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Phys Rev Lett. 2018 Aug 31;121(9):092003. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.092003.

Measurement of the Ω_{c}^{0} Baryon Lifetime.

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R Aaij, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, C A Aidala, Z Ajaltouni, S Akar, P Albicocco, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, A Alfonso Albero, S Ali, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, A A Alves, S Amato, S Amerio, Y Amhis, L An, L Anderlini, G Andreassi, M Andreotti, J E Andrews, R B Appleby, F Archilli, P d'Argent, J Arnau Romeu, A Artamonov, M Artuso, K Arzymatov, E Aslanides, M Atzeni, B Audurier, S Bachmann, J J Back, S Baker, V Balagura, W Baldini, A Baranov, R J Barlow, S Barsuk, W Barter, F Baryshnikov, V Batozskaya, B Batsukh, V Battista, A Bay, J Beddow, F Bedeschi, I Bediaga, A Beiter, L J Bel, S Belin, N Beliy, V Bellee, N Belloli, K Belous, I Belyaev, E Ben-Haim, G Bencivenni, S Benson, S Beranek, A Berezhnoy, R Bernet, D Berninghoff, E Bertholet, A Bertolin, C Betancourt, F Betti, M O Bettler, M van Beuzekom, Ia Bezshyiko, S Bhasin, J Bhom, S Bifani, P Billoir, A Birnkraut, A Bizzeti, M Bjørn, M P Blago, T Blake, F Blanc, S Blusk, D Bobulska, V Bocci, O Boente Garcia, T Boettcher, A 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Affiliations

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

PMID: 30230895 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.092003

Abstract

We report a measurement of the lifetime of the Ω_{c}^{0} baryon using proton-proton collision data at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0  fb^{-1} collected by the LHCb experiment. The sample consists of about 1000  Ω_{b}^{-}→Ω_{c}^{0}μ^{-}ν[over ¯]_{μ}X signal decays, where the Ω_{c}^{0} baryon is detected in the pK^{-}K^{-}π^{+} final state and X represents possible additional undetected particles in the decay. The Ω_{c}^{0} lifetime is measured to be τ_{Ω_{c}^{0}}=268±24±10±2  fs, where the uncertainties are statistical, systematic, and from the uncertainty in the D^{+} lifetime, respectively. This value is nearly four times larger than, and inconsistent with, the current world-average value.

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