Observation of Two Excited B+c States and Measurement of the B+c(2S) Mass in pp Collisions at √s = 13  TeV
Physical Review Letters 2019
Viesturs Veckalns, et al 100

Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Signals consistent with the Bc+(2S) and Bc∗+(2S) states are observed in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV, in an event sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 143 fb-1, collected by the CMS experiment during the 2015-2018 LHC running periods. These excited bc states are observed in the Bc+π+π- invariant mass spectrum, with the ground state Bc+ reconstructed through its decay to J/ψπ+. The two states are reconstructed as two well-resolved peaks, separated in mass by 29.1±1.5(stat)±0.7(syst) MeV. The observation of two peaks, rather than one, is established with a significance exceeding five standard deviations. The mass of the Bc+(2S) meson is measured to be 6871.0±1.2(stat)±0.8(syst)±0.8(Bc+) MeV, where the last term corresponds to the uncertainty in the world-average Bc+ mass.


DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.132001
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https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.132001

Veckalns, V., 100, e. Observation of Two Excited B+c States and Measurement of the B+c(2S) Mass in pp Collisions at √s = 13  TeV. Physical Review Letters, 2019, Vol. 122, No. 13, pp.1-10. ISSN 0031-9007. e-ISSN 1079-7114. Available from: doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.132001

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