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The resonant substructure of $B_s^0 rightarrow bar{D}^0 K^- pi^+$ decays is studied using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $3.0,{rm fb}^{-1}$ of $pp$ collision data recorded by the LHCb detector. An excess at $m(bar{D}^0 K^-) approx 2.86 {rm GeV}/c^2$ is found to be an admixture of spin-1 and spin-3 resonances. Therefore the $D^*_{sJ}(2860)^-$ state previously observed in inclusive $e^+e^- rightarrow bar{D}^0 K^- X$ and $pp rightarrow bar{D}^0 K^- X$ processes consists of at least two particles. This is the first observation of a heavy flavoured spin-3 resonance, and the first time that any spin-3 particle has been seen to be produced in $B$ decays. The masses and widths of the new states and of the $D^*_{s2}(2573)^-$ meson are measured, giving the most precise determinations to date.
The decays $chi_{cJ}toSigma^{0}bar{p}K^{+}+{rm c.c.}~(J = 0, 1, 2)$ are studied via the radiative transition $psi(3686)togammachi_{cJ}$ based on a data sample of $(448.1 pm 2.9)times10^{6}$ $psi(3686)$ events collected with the BESIII detector. The branching fractions of $chi_{cJ}toSigma^{0}bar{p}K^{+}+{rm c.c.}~(J = 0, 1, 2)$ are measured to be $(3.03 pm 0.12pm 0.15)times10^{-4}$, $(1.46 pm 0.07pm 0.07)times10^{-4}$, and $(0.91 pm 0.06pm 0.05)times10^{-4}$, respectively, where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second are systematic. In addition, no evident structure is found for excited baryon resonances on the two-body subsystems with the limited statistics.
Simulation studies are performed to assess the sensitivity of a model-independent analysis of the flavour-tagged decays $D^0 to K^0_{rm S}pi^+pi^-$ and $D^0 to K^0_{rm S}K^+K^-$ to mixing and CP violation. The analysis takes as input measurements of the $D$ decay strong-phase parameters that are accessible in quantum-correlated $D-bar{D}$ pairs produced at the $psi(3770)$ resonance. It is shown that the model-independent approach is well suited to the very large data sets expected at an upgraded LHCb experiment, or future high luminosity $e^+e^-$ facility, and that with 100M $K^0_{rm S}pi^+pi^-$ decays a statistical precision of around 0.01 and $0.7^circ$ is achievable on the CP violation parameters $r_{CP}$ and $a_{CP}$, respectively. Even with this very large sample the systematic uncertainties associated with the strong-phase parameters will not be limiting, assuming that full use is made of the available $psi(3770)$ data sets of CLEO-c and BES-III. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that large flavour-tagged samples can themselves be exploited to provide information on the strong-phase parameters, a feature that will be beneficial in the measurement of the CKM angle $gamma/phi_3$ with $B^- to DK^-$ decays.
Using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb$^{-1}$, recorded by the LHCb detector at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, the $B_{c}^{+} rightarrow D^{0} K^{+}$ decay is observed with a statistical significance of 5.1 standard deviations. By normalising to $B^{+} rightarrow bar{D}^{0} pi^{+}$ decays, a measurement of the branching fraction multiplied by the production rates for $B_{c}^{+}$ relative to $B^{+}$ mesons in the LHCb acceptance is obtained, $$ R_{D^{0} K} = frac{f_{c}}{f_{u}}timesmathcal{B}(B_{c}^{+} rightarrow D^{0} K^{+}) = (9.3,^{+2.8}_{-2.5} pm 0.6) times 10^{-7},, $$ where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. This decay is expected to proceed predominantly through weak annihilation and penguin amplitudes, and is the first $B_{c}^{+}$ decay of this nature to be observed.
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.
Results from a multi-channel partial wave analysis of elastic and inelastic $pi N$ and $gamma N$ induced reactions are presented. The analysis evidences the existence of a spin-quartet of nucleon resonances with total angular momenta $J^P=1/2^+,..., 7/2^+$. All states fall into a $pm130$,MeV mass gap centered at 1.97,GeV. The spin quartet is at variance with S-wave diquark configurations required in classical di-quark models.