@article{d511135f6c3e493894e91edadc58b6b3,
title = "Observation of an Excited Bc± Meson State with the ATLAS Detector",
abstract = "A search for excited states of the Bc± meson is performed using 4.9 fb-1 of 7 TeV and 19.2 fb-1 of 8 TeV pp collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. A new state is observed through its hadronic transition to the ground state, with the latter detected in the decay Bc±→J/ψπ±. The state appears in the m(Bc±π+π-)-m(Bc±)-2m(π±) mass difference distribution with a significance of 5.2 standard deviations. The mass of the observed state is 6842±4±5 MeV, where the first error is statistical and the second is systematic. The mass and decay of this state are consistent with expectations for the second S-wave state of the Bc± meson, Bc±(2S).",
author = "G. Aad and B. Abbott and J. Abdallah and {Abdel Khalek}, S. and O. Abdinov and R. Aben and B. Abi and M. Abolins and Abouzeid, {O. S.} and H. Abramowicz and H. Abreu and R. Abreu and Y. Abulaiti and Acharya, {B. S.} and L. Adamczyk and Adams, {D. L.} and J. Adelman and S. Adomeit and T. Adye and T. Agatonovic-Jovin and Aguilar-Saavedra, {J. A.} and M. Agustoni and Ahlen, {S. P.} and F. Ahmadov and G. Aielli and H. Akerstedt and {\AA}kesson, {T. P.A.} and G. Akimoto and Akimov, {A. V.} and Alberghi, {G. L.} and J. Albert and S. Albrand and {Alconada Verzini}, {M. J.} and M. Aleksa and Aleksandrov, {I. N.} and C. Alexa and G. Alexander and G. Alexandre and T. Alexopoulos and M. Alhroob and G. Alimonti and L. Alio and J. Alison and Allbrooke, {B. M.M.} and Allison, {L. J.} and Allport, {P. P.} and J. Almond and A. Aloisio and Citron, {Z. H.} and M. Pitt and M. Bellomo and {Di Mattia}, A. and O. Gabizon and S. Istin and E. Kajomovitz and J. Meyer and E. Musto and S. Tarem and A. Ashkenazi and L. Barak and G. Bella and Y. Benhammou and T. Cao and E. Etzion and Y. Oren and A. Soffer",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 CERN. {\textcopyright} 2015 CERN, for the ATLAS Collaboration. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the »http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/» Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.",
year = "2014",
month = nov,
day = "21",
doi = "https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.212004",
language = "American English",
volume = "113",
journal = "Physical Review Letters",
issn = "0031-9007",
publisher = "American Institute of Physics",
number = "21",
}