Search for the doubly charmed baryon ${\Xi }_{cc}^{+}$ in the ${\Xi }_c^{+}{\pi }^{-}{\pi }^{+}$ final state

Abstract

A search for the doubly charmed baryon ${\Xi }_{cc}^{+}$ is performed in the ${\Xi }_c^{+}{\pi }^{-}{\pi }^{+}$ invariant-mass spectrum, where the ${\Xi }_c^{+}$ baryon is reconstructed in the $p{K}^{-}{\pi }^{+}$ final state. The study uses proton-proton collision data collected with the LHCb detector at a centre-of-mass energy of 13$\mathrm{Te}\mathrm{V}$, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 5.4${\mathrm{fb}}^{-1}$. No significant signal is observed in the invariant-mass range of 3.4$-$3.8$\mathrm{Ge}\mathrm{V}/c^2$. Upper limits are set on the ratio of branching fractions multiplied by the production cross-section with respect to the ${\Xi }_{cc}^{++}\to ({\Xi }_c^{+}\to p{K}^{-}{\pi }^{+}){\pi }^{+}$ decay for different ${\Xi }_{cc}^{+}$ mass and lifetime hypotheses in the rapidity range from 2.0 to 4.5 and the transverse momentum range from 2.5 to 25$\mathrm{Ge}\mathrm{V}/c$. The results from this search are combined with a previously published search for the ${\Xi }_{cc}^{+}\to {\Lambda }_c^{+}{K}^{-}{\pi }^{+}$ decay mode, yielding a maximum local significance of 4.0 standard deviations around the mass of 3620$\mathrm{Me}\mathrm{V}/c^2$, including systematic uncertainties. Taking into account the look-elsewhere effect in the 3.5$-$3.7$\mathrm{Ge}\mathrm{V}/c^2$ mass window, the combined global significance is 2.9 standard deviations including systematic uncertainties.

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