Evidence for the two-body charmless baryonic decay $B^{+}\to p\bar{\Lambda }$

Abstract

A search for the rare two-body charmless baryonic decay $B^{+}\to p\bar{\Lambda }$ is performed with $pp$ collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $3\,\mbox{fb}^{-1}$, collected by the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. An excess of $B^{+}\to p\bar{\Lambda }$ candidates with respect to background expectations is seen with a statistical significance of 4.1 standard deviations, and constitutes the first evidence for this decay. The branching fraction, measured using the $B^{+}\to K_{\mathrm{S}}^0{\pi }^{+}$ decay for normalisation, is \begin{eqnarray} \mathcal{B}(B^+ \to p \barΛ) & = & ( 2.4 \,^{+1.0}_{-0.8} \pm 0.3 ) \times 10^{-7} \,, \nonumber \end{eqnarray} where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic.

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