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Article
Publication Date
4-14-2021
Abstract
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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Recommended Citation
Li, S. X., Shen, C. P., Adachi, I., Ahn, J. K., Aihara, H., Asner, D. M., Aushev, T., Ayad, R., Babu, V., Bahinipati, S., Behera, P., Bennett, J., Bernlochner, F., Bessner, M., Bhardwaj, V., Bhuyan, B., Bilka, T., Biswal, J., Bobrov, A., … The Belle Collaboration. (2021). Measurements of the branching fractions of Λ c + → p η and Λ c + → p π 0 decays at Belle. Physical Review D, 103(7), 072004. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.072004
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.103.072004
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