First Observation of the Rare Purely Baryonic Decay B⁰→pp¯

The first observation of the decay of a B⁰ meson to a purely baryonic final state, B⁰→pp, is reported. The proton-proton collision data sample used was collected with the LHCb experiment at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb⁻¹. The branching...

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Main Authors: LHCB Collaboration, Boettcher, Thomas Julian, Craik, Daniel C, Ilten, Philip J, Williams, Michael
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Published: American Physical Society 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115944
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