Precision measurement of the Bc+ meson mass
Aaij R., Abellán Beteta C., Ackernley T., Adeva B., Adinolfi M., Afsharnia H., Aidala CA., Aiola S., Ajaltouni Z., Akar S., Albrecht J., Alessio F., Alexander M., Alfonso Albero A., Alkhazov G., Alvarez Cartelle P., Alves AA., Amato S., Amhis Y., An L., Anderlini L., Andreassi G., Andreotti M., Archilli F., Artamonov A., Artuso M., Arzymatov K., Aslanides E., Atzeni M., Audurier B., Bachmann S., Back JJ., Baker S., Balagura V., Baldini W., Baptista Leite J., Barlow RJ., Barsuk S., Barter W., Bartolini M., Baryshnikov F., Basels JM., Bassi G., Batozskaya V., Batsukh B., Battig A., Bay A., Becker M., Bedeschi F., Bediaga I., Beiter A., Belavin V., Belin S., Bellee V., Belous K., Belyaev I., Bencivenni G., Ben-Haim E., Benson S., Berezhnoy A., Bernet R., Berninghoff D., Bernstein HC., Bertella C., Bertholet E., Bertolin A., Betancourt C., Betti F., Bettler MO., Bezshyiko I., Bhasin S., Bhom J., Bieker MS., Bifani S., Billoir P., Bizzeti A., Bjørn M., Blago MP., Blake T., Blanc F., Blusk S., Bobulska D., Bocci V., Boente Garcia O., Boettcher T., Boldyrev A., Bondar A., Bondar N., Borghi S., Borisyak M., Borsato M., Borsuk JT., Bowcock TJV., Boyer A., Bozzi C., Bradley MJ., Braun S., Brea Rodriguez A., Brodski M., Brodzicka J.
© 2020, The Author(s). A precision measurement of the Bc+ 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 Bc+ mesons are reconstructed via the decays Bc+→ J/ψπ+, Bc+→ J/ψπ+π−π+, Bc+→J/ψpp¯π+, Bc+→J/ψDs+, Bc+→ J/ψ D0K+ and Bc+→Bs0π+. Combining the results of the individual decay channels, the Bc+ mass is measured to be 6274.47 ± 0.27 (stat) ± 0.17 (syst) MeV/c2. This is the most precise measurement of the Bc+ mass to date. The difference between the Bc+ and Bs0 meson masses is measured to be 907.75 ± 0.37 (stat) ± 0.27 (syst) MeV/c. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]