Measurement of the Bs effective lifetime in the J/psi f0(980) final state

Abstract

The effective lifetime of the Bs meson in the decay mode Bs->J/ψf0(980) is measured using 1.0/fb of data collected in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the LHCb detector. The result is 1.700 +/- 0.040 +/- 0.026 ps where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. As the final state is CP-odd, and CP violation in this mode is measured to be small, the lifetime measurement can be translated into a measurement of the decay width of the heavy Bs mass eigenstate, Γ_H = (0.588 +/- 0.014 +/- 0.009)/ps.

arXiv comment14 pages, 5 figures; v2 corrected CERN report number, v3 minor fixes

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