Measurement of b-hadron branching fractions for two-body decays into charmless charged hadrons

Aaij, R. et al. (2012) Measurement of b-hadron branching fractions for two-body decays into charmless charged hadrons. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012(37), (doi: 10.1007/JHEP10(2012)037)

Abstract

Based on data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.37 fb−1 collected by the LHCb experiment in 2011, the following ratios of branching fractions are measured: B(B0→π+π−)/B(B0→K+π−)=0.262±0.009±0.017,(fs/fd)⋅B(B0s→K+K−)/B(B0→K+π−)=0.316±0.009±0.019,(fs/fd)⋅B(B0s→π+K−)/B(B0→K+π−)=0.074±0.006±0.006,(fd/fs)⋅B(B0→K+K−)/B(B0s→K+K−)=0.018+0.008−0.007±0.009,(fs/fd)⋅B(B0s→π+π−)/B(B0→π+π−)=0.050+0.011−0.009±0.004,B(Λ0b→pπ−)/B(Λ0b→pK−)=0.86±0.08±0.05, where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second systematic. Using the current world average of B(B0→K+π−) and the ratio of the strange to light neutral B meson production f s /f d measured by LHCb, we obtain: B(B0→π+π−)=(5.08±0.17±0.37)×10−6,B(B0s→K+K−)=(23.0±0.7±2.3)×10−6,B(B0s→π+K−)=(5.4±0.4±0.6)×10−6,B(B0→K+K−)=(0.11+0.05−0.04±0.06)×10−6,B(B0s→π+π−)=(0.95+0.21−0.17±0.13)×10−6. The measurements of B(B0s→K+K−) , B(B0s→π+K−) and B(B0→K+K−) are the most precise to date. The decay mode B0s→π+π− is observed for the first time with a significance of more than 5σ.

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• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Pappagallo, Dr Marco and Alexander, Dr Michael and Spradlin, Dr Patrick and MacRaighne, Dr Aaron and Rodrigues, Dr Eduardo and Bates, Mrs Alison and Soler, Professor Paul and Borghi, Dr Silvia and Plackett, Dr Richard and Eklund, Prof Lars
• Authors: Aaij, R., Abellan Beteta, C., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Adrover, C., Affolder, A., Ajaltouni, Z., Albrecht, J., Alessio, F., Alexander, M., Ali, S., Alkhazov, G., Alvarez Cartelle, P., Alves, A. A., Amato, S., Amhis, Y., Anderson, J., Appleby, R. B., Aquines Gutierrez, O., Archilli, F., Artamonov, A., Artuso, M., Aslanides, E., Auriemma, G., Bachmann, S., Back, J. J., Balagura, V., Baldini, W., Barlow, R. J., Barschel, C., Barsuk, S., Barter, W., Bates, A., Bauer, C., Bauer, T., Bay, A., Bediaga, I., Belogurov, S., Belous, K., Belyaev, I., Ben-Haim, E., Benayoun, M., Bencivenni, G., Benson, S., Benton, J., Bernet, R., Bettler, M.-O., Beuzekom, M., Bien, A., Bifani, S., Bird, T., Bizzeti, A., Bjørnstad, P. M., Blake, T., Blanc, F., Blanks, C., Blouw, J., Blusk, S., Bobrov, A., Bocci, V., Bondar, A., Bondar, N., Bonivento, W., Borghi, S., Borgia, A., Bowcock, T. J. V., Bozzi, C., Brambach, T., Brand, J., Bressieux, J., Brett, D., Britsch, M., Britton, T., Brook, N. H., Brown, H., Bruyn, K., Büchler-Germann, A., Burducea, I., Bursche, A., Buytaert, J., Cadeddu, S., Callot, O., Calvi, M., Calvo Gomez, M., Camboni, A., Campana, P., Carbone, A., Carboni, G., Cardinale, R., Cardini, A., Carson, L., Carvalho Akiba, K., Casse, G., Cattaneo, M., Cauet, C., Charles, M., Charpentier, P., Chiapolini, N., Ciba, K., Cid Vidal, X., Ciezarek, G., Clarke, P. E. L., Clemencic, M., Cliff, H. V., Closier, J., Coca, C., Coco, V., Cogan, J., Collins, P., Comerma-Montells, A., Contu, A., Cook, A., Coombes, M., Corti, G., Couturier, B., Cowan, G. A., Currie, R., D’Ambrosio, C., David, P., David, P. N. Y., Bonis, I., Capua, S., Cian, M., Miranda, J. 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• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
• Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics
• Publisher: Springer
• ISSN: 1029-8479
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2012 CERN, for the benefit of the LHCb collaboration
• First Published: First published in Journal of High Energy Physics 2012:37
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