First observation of the B_c^{*+} meson with mass difference 64.5 MeV from the ground-state B_c^+ at >8 sigma significance using ATLAS data.
A Prediction of the B*_c mass in full lattice QCD
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By using the Highly Improved Staggered Quark formalism to handle charm, strange and light valence quarks in full lattice QCD, and NRQCD to handle bottom valence quarks we are able to determine accurately ratios of the B meson vector-pseudoscalar mass splittings, in particular, (m(B*_c)-m(B_c))/(m(B*_s)-m(B_s)). We find this ratio to be 1.15(15), showing the `light' quark mass dependence of this splitting to be very small. Hence we predict m(B_c*) = 6.330(7)(2)(6) GeV where the first two errors are from the lattice calculation and the third from existing experiment. This is the most accurate prediction of a gold-plated hadron mass from lattice QCD to date.
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Observation of a $B_c^{*+}$ meson with the ATLAS detector
First observation of the B_c^{*+} meson with mass difference 64.5 MeV from the ground-state B_c^+ at >8 sigma significance using ATLAS data.