Search for beautiful tetraquarks in the ?(1S)(+-) invariant-mass spectrum
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Journal Article
Abstract
The ϒ(1S)μ+μ− invariant-mass distribution is investigated for a possible exotic meson state composed of two b quarks and two b¯¯ quarks, Xbb¯bb¯. The analysis is based on a data sample of pp collisions recorded with the LHCb detector at centre-of-mass energies s√=7, 8 and 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 6.3 fb−1. No significant excess is found, and upper limits are set on the product of the production cross-section and the branching fraction as functions of the mass of the Xbb¯bb¯ state. The limits are set in the fiducial volume where all muons have pseudorapidity in the range [2.0, 5.0], and the Xbb¯bb¯ state has rapidity in the range [2.0, 4.5] and transverse momentum less than 15 GeV/c.
Date Issued
2018-10-12
Date Acceptance
2018-09-27
Citation
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018, 10 (10), pp.1-22
ISSN
1029-8479
Publisher
Springer Verlag (Germany)
Start Page
1
End Page
22
Journal / Book Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume
10
Issue
10
Copyright Statement
© The Author(s) 2018. Copyright CERN,for the bene t of the LHCb Collaboration.Article funded by SCOAP3. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative CommonsAttribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction inany medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Physics, Particles & Fields
Physics
B physics
Exotics
Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
Heavy quark production
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Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 086
Date Publish Online
2018-10-12