Study of excited Lambda(0)(b) states decaying to Lambda(0)(b)pi(+)pi(-) in proton-proton collisions at root s=13TeV

Abstract

A study of excited ({\Lambda }{b}^{0}) baryons is reported, based on a data sample collected in 2016–2018 with the CMS detector at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of up to 140(\phantom{\rule{0.2em}{0ex}}{\text{fb}}^{-1}). The existence of four excited ({\Lambda }{b}^{0}) states: ({\Lambda }{b}^{0}{\left(5912\right)}^{0}), ({\Lambda }{b}^{0}{\left(5920\right)}^{0}), ({\Lambda }{b}^{0}{\left(6146\right)}^{0}), and ({\Lambda }{b}^{0}{\left(6152\right)}^{0}) in the ({\Lambda }{b}^{0}{\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}) mass spectrum is confirmed, and their masses are measured. The ({\Lambda }{b}^{0}{\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}) mass distribution exhibits a broad excess of events in the region of 6040–6100 MeV, whose origin cannot be discerned with the present data.

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Keywords
CMS, Physics, Beauty baryon, Heavy baryon, Heavy flavor, Flavor spectroscopy, Experimental results, QED RADIATIVE-CORRECTIONS, UNIVERSAL MONTE-CARLO, HEAVY BARYONS, QUARK-MODEL, PHOTOS, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Physics, Nuclear, Physics, Particles & Fields
Citation
Sirunyan, A. M., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Ambrogi, F., Bergauer, T., Dragicevic, M., Erö, J., Escalante Del Valle, A., Flechl, M., Frühwirth, R., Jeitler, M., Krammer, N., Krätschmer, I., Liko, D., Madlener, T., Mikulec, I., Rad, N., Schieck, J., Schöfbeck, R., … Trembath-reichert, S. (2020). Study of excited Λb0 states decaying to Λb0π+π− in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=13TeV. In Physics Letters B (Vol. 803, p. 135345). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135345