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T1 Study of χb meson production in p p collisions at √s=7 and 8TeV and observation of the decay χb(3P)→Υ(3S)γ
A1 LHCb Collaboration, 
A1 Adeva Andany, Bernardo
A1 Álvarez Cartelle, Paula
A1 Dosil Suárez, Álvaro
A1 Fernández Albor, Víctor Manuel
A1 Gallas Torreira, Abraham Antonio
A1 García Pardiñas, Julián
A1 Hernando Morata, José Ángel
A1 Pazos Álvarez, Antonio
A1 Pérez Trigo, Eliseo
A1 Plo Casasus, Máximo
A1 Romero Vidal, Antonio
A1 Saborido Silva, Juan José
A1 Sanmartín Sedes, Brais
A1 Santamarina Ríos, Cibrán
A1 Seco Miguélez, Marcos Antonio
A1 Vázquez Regueiro, Pablo
A1 Vázquez Sierra, Carlos
A1 Vieites Díaz, María
AB A study of χb meson production at LHCb is performed on proton–proton collision data, corresponding to 3.0 fb−1of integrated luminosity collected at centre-of-mass energies √s= 7 and 8 TeV. The fraction of Υ(nS) mesons originating from χb  decays is measured as a function of the Υ  transverse momentum in the rapidity range 2.0<yΥ<4.5. The radiative transition of the χb(3P) meson to Υ(3S) is observed for the first time. The χb1(3P) mass is determined to bemχb1(3P)=10511.3±1.7±2.5MeV/c2,where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic.
PB Springer
SN 1434-6044
YR 2014
FD 2014
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/21621
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/21621
LA eng
NO Aaij, R., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M. et al. Study of χb meson production in p p collisions at √s=7 and 8TeV and observation of the decay χb(3P)→Υ(3S)γ . Eur. Phys. J. C 74, 3092 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3092-z
NO We acknowledge support from CERN and from the national agencies: CAPES, CNPq, FAPERJ and FINEP (Brazil); NSFC (China); CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, HGF and MPG (Germany); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); FOM and NWO (The Netherlands); MNiSW and NCN (Poland); MEN/IFA (Romania); MinES and FANO (Russia); MinECo (Spain); SNSF and SER (Switzerland); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); NSF (USA). The Tier1 computing centres are supported by IN2P3 (France), KIT and BMBF (Germany), INFN (Italy), NWO and SURF (The Netherlands), PIC (Spain), GridPP (United Kingdom). We are indebted to the communities behind the multiple open source software packages on which we depend. We are also thankful for the computing resources and the access to software R&D tools provided by Yandex LLC (Russia). Individual groups or members have received support from EPLANET, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and ERC (European Union), Conseil général de Haute-Savoie, Labex ENIGMASS and OCEVU, Région Auvergne (France), RFBR (Russia), XuntaGal and GENCAT (Spain), Royal Society and Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 (United Kingdom)
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