Measurements of the branching fractions of $Λ_c^+ \to p η$ and $Λ_c^+ \to p π^0$ decays at Belle

24 Feb 2021  ·  Belle Collaboration, S. X. Li, C. P. Shen, I. Adachi, J. K. Ahn, H. Aihara, D. M. Asner, T. Aushev, R. Ayad, V. Babu, S. Bahinipati, P. Behera, J. Bennett, F. Bernlochner, M. Bessner, V. Bhardwaj, B. Bhuyan, T. Bilka, J. Biswal, A. Bobrov, A. Bozek, M. Bracko, T. E. Browder, M. Campajola, L. Cao, D. Červenkov, M. -C. Chang, A. Chen, B. G. Cheon, K. Chilikin, H. E. Cho, K. Cho, Y. Choi, S. Choudhury, D. Cinabro, S. Cunliffe, S. Das, N. Dash, G. De Nardo, R. Dhamija, F. Di Capua, Z. Doležal, T. V. Dong, S. Eidelman, D. Epifanov, T. Ferber, D. Ferlewicz, B. G. Fulsom, R. Garg, V. Gaur, A. Garmash, A. Giri, P. Goldenzweig, B. Golob, O. Grzymkowska, K. Gudkova, C. Hadjivasiliou, O. Hartbrich, K. Hayasaka, H. Hayashii, M. T. Hedges, W. -S. Hou, C. -L. Hsu, T. Iijima, K. Inami, G. Inguglia, A. Ishikawa, R. Itoh, M. Iwasaki, Y. Iwasaki, W. W. Jacobs, E. -J. Jang, S. Jia, Y. Jin, C. W. Joo, K. K. Joo, A. B. Kaliyar, K. H. Kang, G. Karyan, Y. Kato, T. Kawasaki, H. Kichimi, B. H. Kim, C. H. Kim, D. Y. Kim, K. -H. Kim, S. H. Kim, Y. -K. Kim, K. Kinoshita, P. Kodyš, T. Konno, A. Korobov, S. Korpar, E. Kovalenko, P. Križan, R. Kroeger, P. Krokovny, T. Kuhr, M. Kumar, K. Kumara, A. Kuzmin, Y. -J. Kwon, K. Lalwani, J. S. Lange, I. S. Lee, S. C. Lee, C. H. Li, L. K. Li, Y. B. Li, L. Li Gioi, J. Libby, K. Lieret, D. Liventsev, M. Masuda, T. Matsuda, D. Matvienko, M. Merola, F. Metzner, R. Mizuk, S. Mohanty, T. Mori, M. Nakao, Z. Natkaniec, A. Natochii, L. Nayak, M. Niiyama, N. K. Nisar, S. Nishida, H. Ono, Y. Onuki, P. Pakhlov, G. Pakhlova, T. Pang, S. Pardi, H. Park, S. -H. Park, S. Patra, S. Paul, T. K. Pedlar, R. Pestotnik, L. E. Piilonen, T. Podobnik, V. Popov, E. Prencipe, M. T. Prim, M. Röhrken, A. Rostomyan, N. Rout, G. Russo, D. Sahoo, Y. Sakai, S. Sandilya, A. Sangal, L. Santelj, T. Sanuki, V. Savinov, G. Schnell, J. Schueler, C. Schwanda, Y. Seino, K. Senyo, M. E. Sevior, M. Shapkin, C. Sharma, V. Shebalin, J. -G. Shiu, B. Shwartz, E. Solovieva, S. Stanič, M. Starič, Z. S. Stottler, M. Sumihama, T. Sumiyoshi, W. Sutcliffe, M. Takizawa, K. Tanida, Y. Tao, F. Tenchini, K. Trabelsi, M. Uchida, S. Uehara, T. Uglov, K. Uno, S. Uno, P. Urquijo, R. Van Tonder, G. Varner, A. Vossen, C. H. Wang, E. Wang, M. -Z. Wang, P. Wang, S. Watanuki, E. Won, X. Xu, B. D. Yabsley, W. Yan, S. B. Yang, H. Ye, J. Yelton, J. H. Yin, C. Z. Yuan, Y. Yusa, Z. P. Zhang, V. Zhilich, V. Zhukova, V. Zhulanov ·

We report measurements of the branching fractions of singly Cabibbo-suppressed decays $\Lambda_c^+ \to p \eta$ and $\Lambda_c^+ \to p \pi^0$ using the full Belle data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 980.6 $\rm fb^{-1}$. The data were collected by the Belle detector at the KEKB $e^{+}$$e^{-}$ asymmetric-energy collider. A clear $\Lambda_c^+$ signal is seen in the invariant mass distribution of $p \eta$. The signal yield of the $\Lambda_c^+ \to p \eta$ process is $7734 \pm 263$; from this, we measure the ratio of branching fractions ${\cal B}(\Lambda_c^+ \to p \eta)/{\cal B}(\Lambda_c^+ \to p K^- \pi^+) = (2.258 \pm 0. 077(\rm stat. ) \pm 0.136(\rm syst. ))\times 10^{-2}$, from which we infer the branching fraction ${\cal B}(\Lambda_c^+ \to p \eta) = (1.42 \pm 0.05(\rm stat.) \pm 0.11(\rm syst.)) \times 10^{-3}$. In addition, no significant signal for $\Lambda_c^+ \to p \pi^0$ is found so an upper limit on the branching fraction of ${\cal B}(\Lambda_c^+ \to p \pi^0)<8.0 \times 10^{-5}$ at 90\% credibility level is set, more than three times better than the best current upper limit.

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