Observation of muonic Dalitz decays of ${\chi }_b$ mesons and precise spectroscopy of hidden-beauty states

Abstract

The decays of the ${\chi }_{b1}(1P)$, ${\chi }_{b2}(1P)$, ${\chi }_{b1}(2P)$ and ${\chi }_{b2}(2P)$ mesons into the ${\rm Y}(1S){\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$ final state are observed with a high significance using proton-proton collision data collected with the LHCb detector and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9fb${}^{-1}$. The newly observed decays together with the ${\rm Y}(2S)\to {\rm Y}(1S){\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}$ and ${\rm Y}(3S)\to {\rm Y}(2S){\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}$ decay modes are used for precision measurements of the mass and mass splittings for the hidden-beauty states.

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