Updated search for Bc+ decays to two charm mesons

The LHCb collaboration

doi:10.1007/JHEP12(2021)117

Updated search for Bc+ decays to two charm mesons

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Abstract

A data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 fb⁻¹ of proton-proton collisions collected by the LHCb experiment has been analysed to search for Bc+→D(s)(∗)+(—)D(∗)0 decays. The decays are fully or partially reconstructed, where one or two missing neutral pions or photons from the decay of an excited charm meson are allowed. Upper limits for the branching fractions, normalised to B⁺ decays to final states with similar topologies, are obtained for sixteen Bc+ decay modes. For the decay Bc+→Ds+D¯0, an excess with a significance of 3.4 standard deviations is found. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].

Original language	English
Article number	117
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2021
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2021)117
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2021

Keywords

B physics
Branching fraction
Flavor physics
Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)

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Updated search for Bc+ decays to two charm mesons

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