Measurement of $b$ hadron masses in exclusive $J/\psi$ decays with the CDF detector

TL;DR

This paper reports precise measurements of various $b$ hadron masses using exclusive $J/A o\u03bc^-Am^+$ decays with the CDF II detector, improving the accuracy of key mass differences in heavy flavor physics.

Contribution

The study provides the most precise measurements to date of $b$ hadron masses and their differences, utilizing a large dataset and exclusive decay channels.

Findings

Measured $b$ hadron masses with high precision.

Improved the accuracy of $B_s^0$ and $\u0394 m$ mass differences.

Results surpass current world averages in precision.

Abstract

We measure the masses of $b$ hadrons in exclusively reconstructed final states containing a $J/\psi\to\mu^-\mu^+$ decay using $\rm 220 pb^{-1}$ of data collected by the CDF II experiment. We find: m(B^+) = 5279.10 \pm 0.41_{(stat.)} \pm 0.36_{(sys.)} MeVcc, m(B^0) = 5279.63 \pm 0.53_{(stat.)} \pm 0.33_{(sys.)} MeVcc, m(B^0_s) = 5366.01 \pm 0.73_{(stat.)} \pm 0.33_{(sys.)} MeVcc, m(\Lambda^0_b) = 5619.7 \pm 1.2_{(stat.)} \pm 1.2_{(sys.)} MeVcc. m(B^+) - m(B^0) = -0.53 \pm 0.67_{(stat.)} \pm 0.14_{(sys.)} MeVcc, m(B^0_s) - m(B^0) = 86.38 \pm 0.90_{(stat.)} \pm 0.06_{(sys.)} MeVcc m(\Lambda^0_b) - m(B^0) = 339.2 \pm 1.4_{(stat.)} \pm 0.1_{(sys.)} MeVcc. The measurements of the $B^0_s$, $\Lambda^0_b$ mass, $m(B^0_s)-m(B^0)$ and $m(\Lambda^0_b)-m(B^0)$ mass difference are of better precision than the current world averages.