TY - JOUR
T1 - Observation of the Λb 0→Λφ decay
AU - The LHCb collaboration
AU - Aaij, R.
AU - Abellán Beteta, C.
AU - Adeva, B.
AU - Adinolfi, M.
AU - Ajaltouni, Z.
AU - Akar, S.
AU - Albrecht, J.
AU - Alessio, F.
AU - Alexander, M.
AU - Ali, S.
AU - Alkhazov, G.
AU - Alvarez Cartelle, P.
AU - Alves, A. A.
AU - Amato, S.
AU - Amerio, S.
AU - Amhis, Y.
AU - An, L.
AU - Anderlini, L.
AU - Andreassi, G.
AU - Andreotti, M.
AU - Andrews, J. E.
AU - Appleby, R. B.
AU - Aquines Gutierrez, O.
AU - Archilli, F.
AU - d'Argent, P.
AU - Artamonov, A.
AU - Artuso, M.
AU - Aslanides, E.
AU - Auriemma, G.
AU - Baalouch, M.
AU - Bachmann, S.
AU - Back, J. J.
AU - Badalov, A.
AU - Baesso, C.
AU - Baker, S.
AU - Baldini, W.
AU - Barlow, R. J.
AU - Barschel, C.
AU - Barsuk, S.
AU - Barter, W.
AU - Batozskaya, V.
AU - Battista, V.
AU - Bay, A.
AU - Beaucourt, L.
AU - Beddow, J.
AU - Bedeschi, F.
AU - Bediaga, I.
AU - Bel, L. J.
AU - Calvo Gomez, M.
AU - Vilasis-Cardona, X.
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); NSFC (China); CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF , DFG and MPG (Germany); INFN (Italy); FOM and NWO (The Netherlands); MNiSW and NCN (Poland); MEN/IFA (Romania); MinES and FANO (Russia); MinECo (Spain); SNSF and SER (Switzerland); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); NSF (USA). We acknowledge the computing resources that are provided by CERN, IN2P3 (France), KIT and DESY (Germany), INFN (Italy), SURF (The Netherlands), PIC (Spain), GridPP (United Kingdom), RRCKI and Yandex LLC (Russia), CSCS (Switzerland), IFIN-HH (Romania), CBPF (Brazil), PL-GRID (Poland) and OSC (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 AvH Foundation (Germany), EPLANET , Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and ERC (European Union), Conseil Général de Haute-Savoie , Labex ENIGMASS and OCEVU , Région Auvergne (France), RFBR and Yandex LLC (Russia), GVA , XuntaGal and GENCAT (Spain), Herchel Smith Fund , The Royal Society , Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 and the Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 The Author.
PY - 2016/8/10
Y1 - 2016/8/10
N2 - The Λb 0→Λφ decay is observed using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb-1 recorded by the LHCb experiment. The decay proceeds at leading order via a b→sss loop transition and is therefore sensitive to the possible presence of particles beyond the Standard Model. A first observation is reported with a significance of 5.9 standard deviations. The value of the branching fraction is measured to be (5.18±1.04±0.35-0.62 +0.67)×10-6, where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second is systematic, and the third is related to external inputs. Triple-product asymmetries are measured to be consistent with zero.
AB - The Λb 0→Λφ decay is observed using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb-1 recorded by the LHCb experiment. The decay proceeds at leading order via a b→sss loop transition and is therefore sensitive to the possible presence of particles beyond the Standard Model. A first observation is reported with a significance of 5.9 standard deviations. The value of the branching fraction is measured to be (5.18±1.04±0.35-0.62 +0.67)×10-6, where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second is systematic, and the third is related to external inputs. Triple-product asymmetries are measured to be consistent with zero.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.05.077
DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.05.077
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84973304971
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 759
SP - 282
EP - 292
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
ER -