Search for the doubly charmed baryon Ξcc

R Aaij; B Adeva; M Adinolfi; C Adrover; A Affolder; Z Ajaltouni; J Albrecht; F Alessio; M Alexander; S Ali; G Alkhazov; P Alvarez Cartelle; AA Alves; S Amato; S Amerio; Y Amhis; L Anderlini; J Anderson; R Andreassen; JE Andrews; RB Appleby; O Aquines Gutierrez; F Archilli; A Artamonov; M Artuso; E Aslanides; G Auriemma; M Baalouch; S Bachmann; JJ Back; A Badalov; C Baesso; V Balagura; W Baldini; RJ Barlow; C Barschel; S Barsuk; W Barter; T Bauer; A Bay; J Beddow; F Bedeschi; I Bediaga; S Belogurov; K Belous; I Belyaev; E Ben-Haim; G Bencivenni; S Benson; J Benton; A Berezhnoy; R Bernet; MO Bettler; M Van Beuzekom; A Bien; S Bifani; T Bird; A Bizzeti; PM Bjørnstad; T Blake; F Blanc; J Blouw; S Blusk; V Bocci; A Bondar; N Bondar; W Bonivento; S Borghi; A Borgia; TJV Bowcock; E Bowen; C Bozzi; T Brambach; J Van Den Brand; J Bressieux; D Brett; M Britsch; T Britton; NH Brook; H Brown; A Bursche; G Busetto; J Buytaert; S Cadeddu; O Callot; M Calvi; M Calvo Gomez; A Camboni; P Campana; D Campora Perez; A Carbone; G Carboni; R Cardinale; A Cardini; H Carranza-Mejia; L Carson; K Carvalho Akiba; G Casse; L Castillo Garcia; M Cattaneo

Journal article

Search for the doubly charmed baryon Ξcc

R Aaij, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, C Adrover, A Affolder, Z Ajaltouni, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, S Ali, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, AA Alves, S Amato, S Amerio, Y Amhis, L Anderlini, J Anderson, R Andreassen, JE Andrews Show all

Journal of High Energy Physics | SPRINGER | Published : 2013

DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2013)090

Abstract

A search for the doubly charmed baryon Ξcc+ in the decay mode Ξcc+ → Λc +K-π+ is performed with a data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.65 fb-1, of pp collisions recorded at a centre-of-mass energy of 7TeV. No significant signal is found in the mass range 3300-3800 MeV/c2. Upper limits at the 95% confidence level on the ratio of the Ξcc+ production cross-section times branching fraction to that of the Λc +, R, are given as a function of the Ξcc+ mass and lifetime. The largest upper limits range from R < 1.5 × 10-2 for a lifetime of 100 fs to R < 3.9 × 10-4 for a lifetime of 400 fs. Copyright CERN.

University of Melbourne Researchers

Anna Phan Author

Grants

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 the LHCb institutes. We acknowledge support from CERN and from the national agencies: CAPES, CNPq, FAPERJ and FINEP (Brazil); NSFC (China); CNRS/IN2P3 and Region Auvergne (France); BMBF, DFG, HGF and MPG (Germany); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); FOM and NWO (The Netherlands); SCSR (Poland); MEN/IFA (Romania); MinES, Rosatom, RFBR and NRC "Kurchatov Institute" (Russia); MinECo, Xunta-Gal 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. The Tier1 computing centres are supported by IN2P3 (France), KIT and BMBF (Germany), INFN (Italy), NWO and SURF (The Netherlands), PIC (Spain), GridPP (United Kingdom). We are thankful for the computing resources put at our disposal by Yandex LLC (Russia), as well as to the communities behind the multiple open source software packages that we depend on.