Search for the doubly charmed baryon Ξcc+

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A search for the doubly charmed baryon Ξcc+ is performed through its decay to the Λc+K−π+ final state, using proton-proton collision data collected with the LHCb detector at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8 and 13 TeV. The data correspond to a total integrated luminosity of 9 fb⁻¹. No significant signal is observed in the mass range from 3.4 to 3.8 GeV/c². Upper limits are set at 95% credibility level on the ratio of the Ξcc+ production cross-section times the branching fraction to that of Λc+ and Ξcc++ baryons. The limits are determined as functions of the Ξcc+ mass for different lifetime hypotheses, in the rapidity range from 2.0 to 4.5 and the transverse momentum range from 4 to 15 GeV/c.

Original language	English
Article number	221062
Journal	Science China: Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy
Volume	63
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-019-1471-8
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2020

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Keywords

charmed baryons
charmed quarks
experimental tests
limits on production of particles

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LHCb Collaboration (2020). Search for the doubly charmed baryon Ξcc+. Science China: Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy, 63(2), [221062]. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-019-1471-8

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