The ratio of branching fractions of Bc+→Bs0π+ and Bc+→J/ψπ+ decays is measured with proton-proton collision data of a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data were collected with the LHCb experiment during 2016–2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.4 fb−1. The Bs0 mesons are reconstructed via the decays Bs0→J/ψϕ and Bs0→Ds−π+. The ratio of branching fractions is measured to be B(Bc+→Bs0π+)/B(Bc+→J/ψπ+)=91±10±8±3 where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second is systematic and the third is due to the knowledge of the branching fractions of the intermediate state decays. [graphic not available: see fulltext]
Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Tatsuya Nakada, Frédéric Blanc, Lesya Shchutska, Elena Graverini, Sebastian Schulte, Marie Theres Christin Bachmayer, Serhii Cholak, Ettore Zaffaroni, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Federico Ronchetti, Radoslav Marchevski, Anni Matilda Kauniskangas, Dimitrios Kaminaris, Raphaël van Laak, Pierre Paul Louis Mayencourt, Brianna Leililani Thielen, Arnaud Merlin Gauthey, Gianluca Zunica, Abdul-Kerim Guseinov, Esteban Curras Rivera, Yifei Song, Roberto Ribatti, Alexandre Brea Rodriguez, Rita De Sousa Ataíde Da Silva, Spencer Edward Collaviti