Search for massive long-lived particles decaying semileptonically at s=13TeV

European Physical Journal C Springer Nature 82:4 (2022) 373

Authors:

R Aaij, ASW Abdelmotteleb, C Abellán Beteta, FJ Abudinen Gallego, T Ackernley, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, H Afsharnia, C Agapopoulou, CA Aidala, S Aiola, Z Ajaltouni, S Akar, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, A Alfonso Albero, Z Aliouche, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, S Amato, JL Amey, Y Amhis, L An, L Anderlini, A Andreianov, M Andreotti, F Archilli, A Artamonov, M Artuso, K Arzymatov, E Aslanides, M Atzeni, B Audurier, S Bachmann, M Bachmayer, JJ Back, P Baladron Rodriguez, V Balagura, W Baldini, J Baptista Leite, M Barbetti, RJ Barlow, S Barsuk, W Barter, M Bartolini, F Baryshnikov, JM Basels, S Bashir, G Bassi, B Batsukh, A Battig, A Bay, A Beck, M Becker, F Bedeschi, I Bediaga, A Beiter, V Belavin, S Belin, V Bellee, K Belous, I Belov, I Belyaev, G Bencivenni, E Ben-Haim, A Berezhnoy, R Bernet, D Berninghoff, HC Bernstein, C Bertella, A Bertolin, C Betancourt, F Betti, Ia Bezshyiko, S Bhasin, J Bhom, L Bian, MS Bieker, S Bifani, P Billoir, M Birch, FCR Bishop, A Bitadze, A Bizzeti, M Bjørn, MP Blago, T Blake, F Blanc, S Blusk, D Bobulska, JA Boelhauve, O Boente Garcia, T Boettcher, A Boldyrev, A Bondar, N Bondar, S Borghi, M Borisyak, M Borsato, JT Borsuk, SA Bouchiba, TJV Bowcock, A Boyer, C Bozzi, MJ Bradley, S Braun, A Brea Rodriguez, M Brodski, J Brodzicka, A Brossa Gonzalo, D Brundu, A Buonaura, L Buonincontri, AT Burke, C Burr, A Bursche, A Butkevich, JS Butter, J Buytaert, W Byczynski, S Cadeddu, H Cai, R Calabrese, L Calefice, L Calero Diaz, S Cali, R Calladine, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, P Camargo Magalhaes, P Campana, AF Campoverde Quezada, S Capelli, L Capriotti, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, I Carli, P Carniti, L Carus, K Carvalho Akiba, A Casais Vidal, G Casse, M Cattaneo, G Cavallero, S Celani, J Cerasoli, D Cervenkov, AJ Chadwick, MG Chapman, M Charles, Ph Charpentier, G Chatzikonstantinidis, CA Chavez Barajas, M Chefdeville, C Chen, S Chen, A Chernov, V Chobanova, S Cholak, M Chrzaszcz, A Chubykin, V Chulikov, P Ciambrone, MF Cicala, X Cid Vidal, G Ciezarek, PEL Clarke, M Clemencic, HV Cliff, J Closier, JL Cobbledick, V Coco, JAB Coelho, J Cogan, E Cogneras, L Cojocariu, P Collins, T Colombo, L Congedo, A Contu, N Cooke, G Coombs, I Corredoira, G Corti, CM Costa Sobral, B Couturier, DC Craik, J Crkovská, M Cruz Torres, R Currie, CL Da Silva, S Dadabaev, L Dai, E Dall’Occo, J Dalseno, C D’Ambrosio, A Danilina, P d’Argent, JE Davies, A Davis, O De Aguiar Francisco, K De Bruyn, S De Capua, M De Cian, JM De Miranda, L De Paula, M De Serio, D De Simone, P De Simone, JA de Vries, CT Dean, D Decamp, V Dedu, L Del Buono, B Delaney, H-P Dembinski, A Dendek, V Denysenko, D Derkach, O Deschamps, F Desse, F Dettori, B Dey, A Di Cicco, P Di Nezza, S Didenko, L Dieste Maronas, H Dijkstra, V Dobishuk, C Dong, AM Donohoe, F Dordei, AC dos Reis, L Douglas, A Dovbnya, AG Downes, MW Dudek, L Dufour, V Duk, P Durante, JM Durham, D Dutta, A Dziurda, A Dzyuba, S Easo, U Egede, V Egorychev, S Eidelman, S Eisenhardt, S Ek-In, L Eklund, S Ely, A Ene, E Epple, S Escher, J Eschle, S Esen, T Evans, A Falabella, J Fan, Y Fan, B Fang, S Farry, D Fazzini, M Féo, A Fernandez Prieto, JM Fernandez-tenllado Arribas, AD Fernez, F Ferrari, L Ferreira Lopes, F Ferreira Rodrigues, S Ferreres Sole, M Ferrillo, M Ferro-Luzzi, S Filippov, RA Fini, M Fiorini, M Firlej, KM Fischer, DS Fitzgerald, C Fitzpatrick, T Fiutowski, A Fkiaras, F Fleuret, M Fontana, F Fontanelli, R Forty, D Foulds-Holt, V Franco Lima, M Franco Sevilla, M Frank, E Franzoso, G Frau, C Frei, DA Friday, J Fu, Q Fuehring, E Gabriel, G Galati, A Gallas Torreira, D Galli, S Gambetta, Y Gan, M Gandelman, P Gandini, Y Gao, M Garau, LM Garcia Martin, P Garcia Moreno, J García Pardiñas, B Garcia Plana, FA Garcia Rosales, L Garrido, C Gaspar, RE Geertsema, D Gerick, LL Gerken, E Gersabeck, M Gersabeck, T Gershon, D Gerstel, Ph Ghez, L Giambastiani, V Gibson, HK Giemza, AL Gilman, M Giovannetti, A Gioventù, P Gironella Gironell, L Giubega, C Giugliano, K Gizdov, EL Gkougkousis, 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Jones, TP Jones, B Jost, N Jurik, SH Kalavan Kadavath, S Kandybei, Y Kang, M Karacson, M Karpov, F Keizer, DM Keller, M Kenzie, T Ketel, B Khanji, A Kharisova, S Kholodenko, T Kirn, VS Kirsebom, O Kitouni, S Klaver, N Kleijne, K Klimaszewski, MR Kmiec, S Koliiev, A Kondybayeva, A Konoplyannikov, P Kopciewicz, R Kopecna, P Koppenburg, M Korolev, I Kostiuk, O Kot, S Kotriakhova, P Kravchenko, L Kravchuk, RD Krawczyk, M Kreps, F Kress, S Kretzschmar, P Krokovny, W Krupa, W Krzemien, M Kucharczyk, V Kudryavtsev, HS Kuindersma, GJ Kunde, T Kvaratskheliya, D Lacarrere, G Lafferty, A Lai, A Lampis, D Lancierini, JJ Lane, R Lane, G Lanfranchi, C Langenbruch, J Langer, O Lantwin, T Latham, F Lazzari, R Le Gac, SH Lee, R Lefèvre, A Leflat, S Legotin, O Leroy, T Lesiak, B Leverington, H Li, P Li, S Li, Y Li, Y Li, Z Li, X Liang, T Lin, R Lindner, V Lisovskyi, R Litvinov, G Liu, H Liu, Q Liu, S Liu, A Lobo Salvia, A Loi, J Lomba Castro, I Longstaff, JH Lopes, S Lopez Solino, GH Lovell, Y Lu, C 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Mixing and CP violation in D-0 -> K-pi(+) decays

Journal of High Energy Physics Springer 2022:3 (2022) 162

Authors:

Tommaso Pajero, Michael Joseph Morello

Abstract:

We review the experimental methods to measure mixing and time-dependent CP violation in D0 decays into two hadrons. While these phenomena are usually neglected for D0 → K−π+ decays, this approximation is not always justified. In particular, it produces a bias on the measurement of the parameter yCP, when this is performed by relying on D0 → K−π+ decays as a normalisation channel, whose size is around 40% of the precision of the current world average. Finally, we estimate the sensitivity to the weak mixing phases achievable by studying D0 → K−π+ and untagged D → K−π+ decays, where D stands for either of the D0 and D¯ 0 mesons. Contrary to Cabibbo-suppressed D0 → h+h− decays, these decay channels allow to measure these phases without final-state dependent nuisance contributions from the decay amplitudes, but their sensitivity is lower by a factor of six.

Observation of $$ {\Lambda}_b^0 $$ → D+pπ−π− and $$ {\Lambda}_b^0 $$ → D*+pπ−π− decays

Journal of High Energy Physics Springer 2022:3 (2022) 153

Authors:

R Aaij, ASW Abdelmotteleb, C Abellán Beteta, F Abudinén, T Ackernley, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, H Afsharnia, C Agapopoulou, CA Aidala, S Aiola, Z Ajaltouni, S Akar, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, A Alfonso Albero, Z Aliouche, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, S Amato, JL Amey, Y Amhis, L An, L Anderlini

Abstract:

Two related searches for phenomena beyond the standard model (BSM) are performed using events with hadronic jets and significant transverse momentum imbalance. The results are based on a sample of proton–proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13TeV, collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2016–2018 and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137fb⁻¹. The first search is inclusive, based on signal regions defined by the hadronic energy in the event, the jet multiplicity, the number of jets identified as originating from bottom quarks, and the value of the kinematic variable M_(T2) for events with at least two jets. For events with exactly one jet, the transverse momentum of the jet is used instead. The second search looks in addition for disappearing tracks produced by BSM long-lived charged particles that decay within the volume of the tracking detector. No excess event yield is observed above the predicted standard model background. This is used to constrain a range of BSM models that predict the following: the pair production of gluinos and squarks in the context of supersymmetry models conserving R-parity, with or without intermediate long-lived charginos produced in the decay chain; the resonant production of a colored scalar state decaying to a massive Dirac fermion and a quark; or the pair production of scalar and vector leptoquarks each decaying to a neutrino and a top, bottom, or light-flavor quark. In most of the cases, the results obtained are the most stringent constraints to date

Searches for rare $$ {B}_s^0 $$ and B0 decays into four muons

Journal of High Energy Physics Springer 2022:3 (2022) 109

Authors:

R Aaij, ASW Abdelmotteleb, C Abellán Beteta, F Abudinén, T Ackernley, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, H Afsharnia, C Agapopoulou, CA Aidala, S Aiola, Z Ajaltouni, S Akar, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, A Alfonso Albero, Z Aliouche, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, S Amato, JL Amey, Y Amhis, L An, L Anderlini

Abstract:

Two related searches for phenomena beyond the standard model (BSM) are performed using events with hadronic jets and significant transverse momentum imbalance. The results are based on a sample of proton–proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13TeV, collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2016–2018 and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137fb⁻¹. The first search is inclusive, based on signal regions defined by the hadronic energy in the event, the jet multiplicity, the number of jets identified as originating from bottom quarks, and the value of the kinematic variable M_(T2) for events with at least two jets. For events with exactly one jet, the transverse momentum of the jet is used instead. The second search looks in addition for disappearing tracks produced by BSM long-lived charged particles that decay within the volume of the tracking detector. No excess event yield is observed above the predicted standard model background. This is used to constrain a range of BSM models that predict the following: the pair production of gluinos and squarks in the context of supersymmetry models conserving R-parity, with or without intermediate long-lived charginos produced in the decay chain; the resonant production of a colored scalar state decaying to a massive Dirac fermion and a quark; or the pair production of scalar and vector leptoquarks each decaying to a neutrino and a top, bottom, or light-flavor quark. In most of the cases, the results obtained are the most stringent constraints to date

Test of lepton universality in beauty-quark decays

Nature Physics Nature Research 18:3 (2022) 277-282

Authors:

R Aaij, C Abellán Beteta, T Ackernley, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, H Afsharnia, CA Aidala, S Aiola, Z Ajaltouni, S Akar, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, A Alfonso Albero, Z Aliouche, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, S Amato, Y Amhis, L An, L Anderlini, A Andreianov, M Andreotti, F Archilli, A Artamonov

Abstract:

The standard model of particle physics currently provides our best description of fundamental particles and their interactions. The theory predicts that the different charged leptons, the electron, muon and tau, have identical electroweak interaction strengths. Previous measurements have shown that a wide range of particle decays are consistent with this principle of lepton universality. This article presents evidence for the breaking of lepton universality in beauty-quark decays, with a significance of 3.1 standard deviations, based on proton–proton collision data collected with the LHCb detector at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. The measurements are of processes in which a beauty meson transforms into a strange meson with the emission of either an electron and a positron, or a muon and an antimuon. If confirmed by future measurements, this violation of lepton universality would imply physics beyond the standard model, such as a new fundamental interaction between quarks and leptons