Measurement of relative branching fractions of B decays to ψ(2 S) and J/ ψ mesons

LHCb Collaboration; R Aaij; C Abellan Beteta; A Adametz; B Adeva; M Adinolfi; C Adrover; A Affolder; Z Ajaltouni; J Albrecht; F Alessio; M Alexander; S Ali; G Alkhazov; P Alvarez Cartelle; A A Alves Jr; S Amato; Y Amhis; J Anderson; R B Appleby; O Aquines Gutierrez; F Archilli; A Artamonov; M Artuso; E Aslanides; G Auriemma; S Bachmann; J J Back; V Balagura; W Baldini; R J Barlow; C Barschel; S Barsuk; W Barter; A Bates; C Bauer; Th Bauer; A Bay; J Beddow; I Bediaga; S Belogurov; K Belous; I Belyaev; E Ben-Haim; M Benayoun; G Bencivenni; S Benson; J Benton; R Bernet; M-O Bettler; M van Beuzekom; A Bien; S Bifani; T Bird; A Bizzeti; P M Bjørnstad; T Blake; F Blanc; C Blanks; J Blouw; S Blusk; A Bobrov; V Bocci; A Bondar; N Bondar; W Bonivento; S Borghi; A Borgia; T J V Bowcock; C Bozzi; T Brambach; J van den Brand; J Bressieux; D Brett; M Britsch; T Britton; N H Brook; H Brown; A Büchler-Germann; I Burducea; A Bursche; J Buytaert; S Cadeddu; O Callot; M Calvi; M Calvo Gomez; A Camboni; P Campana; A Carbone; G Carboni; R Cardinale; A Cardini; L Carson; K Carvalho Akiba; G Casse; M Cattaneo; Ch Cauet; M Charles; Ph Charpentier; N Chiapolini; M Chrzaszcz; K Ciba; X Cid Vidal; G Ciezarek; P E L Clarke; M Clemencic; H V Cliff; J Closier; C Coca; V Coco; J Cogan; E Cogneras; P Collins; A Comerma-Montells; A Contu; A Cook; M Coombes; G Corti; B Couturier; G A Cowan; R Currie; C D'Ambrosio; P David; P N Y David; I De Bonis; K De Bruyn; S De Capua; M De Cian; J M De Miranda; L De Paula; P De Simone; D Decamp; M Deckenhoff; H Degaudenzi; L Del Buono; C Deplano; D Derkach; O Deschamps; F Dettori; J Dickens; H Dijkstra; P Diniz Batista; F Domingo Bonal; S Donleavy; F Dordei; A Dosil Suárez; D Dossett; A Dovbnya; F Dupertuis; R Dzhelyadin; A Dziurda; A Dzyuba; S Easo; U Egede; V Egorychev; S Eidelman; D van Eijk; F Eisele; S Eisenhardt; R Ekelhof; L Eklund; Ch Elsasser; D Elsby; D Esperante Pereira; A Falabella; C Färber; G Fardell; C Farinelli; S Farry; V Fave; V Fernandez Albor; M Ferro-Luzzi; S Filippov; C Fitzpatrick; M Fontana; F Fontanelli; R Forty; O Francisco; M Frank; C Frei; M Frosini; S Furcas; A Gallas Torreira; D Galli; M Gandelman; P Gandini; Y Gao; J-C Garnier; J Garofoli; J Garra Tico; L Garrido; D Gascon; C Gaspar; R Gauld; N Gauvin; M Gersabeck; T Gershon; Ph Ghez; V Gibson; V V Gligorov; C Göbel; D Golubkov; A Golutvin; A Gomes; H Gordon; M Grabalosa Gándara; R Graciani Diaz; L A Granado Cardoso; E Graugés; G Graziani; A Grecu; E Greening; S Gregson; O Grünberg; B Gui; E Gushchin; Yu Guz; T Gys; C Hadjivasiliou; G Haefeli; C Haen; S C Haines; T Hampson; S Hansmann-Menzemer; N Harnew; J Harrison; P F Harrison; T Hartmann; J He; V Heijne; K Hennessy; P Henrard; J A Hernando Morata; E van Herwijnen; E Hicks; P Hopchev; W Hulsbergen; P Hunt; T Huse; R S Huston; D Hutchcroft; D Hynds; V Iakovenko; P Ilten; J Imong; R Jacobsson; A Jaeger; M Jahjah Hussein; E Jans; F Jansen; P Jaton; B Jean-Marie; F Jing; M John; D Johnson; C R Jones; B Jost; M Kaballo; S Kandybei; M Karacson; T M Karbach; J Keaveney; I R Kenyon; U Kerzel; T Ketel; A Keune; B Khanji; Y M Kim; M Knecht; I Komarov; R F Koopman; P Koppenburg; M Korolev; A Kozlinskiy; L Kravchuk; K Kreplin; M Kreps; G Krocker; P Krokovny; F Kruse; K Kruzelecki; M Kucharczyk; V Kudryavtsev; T Kvaratskheliya; V N La Thi; D Lacarrere; G Lafferty; A Lai; D Lambert; R W Lambert; E Lanciotti; G Lanfranchi; C Langenbruch; T Latham; C Lazzeroni; R Le Gac; J van Leerdam; J-P Lees; R Lefèvre; A Leflat; J Lefrançois; O Leroy; T Lesiak; L Li; Y Li; L Li Gioi; M Lieng; M Liles; R Lindner; C Linn; B Liu; G Liu; J von Loeben; J H Lopes; E Lopez Asamar; N Lopez-March; H Lu; J Luisier; A Mac Raighne; F Machefert; I V Machikhiliyan; F Maciuc; O Maev; J Magnin; S Malde; R M D Mamunur; G Manca; G Mancinelli; N Mangiafave; U Marconi; R Märki; J Marks; G Martellotti; A Martens; L Martin; A Martín Sánchez; M Martinelli; D Martinez Santos; A Massafferri; Z Mathe; C Matteuzzi; M Matveev; E Maurice; B Maynard; A Mazurov; G McGregor; R McNulty; M Meissner; M Merk; J Merkel; S Miglioranzi; D A Milanes; M-N Minard; J Molina Rodriguez; S Monteil; D Moran; P Morawski; R Mountain; I Mous; F Muheim; K Müller; R Muresan; B Muryn; B Muster; J Mylroie-Smith; P Naik; T Nakada; R Nandakumar; I Nasteva; M Needham; N Neufeld; A D Nguyen; C Nguyen-Mau; M Nicol; V Niess; N Nikitin; T Nikodem; A Nomerotski; A Novoselov; A Oblakowska-Mucha; V Obraztsov; S Oggero; S Ogilvy; O Okhrimenko; R Oldeman; M Orlandea; J M Otalora Goicochea; P Owen; B K Pal; J Palacios; A Palano; M Palutan; J Panman; A Papanestis; M Pappagallo; C Parkes; C J Parkinson; G Passaleva; G D Patel; M Patel; S K Paterson; G N Patrick; C Patrignani; C Pavel-Nicorescu; A Pazos Alvarez; A Pellegrino; G Penso; M Pepe Altarelli; S Perazzini; D L Perego; E Perez Trigo; A Pérez-Calero Yzquierdo; P Perret; M Perrin-Terrin; G Pessina; A Petrolini; A Phan; E Picatoste Olloqui; B Pie Valls; B Pietrzyk; T Pilař; D Pinci; R Plackett; S Playfer; M Plo Casasus; G Polok; A Poluektov; I Polyakov; E Polycarpo; D Popov; B Popovici; C Potterat; A Powell; J Prisciandaro; V Pugatch; A Puig Navarro; W Qian; J H Rademacker; B Rakotomiaramanana; M S Rangel; I Raniuk; G Raven; S Redford; M M Reid; A C Dos Reis; S Ricciardi; A Richards; K Rinnert; D A Roa Romero; P Robbe; E Rodrigues; F Rodrigues; P Rodriguez Perez; G J Rogers; S Roiser; V Romanovsky; M Rosello; J Rouvinet; T Ruf; H Ruiz; G Sabatino; J J Saborido Silva; N Sagidova; P Sail; B Saitta; C Salzmann; M Sannino; R Santacesaria; C Santamarina Rios; R Santinelli; E Santovetti; M Sapunov; A Sarti; C Satriano; A Satta; M Savrie; D Savrina; P Schaack; M Schiller; H Schindler; S Schleich; M Schlupp; M Schmelling; B Schmidt; O Schneider; A Schopper; M-H Schune; R Schwemmer; B Sciascia; A Sciubba; M Seco; A Semennikov; K Senderowska; I Sepp; N Serra; J Serrano; P Seyfert; M Shapkin; I Shapoval; P Shatalov; Y Shcheglov; T Shears; L Shekhtman; O Shevchenko; V Shevchenko; A Shires; R Silva Coutinho; T Skwarnicki; N A Smith; E Smith; M Smith; K Sobczak; F J P Soler; A Solomin; F Soomro; B Souza De Paula; B Spaan; A Sparkes; P Spradlin; F Stagni; S Stahl; O Steinkamp; S Stoica; S Stone; B Storaci; M Straticiuc; U Straumann; V K Subbiah; S Swientek; M Szczekowski; P Szczypka; T Szumlak; S T'Jampens; E Teodorescu; F Teubert; C Thomas; E Thomas; J van Tilburg; V Tisserand; M Tobin; S Tolk; S Topp-Joergensen; N Torr; E Tournefier; S Tourneur; M T Tran; A Tsaregorodtsev; N Tuning; M Ubeda Garcia; A Ukleja; U Uwer; V Vagnoni; G Valenti; R Vazquez Gomez; P Vazquez Regueiro; S Vecchi; J J Velthuis; M Veltri; B Viaud; I Videau; D Vieira; X Vilasis-Cardona; J Visniakov; A Vollhardt; D Volyanskyy; D Voong; A Vorobyev; V Vorobyev; C Voß; H Voss; R Waldi; R Wallace; S Wandernoth; J Wang; D R Ward; N K Watson; A D Webber; D Websdale; M Whitehead; J Wicht; D Wiedner; L Wiggers; G Wilkinson; M P Williams; M Williams; F F Wilson; J Wishahi; M Witek; W Witzeling; S A Wotton; S Wright; S Wu; K Wyllie; Y Xie; F Xing; Z Xing; Z Yang; R Young; X Yuan; O Yushchenko; M Zangoli; M Zavertyaev; F Zhang; L Zhang; W C Zhang; Y Zhang; A Zhelezov; L Zhong; A Zvyagin

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2118-7

Measurement of relative branching fractions of B decays to ψ(2 S) and J/ ψ mesons

Eur Phys J C Part Fields. 2012;72(8):2118. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2118-7. Epub 2012 Aug 29.

Authors

LHCb Collaboration; R Aaij¹, C Abellan Beteta², A Adametz³, B Adeva⁴, M Adinolfi⁵, C Adrover⁶, A Affolder⁷, Z Ajaltouni⁸, J Albrecht⁹, F Alessio⁹, M Alexander¹⁰, S Ali¹, G Alkhazov¹¹, P Alvarez Cartelle⁴, A A Alves Jr¹², S Amato¹³, Y Amhis¹⁴, J Anderson¹⁵, R B Appleby¹⁶, O Aquines Gutierrez¹⁷, F Archilli¹⁸, A Artamonov¹⁹, M Artuso²⁰, E Aslanides⁶, G Auriemma¹², S Bachmann³, J J Back²¹, V Balagura²², W Baldini²³, R J Barlow¹⁶, C Barschel⁹, S Barsuk²⁴, W Barter²⁵, A Bates¹⁰, C Bauer¹⁷, Th Bauer¹, A Bay¹⁴, J Beddow¹⁰, I Bediaga²⁶, S Belogurov²⁷, K Belous¹⁹, I Belyaev²⁷, E Ben-Haim²⁸, M Benayoun²⁸, G Bencivenni²⁹, S Benson³⁰, J Benton⁵, R Bernet¹⁵, M-O Bettler³¹, M van Beuzekom¹, A Bien³, S Bifani³², T Bird¹⁶, A Bizzeti³¹, P M Bjørnstad¹⁶, T Blake⁹, F Blanc¹⁴, C Blanks³³, J Blouw³, S Blusk³⁴, A Bobrov³⁵, V Bocci¹², A Bondar³⁵, N Bondar¹¹, W Bonivento³⁶, S Borghi³⁷, A Borgia³⁴, T J V Bowcock⁷, C Bozzi²³, T Brambach³⁸, J van den Brand³⁹, J Bressieux¹⁴, D Brett¹⁶, M Britsch¹⁷, T Britton³⁴, N H Brook⁵, H Brown⁷, A Büchler-Germann¹⁵, I Burducea⁴⁰, A Bursche¹⁵, J Buytaert⁹, S Cadeddu³⁶, O Callot²⁴, M Calvi⁴¹, M Calvo Gomez², A Camboni², P Campana¹⁸, A Carbone⁴², G Carboni⁴³, R Cardinale⁴⁴, A Cardini³⁶, L Carson³³, K Carvalho Akiba¹³, G Casse⁷, M Cattaneo⁹, Ch Cauet³⁸, M Charles⁴⁵, Ph Charpentier⁹, N Chiapolini¹⁵, M Chrzaszcz⁴⁶, K Ciba⁹, X Cid Vidal⁴, G Ciezarek³³, P E L Clarke³⁰, M Clemencic⁹, H V Cliff²⁵, J Closier⁹, C Coca⁴⁰, V Coco¹, J Cogan⁶, E Cogneras⁸, P Collins⁹, A Comerma-Montells², A Contu⁴⁵, A Cook⁵, M Coombes⁵, G Corti⁹, B Couturier⁹, G A Cowan¹⁴, R Currie³⁰, C D'Ambrosio⁹, P David²⁸, P N Y David¹, I De Bonis⁴⁷, K De Bruyn¹, S De Capua⁴³, M De Cian¹⁵, J M De Miranda²⁶, L De Paula¹³, P De Simone²⁹, D Decamp⁴⁷, M Deckenhoff³⁸, H Degaudenzi⁴⁸, L Del Buono²⁸, C Deplano³⁶, D Derkach⁴⁹, O Deschamps⁸, F Dettori³⁹, J Dickens²⁵, H Dijkstra⁹, P Diniz Batista²⁶, F Domingo Bonal², S Donleavy⁷, F Dordei³, A Dosil Suárez⁴, D Dossett²¹, A Dovbnya⁵⁰, F Dupertuis¹⁴, R Dzhelyadin¹⁹, A Dziurda⁴⁶, A Dzyuba¹¹, S Easo⁵¹, U Egede³³, V Egorychev²⁷, S Eidelman³⁵, D van Eijk¹, F Eisele³, S Eisenhardt³⁰, R Ekelhof³⁸, L Eklund¹⁰, Ch Elsasser¹⁵, D Elsby⁵², D Esperante Pereira⁴, A Falabella⁵³, C Färber³, G Fardell³⁰, C Farinelli¹, S Farry³², V Fave¹⁴, V Fernandez Albor⁴, M Ferro-Luzzi⁹, S Filippov⁵⁴, C Fitzpatrick³⁰, M Fontana¹⁷, F Fontanelli⁵⁵, R Forty⁹, O Francisco¹³, M Frank⁹, C Frei⁹, M Frosini³¹, S Furcas⁴¹, A Gallas Torreira⁴, D Galli⁴², M Gandelman¹³, P Gandini⁴⁵, Y Gao⁵⁶, J-C Garnier⁹, J Garofoli³⁴, J Garra Tico²⁵, L Garrido², D Gascon², C Gaspar⁹, R Gauld⁴⁵, N Gauvin¹⁴, M Gersabeck⁹, T Gershon⁵⁷, Ph Ghez⁴⁷, V Gibson²⁵, V V Gligorov⁹, C Göbel⁵⁸, D Golubkov²⁷, A Golutvin⁵⁹, A Gomes¹³, H Gordon⁴⁵, M Grabalosa Gándara², R Graciani Diaz², L A Granado Cardoso⁹, E Graugés², G Graziani³¹, A Grecu⁴⁰, E Greening⁴⁵, S Gregson²⁵, O Grünberg⁶⁰, B Gui³⁴, E Gushchin⁵⁴, Yu Guz¹⁹, T Gys⁹, C Hadjivasiliou³⁴, G Haefeli¹⁴, C Haen⁹, S C Haines²⁵, T Hampson⁵, S Hansmann-Menzemer³, N Harnew⁴⁵, J Harrison¹⁶, P F Harrison²¹, T Hartmann⁶⁰, J He²⁴, V Heijne¹, K Hennessy⁷, P Henrard⁸, J A Hernando Morata⁴, E van Herwijnen⁹, E Hicks⁷, P Hopchev⁴⁷, W Hulsbergen¹, P Hunt⁴⁵, T Huse⁷, R S Huston³², D Hutchcroft⁷, D Hynds¹⁰, V Iakovenko⁶¹, P Ilten³², J Imong⁵, R Jacobsson⁹, A Jaeger³, M Jahjah Hussein⁸, E Jans¹, F Jansen¹, P Jaton¹⁴, B Jean-Marie²⁴, F Jing⁵⁶, M John⁴⁵, D Johnson⁴⁵, C R Jones²⁵, B Jost⁹, M Kaballo³⁸, S Kandybei⁵⁰, M Karacson⁹, T M Karbach³⁸, J Keaveney³², I R Kenyon⁵², U Kerzel⁹, T Ketel³⁹, A Keune¹⁴, B Khanji⁶, Y M Kim³⁰, M Knecht¹⁴, I Komarov⁶², R F Koopman³⁹, P Koppenburg¹, M Korolev⁶², A Kozlinskiy¹, L Kravchuk⁵⁴, K Kreplin³, M Kreps²¹, G Krocker³, P Krokovny³⁵, F Kruse³⁸, K Kruzelecki⁹, M Kucharczyk⁶³, V Kudryavtsev³⁵, T Kvaratskheliya²², V N La Thi¹⁴, D Lacarrere⁹, G Lafferty¹⁶, A Lai³⁶, D Lambert³⁰, R W Lambert³⁹, E Lanciotti⁹, G Lanfranchi²⁹, C Langenbruch⁹, T Latham²¹, C Lazzeroni⁵², R Le Gac⁶, J van Leerdam¹, J-P Lees⁴⁷, R Lefèvre⁸, A Leflat⁶⁴, J Lefrançois²⁴, O Leroy⁶, T Lesiak⁴⁶, L Li⁵⁶, Y Li⁵⁶, L Li Gioi⁸, M Lieng³⁸, M Liles⁷, R Lindner⁹, C Linn³, B Liu⁵⁶, G Liu⁹, J von Loeben⁴¹, J H Lopes¹³, E Lopez Asamar², N Lopez-March¹⁴, H Lu⁵⁶, J Luisier¹⁴, A Mac Raighne¹⁰, F Machefert²⁴, I V Machikhiliyan⁶⁵, F Maciuc¹⁷, O Maev⁶⁶, J Magnin²⁶, S Malde⁴⁵, R M D Mamunur⁹, G Manca³⁶, G Mancinelli⁶, N Mangiafave²⁵, U Marconi⁴², R Märki¹⁴, J Marks³, G Martellotti¹², A Martens²⁸, L Martin⁴⁵, A Martín Sánchez²⁴, M Martinelli¹, D Martinez Santos⁹, A Massafferri²⁶, Z Mathe³², C Matteuzzi⁴¹, M Matveev¹¹, E Maurice⁶, B Maynard³⁴, A Mazurov⁶⁷, G McGregor¹⁶, R McNulty³², M Meissner³, M Merk¹, J Merkel³⁸, S Miglioranzi⁹, D A Milanes⁶⁸, M-N Minard⁴⁷, J Molina Rodriguez⁵⁸, S Monteil⁸, D Moran³², P Morawski⁴⁶, R Mountain³⁴, I Mous¹, F Muheim³⁰, K Müller¹⁵, R Muresan⁴⁰, B Muryn⁶⁹, B Muster¹⁴, J Mylroie-Smith⁷, P Naik⁵, T Nakada¹⁴, R Nandakumar⁵¹, I Nasteva²⁶, M Needham³⁰, N Neufeld⁹, A D Nguyen¹⁴, C Nguyen-Mau¹⁴, M Nicol²⁴, V Niess⁸, N Nikitin⁶², T Nikodem³, A Nomerotski⁷⁰, A Novoselov¹⁹, A Oblakowska-Mucha⁶⁹, V Obraztsov¹⁹, S Oggero¹, S Ogilvy¹⁰, O Okhrimenko⁶¹, R Oldeman⁷¹, M Orlandea⁴⁰, J M Otalora Goicochea¹³, P Owen³³, B K Pal³⁴, J Palacios¹⁵, A Palano⁶⁸, M Palutan²⁹, J Panman⁹, A Papanestis⁵¹, M Pappagallo¹⁰, C Parkes¹⁶, C J Parkinson³³, G Passaleva³¹, G D Patel⁷, M Patel³³, S K Paterson³³, G N Patrick⁵¹, C Patrignani⁵⁵, C Pavel-Nicorescu⁴⁰, A Pazos Alvarez⁴, A Pellegrino¹, G Penso¹², M Pepe Altarelli⁹, S Perazzini⁴², D L Perego⁴¹, E Perez Trigo⁴, A Pérez-Calero Yzquierdo², P Perret⁸, M Perrin-Terrin⁶, G Pessina⁴¹, A Petrolini⁵⁵, A Phan³⁴, E Picatoste Olloqui², B Pie Valls², B Pietrzyk⁴⁷, T Pilař²¹, D Pinci¹², R Plackett¹⁰, S Playfer³⁰, M Plo Casasus⁴, G Polok⁴⁶, A Poluektov⁷², I Polyakov²⁷, E Polycarpo¹³, D Popov¹⁷, B Popovici⁴⁰, C Potterat², A Powell⁴⁵, J Prisciandaro¹⁴, V Pugatch⁶¹, A Puig Navarro², W Qian³⁴, J H Rademacker⁵, B Rakotomiaramanana¹⁴, M S Rangel¹³, I Raniuk⁵⁰, G Raven³⁹, S Redford⁴⁵, M M Reid²¹, A C Dos Reis²⁶, S Ricciardi⁵¹, A Richards³³, K Rinnert⁷, D A Roa Romero⁸, P Robbe²⁴, E Rodrigues³⁷, F Rodrigues¹³, P Rodriguez Perez⁴, G J Rogers²⁵, S Roiser⁹, V Romanovsky¹⁹, M Rosello², J Rouvinet¹⁴, T Ruf⁹, H Ruiz², G Sabatino⁴³, J J Saborido Silva⁴, N Sagidova¹¹, P Sail¹⁰, B Saitta³⁶, C Salzmann¹⁵, M Sannino⁵⁵, R Santacesaria¹², C Santamarina Rios⁴, R Santinelli⁹, E Santovetti⁴³, M Sapunov⁶, A Sarti²⁹, C Satriano¹², A Satta⁴³, M Savrie²³, D Savrina²⁷, P Schaack³³, M Schiller³⁹, H Schindler⁹, S Schleich³⁸, M Schlupp³⁸, M Schmelling¹⁷, B Schmidt⁹, O Schneider¹⁴, A Schopper⁹, M-H Schune²⁴, R Schwemmer⁹, B Sciascia²⁹, A Sciubba²⁹, M Seco⁴, A Semennikov²⁷, K Senderowska⁶⁹, I Sepp³³, N Serra¹⁵, J Serrano⁶, P Seyfert³, M Shapkin¹⁹, I Shapoval⁷³, P Shatalov²⁷, Y Shcheglov¹¹, T Shears⁷, L Shekhtman³⁵, O Shevchenko⁵⁰, V Shevchenko²⁷, A Shires³³, R Silva Coutinho²¹, T Skwarnicki³⁴, N A Smith⁷, E Smith⁷⁴, M Smith¹⁶, K Sobczak⁸, F J P Soler¹⁰, A Solomin⁵, F Soomro¹⁸, B Souza De Paula¹³, B Spaan³⁸, A Sparkes³⁰, P Spradlin¹⁰, F Stagni⁹, S Stahl³, O Steinkamp¹⁵, S Stoica⁴⁰, S Stone²⁰, B Storaci¹, M Straticiuc⁴⁰, U Straumann¹⁵, V K Subbiah⁹, S Swientek³⁸, M Szczekowski⁷⁵, P Szczypka¹⁴, T Szumlak⁶⁹, S T'Jampens⁴⁷, E Teodorescu⁴⁰, F Teubert⁹, C Thomas⁴⁵, E Thomas⁹, J van Tilburg³, V Tisserand⁴⁷, M Tobin¹⁵, S Tolk³⁹, S Topp-Joergensen⁴⁵, N Torr⁴⁵, E Tournefier⁷⁶, S Tourneur¹⁴, M T Tran¹⁴, A Tsaregorodtsev⁶, N Tuning¹, M Ubeda Garcia⁹, A Ukleja⁷⁵, U Uwer³, V Vagnoni⁴², G Valenti⁴², R Vazquez Gomez², P Vazquez Regueiro⁴, S Vecchi²³, J J Velthuis⁵, M Veltri³¹, B Viaud²⁴, I Videau²⁴, D Vieira¹³, X Vilasis-Cardona², J Visniakov⁴, A Vollhardt¹⁵, D Volyanskyy¹⁷, D Voong⁵, A Vorobyev¹¹, V Vorobyev³⁵, C Voß⁶⁰, H Voss¹⁷, R Waldi⁶⁰, R Wallace³², S Wandernoth³, J Wang³⁴, D R Ward²⁵, N K Watson⁵², A D Webber¹⁶, D Websdale³³, M Whitehead²¹, J Wicht⁹, D Wiedner³, L Wiggers¹, G Wilkinson⁴⁵, M P Williams⁷⁷, M Williams³³, F F Wilson⁵¹, J Wishahi³⁸, M Witek⁴⁶, W Witzeling⁹, S A Wotton²⁵, S Wright²⁵, S Wu⁵⁶, K Wyllie⁹, Y Xie³⁰, F Xing⁴⁵, Z Xing³⁴, Z Yang⁵⁶, R Young³⁰, X Yuan⁵⁶, O Yushchenko¹⁹, M Zangoli⁴², M Zavertyaev¹⁷, F Zhang⁵⁶, L Zhang³⁴, W C Zhang³², Y Zhang⁵⁶, A Zhelezov³, L Zhong⁵⁶, A Zvyagin⁹

Affiliations

¹ Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
² Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
³ Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
⁴ Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
⁵ H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.
⁶ CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France.
⁷ Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
⁸ Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
⁹ European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland.
¹⁰ School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
¹¹ Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI), Gatchina, Russia.
¹² Sezione INFN di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy.
¹³ Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
¹⁴ Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
¹⁵ Physik-Institut, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
¹⁶ School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
¹⁷ Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK), Heidelberg, Germany.
¹⁸ Laboratori Nazionali dell'INFN di Frascati, Frascati, Italy ; European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland.
¹⁹ Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP), Protvino, Russia.
²⁰ European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland ; Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY United States.
²¹ Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.
²² Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Moscow, Russia ; European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland.
²³ Sezione INFN di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
²⁴ LAL, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Orsay, France.
²⁵ Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
²⁶ Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
²⁷ Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Moscow, Russia.
²⁸ LPNHE, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France.
²⁹ Laboratori Nazionali dell'INFN di Frascati, Frascati, Italy.
³⁰ School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
³¹ Sezione INFN di Firenze, Firenze, Italy.
³² School of Physics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
³³ Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
³⁴ Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY United States.
³⁵ Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (SB RAS) and Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia.
³⁶ Sezione INFN di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.
³⁷ School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom ; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
³⁸ Fakultät Physik, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany.
³⁹ Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics and VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁴⁰ Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania.
⁴¹ Sezione INFN di Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy.
⁴² Sezione INFN di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
⁴³ Sezione INFN di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy.
⁴⁴ Sezione INFN di Genova, Genova, Italy ; European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland.
⁴⁵ Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
⁴⁶ Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland.
⁴⁷ LAPP, Université de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, Annecy-Le-Vieux, France.
⁴⁸ European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland ; Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁴⁹ Sezione INFN di Bologna, Bologna, Italy ; European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland.
⁵⁰ NSC Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology (NSC KIPT), Kharkiv, Ukraine.
⁵¹ STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom.
⁵² University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
⁵³ Sezione INFN di Bologna, Bologna, Italy ; Sezione INFN di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
⁵⁴ Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INR RAN), Moscow, Russia.
⁵⁵ Sezione INFN di Genova, Genova, Italy.
⁵⁶ Center for High Energy Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
⁵⁷ European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland ; Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.
⁵⁸ Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
⁵⁹ Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Moscow, Russia ; European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland ; Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
⁶⁰ Institut für Physik, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany.
⁶¹ Institute for Nuclear Research of the National Academy of Sciences (KINR), Kyiv, Ukraine.
⁶² Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University (SINP MSU), Moscow, Russia.
⁶³ Sezione INFN di Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy ; Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland ; European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland.
⁶⁴ Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University (SINP MSU), Moscow, Russia ; European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland.
⁶⁵ Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Moscow, Russia ; LAPP, Université de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, Annecy-Le-Vieux, France.
⁶⁶ Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI), Gatchina, Russia ; European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland.
⁶⁷ Sezione INFN di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy ; Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INR RAN), Moscow, Russia ; European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland.
⁶⁸ Sezione INFN di Bari, Bari, Italy.
⁶⁹ AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland.
⁷⁰ European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland ; Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
⁷¹ Sezione INFN di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy ; European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland.
⁷² Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (SB RAS) and Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia ; Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.
⁷³ European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland ; NSC Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology (NSC KIPT), Kharkiv, Ukraine.
⁷⁴ STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom ; Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
⁷⁵ Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland.
⁷⁶ LAPP, Université de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, Annecy-Le-Vieux, France ; Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
⁷⁷ Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom ; STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom.

Abstract

The relative rates of B-meson decays into J/ψ and ψ(2S) mesons are measured for the three decay modes in pp collisions recorded with the LHCb detector. The ratios of branching fractions ([Formula: see text]) are measured to be [Formula: see text] where the third uncertainty is from the ratio of the ψ(2S) and J/ψ branching fractions to μ⁺μ^-.