Measurement of the Λb lifetime in the exclusive decay Λb→J/ψΛ

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作者
Abazov, V. M. [1 ]
Abbott, B.
Abolins, M.
Acharya, B. S.
Adams, M.
Adams, T.
Aguilo, E.
Ahn, S. H.
Ahsan, M.
Alexeev, G. D.
Alkhazov, G.
Alton, A.
Alverson, G.
Alves, G. A.
Anastasoaie, M.
Ancu, L. S.
Andeen, T.
Anderson, S.
Andrieu, B.
Anzelc, M. S.
Arnoud, Y.
Arov, M.
Arthaud, M.
Askew, A.
Asman, B.
Assis Jesus, A. C. S.
Atramentov, O.
Autermann, C.
Avila, C.
Ay, C.
Badaud, F.
Baden, A.
Bagby, L.
Baldin, B.
Bandurin, D. V.
Banerjee, P.
Banerjee, S.
Barberis, E.
Barfuss, A.-F.
Bargassa, P.
Baringer, P.
Barreto, J.
Bartlett, J. F.
Bassler, U.
Bauer, D.
Beale, S.
Bean, A.
Begalli, M.
Begel, M.
Belanger-Champagne, C.
机构
[1] Univ Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina
[2] Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, LAFEX, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[3] Univ Estado Rio de Janerio, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[4] Univ Estadual Paulista, Inst Fis Teor, BR-01405 Sao Paulo, Brazil
[5] Univ Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
[6] Simon Fraser Univ, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
[7] York Univ, Toronto, ON M3J 2R7, Canada
[8] McGill Univ, Montreal, PQ, Canada
[9] Univ Sci & Technol China, Hefei 230026, Peoples R China
[10] Univ Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
[11] Charles Univ Prague, Ctr Particle Phys, Prague, Czech Republic
[12] Czech Tech Univ, CR-16635 Prague, Czech Republic
[13] Acad Sci Czech Republic, Inst Phys, Ctr Particle Phys, Prague, Czech Republic
[14] Univ San Francisco Quito, Quito, Ecuador
[15] Univ Clermont Ferrand, CNRS, IN2P3, Phys Corpusculaire Lab, Clermont Ferrand, France
[16] Univ Grenoble 1, CNRS, IN2P3, Lab Phys Subatom & Cosmol, Grenoble, France
[17] Univ Aix Marseille 2, CNRS, IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France
[18] Univ Paris 11, Lab Accelerateur Lineaire, Orsay, France
[19] CNRS, Lab Accelerateur Lineaire, IN2P3, Orsay, France
[20] Univ Paris 06, CNRS, IN2P3, LPNHE, Paris, France
[21] Univ Paris 07, CNRS, IN2P3, LPNHE, Paris, France
[22] Univ Haute Alsace, CNRS, IN2P3, Strasbourg, France
[23] Univ Strasbourg 1, IPHC, Strasbourg, France
[24] Univ Lyon, Lyon, France
[25] Univ Lyon 1, CNRS, IN2P3, IPNL, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
[26] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-5100 Aachen, Germany
[27] Univ Bonn, Inst Phys, D-5300 Bonn, Germany
[28] Univ Freiburg, Inst Phys, Freiburg, Germany
[29] Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Inst Phys, D-6500 Mainz, Germany
[30] Univ Munich, Munich, Germany
[31] Univ Wuppertal, Fachbereich Phys, Wuppertal, Germany
[32] Panjab Univ, Chandigarh 160014, India
[33] Univ Delhi, Delhi 110007, India
[34] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Bombay 400005, Maharashtra, India
[35] Univ Coll Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
[36] Korea Univ, Korea Detector Lab, Seoul 136701, South Korea
[37] Sungkyunkwan Univ, Suwon, South Korea
[38] CINVESTAV, Mexico City 14000, DF, Mexico
[39] Univ Amsterdam, NIKHEF H, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[40] Inst NIKHEF, FOM, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[41] Univ Nijmegen St Radboud Hosp, NIKHEF H, NL-6500 HB Nijmegen, Netherlands
[42] Joint Inst Nucl Res, Dubna, Russia
[43] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[44] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow, Russia
[45] Inst High Energy Phys, Protvino, Russia
[46] Petersburg Nucl Phys Inst, St Petersburg, Russia
[47] Stockholm Univ, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[48] Royal Inst Technol, Stockholm, Sweden
[49] Lund Univ, Lund, Sweden
[50] Uppsala Univ, Uppsala, Sweden
基金
英国科学技术设施理事会;
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.142001
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We have measured the Lambda(b) lifetime using the exclusive decay Lambda(b)-> J/psi Lambda, based on 1.2 fb(-1) of data collected with the D0 detector during 2002-2006. From 171 reconstructed Lambda(b) decays, where the J/psi and Lambda are identified via the decays J/psi ->mu(+)mu(-) and Lambda -> p pi, we measured the Lambda(b) lifetime to be tau(Lambda(b))=1.218(-0.115)(+0.130)(stat)+/- 0.042(syst) ps. We also measured the B-0 lifetime in the decay B-0 -> J/psi(mu(+)mu(-))K-S(0)(pi(+)pi(-)) to be tau(B-0)=1.501(-0.074)(+0.078)(stat)+/- 0.050(syst) ps, yielding a lifetime ratio of tau(Lambda(b))/tau(B-0)=0.811(-0.087)(+0.096)(stat)+/- 0.034(syst).
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