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Phys Rev Lett. 2017 Sep 15;119(11):112001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.112001. Epub 2017 Sep 11.

Observation of the Doubly Charmed Baryon Ξ_{cc}^{++}.

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Affiliations

  1. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland.
  2. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
  3. H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.
  4. Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
  5. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
  6. Fakultät Physik, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany.
  7. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
  8. ICCUB, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
  9. Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  10. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI), Gatchina, Russia.
  11. Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
  12. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  13. Sezione INFN di Padova, Padova, Italy.
  14. LAL, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Orsay, France.
  15. Center for High Energy Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
  16. Sezione INFN di Firenze, Firenze, Italy.
  17. Institute of Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
  18. Universita e INFN, Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
  19. University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.
  20. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
  21. Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
  22. CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France.
  23. Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP), Protvino, Russia.
  24. Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA.
  25. Sezione INFN di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy.
  26. Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.
  27. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (associated with Institution Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
  28. Yandex School of Data Analysis, Moscow, Russia.
  29. Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Moscow, Russia.
  30. National Center for Nuclear Research (NCBJ), Warsaw, Poland.
  31. LAPP, Université Savoie Mont-Blanc, CNRS/IN2P3, Annecy-Le-Vieux, France.
  32. Sezione INFN di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
  33. Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  34. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (associated with Institution Center for High Energy Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China).
  35. Universita e INFN, Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy.
  36. LPNHE, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France.
  37. Laboratori Nazionali dell'INFN di Frascati, Frascati, Italy.
  38. I. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
  39. Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University (SINP MSU), Moscow, Russia.
  40. Physik-Institut, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
  41. Sezione INFN di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
  42. University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
  43. Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
  44. Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK), Heidelberg, Germany.
  45. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  46. Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (SB RAS), Novosibirsk, Russia.
  47. Sezione INFN di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.
  48. Institute for Nuclear Research of the National Academy of Sciences (KINR), Kyiv, Ukraine.
  49. Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
  50. Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland.
  51. School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China (associated with Institution Center for High Energy Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China).
  52. Sezione INFN di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy.
  53. Sezione INFN di Genova, Genova, Italy.
  54. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
  55. Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
  56. Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania.
  57. Sezione INFN di Bari, Bari, Italy.
  58. AGH - University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, Kraków, Poland.
  59. Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China (associated with Institution Center for High Energy Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China).
  60. NSC Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology (NSC KIPT), Kharkiv, Ukraine.
  61. STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom.
  62. Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INR RAN), Moscow, Russia.
  63. Sezione di Milano, Milano, Italy.
  64. Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular, Centro Mixto Universidad de Valencia - CSIC, Valencia, Spain (associated with Institution ICCUB, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain).
  65. Institut für Physik, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany (associated with Institution Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany).
  66. Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics and VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  67. National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia (associated with Institution Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Moscow, Russia).
  68. School of Physics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
  69. Departamento de Fisica, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia (associated with Institution LPNHE, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France).
  70. Van Swinderen Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands (associated with Institution Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands).
  71. National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia (associated with Institution Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Moscow, Russia).

PMID: 28949228 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.112001

Abstract

A highly significant structure is observed in the Λ_{c}^{+}K^{-}π^{+}π^{+} mass spectrum, where the Λ_{c}^{+} baryon is reconstructed in the decay mode pK^{-}π^{+}. The structure is consistent with originating from a weakly decaying particle, identified as the doubly charmed baryon Ξ_{cc}^{++}. The difference between the masses of the Ξ_{cc}^{++} and Λ_{c}^{+} states is measured to be 1334.94±0.72(stat.)±0.27(syst.)  MeV/c^{2}, and the Ξ_{cc}^{++} mass is then determined to be 3621.40±0.72(stat.)±0.27(syst.)±0.14(Λ_{c}^{+})  MeV/c^{2}, where the last uncertainty is due to the limited knowledge of the Λ_{c}^{+} mass. The state is observed in a sample of proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.7  fb^{-1}, and confirmed in an additional sample of data collected at 8 TeV.

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