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Using the data sample of 711 fb$^{-1}$ of $Upsilon(4S)$ on-resonance data taken by the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy electron-positron collider, we present the first measurements of branching fractions of the decays $B^{-} to bar{Lambda}_{c}^{-} Xi_{c}^{0}$, $B^{-} to bar{Lambda}_{c}^{-} Xi_{c}(2645)^{0}$, and $B^{-} to bar{Lambda}_{c}^{-} Xi_{c}(2790)^{0} $. The signal yields for these decays are extracted from the recoil mass spectrum of the system recoiling against $bar{Lambda}_{c}^{-}$ baryons in selected $B^-$ candidates. The branching fraction of $B^{-} to bar{Lambda}_{c}^{-} Xi_{c}(2790)^{0}$ is measured to be $ (1.1 pm 0.4 pm 0.2)times 10^{-3}$, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. The 90% credibility level upper limits on ${cal B}(B^{-} to bar{Lambda}_{c}^{-} Xi_{c}^{0})$ and ${cal B}(B^{-} to bar{Lambda}_{c}^{-} Xi_{c}(2645)^{0})$ are determined to be $6.5times 10^{-4}$ and $7.9times 10^{-4}$, respectively.
We report the first observation of the $Xi_{c}(2930)^0$ charmed-strange baryon with a significance greater than 5$sigma$. The $Xi_{c}(2930)^0$ is found in its decay to $K^- Lambda_{c}^+$ in $B^{-} to K^{-} Lambda_{c}^{+} bar{Lambda}_{c}^{-}$ decays. The measured mass and width are $[2928.9 pm 3.0(rm stat.)^{+0.9}_{-12.0}(rm syst.)]$ MeV/$c^{2}$ and $[19.5 pm 8.4(rm stat.) ^{+5.9}_{-7.9}(rm syst.)]$ MeV, respectively, and the product branching fraction is ${cal B}(B^{-} to Xi_{c}(2930)^0 bar{Lambda}_{c}^{-}) {cal B}(Xi_{c}(2930)^0 to K^- Lambda_{c}^{+})=[1.73 pm 0.45(rm stat.) pm 0.21(rm syst.)]times 10^{-4}$. We also measure ${cal B}(B^{-} to K^{-} Lambda_{c}^{+} bar{Lambda}_{c}^{-}) = [4.80 pm 0.43(rm stat.) pm 0.60(rm syst.)] times 10^{-4}$ with improved precision, and search for the charmonium-like state $Y(4660)$ and its spin partner, $Y_{eta}$, in the $Lambda_{c}^{+}bar{Lambda}_{c}^{-}$ invariant mass spectrum. No clear signals of the $Y(4660)$ nor its spin partner are observed and the 90% credibility level (C.L.) upper limits on their production rates are determined. These measurements are obtained from a sample of $(772pm11)times 10^{6} Bbar{B}$ pairs collected at the $Upsilon(4S)$ resonance by the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric energy electron-positron collider.
The first observation of the decay $bar{B}^0_s to D^0 K^{*0}$ using $pp$ data collected by the LHCb detector at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36 pb$^{-1}$, is reported. A signal of $34.4 pm 6.8$ events is obtained and the absence of signal is rejected with a statistical significance of more than nine standard deviations. The $bar{B}^0_s to D^0 K^{*0}$ branching fraction is measured relative to that of $bar{B}^0 to D^0 rho^0$: $frac{{cal B}(bar{B}^0_s to D^0 K^{*0})}{{cal B}(bar{B}^0 to D^0 rho^0)} = 1.48 pm 0.34 pm 0.15 pm 0.12$, where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second systematic and the third is due to the uncertainty on the ratio of the $B^0$ and $B^0_s$ hadronisation fractions.
We report evidence for the charged charmed-strange baryon $Xi_{c}(2930)^+$ with a signal significance of 3.9$sigma$ with systematic errors included. The charged $Xi_{c}(2930)^+$ is found in its decay to $K_{S}^{0} Lambda_{c}^+$ in the substructure of $bar{B}^{0} to K^{0}_{S} Lambda_{c}^{+} bar{Lambda}_{c}^{-}$ decays. The measured mass and width are $[2942.3 pm 4.4 (rm stat.) pm 1.5(rm syst.)]$~MeV/$c^{2}$ and $[14.8 pm 8.8(rm stat.) pm 2.5(rm syst.)]$~MeV, respectively, and the product branching fraction is $cal{B}(bar{B}^{0} to Xi_c(2930)^{+} bar{Lambda}_{c}^{-}) cal{B}(Xi_c(2930)^{+}to bar{K}^{0} Lambda_{c}^{+})=[2.37 pm 0.51 (rm stat.)pm 0.31(rm syst.)]times 10^{-4}$. We also measure $cal{B}(bar{B}^{0} to bar{K}^{0} Lambda_{c}^{+} bar{Lambda}_{c}^{-}) = [3.99 pm 0.76(rm stat.) pm 0.51(rm syst.)] times 10^{-4}$ with greater precision than previous experiments, and present the results of a search for the charmonium-like state $Y(4660)$ and its spin partner, $Y_{eta}$, in the $Lambda_{c}^{+}bar{Lambda}_{c}^{-}$ invariant mass spectrum. No clear signals of the $Y(4660)$ or $Y_{eta}$ are observed and the 90% credibility level (C.L.) upper limits on their production rates are determined. These measurements are obtained from a sample of $(772pm11)times 10^{6} Bbar{B}$ pairs collected at the $Upsilon(4S)$ resonance by the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric energy electron-positron collider.
We calculate the decay width of h0 -> b bbar in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) with quark flavour violation (QFV) at full one-loop level. We study the effect of scharm-stop mixing and sstrange-sbottom mixing taking into account the constraints from the B meson data. We discuss and compare in detail the decays h0 -> c cbar and h0 -> b bbar within the framework of the perturbative mass insertion technique using the Flavour Expansion Theorem. The deviation of both decay widths from the Standard Model values can be quite large. Whereas in h0 -> c cbar it is almost entirely due to the flavour violating part of the MSSM, in h0 -> b bbar it is mainly due to the flavour conserving part. Nevertheless, the QFV contribution to Gamma(h0 -> b bbar) due to scharm-stop mixing and chargino exchange can go up to about 8%.
We have studied the masse spectra for the $ccbar{b}bar{b}$/$bbbar{c}bar{c}$ tetraquark states with quantum numbers $J^{P}=0^{pm},1^{pm}$, and $2^{+}$. We systematically construct the interpolating currents with various spin-parity quantum numbers and calculate their two-point correlation functions in the framework of QCD moment sum rule method. Our calculations show that the masses are about $12.3-12.4$ GeV for the positive parity $ccbar{b}bar{b}$ tetraquark ground states with $J^{P}=0^+, 1^+, 2^+$, while $12.8-13.1$ GeV for the negative parity channels with $J^{P}=0^-, 1^-$. The mass predictions for the positive parity $ccbar{b}bar{b}$ ground states are lower than the $B_{c}B_{c}$ threshold, implying that these tetraquarks can only decay via weak interaction and thus are expected to be stable and narrow.