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Evidence for a Bs0 π± State

  • D0 Collaboration
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
  • University of Oklahoma Bioengineering Center
  • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
  • University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Florida State University
  • University of Manchester
  • Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI)
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Augustana College
  • Louisiana Tech University
  • Czech Technical University in Prague
  • Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
  • Universidad de los Andes Colombia
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  • University of Virginia
  • Northeastern University
  • University of Kansas
  • CEA Saclay
  • Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
  • Panjab University
  • Universités Paris VI and VII
  • University of Freiburg
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  • Imperial College London
  • University of Mississippi
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  • NASU - Institute of Nuclear Research
  • University of Texas at Arlington
  • Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • University of Washington
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  • University of Liverpool
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  • Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional
  • University of Notre Dame
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  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • Brown University
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  • FOM-Institute NIKHEF and University of Amsterdam/NIKHEF
  • Radboud University
  • University of Rochester
  • Institute for High Energy Physics
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  • Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
  • RAS - P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute
  • University of California at Riverside
  • Indiana University Bloomington
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  • Université de Strasbourg
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  • Université Paris-Sud
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  • Czech Academy of Sciences
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  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Purdue University Calumet
  • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Office of Science
  • Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1
  • Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho
  • Northwestern University
  • Oregon State University
  • Langston University
  • Charles University
  • Princeton University
  • CERN

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Abstract

We report evidence for a narrow structure, X(5568), in the decay sequence X(5568)→Bs0π±, Bs0→J/ψφ, J/ψ→μ+μ-, φ→K+K-. This is evidence for the first instance of a hadronic state with valence quarks of four different flavors. The mass and natural width of this state are measured to be m=5567.8±2.9(stat)-1.9+0.9(syst) MeV/c2 and Γ=21.9±6.4(stat)-2.5+5.0(syst) MeV/c2. If the decay is X(5568)→Bs∗π±→Bs0γπ± with an unseen γ, m(X(5568)) will be shifted up by m(Bs∗)-m(Bs0)∼49 MeV/c2. This measurement is based on 10.4 fb-1 of pp collision data at s=1.96 TeV collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron collider.

Original languageEnglish
Article number022003
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume117
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 7 Jul 2016

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