a search for the rare two-body charmless baryonic decays B0 → pp̄ and B0s → pp̄ are reported. The analysis uses a data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.9 fb-1, of pp collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. An excess of B0 → pp̄ candidates with respect to background expectations is seen with a statistical significance of 3.3 standard deviations. This is the first evidence for a two-body charmless baryonic B0 decay. No significant B0s → pp̄ signal is observed, leading to an improvement of three orders of magnitude over previous bounds. If the excess events are interpreted as signal, the 68.3% confidence level intervals on the branching fractions are (Equation) where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic.

AB - The results of a search for the rare two-body charmless baryonic decays B0 → pp̄ and B0s → pp̄ are reported. The analysis uses a data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.9 fb-1, of pp collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. An excess of B0 → pp̄ candidates with respect to background expectations is seen with a statistical significance of 3.3 standard deviations. This is the first evidence for a two-body charmless baryonic B0 decay. No significant B0s → pp̄ signal is observed, leading to an improvement of three orders of magnitude over previous bounds. If the excess events are interpreted as signal, the 68.3% confidence level intervals on the branching fractions are (Equation) where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic.

KW - B physics

KW - Branching fraction

KW - Flavor physics

KW - Hadron-Hadron scattering

KW - QCD

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