We report first evidence for a fully reconstructed decay mode of
the B+/-_c meson in the channel B+/-_c --> J/psi pi++/-, with J/psi --> mu+
mu-. The analysis is based on an integrated luminosity of 360 pb-1 in
p anti-p collisions at 1.96 TeV center of mass energy collected by the Collider
Detector at Fermilab. We observe 14.6 +/- 4.6 signal events with a
background of 7.1 +/- 0.9 events, and a fit to the J/psi pi++/- mass
spectrum yields a B+/-_c mass of 6285.7 +/- 5.3 (stat) +/- 1.2 (syst)
MeV/c2. The probability of a peak of this magnitude occurring by random
fluctuation in the search region is estimated as 0.012%.
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