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First Observation of the Rare Purely Baryonic Decay &ITB&IT0 -> &ITp&IT$(&ITp&IT)over-bar-$

Aaij, R.
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Adeva, B.
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Adinolfi, M.
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2017
Physical Review Letters

The first observation of the decay of a B0 meson to a purely baryonic final state, B-0 -> p$(p)over-bar-$ , is reported. The proton-proton collision data sample used was collected with the LHCb experiment at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb(-1). The branching fraction is determined to be B(B-0 -> p$(p)over-bar-$) = (1.25 +/- 0.27 +/- 0.18) x 10(-8), where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. The decay mode B-0 -> p$(p)over-bar-$ is the rarest decay of the B-0 meson observed to date. The decay B-s(0 )-> p$(p)over-bar-$ is also investigated. No signal is seen and the upper limit B(B-s(0) -> p$(p)over-bar-$) < 1.5 x 10(-8) at 90% confidence level is set on the branching fraction.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.232001
Web of Science ID

WOS:000416947500004

Author(s)
Aaij, R.
Adeva, B.
Adinolfi, M.
Ajaltouni, Z.
Akar, S.
Albrecht, J.
Alessio, F.
Alexander, M.
Alfonso Albero, A.
Ali, S.
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Corporate authors
LHCb Collaboration
Date Issued

2017

Published in
Physical Review Letters
Volume

119

Issue

23

Article Number

232001

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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January 15, 2018
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