Measurement of the $B_s^0$ meson lifetime in $D_s^{+}{\pi }^{-}$ decays

Abstract

We present a measurement of the ratio of the Bs meson lifetime, in the flavor-specific decay to $D_s^{+}{\pi }^{-}$, to that of the B0 meson. The pp collision data used correspond to an integrated luminosity of 1/fb, collected with the LHCb detector, at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. Combining our measured value of 1.010 +/- 0.010 +/- 0.008 for this ratio with the known lifetime, we determine the flavor-specific Bs lifetime to be tau(Bs) = 1.535 +/- 0.015 +/- 0.014 ps, where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. This is the most precise measurement to date, and is consistent with previous measurements and theoretical predictions.

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