Observation of the Doubly Charmed Baryon Ξcc + +

(LHCb Collaboration)

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.112001

Observation of the Doubly Charmed Baryon Ξcc + +

(LHCb Collaboration)

European Organization for Nuclear Research
University Santiago de Compostela
University of Bristol
Clermont-Auvergne University
University of Cincinnati
Fakultät Physik
University of Dortmund
SUPA
University of Glasgow
ICCUB
University of Barcelona
Science Park 105
Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI)
Imperial College London
Instituto de Biofisica da UFRJ
INFN
Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
Center for High Energy Physics
Tsinghua University
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Firenze
Institute of Physics
ENAC-IIC-GEL
Sezione INFN di Ferrara
University of Ferrara
University of Maryland, College Park
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Manchester
University of Heidelberg
Aix Marseille Université
Kurchatov Institute
Syracuse University
Sezione di Roma
Department of Physics
University of Warwick
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Yandex School of Data Analysis
Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ)
Université Savoie Mont Blanc

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Abstract

A highly significant structure is observed in the Λc+K-π+π+ mass spectrum, where the Λc+ baryon is reconstructed in the decay mode pK-π+. The structure is consistent with originating from a weakly decaying particle, identified as the doubly charmed baryon Ξcc++. The difference between the masses of the Ξcc++ and Λc+ states is measured to be 1334.94±0.72(stat.)±0.27(syst.) MeV/c2, and the Ξcc++ mass is then determined to be 3621.40±0.72(stat.)±0.27(syst.)±0.14(Λc+) MeV/c2, where the last uncertainty is due to the limited knowledge of the Λc+ mass. The state is observed in a sample of proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.7 fb-1, and confirmed in an additional sample of data collected at 8 TeV.

Original language	English
Article number	112001
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	119
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.112001
Publication status	Published - 11 Sept 2017

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Observation of the Doubly Charmed Baryon Ξcc + +

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