Observation of B-c( ) -> J/ psi D-s( ) and B-c( ) -> J/ psi D-s*( ) decays

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Journal article

Observation of B-c( ) -> J/ psi D-s( ) and B-c( ) -> J/ psi D-s*( ) decays

R Aaij, C Abellan Beteta, 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 Show all

Physical Review D | AMER PHYSICAL SOC | Published : 2013

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.112012

University of Melbourne Researchers

Anna Phan Author Physics

Grants

Awarded by Science and Technology Facilities Council

Funding Acknowledgements

We thank A. Luchinsky and A. K. Likhoded for advice on aspects of B<INF>c</INF><SUP>+</SUP> physics. 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 (Netherlands); SCSR (Poland); ANCS/IFA (Romania); MinES, Rosatom, RFBR and NRC "Kurchatov Institute" (Russia); MinECo, 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. The Tier1 computing centres are supported by IN2P3 (France), KIT and BMBF (Germany), INFN (Italy), NWO and SURF (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.