@article{de497229a781439298825d32b98614e1,
title = "Observation of the Ξb −→J/ψΛK− decay",
abstract = "The observation of the decay Ξb −→J/ψΛK− is reported, using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3fb−1, collected by the LHCb detector in pp collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8TeV. The production rate of Ξb − baryons detected in the decay Ξb −→J/ψΛK− is measured relative to that of Λb 0 baryons using the decay Λb 0→J/ψΛ. Integrated over the b-baryon transverse momentum pT<25GeV/c and rapidity 2.0−2, where fΞb − and fΛb 0 are the fragmentation fractions of b→Ξb − and b→Λb 0 transitions, and B represents the branching fraction of the corresponding b-baryon decay. The mass difference between Ξb − and Λb 0 baryons is measured to be M(Ξb −)−M(Λb 0)=177.08±0.47 (stat)±0.16 (syst)MeV/c2.",
author = "{The LHCb collaboration} and R. Aaij and B. Adeva and M. Adinolfi and Z. Ajaltouni and S. Akar and J. Albrecht and F. Alessio and M. Alexander and S. Ali and G. Alkhazov and {Alvarez Cartelle}, P. and Alves, {A. A.} and S. Amato and S. Amerio and Y. Amhis and L. An and L. Anderlini and G. Andreassi and M. Andreotti and Andrews, {J. E.} and Appleby, {R. B.} and F. Archilli and P. d'Argent and {Arnau Romeu}, J. and A. Artamonov and M. Artuso and E. Aslanides and G. Auriemma and M. Baalouch and I. Babuschkin and S. Bachmann and Back, {J. J.} and A. Badalov and C. Baesso and S. Baker and V. Balagura and W. Baldini and Barlow, {R. J.} and C. Barschel and S. Barsuk and W. Barter and F. Baryshnikov and M. Baszczyk and V. Batozskaya and B. Batsukh and V. Battista and A. Bay and L. Beaucourt and {Calvo Gomez}, M. and X. Vilasis-Cardona",
note = "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 FASO (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 Sk{\l}odowska-Curie Actions and ERC (European Union), Conseil G{\'e}n{\'e}ral de Haute-Savoie , Labex ENIGMASS and OCEVU , R{\'e}gion 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: {\textcopyright} 2017 The Author(s)",
year = "2017",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/j.physletb.2017.06.045",
language = "English",
volume = "772",
pages = "265--273",
journal = "Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics",
issn = "0370-2693",
publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",
}