Measurement of inclusive production of charmonium states in $b$-hadron decays via their decay into $\phi \phi$

TL;DR

This paper measures the production rates of various charmonium states in b-hadron decays using LHCb data, providing new branching fraction measurements and the most precise eta_c(1S) mass to date.

Contribution

It reports the first measurements of branching fractions for several charmonium states in b-hadron decays and the most precise eta_c(1S) mass measurement.

Findings

Branching fractions for chi_c0, chi_c1, chi_c2 in b decays measured.

Production rate of eta_c(2S) times its decay into phi phi quantified.

Eta_c(1S) mass measured with highest precision to date.

Abstract

The inclusive production of the $\eta_c(1S)$, $\eta_c(2S)$ and $\chi_{c}$ charmonium states in $b$-hadron decays is studied with LHCb Run~2 data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $5.9~\text{fb}^{-1}$, using charmonia decays to $\phi\phi$ pairs. The production branching fractions of the $\chi_{c}(1P)$ states in $b$-hadron decays are measured, using $b \to \eta_c(1S) (\to \phi \phi) X$ as a normalisation channel, with $X$ indicating any additional particles. The results are \begin{align*} &{\cal{B}} (b \to \chi_{c0} X) = (1.34 \pm 0.13 \pm 0.06 \pm 0.37) \times 10^{-3}, &{\cal{B}} (b \to \chi_{c1} X) = (1.58 \pm 0.12 \pm 0.09 \pm 0.44) \times 10^{-3}, &{\cal{B}} (b \to \chi_{c2} X) = (0.55 \pm 0.08 \pm 0.05 \pm 0.15) \times 10^{-3}, \end{align*} where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second systematic and the last is due to the limited knowledge of externally measured branching fractions. The production branching fraction of $\eta_c(2S)$ times the branching fraction of its decay into $\phi \phi$ is measured as ${\cal{B}} (b \to \eta_c(2S) X) \times {\cal{B}} (\eta_c(2S) \to \phi \phi) = (4.0 \pm 0.6 \pm 0.6 \pm 1.1) \times 10^{-7}$. Furthermore, the mass of the $\eta_c(1S)$ state is measured to be $M_{\eta_c(1S)} = 2984.1 \pm 0.5 \pm 0.5$ MeV with the best precision to date.