Measurement of b-hadron masses
LHCb Collaboration: R. Aaij, C. Abellan Beteta, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi,, C. Adrover, A. Affolder, Z. Ajaltouni, J. Albrecht, F. Alessio, M. Alexander,, G. Alkhazov, P. Alvarez Cartelle, A. A. Alves Jr, S. Amato, Y. Amhis, J., Anderson, R. B. Appleby, O. Aquines Gutierrez
TL;DR
This paper reports precise measurements of b-hadron masses using specific decay channels in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV, with improved accuracy over previous results, aiding in testing the Standard Model.
Contribution
First precise measurements of several b-hadron masses using LHCb data at 7 TeV, with a well-calibrated momentum scale ensuring high accuracy.
Findings
More precise B0_s and Lambda_b mass measurements
Calibration of momentum scale with J/psi decays
Verification of measurement precision to 2 x 10^-4
Abstract
Measurements of b-hadron masses are performed with the exclusive decay modes B+ -> J/psi K+, B0 -> J/psi K*0, B0 -> J/psi K0S, B0_s -> J/psi phi and Lambda_b -> J/psi Lambda using an integrated luminosity of 35 pb-1 collected in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV by the LHCb experiment. The momentum scale is calibrated with J/psi -> mu+mu- decays and verified to be known to a relative precision of 2 x 10^-4 using other two-body decays. The results are more precise than previous measurements, particularly in the case of the B0_s and Lambda_b masses.
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