https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5151-8
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Study of charmonium production in 
-hadron decays and first evidence for the decay 
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Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Center for High Energy Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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LAPP, Université Savoie Mont-Blanc, CNRS/IN2P3, Annecy-Le-Vieux, France
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Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France
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LAL, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Orsay, France
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LPNHE, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France
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I. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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Fakultät Physik, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
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Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK), Heidelberg, Germany
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Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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School of Physics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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Sezione INFN di Bari, Bari, Italy
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Sezione INFN di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Sezione INFN di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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Universita e INFN, Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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Sezione INFN di Firenze, Florence, Italy
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Laboratori Nazionali dell’INFN di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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Sezione INFN di Genova, Genoa, Italy
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Universita and INFN, Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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Sezione di Milano, Milan, Italy
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Sezione INFN di Padova, Padua, Italy
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Sezione INFN di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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Sezione INFN di Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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Sezione INFN di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
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Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
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Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH-University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland
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National Center for Nuclear Research (NCBJ), Warsaw, Poland
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Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
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Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI), Gatchina, Russia
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Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Moscow, Russia
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Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University (SINP MSU), Moscow, Russia
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Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INR RAN), Moscow, Russia
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Yandex School of Data Analysis, Moscow, Russia
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Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (SB RAS), Novosibirsk, Russia
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Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP), Protvino, Russia
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ICCUB, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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Institute of Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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Physik-Institut, Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics and VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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NSC Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology (NSC KIPT), Kharkiv, Ukraine
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Institute for Nuclear Research of the National Academy of Sciences (KINR), Kiev, Ukraine
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University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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Imperial College London, London, UK
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
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Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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Departamento de Fisica, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
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Institut für Physik, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
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Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular, Centro Mixto Universidad de Valencia-CSIC, Valencia, Spain
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Van Swinderen Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
* e-mail: sergey.barsuk@cern.ch
Received:
1
July
2017
Accepted:
20
August
2017
Published online:
14
September
2017
Using decays to 
-meson pairs, the inclusive production of charmonium states in -hadron decays is studied with pp collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 
, collected by the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. Denoting by 
the inclusive branching fraction of a 
hadron to a charmonium state C that decays into a pair of mesons, ratios 
are determined as 
, 
, 
, 
, 
and 
. Here and below the first uncertainties are statistical and the second systematic. Upper limits at 90% confidence level for the inclusive production of X(3872), X(3915) and 
states are obtained as 
, 
and 
. Differential cross-sections as a function of transverse momentum are measured for the 
and 
states. The branching fraction of the decay is measured for the first time, 
. Here the third uncertainty is due to the branching fraction of the decay 
, which is used for normalization. No evidence for intermediate resonances is seen. A preferentially transverse polarization is observed. The measurements allow the determination of the ratio of the branching fractions for the decays to 
and 
as 
.
© The Author(s), 2017
