Observation of Cabibbo-Suppressed Two-Body Hadronic Decays and Precision Mass Measurement of the Ω_{c}^{0} Baryon

• Published in: Physical review letters Vol. 132; no. 8; p. 081802
• Main Authors: Aaij, R, Abdelmotteleb, A S W, Abellan Beteta, C, Abudinén, F, Ackernley, T, Adeva, B, Adinolfi, M, Adlarson, P, Afsharnia, H, Agapopoulou, C, Aidala, C A, Ajaltouni, Z, Akar, S, Akiba, K, Albicocco, P, Albrecht, J, Alessio, F, Alexander, M, Alfonso Albero, A, Aliouche, Z, Alvarez Cartelle, P, Amalric, R, Amato, S, Amey, J L, Amhis, Y, An, L, Anderlini, L, Andersson, M, Andreianov, A, Andreola, P, Andreotti, M, Andreou, D, Ao, D, Archilli, F, Artamonov, A, Artuso, M, Aslanides, E, Atzeni, M, Audurier, B, Bacher, D, Bachiller Perea, I, Bachmann, S, Bachmayer, M, Back, J J, Bailly-Reyre, A, Baladron Rodriguez, P, Balagura, V, Baldini, W, Baptista de Souza Leite, J, Barbetti, M, Barbosa, I R, Barlow, R J, Barsuk, S, Barter, W, Bartolini, M, Baryshnikov, F, Basels, J M, Bassi, G, Batsukh, B, Battig, A, Bay, A, Beck, A, Becker, M, Bedeschi, F, Bediaga, I B, Beiter, A, Belin, S, Bellee, V, Belous, K, Belov, I, Belyaev, I, Benane, G, Bencivenni, G, Ben-Haim, E, Berezhnoy, A, Bernet, R, Bernet Andres, S, Berninghoff, D, Bernstein, H C, Bertella, C, Bertolin, A, Betancourt, C, Betti, F, Bex, J, Bezshyiko, Ia, Bhom, J, Bian, L, Bieker, M S, Biesuz, N V, Billoir, P, Biolchini, A, Birch, M, Bishop, F C R, Bitadze, A, Bizzeti, A, Blago, M P, Blake, T, Blanc, F, Blank, J E, Blusk, S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 23-02-2024
• ISSN: 1079-7114
• DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.081802

The first observation of the singly Cabibbo-suppressed Ω_{c}^{0}→Ω^{-}K^{+} and Ω_{c}^{0}→Ξ^{-}π^{+} decays is reported, using proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.4  fb^{-1}, collected with the LHCb detector between 2016 and 2018. The branching fraction ratios are measured to be B(Ω_{c}^{0}→Ω^{-}K^{+})/B(Ω_{c}^{0}→Ω^{-}π^{+})=[6.08±0.51(stat)±0.40(syst)]%,B(Ω_{c}^{0}→Ξ^{-}π^{+})/B(Ω_{c}^{0}→Ω^{-}π^{+})=[15.81±0.87(stat)±0.44(syst)±0.16(ext)]%. In addition, using the Ω_{c}^{0}→Ω^{-}π^{+} decay channel, the Ω_{c}^{0} baryon mass is measured to be M(Ω_{c}^{0})=2695.28±0.07(stat)±0.27(syst)±0.30(ext)  MeV, improving the precision of the previous world average by a factor of 4.