First Exclusive Reconstruction of the B^{*+}, B^{*0}, and B_{s}^{*0} Mesons and Precise Measurement of Their Masses.
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abstract
Using proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment at sqrt[s]=13 TeV in 2016-2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb^{-1}, the first full reconstruction of the three vector B meson states, B^{*+}, B^{*0}, and B_{s}^{*0}, is performed. The mass differences between the excited mesons and their corresponding ground states are measured to be m(B^{*+})-m(B^{+})=45.277±0.039±0.027 MeV, m(B^{*0})-m(B^{0})=45.471±0.056±0.028 MeV, and m(B_{s}^{*0})-m(B_{s}^{0})=49.407±0.132±0.041 MeV, where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second are systematic. These results improve on the precision of previous measurements by an order of magnitude.
