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Evidence for the singly Cabibbo suppressed decay Λc+ →pη and search for Λc+ →pπ0

  • M. Ablikim
  • , M. N. Achasov
  • , S. Ahmed
  • , X. C. Ai
  • , O. Albayrak
  • , M. Albrecht
  • , D. J. Ambrose
  • , A. Amoroso
  • , F. F. An
  • , Q. An
  • , J. Z. Bai
  • , O. Bakina
  • , R. Baldini Ferroli
  • , Y. Ban
  • , D. W. Bennett
  • , J. V. Bennett
  • , N. Berger
  • , M. Bertani
  • , D. Bettoni
  • , J. M. Bian
  • F. Bianchi, E. Boger, I. Boyko, R. A. Briere, H. Cai, X. Cai, O. Cakir, A. Calcaterra, G. F. Cao, S. A. Cetin, J. Chai, J. F. Chang, G. Chelkov, G. Chen, H. S. Chen, J. C. Chen, M. L. Chen, S. J. Chen, X. R. Chen, Y. B. Chen, X. K. Chu, G. Cibinetto, H. L. Dai, J. P. Dai, A. Dbeyssi, D. Dedovich, Z. Y. Deng, A. Denig, H. Muramatsu, R. Poling, (BESIII Collaboration)

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Abstract

We study the singly Cabibbo suppressed decays Λc+→pη and Λc+→pπ0 using Λc+Λ- pairs produced by e+e- collisions at a center-of-mass energy of s=4.6 GeV. The data sample was collected by the BESIII detector at the BEPCII collider and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 567 pb-1. We find the first evidence for the decay Λc+→pη with a statistical significance of 4.2σ and measure its branching fraction to be B(Λc+→pη)=(1.24±0.28(stat)±0.10(syst))×10-3. No significant Λc+→pπ0 signal is observed. We set an upper limit on its branching fraction B(Λc+→pπ0)<2.7×10-4 at the 90% confidence level.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number111102
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume95
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 1 2017

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