Journal article
Measurement of relative branching fractions of B decays to ψ (2S) and J/ψ mesons
R Aaij, CA Beteta, A Adametz, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, C Adrover, A Affolder, Z Ajaltouni, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, S Ali, G Alkhazov, PA Cartelle, AA Alves, S Amato, Y Amhis, J Anderson, RB Appleby, OA Gutierrez Show all
European Physical Journal C | SPRINGER | Published : 2012
Abstract
The relative rates of B-meson decays into J/ψ and ψ(2S) mesons are measured for the three decay modes in pp collisions recorded with the LHCb detector. The ratios of branching fractions (B) are measured to be B(B+ → ψ(2S)K+)/B(B+ → J/ψK+) = 0.594 ± 0.006(stat) ± 0.016(syst) ± 0.015(Rψ), B(B0 → ψ(2S)K*0)/B(B0 → J/ψK*0) = 0.476 ± 0.014(stat) ± 0.010(syst) ± 0.012(Rψ), B(B0s →ψ(2S)φ)/B(B0s →J/ψφ) = 0.489 ± 0.026(stat) ± 0.021(syst) ± 0.012(Rψ), where the third uncertainty is from the ratio of the ψ(2S) and J/ψ branching fractions to μ+ μ−.
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Awarded by National Science Foundation
Funding Acknowledgements
We express our gratitude to our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC. We thank the technical and administrative staff at CERN and at the LHCb institutes, and acknowledge support from the National Agencies: CAPES, CNPq, FAPERJ and FINEP (Brazil); CERN; NSFC (China); CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, HGF and MPG (Germany); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); FOM and NWO (The Netherlands); SCSR (Poland); ANCS (Romania); MinES of Russia and Rosatom (Russia); MICINN, XuntaGal and GENCAT (Spain); SNSF and SER (Switzerland); NAS Ukraine (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); NSF (USA). We also acknowledge the support received from the ERC under FP7 and the Region Auvergne.