Observation of the decay Bs0→K0pp ̄ and measurement of the Bs0→K0pp ̄ branching fractions

The LHCb collaboration

doi:10.1007/JHEP07(2025)121

Observation of the decay Bs0→K0pp ̄ and measurement of the Bs0→K0pp ̄ branching fractions

The LHCb collaboration

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University of Warwick
Physik-Institut der Universität Zürich
University of Liverpool
Syracuse University
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
University of Bristol
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Uppsala University
Université Paris-Saclay
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Clermont-Auvergne University
LNF-INFN
Fakultät Physik
University of Dortmund
Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
European Organization for Nuclear Research
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Manchester
University of Cambridge
Sorbonne Université
Instituto de Biofisica da UFRJ
State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Firenze
Sezione INFN di Ferrara
INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca
University of Milano-Bicocca
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
INFN Roma Tor Vergata
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
Consejo Nacional de Rectores (CONARE)
Aix-Marseille Université
Institute of Physics
ENAC-IIC-GEL
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Oxford
University of Heidelberg

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Abstract

A study of the charmless baryonic decays Bs0→K0pp¯ is presented, where Bs0 denotes either a B⁰ or a Bs0 meson. The analysis is based on proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 fb⁻¹. The decay Bs0→K0pp¯ is observed for the first time, with a measured branching fraction of (9.14 ± 1.69 ± 0.90 ± 0.33 ± 0.20) × 10⁻⁷ and a significance of 5.6σ. The uncertainties respectively account for statistical and systematic contributions, the precision of the branching fraction of the normalisation channel B⁰→ K⁰π⁺π⁻ and the fragmentation fraction ratio f_s/f_d. The branching fraction determined for B0→K0pp¯ is (2.82 ± 0.08 ± 0.12 ± 0.10) × 10⁻⁶, which is the most precise measurement to date.

Original language	English
Article number	121
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2025
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2025)121
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2025

Keywords

B Physics
Branching fraction
Flavour Physics
Hadron-Hadron Scattering

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Observation of the decay Bs0→K0pp ̄ and measurement of the Bs0→K0pp ̄ branching fractions

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