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Measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry parameter αb and the helicity amplitudes for the decay Λb0 →j /ψ Λ0 with the ATLAS detector

  • ATLAS Collaboration
  • Aix-Marseille Université and CNRS/IN2P3
  • University of Bonn
  • University of Oklahoma
  • Academia Sinica - Institute of Physics
  • Université Paris-Sud
  • Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  • University of Amsterdam
  • Oklahoma State University
  • Michigan State University
  • University of Toronto
  • Tel Aviv University
  • CEA Saclay (Commissariat À l'Energie Atomique et Aux Energies Alternatives)
  • Stockholm University
  • Oskar Klein Centre
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • King's College London
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Yale University
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of Belgrade
  • Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
  • University of Granada
  • University of Bern
  • Boston University
  • Stony Brook University
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • Lund University
  • The University of Tokyo
  • RAS - P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute
  • University of Victoria BC
  • Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie de Grenoble
  • Instituto de Física La Plata
  • CERN
  • Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
  • West University of Timisoara
  • University of Geneva
  • National Technical University of Athens
  • University of Udine
  • The University of Chicago
  • University of Birmingham
  • Lancaster University
  • University of Liverpool
  • University of Glasgow
  • University of Manchester
  • University of Naples Federico II
  • Weizmann Institute of Science

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Abstract

A measurement of the parity-violating decay asymmetry parameter, αb, and the helicity amplitudes for the decay Λb0→J/ψ(μ+μ-)Λ0(pπ-) is reported. The analysis is based on 1400 Λb0 and Λ¯b0 baryons selected in 4.6 fb-1 of proton-proton collision data with a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. By combining the Λb0 and Λ¯b0 samples under the assumption of CP conservation, the value of αb is measured to be 0.30±0.16(stat)±0.06(syst). This measurement provides a test of theoretical models based on perturbative QCD or heavy-quark effective theory.

Original languageEnglish
Article number092009
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume89
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - 27 May 2014

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