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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Alfonso Albero, Alejandro
• Badalov, Alexey
• Calvo Gómez, Míriam
• Camboni, Alessandro
• Coquereau, Samuel
• Fernandez, G
• Garrido Beltrán, Lluís
• Gascón Fora, David
• Graciani Díaz, Ricardo
• Graugés Pous, Eugeni
• Marin Benito, Carla
• Picatoste Olloqui, Eduardo
• Vilasis-Cardona, Xavier
• LHCb Collaboration

Titel

Evidence for the Rare Decay Σ+ →pμ+μ

Ist Teil von

• Physical review letters, 2018-05

Ort / Verlag

American Physical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

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Quelle

American Physical Society Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A search for the rare decay Σ + → p μ + μ − is performed using p p collision data recorded by the LHCb experiment at center-of-mass energies √ s = 7 and 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3     fb − 1 . An excess of events is observed with respect to the background expectation, with a signal significance of 4.1 standard deviations. No significant structure is observed in the dimuon invariant mass distribution, in contrast with a previous result from the HyperCP experiment. The measured Σ + → p μ + μ − branching fraction is ( 2.2 + 1.8 − 1.3 ) × 10 − 8 , where statistical and systematic uncertainties are included, which is consistent with the standard model prediction.