Bottom baryons decaying to a J/psi meson and a hyperon are reconstructed using 1.0 fb(-1) of data collected in 2011 with the LHCb detector. Significant Lambda(0)(b) -> J/psi Lambda, Xi(-)(b) -> J/psi Xi(-) and Omega(-)(b) -> J/psi Omega(-) signals are observed and the corresponding masses are measured to be M(Lambda(0)(b)) = 5619.53 +/- 0.13(stat.) +/- 0.45(syst.) MeV/c(2), M(Xi(-)(b)) = 5795.8 +/- 0.9(stat.) +/- 0.4(syst.) MeV/c(2), M(Omega(-)(b)) = 6046.0 +/- 2-2(stat.) +/- 0.5(syst.) MeV/c(2), while the differences with respect to the Lambda(0)(b) mass are M(Xi(-)(b)) - M(Lambda(0)(b)) = 176.2+/-0.9(stat.) +/- 0.1(syst.) MeV/c(2), M(Omega(-)(b)) - M(Lambda(0)(b)) = 426.4 +/- 2.2(stat.) +/-0.4(syst.) MeV/c(2). These are the most precise mass measurements of the Lambda(0)(b), Xi(-)(b) and Omega(-)(b) baryons to date. Averaging the above Lambda(0)(b) mass measurement with that published by LHCb using 35 pb(-1) of data collected in 2010 yields M(Lambda(0)(b)) = 5619.44 +/- 0.13(stat.) +/- 0.38(syst.) MeV/c(2).
Matthias Finger, Konstantin Androsov, Jan Steggemann, Qian Wang, Anna Mascellani, Yiming Li, Varun Sharma, Xin Chen, Rakesh Chawla, Matteo Galli
Matthias Finger, Konstantin Androsov, Qian Wang, Jan Steggemann, Yiming Li, Anna Mascellani, Varun Sharma, Xin Chen, Rakesh Chawla, Matteo Galli