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Precise determination of the Bs0 – B¯s0 oscillation frequency

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Authors

Aaij, R 
Beteta, CA 
Ackernley, T 
Adeva, B 
Adinolfi, M 

Abstract

Mesons comprising a beauty quark and a strange quark can oscillate between particle (B0s) and antiparticle (B0s) flavour eigenstates, with a frequency given by the mass difference between heavy and light mass eigenstates, deltams. Here we present ameasurement of deltams using B0s2DsPi decays produced in proton-proton collisions collected with the LHCb detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The oscillation frequency is found to be deltams = 17.7683 +- 0.0051 +- 0.0032 ps-1, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. This measurement improves upon the current deltams precision by a factor of two. We combine this result with previous LHCb measurements to determine deltams = 17.7656 +- 0.0057 ps-1, which is the legacy measurement of the original LHCb detector.

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hep-ex, hep-ex

Journal Title

Nature Physics

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Journal ISSN

1745-2473
1745-2481

Volume Title

18

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC