Search for the doubly heavy baryons $\it{\Omega}_{bc}^{\rm0}$ and $\it{\Xi}_{bc}^{\rm0}$ decaying to $\it{\Lambda_{c}^{+}\pi^{-}}$ and $\it{\Xi_{c}^{+}\pi^{-}}$

Abstract

The first search for the doubly heavy $\it{\Omega}_{bc}^{\rm0}$ baryon and a search for $\it{\Xi}_{bc}^{\rm0}$ baryon are performed using $pp$ collision data collected via the LHCb experiment from 2016 to 2018 at a centre-of-mass energy of $13TeV$, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.2$fb^{-1}$. The baryons are reconstructed via their decays to $\it{\Lambda_{c}^{+}\pi^{-}}$ and $\it{\Xi_{c}^{+}\pi^{-}}$. No significant excess is found for invariant masses between 6700 and 7300$MeV/c^2$, in a rapidity range from 2.0 to 4.5 and a transverse momentum range from 2 to 20$GeV/c$. Upper limits are set on the ratio of the $\it{\Omega}_{bc}^{\rm0}$ and $\it{\Xi}_{bc}^{\rm0}$ production cross-section times the branching fraction to $\it{\Lambda_{c}^{+}\pi^{-}}$ ($\it{\Xi_{c}^{+}\pi^{-}}$) relative to that of the $\it{\Lambda_b^{\rm0}}$ ($\it{\Xi_b^{\rm0}}$) baryon, for different lifetime hypotheses, at $95\%$ confidence level. The upper limits range from $0.5\times10^{-4}$ to $2.5\times10^{-4}$ for the $\it{\Omega}_{bc}^{\rm0}\rightarrow\it{\Lambda_{c}^{+}\pi^{-}}$ ($\it{\Xi}_{bc}^{\rm0}\rightarrow\it{\Lambda_{c}^{+}\pi^{-}}$) decay, and from $1.4\times10^{-3}$ to $6.9\times10^{-3}$ for the $\it{\Omega}_{bc}^{\rm0}\rightarrow\it{\Xi_{c}^{+}\pi^{-}}$ ($\it{\Xi}_{bc}^{\rm0}\rightarrow\it{\Xi_{c}^{+}\pi^{-}}$) decay, depending on the considered mass and lifetime of the $\it{\Omega}_{bc}^{\rm0}$ ($\it{\Xi}_{bc}^{\rm0}$) baryon.