%0 Journal Article
%T Observation of an Excited B-c(+/-) Meson State with the ATLAS Detector
%A ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
%A Cabrera Urban, S.
%A Castillo Gimenez, V.
%A Costa, M. J.
%A Ferrer, A.
%A Fiorini, L.
%A Fuster, J.
%A Garcia, C.
%A Garcia Navarro, J. E.
%A Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
%A Hernandez Jimenez, Y.
%A Higon-Rodriguez, E.
%A Irles Quiles, A.
%A Kaci, M.
%A King, M.
%A Lacasta, C.
%A Lacuesta, V. R.
%A March, L.
%A Marti-Garcia, S.
%A Mitsou, V. A.
%A Moles-Valls, R.
%A Oliver Garcia, E.
%A Pedraza Lopez, S.
%A Perez Garcia-Estañ, M. T.
%A Romero Adam, E.
%A Ros, E.
%A Salt, J.
%A Sanchez Martinez, V.
%A Soldevila, U.
%A Sanchez, J.
%A Torro Pastor, E.
%A Valero, A.
%A Valladolid Gallego, E.
%A Valls Ferrer, J. A.
%A Vos, M.
%J Physical Review Letters
%D 2014
%V 113
%N 21
%I Amer Physical Soc
%@ 0031-9007
%G English
%F ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2014
%O WOS:000345745800002
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=2036), last updated on Fri, 09 Jan 2015 00:46:07 +0000
%X A search for excited states of the B-c(+/-) meson is performed using 4.9 fb(-1) of 7 TeV and 19.2 fb(-1) of 8 TeV pp collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. A new state is observed through its hadronic transition to the ground state, with the latter detected in the decayB(c)(+/-) -> J/psi pi(+/-). The state appears in the m(B-c(+/-)pi(+)pi(-)) – m(B-c(+/-)) – 2m(pi(+/-)) mass difference distribution with a significance of 5.2 standard deviations. The mass of the observed state is 6842 +/- 4 +/- 5 MeV, where the first error is statistical and the second is systematic. The mass and decay of this state are consistent with expectations for the second S-wave state of the B-c(+/-) meson, B-c(+/-)(2S).
%R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.212004
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.1032
%U https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.212004
%P 212004 - 18pp