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Precision measurement of the B-c(+) meson mass

Lesya Shchutska, Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Yiming Li, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Christoph Frei, Tatsuya Nakada, Michel De Cian, Elena Graverini, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, François Fleuret, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Minh Tâm Tran, Pietro Marino, Renato Quagliani, Federico Leo Redi, Federico Betti, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Guido Andreassi, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Violaine Bellée, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Maria Vieites Diaz, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Preema Rennee Pais, Katharina Müller, Pavol Stefko, Tara Nanut, Elisabeth Maria Niel, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Jian Wang, Vladimir Macko, Mingkui Wang, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Zhirui Xu, Sebastian Schulte, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Yi Zhang, Surapat Ek-In, Lei Zhang, Carina Trippl, Ho Ling Li, Sara Celani, Mark Tobin, Serhii Cholak, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Niko Neufeld, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Matthew Needham, Marc-Olivier Bettler, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Mirco Dorigo, Xiaoxue Han, Liupan An, Thibaud Humair, Maxime Schubiger, Hang Yin, Yao Zhou, Tommaso Colombo, Evgenii Shmanin, Simone Meloni, Xiaoqing Zhou, Marco Guarise, Dipanwita Dutta, Zheng Wang, Yi Wang, Hans Dijkstra, Gerhard Raven, Peter Clarke, Frédéric Teubert, Giovanni Carboni, Victor Coco, Adam Davis, Paolo Durante, Wenyu Zhang, Yu Zheng, Anton Petrov, Maxim Borisyak, Feng Jiang, Zhipeng Tang, Xuan Li, Alexey Boldyrev, Almagul Kondybayeva, Hossein Afsharnia
2020
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Abstract

A precision measurement of the B-c(+) meson mass is performed using proton- proton collision data collected with the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8 and 13 TeV, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 9.0 fb(-1). The B-c(+) mesons are reconstructed via the decays B-c(+)-> J/psi pi(+), B-c(+)-> J/psi pi(+)pi(-)pi(+), B-c(+)-> J/psi pppi(+), B-c(+)-> J/psi D-s(+), B-c(+)-> J/psi (DK+)-K-0 and B-c(+)-> B-s(0)pi(+). Combining the results of the individual decay channels, the B-c(+) mass is measured to be 6274.47 +/- 0.27 (stat) +/- 0.17 (syst) MeV/c(2). This is the most precise measurement of the B-c(+) mass to date. The difference between the B-c(+) and B-s(0) meson masses is measured to be 907.75 +/- 0.37 (stat) +/- 0.27 (syst) MeV/c(2).

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