Search for the doubly heavy Ξbc0 {\Xi}_{bc}^0 baryon via decays to D0^{0}pK^{−}

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Sep 5, 2020

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Abstract: (Springer)
A search for the doubly heavy Ξbc0 {\Xi}_{bc}^0 baryon using its decay to the D0^{0}pK^{–} final state is performed using proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected by the LHCb experiment between 2016 and 2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.4 fb1^{−1}. No significant signal is found in the invariant mass range from 6.7 to 7.2 GeV/c2^{2}. Upper limits are set at 95% credibility level on the ratio of the Ξbc0 {\Xi}_{bc}^0 production cross-section times its branching fraction to D0^{0}pK^{−} relative to that of the Λb0D0pK {\Lambda}_b^0\to {D}^0{pK}^{-} decay. The limits are set as a function of the Ξbc0 {\Xi}_{bc}^0 mass and lifetime hypotheses, in the rapidity range from 2.0 to 4.5 and in the transverse momentum region from 5 to 25 GeV/c. Upper limits range from 1.7 × 102^{−2} to 3.0 × 101^{−1} for the considered Ξbc0 {\Xi}_{bc}^0 mass and lifetime hypotheses.[graphic not available: see fulltext]
Note:
  • B physics
  • Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
  • Heavy quark production
  • QCD
  • Spectroscopy
  • p p: scattering
  • p p: colliding beams
  • Xi/bc: hadroproduction
  • baryon: hadronic decay
  • baryon: lifetime