PT Journal
AU LHCb Collaboration (Aaij, Rea
   Garcia Martin, LM
   Henry, L
   Jashal, BK
   Martinez-Vidal, F
   Oyanguren, A
   Remon Alepuz, C
   Ruiz Vidal, J
   Sanchez Mayordomo, C
TI Model-Independent Study of Structure in B+ -> D+D-K+ Decays
SO Physical Review Letters
JI Phys. Rev. Lett.
PY 2020
BP 242001 - 10pp
VL 125
IS 24
DI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.242001
LA English
AB The only anticipated resonant contributions to B+ -> D+D-K+ decays are charmonium states in the D+D- channel. A model-independent analysis, using LHCb proton-proton collision data taken at centerof-mass energies of root s = 7, 8, and 13 TeV, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 9 fb(-1), is carried out to test this hypothesis. The description of the data assuming that resonances only manifest in decays to the D+D- pair is shown to be incomplete. This constitutes evidence for a new contribution to the decay, potentially one or more new charm-strange resonances in the D-K+ channel with masses around 2.9 GeV/c(2).
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