LHCb Collaboration (Including: Back, J. J., Blake, Thomas, Craik, Daniel, Dossett, D., Gershon, T. J., Kreps, Michal, Latham, Thomas, Pilar, T., Poluektov, Anton, Reid, Matthew M., Silva Coutinho, R., Wallace, Charlotte, Whitehead, M. (Mark) and Williams, M. P.). (2014) Measurement of the B ̄s 0 → D s - Ds + and ̄ Bs 0 → D-Ds + effective lifetimes. Physical Review Letters, Volume 112 (Number 11). Article number 111802. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.111802 ISSN 0031-9007.

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The first measurement of the effective lifetime of the B̄s0 meson in the decay B̄s0→Ds-Ds+ is reported using a proton-proton collision data set, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb-1, collected by the LHCb experiment. The measured value of the B̄s0→Ds-Ds+ effective lifetime is 1.379±0.026±0.017 ps, where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. This lifetime translates into a measurement of the decay width of the light B̄s0 mass eigenstate of ΓL=0.725±0. 014±0.009 ps-1. The B̄s0 lifetime is also measured using the flavor-specific B̄s0→D-Ds+ decay to be 1.52±0.15±0.01 ps.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions:	Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Mesons -- Decay, Proton-proton interactions
Journal or Publication Title:	Physical Review Letters
Publisher:	American Physical Society
ISSN:	0031-9007
Official Date:	19 March 2014
Dates:	Date Event 19 March 2014 Published 4 December 2013 Submitted
Volume:	Volume 112
Number:	Number 11
Number of Pages:	9
Article Number:	Article number 111802
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.111802
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit:	27 December 2015
Date of first compliant Open Access:	27 December 2015
Funder:	European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Brazil. Coordenação do Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (Brazil) (FINEP), Guo jia zi ran ke xue ji jin wei yuan hui (China) [National Natural Science Foundation of China] (NSFC), Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) (CNRS), Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules (IN2P3), Auvergne (France), Germany. Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Hermann von Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften [Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science], Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), Istituto nazionale di fisica nucleare (INFN), Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM) [Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter], Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek [Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research] (NWO), SCSR (Poland), Institutul de Fizică Atomică (IFA), Federalʹnoe agentstvo po atomnoĭ ėnergii (Russia), Rossiĭskiĭ fond fundamentalʹnykh issledovaniĭ [Russian Foundation for Basic Research] (RFBR), Rossiĭskiĭ nauchnyĭ t︠s︡entr "Kurchatovskiĭ institut" [Russian Research Center "Kurchatov Institute"] (Russia), Spain. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad [Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness] (MINECO), Galicia (Spain : Region). Xunta, Catalonia (Spain), Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung [Swiss National Science Foundation] (SNSF), Switzerland. Staatssekretariat für Ausbildung und Forschung (SER), Nat︠s︡ionalʹna akademii︠a︡ nauk Ukraïny (NAS), Science and Technology Facilities Council (Great Britain) (STFC), Royal Society (Great Britain), National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF), European Particle physics Latin American NETwork (EPLANET), Seventh Framework Programme (European Commission) (FP7)

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