TY - JOUR

T1 - Measurements of the branching fractions of Λc+ →pη and Λc+ →pπ0 decays at Belle

AU - The BELLE collaboration

AU - Li, S. X.

AU - Shen, C. P.

AU - Adachi, I.

AU - Ahn, J. K.

AU - Aihara, H.

AU - Asner, D. M.

AU - Aushev, T.

AU - Ayad, R.

AU - Babu, V.

AU - Bahinipati, S.

AU - Behera, P.

AU - Bennett, J.

AU - Bernlochner, F.

AU - Bessner, M.

AU - Bhardwaj, V.

AU - Bhuyan, B.

AU - Bilka, T.

AU - Biswal, J.

AU - Bobrov, A.

AU - Bozek, A.

AU - Browder, T. E.

AU - Campajola, M.

AU - Cao, L.

AU - Červenkov, D.

AU - Chang, M. C.

AU - Chen, A.

AU - Cheon, B. G.

AU - Chilikin, K.

AU - Cho, H. E.

AU - Cho, K.

AU - Choi, Y.

AU - Choudhury, S.

AU - Cinabro, D.

AU - Cunliffe, S.

AU - Das, S.

AU - Dash, N.

AU - De Nardo, G.

AU - Eidelman, S.

AU - Epifanov, D.

AU - Garmash, A.

AU - Gudkova, K.

AU - Korobov, A.

AU - Kovalenko, E.

AU - Krokovny, P.

AU - Kuzmin, A.

AU - Matvienko, D.

AU - Shebalin, V.

AU - Shwartz, B.

AU - Zhilich, V.

AU - Zhulanov, V.

N1 - Funding Information: We thank the KEKB group for the excellent operation of the accelerator; the KEK cryogenics group for the efficient operation of the solenoid; the KEK computer group and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) computing group for strong computing support; and the National Institute of Informatics and Science Information NETwork 5 (SINET5) for valuable network support. We acknowledge support from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) of Japan, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), and the Tau-Lepton Physics Research Center of Nagoya University; the Australian Research Council including Grants No. DP180102629, No. DP170102389, No. DP170102204, No. DP150103061, and No. FT130100303; the Austrian Science Fund (FWF); the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Contracts No. 11435013, No. 11475187, No. 11521505, No. 11575017, No. 11675166, No. 11705209, No. 11761141009, No. 11975076, and No. 12042509; the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Grant No. QYZDJ-SSW-SLH011; the CAS Center for Excellence in Particle Physics (CCEPP); the Shanghai Pujiang Program under Grant No. 18PJ1401000; the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic under Contract No. LTT17020; the Carl Zeiss Foundation, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Excellence Cluster Universe, and the VolkswagenStiftung; the Department of Science and Technology of India; the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare of Italy; the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea Grants No. 2016R1D1A1B01010135, No. 2016R1D1A1B02012900, No. 2018R1A2B3003643, No. 2018R1A6A1A06024970, No. 2018R1D1A1B07047294, No. 2019K1A3A7A09033840, and No. 2019R1I1A3A01058933; the Radiation Science Research Institute, the Foreign Large-size Research Facility Application Supporting Project, the Global Science Experimental Data Hub Center of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information and KREONET/GLORIAD; the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the National Science Center; the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Agreement No. 14.W03.31.0026; University of Tabuk research grants No. S-1440-0321, No. S-0256-1438, and No. S-0280-1439 (Saudi Arabia); the Slovenian Research Agency; Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science, Spain; the Swiss National Science Foundation; the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan; and the United States Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2021/4/14

Y1 - 2021/4/14

N2 - We report measurements of the branching fractions of singly Cabibbo-suppressed decays Λc+→pη and Λc+→pπ0 using the full Belle data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 980.6 fb-1. The data were collected by the Belle detector at the KEKB e+e- asymmetric energy collider. A clear Λc+ signal is seen in the invariant mass distribution of pη. The fitted number of signal events of the Λc+→pη process is 7734±263; from this, we measure the ratio of branching fractions B(Λc+→pη)/B(Λc+→pK-π+)=[2.258±0.077(stat)±0.122(syst)]×10-2, from which we infer the branching fraction B(Λc+→pη)=[1.42±0.05(stat)±0.11(syst)]×10-3. In addition, no significant signal for Λc+→pπ0 is found, so an upper limit on the branching fraction of B(Λc+→pπ0)<8.0×10-5 at a 90% credibility level is set, more than 3 times better than the best current upper limit.

AB - We report measurements of the branching fractions of singly Cabibbo-suppressed decays Λc+→pη and Λc+→pπ0 using the full Belle data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 980.6 fb-1. The data were collected by the Belle detector at the KEKB e+e- asymmetric energy collider. A clear Λc+ signal is seen in the invariant mass distribution of pη. The fitted number of signal events of the Λc+→pη process is 7734±263; from this, we measure the ratio of branching fractions B(Λc+→pη)/B(Λc+→pK-π+)=[2.258±0.077(stat)±0.122(syst)]×10-2, from which we infer the branching fraction B(Λc+→pη)=[1.42±0.05(stat)±0.11(syst)]×10-3. In addition, no significant signal for Λc+→pπ0 is found, so an upper limit on the branching fraction of B(Λc+→pπ0)<8.0×10-5 at a 90% credibility level is set, more than 3 times better than the best current upper limit.

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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.072004

DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.072004

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85104683173

VL - 103

JO - Physical Review D

JF - Physical Review D

SN - 2470-0010

IS - 7

M1 - e072004

ER -