First Observation of Excited Ω − b States
Physical Review Letters 2020
Kārlis Dreimanis, LHCb collaboration

We report four narrow peaks in the Ξ 0 b K − mass spectrum obtained using p p collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13 TeV, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 9     fb − 1 recorded by the LHCb experiment. Referring to these states by their mass, the mass values are m [ Ω b ( 6316 ) − ] = 6315.64 ± 0.31 ± 0.07 ± 0.50     MeV , m [ Ω b ( 6330 ) − ] = 6330.30 ± 0.28 ± 0.07 ± 0.50     MeV , m [ Ω b ( 6340 ) − ] = 6339.71 ± 0.26 ± 0.05 ± 0.50     MeV , m [ Ω b ( 6350 ) − ] = 6349.88 ± 0.35 ± 0.05 ± 0.50     MeV , where the uncertainties are statistical, systematic, and the last is due to the knowledge of the Ξ 0 b mass. The natural widths of the three lower mass states are consistent with zero, and the 90% confidence-level upper limits are determined to be Γ [ Ω b ( 6316 ) − ] < 2.8     MeV , Γ [ Ω b ( 6330 ) − ] < 3.1     MeV and Γ [ Ω b ( 6340 ) − ] < 1.5     MeV . The natural width of the Ω b ( 6350 ) − peak is 1.4 + 1.0 − 0.8 ± 0.1     MeV , which is 2.5 σ from zero and corresponds to an upper limit of 2.8 MeV. The peaks have local significances ranging from 3.6 σ to 7.2 σ . After accounting for the look-elsewhere effect, the significances of the Ω b ( 6316 ) − and Ω b ( 6330 ) − peaks are reduced to 2.1 σ and 2.6 σ , respectively, while the two higher mass peaks exceed 5 σ . The observed peaks are consistent with expectations for excited Ω − b resonances.


DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.124.082002
Hyperlink
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.082002

The LHCb Collaboration, Aaij, R., Abellán Beteta, C., Dreimanis, K. ... [et al.] First Observation of Excited Ω − b States. Physical Review Letters, 2020, Vol. 124, No. 8, Article number 082002. ISSN 0031-9007. e-ISSN 1079-7114. Available from: doi:10.1103/physrevlett.124.082002

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English (en)
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