8–9 Jun 2015
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
US/Central timezone

Observation of B+ → ψ(2S)φK +

8 Jun 2015, 09:00
15m
1 West (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

1 West

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

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Speaker

Mr Reddy Pratap Gandrajula (The University of Iowa)

Description

The high luminosity and large cross section for b-quark production at the LHC makes possible the observation and study of many rare B meson decays. Recently, CMS reported on the presence of substructures in the known decay B+ → J/ψφK+. As part of that investigation, the final state B+ → ψ(2S)φK+ , with ψ(2S)→μ+μ− and φ → K+K− was also observed. We report the signal, with a significance of over 5 standard deviations using 19.6 fb-1 data collected at √s = 8 TeV at CMS, and its branching fraction measurement.

Primary author

Mr Reddy Pratap Gandrajula (The University of Iowa)

Co-author

CMS BPH Group (CMS Collobaration)

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