@article{cd962f9214fc4808b30bc6eb46b35b98,
title = "First Observation of the Rare Purely Baryonic Decay B0 →p p-",
abstract = "The first observation of the decay of a B0 meson to a purely baryonic final state, B0→pp, is reported. The proton-proton collision data sample used was collected with the LHCb experiment at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb-1. The branching fraction is determined to be B(B0→pp)=(1.25±0.27±0.18)×10-8, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. The decay mode B0→pp is the rarest decay of the B0 meson observed to date. The decay Bs0→pp is also investigated. No signal is seen and the upper limit B(Bs0→pp)<1.5×10-8 at 90% confidence level is set on the branching fraction.",
author = "{(LHCb Collaboration)} and R. Aaij and B. Adeva and M. Adinolfi and Z. Ajaltouni and S. Akar and J. Albrecht and F. Alessio and M. Alexander and {Alfonso Albero}, A. and S. Ali and G. Alkhazov and {Alvarez Cartelle}, P. and Alves, {A. A.} and S. Amato and S. Amerio and Y. Amhis and L. An and L. Anderlini and G. Andreassi and M. Andreotti and Andrews, {J. E.} and Appleby, {R. B.} and F. Archilli and P. D'Argent and {Arnau Romeu}, J. and A. Artamonov and M. Artuso and E. Aslanides and G. Auriemma and M. Baalouch and I. Babuschkin and S. Bachmann and Back, {J. J.} and A. Badalov and C. Baesso and S. Baker and V. Balagura and W. Baldini and A. Baranov and Barlow, {R. J.} and C. Barschel and S. Barsuk and W. Barter and F. Baryshnikov and V. Batozskaya and S. Blusk and Rudolph, {M. S.} and {Silva Coutinho}, R. and T. Skwarnicki and S. Stone",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 CERN",
year = "2017",
month = dec,
day = "4",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.232001",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "119",
journal = "Physical Review Letters",
issn = "0031-9007",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "23",
}