{"paper":{"title":"The role of leptonic cascades in $B_c \\to B_s$ at the LHC","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["hep-ex"],"primary_cat":"hep-ph","authors_text":"Anirban Kundu, Arghya Choudhury, Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya","submitted_at":"2016-06-27T18:35:10Z","abstract_excerpt":"We study the feasibility and advantages of investigating the $c\\to s$ decay channel of the $B_c$ meson through the cascade decay $B_c\\to B_s\\pi$, $B_s\\to D_s\\ell\\nu$. We take into account possible contaminations coming from the vector excitations (like $B_s^*$, $D_s^*$ or $\\rho$ in the intermediate stages of the cascade) too, as well as the opposite cascade $B_c\\to B_s\\ell\\nu$, $B_s\\to D_s\\pi$. We show how the $p_T$ distribution of the pion and the lepton can possibly help to differentiate between various form factor models, for which we either need more integrated luminosity at the LHC, or a "},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1606.08402","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}