Analysis of $\it{\Lambda}^\mathrm{0}_b \rightarrow pK^-\mu^+\mu^-$ decays

Abstract

The differential branching fraction and angular coefficients of $\it{\Lambda}^\mathrm{0}_b \rightarrow pK^-\mu^+\mu^-$ decays are measured in bins of the dimuon mass squared and dihadron mass. The analysis is performed using a data set corresponding to 9$\text{fb}^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity collected with the $\mbox{LHCb}$ detector between 2011 and 2018. The data are consistent with receiving contributions from a mixture of $\it{\Lambda}$ resonances with different spin-parity quantum numbers. The angular coefficients show a pattern of vector-axial vector interference that is a characteristic of the type of flavour-changing neutral-current transition relevant for these decays.