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 Bc +meson lifetime using Bc +→J/ψμ+νμX decays. European Physical Journal C, Volume 74 (Number 5). Article number 2839. doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2839-x ISSN 1434-6044.

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Abstract

The lifetime of the B+ c meson is measured using semileptonic decays having a J/ψ meson and a muon in the final state. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2 fb-1, are collected by the LHCb detector in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The measured lifetime is τ = 509 ± 8 ± 12 fs, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic.

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:	European Physical Journal C
Publisher:	Springer
ISSN:	1434-6044
Official Date:	1 May 2014
Dates:	Date Event 1 May 2014 Published 28 March 2014 Accepted 27 January 2014 Submitted
Volume:	Volume 74
Number:	Number 5
Number of Pages:	15
Article Number:	Article number 2839
DOI:	10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2839-x
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit:	28 July 2016
Date of first compliant Open Access:	28 July 2016
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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