Measurement of the B-c(+) meson lifetime using B-c(+) -> J/psi mu(+)nu X-mu decays

Title:	Measurement of the B-c(+) meson lifetime using B-c(+) -> J/psi mu(+)nu X-mu decays
Authors:	Aaij, R Adeva, B Adinolfi, M Affolder, A Ajaltouni, Z Albrecht, J Alessio, F Alexander, M Ali, S Alkhazov, G Alvarez Cartelle, P Alves, AA Amato, S Amerio, S Amhis, Y Anderlini, L Anderson, J Andreassen, R Andreotti, M Andrews, JE Appleby, RB Aquines Gutierrez, O Archilli, F Artamonov, A Artuso, M Aslanides, E Auriemma, G Baalouch, M Bachmann, S Back, JJ Badalov, A Balagura, V Baldini, W Barlow, RJ Barschel, C Barsuk, S Barter, W Batozskaya, V Bauer, T Bay, A Beddow, J Bedeschi, F Bediaga, I Belogurov, S Belous, K Belyaev, I Ben-Haim, E Bencivenni, G Benson, S Benton, J Berezhnoy, A Bernet, R Bettler, M-O van Beuzekom, M Bien, A Bifani, S Bird, T Bizzeti, A Bjornstad, PM Blake, T Blanc, F Blouw, J Blusk, S Bocci, V Bondar, A Bondar, N Bonivento, W Borghi, S Borgia, A Borsato, M Bowcock, TJV Bowen, E Bozzi, C Brambach, T van den Brand, J Bressieux, J Brett, D Britsch, M Britton, T Brook, NH Brown, H Bursche, A Busetto, G Buytaert, J Cadeddu, S Calabrese, R Callot, O Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, M Camboni, PA Campana, P Perez, DC Carbone, A Carboni, G Cardinale, R Cardini, A Carranza-Mejia, H Carson, L Akiba, KC Casse, G Castillo Garcia, L Cattaneo, M Cauet, C Cenci, R Charles, M Charpentier, P Cheung, S-F Chiapolini, N Chrzaszcz, M Ciba, K Vidal, XC Ciezarek, G Clarke, PEL Clemencic, M Cliff, HV Closier, J Coca, C Coco, V Cogan, J Cogneras, E Collins, P Comerma-Montells, A Contu, A Cook, A Coombes, M Coquereau, S Corti, G Counts, I Couturier, B Cowan, GA Craik, DC Cruz Torres, M Cunliffe, S Currie, R D'Ambrosio, C Dalseno, J David, P David, PNY Davis, A De Bonis, I De Bruyn, K De Capua, S De Cian, M De Miranda, JM De Paula, L De Silva, W De Simone, P Decamp, D Deckenhoff, M Del Buono, L Deleage, N Derkach, D Deschamps, O Dettori, F Di Canto, A Dijkstra, H Donleavy, S Dordei, F Dorigo, M Dorosz, P Suarez, AD Dossett, D Dovbnya, A Dupertuis, F Durante, P Dzhelyadin, R Dziurda, A Dzyuba, A Easo, S Egede, U Egorychev, V Eidelman, S Eisenhardt, S Eitschberger, U Ekelhof, R Eklund, L El Rifai, I Elsasser, C Falabella, A Faerber, C Farinelli, C Farry, S Ferguson, D Albor, VF Rodrigues, FF Ferro-Luzzi, M Filippov, S Fiore, M Fiorini, M Fitzpatrick, C Fontana, M Fontanelli, F Forty, R Francisco, O Frank, M Frei, C Frosini, M Furfaro, E Torreira, AG Galli, D Gandelman, M Gandini, P Gao, Y Garofoli, J Tico, JG Garrido, L Gaspar, C Gauld, R Gersabeck, E Gersabeck, M Gershon, T Ghez, P Gianelle, A Gibson, V Giubega, L Gligorov, VV Goebel, C Golubkov, D Golutvin, A Gomes, A Gordon, H Grabalosa Gandara, M Graciani Diaz, R Granado Cardoso, LA Grauges, E Graziani, G Grecu, A Greening, E Gregson, S Griffith, P Grillo, L Gruenberg, O Gui, B Gushchin, E Guz, Y Gys, T Hadjivasiliou, C Haefeli, G Haen, C Hafkenscheid, TW Haines, SC Hall, S Hamilton, B Hampson, T Hansmann-Menzemer, S Harnew, N Harnew, ST Harrison, J Hartmann, T He, J Head, T Heijne, V Hennessy, K Henrard, P Hernando Morata, JA van Herwijnen, E Hess, M Hicheur, A Hill, D Hoballah, M Hombach, C Hulsbergen, W Hunt, P Huse, T Hussain, N Hutchcroft, D Hynds, D Iakovenko, V Idzik, M Ilten, P Jacobsson, R Jaeger, A Jans, E Jaton, P Jawahery, A Jing, F John, M Johnson, D Jones, CR Joram, C Jost, B Jurik, N Kaballo, M Kandybei, S Kanso, W Karacson, M Karbach, TM Kenyon, IR Ketel, T Khanji, B Khurewathanakul, C Klaver, S Kochebina, O Komarov, I Koopman, RF Koppenburg, P Korolev, M Kozlinskiy, A Kravchuk, L Kreplin, K Kreps, M Krocker, G Krokovny, P Kruse, F Kucharczyk, M Kudryavtsev, V Kurek, K Kvaratskheliya, T La Thi, VN Lacarrere, D Lafferty, G Lai, A Lambert, D Lambert, RW Lanciotti, E Lanfranchi, G Langenbruch, C Latham, T Lazzeroni, C Le Gac, R van Leerdam, J Lees, J-P Lefevre, R Leflat, A Lefranois, J Leo, S Leroy, O Lesiak, T Leverington, B Li, Y Liles, M Lindner, R Linn, C Lionetto, F Liu, B Liu, G Lohn, S Longstaff, I Lopes, JH Lopez-March, N Lowdon, P Lu, H Lucchesi, D Luisier, J Luo, H Luppi, E Lupton, O Machefert, F Machikhiliyan, IV Maciuc, F Maev, O Malde, S Manca, G Mancinelli, G Manzali, M Maratas, J Marconi, U Marino, P Marki, R Marks, J Martellotti, G Martens, A Martin Sanchez, A Martinelli, M Santos, DM Tostes, DM Massafferri, A Matev, R Mathe, Z Matteuzzi, C Mazurov, A McCann, M McCarthy, J McNab, A McNulty, R McSkelly, B Meadows, B Meier, F Meissner, M Merk, M Milanes, DA Minard, M-N Rodriguez, JM Monteil, S Moran, D Morandin, M Morawski, P Morda, A Morello, MJ Mountain, R Mous, I Muheim, F Mueller, K Muresan, R Muryn, B Muster, B Naik, P Nakada, T Nandakumar, R Nasteva, I Needham, M Neubert, S Neufeld, N Nguyen, AD Nguyen, TD Nguyen-Mau, C Nicol, M Niess, V Niet, R Nikitin, N Nikodem, T Novoselov, A Oblakowska-Mucha, A Obraztsov, V Oggero, S Ogilvy, S Okhrimenko, O Oldeman, R Onderwater, G Orlandea, M Goicochea, JMO Owen, P Oyanguren, A Pal, BK Palano, A Palutan, M Panman, J Papanestis, A Pappagallo, M Pappalardo, L Parkes, C Parkinson, CJ Passaleva, G Patel, GD Patel, M Patrignani, C Pavel-Nicorescu, C Alvarez, AP Pearce, A Pellegrino, A Penso, G Altarelli, MP Perazzini, S Trigo, EP Perret, P Perrin-Terrin, M Pescatore, L Pesen, E Pessina, G Petridis, K Petrolini, A Olloqui, EP Pietrzyk, B Pilar, T Pinci, D Pistone, A Playfer, S Casasus, MP Polci, F Polok, G Poluektov, A Polycarpo, E Popov, A Popov, D Popovici, B Potterat, C Powell, A Prisciandaro, J Pritchard, A Prouve, C Pugatch, V Navarro, AP Punzi, G Qian, W Rachwal, B Rademacker, JH Rakotomiaramanana, B Rama, M Rangel, MS Raniuk, I Rauschmayr, N Raven, G Redford, S Reichert, S Reid, MM dos Reis, AC Ricciardi, S Richards, A Rinnert, K Molina, VR Romero, DAR Robbe, P Roberts, DA Rodrigues, AB Rodrigues, E Perez, PR Roiser, S Romanovsky, V Vidal, AR Rotondo, M Rouvinet, J Ruf, T Ruffini, F Ruiz, H Valls, PR Sabatino, G Saborido Silva, JJ Sagidova, N Sail, P Saitta, B Guimaraes, VS Sedes, BS Santacesaria, R Rios, CS Santovetti, E Sapunov, M Sarti, A Satriano, C Satta, A Savrie, M Savrina, D Schiller, M Schindler, H Schlupp, M Schmelling, M Schmidt, B Schneider, O Schopper, A Schune, M-H Schwemmer, R Sciascia, B Sciubba, A Seco, M Semennikov, A Senderowska, K Sepp, I Serra, N Serrano, J Seyfert, P Shapkin, M Shapoval, I Shcheglov, Y Shears, T Shekhtman, L Shevchenko, O Shevchenko, V Shires, A Coutinho, RS Simi, G Sirendi, M Skidmore, N Skwarnicki, T Smith, NA Smith, E Smith, E Smith, J Smith, M Snoek, H Sokoloff, MD Soler, FJP Soomro, F Souza, D De Paula, BS Spaan, B Sparkes, A Spinella, F Spradlin, P Stagni, F Stahl, S Steinkamp, O Stevenson, S Stoica, S Stone, S Storaci, B Stracka, S Straticiuc, M Straumann, U Stroili, R Subbiah, VK Sun, L Sutcliffe, W Swientek, S Syropoulos, V Szczekowski, M Szczypka, P Szilard, D Szumlak, T T'Jampens, S Teklishyn, M Tellarini, G Teodorescu, E Teubert, F Thomas, C Thomas, E van Tilburg, J Tisserand, V Tobin, M Tolk, S Tomassetti, L Tonelli, D Topp-Joergensen, S Torr, N Tournefier, E Tourneur, S Tran, MT Tresch, M Tsaregorodtsev, A Tsopelas, P Tuning, N Ubeda Garcia, M Ukleja, A Ustyuzhanin, A Uwer, U Vagnoni, V Valenti, G Vallier, A Gomez, RV Regueiro, PV Sierra, CV Vecchi, S Velthuis, JJ Veltri, M Veneziano, G Vesterinen, M Viaud, B Vieira, D Vilasis-Cardona, X Vollhardt, A Volyanskyy, D Voong, D Vorobyev, A Vorobyev, V Vo, C Voss, H de Vries, JA Waldi, R Wallace, C Wallace, R Wandernoth, S Wang, J Ward, DR Watson, NK Webber, AD Websdale, D Whitehead, M Wicht, J Wiechczynski, J Wiedner, D Wiggers, L Wilkinson, G Williams, MP Williams, M Wilson, FF Wimberley, J Wishahi, J Wislicki, W Witek, M Wormser, G Wotton, SA Wright, S Wu, S Wyllie, K Xie, Y Xing, Z Yang, Z Yuan, X Yushchenko, O Zangoli, M Zavertyaev, M Zhang, F Zhang, L Zhang, WC Zhang, Y Zhelezov, A Zhokhov, A Zhong, L Zvyagin, A
Item Type:	Journal Article
Issue Date:	1-May-2014
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/26325
DOI:	https://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2839-x
ISSN:	1434-6044
Publisher:	SPRINGER
Journal / Book Title:	EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
Volume:	74
Issue:	5
Copyright Statement:	© CERN for the benefit of the LHCb collaboration 2014. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com
Keywords:	Science & Technology Physical Sciences Physics, Particles & Fields Physics PHYSICS, PARTICLES & FIELDS B-C-MESON QCD SUM-RULES QUARK-MODEL LHCB
Publication Status:	Published
Article Number:	ARTN 2839
Appears in Collections:	High Energy Physics Faculty of Natural Sciences