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Observation of Two Excited B$^+\mathrm{c}$ States and Measurement of the B$^+\mathrm{c}$(2S) Mass in pp Collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV

Sirunyan, Albert M
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Tumasyan, Armen
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Adam, Wolfgang
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April 3, 2019
Physical Review Letters

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 b¯c 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.

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