Measurement of CP observables in B ± → DK ± and B ± → Dπ ± with D → K S 0 K ± π ∓ decays
Journal of High Energy Physics Springer 2020:6 (2020) 58
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R Aaij, C Abellán Beteta, T Ackernley, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, H Afsharnia, CA Aidala, S Aiola, Z Ajaltouni, S Akar, P Albicocco, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, A Alfonso Albero, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, AA Alves, S Amato, Y Amhis, L An, L Anderlini, G Andreassi, M AndreottiAbstract:
Measurements of CP observables in B± → DK± and B± → Dπ± decays are presented, where D represents a superposition of D0 and D¯0 states. The D meson is reconstructed in the three-body final states KS0K±π∓ and KS0K∓π±. The analysis uses samples of B mesons produced in proton-proton collisions, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0, 2.0, and 6.0 fb−1 collected with the LHCb detector at centre-of-mass energies of s = 7, 8, and 13 TeV, respectively. These measurements are the most precise to date, and provide important input for the determination of the CKM angle γ.Observation of New Ξc0 Baryons Decaying to Λc+K-
Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 124:22 (2020) 222001
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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, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, AA Alves, S Amato, Y Amhis, L An, L Anderlini, G Andreassi, M Andreotti, F Archilli, A Artamonov, M Artuso, K Arzymatov, E Aslanides, M Atzeni, B Audurier, S Bachmann, JJ Back, S Baker, V Balagura, W Baldini, J Baptista Leite, RJ Barlow, S Barsuk, W Barter, M Bartolini, F Baryshnikov, JM Basels, G Bassi, V Batozskaya, B Batsukh, A Battig, A Bay, M Becker, F Bedeschi, I Bediaga, A Beiter, V Belavin, S Belin, V Bellee, K Belous, I Belyaev, G Bencivenni, E Ben-Haim, S Benson, A Berezhnoy, R Bernet, D Berninghoff, HC Bernstein, C Bertella, E Bertholet, A Bertolin, C Betancourt, F Betti, MO Bettler, Ia Bezshyiko, S Bhasin, J Bhom, MS Bieker, S Bifani, P Billoir, A Bizzeti, M Bjørn, MP Blago, T Blake, F Blanc, S Blusk, D Bobulska, V Bocci, O Boente Garcia, T Boettcher, A Boldyrev, A Bondar, N Bondar, S Borghi, M Borisyak, M Borsato, JT Borsuk, TJV Bowcock, A Boyer, C Bozzi, MJ Bradley, S Braun, A Brea Rodriguez, M Brodski, J Brodzicka, A Brossa Gonzalo, D Brundu, E Buchanan, A Büchler-Germann, A Buonaura, C Burr, A Bursche, A Butkevich, JS Butter, J Buytaert, W Byczynski, S Cadeddu, H Cai, R Calabrese, L Calero Diaz, S Cali, R Calladine, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, P Camargo Magalhaes, A Camboni, P Campana, DH Campora Perez, AF Campoverde Quezada, L Capriotti, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, I Carli, P Carniti, K Carvalho Akiba, A Casais Vidal, G Casse, M Cattaneo, G Cavallero, S Celani, R Cenci, J Cerasoli, MG Chapman, M Charles, Ph Charpentier, G Chatzikonstantinidis, M Chefdeville, V Chekalina, C Chen, S Chen, A Chernov, S-G Chitic, V Chobanova, S Cholak, M Chrzaszcz, A Chubykin, V Chulikov, P Ciambrone, MF Cicala, X Cid Vidal, G Ciezarek, F Cindolo, PEL Clarke, M Clemencic, HV Cliff, J Closier, JL Cobbledick, V Coco, JAB Coelho, J Cogan, E Cogneras, L Cojocariu, P Collins, T Colombo, A Contu, N Cooke, G Coombs, S Coquereau, G Corti, CM Costa Sobral, B Couturier, DC Craik, J Crkovská, A Crocombe, M Cruz Torres, R Currie, CL Da Silva, E Dall’Occo, J Dalseno, C D’Ambrosio, A Danilina, P d’Argent, A Davis, O De Aguiar Francisco, K De Bruyn, S De Capua, M De Cian, JM De Miranda, L De Paula, M De Serio, P De Simone, JA de Vries, CT Dean, W Dean, D Decamp, L Del Buono, B Delaney, H-P Dembinski, A Dendek, V Denysenko, D Derkach, O Deschamps, F Desse, F Dettori, B Dey, A Di Canto, P Di Nezza, S Didenko, H Dijkstra, V Dobishuk, F Dordei, M Dorigo, AC dos Reis, L Douglas, A Dovbnya, K Dreimanis, MW Dudek, L Dufour, P Durante, JM Durham, D Dutta, M Dziewiecki, 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, N Farley, S Farry, D Fazzini, P Fedin, M Féo, P Fernandez Declara, A Fernandez Prieto, 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, C Fitzpatrick, T Fiutowski, F Fleuret, M Fontana, F Fontanelli, R Forty, V Franco Lima, M Franco Sevilla, M Frank, C Frei, DA Friday, J Fu, Q Fuehring, W Funk, E Gabriel, T Gaintseva, A Gallas Torreira, D Galli, S Gallorini, S Gambetta, Y Gan, M Gandelman, P Gandini, Y Gao, LM Garcia Martin, J García Pardiñas, B Garcia Plana, FA Garcia Rosales, L Garrido, D Gascon, C Gaspar, D Gerick, E Gersabeck, M Gersabeck, T Gershon, D Gerstel, Ph Ghez, V Gibson, A Gioventù, P Gironella Gironell, L Giubega, C Giugliano, K Gizdov, VV Gligorov, C Göbel, E Golobardes, D Golubkov, A Golutvin, A Gomes, P Gorbounov, IV Gorelov, C Gotti, E Govorkova, JP Grabowski, R Graciani Diaz, T Grammatico, LA Granado Cardoso, E Graugés, E Graverini, G Graziani, A Grecu, R Greim, P Griffith, L Grillo, L Gruber, BR Gruberg Cazon, C Gu, M Guarise, E Gushchin, A Guth, Yu Guz, T Gys, PA Günther, T Hadavizadeh, G Haefeli, C Haen, SC Haines, PM Hamilton, Q Han, X Han, TH Hancock, S Hansmann-Menzemer, N Harnew, T Harrison, R Hart, C Hasse, M Hatch, J He, M Hecker, K Heijhoff, K Heinicke, AM Hennequin, K Hennessy, L Henry, J Heuel, A Hicheur, D Hill, M Hilton, PH Hopchev, J Hu, J Hu, W Hu, W Huang, W Hulsbergen, T Humair, RJ Hunter, M Hushchyn, D Hutchcroft, D Hynds, P Ibis, M Idzik, P Ilten, A Inglessi, K Ivshin, R Jacobsson, S Jakobsen, E Jans, BK Jashal, A Jawahery, V Jevtic, F Jiang, M John, D Johnson, CR Jones, B Jost, N Jurik, S Kandybei, M Karacson, JM Kariuki, N Kazeev, M Kecke, F Keizer, M Kelsey, M Kenzie, T Ketel, B Khanji, A Kharisova, KE Kim, T Kirn, VS Kirsebom, S Klaver, K Klimaszewski, S Koliiev, A Kondybayeva, A Konoplyannikov, P Kopciewicz, R Kopecna, P Koppenburg, M Korolev, I Kostiuk, O Kot, S Kotriakhova, L Kravchuk, RD Krawczyk, M Kreps, F Kress, S Kretzschmar, P Krokovny, W Krupa, W Krzemien, W Kucewicz, M Kucharczyk, V Kudryavtsev, HS Kuindersma, GJ Kunde, T Kvaratskheliya, D Lacarrere, G Lafferty, A Lai, D Lancierini, JJ Lane, G Lanfranchi, C Langenbruch, O Lantwin, T Latham, F Lazzari, R Le Gac, SH Lee, R Lefèvre, A Leflat, O Leroy, T Lesiak, B Leverington, H Li, L Li, X Li, Y Li, Z Li, X Liang, T Lin, R Lindner, V Lisovskyi, G Liu, X Liu, D Loh, A Loi, J Lomba Castro, I Longstaff, JH Lopes, G Loustau, GH Lovell, Y Lu, D Lucchesi, M Lucio Martinez, Y Luo, A Lupato, E Luppi, O Lupton, A Lusiani, X Lyu, S Maccolini, F Machefert, F Maciuc, V Macko, P Mackowiak, S Maddrell-Mander, LR Madhan Mohan, O Maev, A Maevskiy, D Maisuzenko, MW Majewski, S Malde, B Malecki, A Malinin, T Maltsev, H Malygina, G Manca, G Mancinelli, R Manera Escalero, D Manuzzi, D Marangotto, J Maratas, JF Marchand, U Marconi, S Mariani, C Marin Benito, M Marinangeli, P Marino, J Marks, PJ Marshall, G Martellotti, L Martinazzoli, M Martinelli, D Martinez Santos, F Martinez Vidal, A Massafferri, M Materok, R Matev, A Mathad, Z Mathe, V Matiunin, C Matteuzzi, KR Mattioli, A Mauri, E Maurice, M McCann, L Mcconnell, A McNab, R McNulty, JV Mead, B Meadows, C Meaux, G Meier, N Meinert, D Melnychuk, S Meloni, M Merk, A Merli, L Meyer Garcia, M Mikhasenko, DA Milanes, E Millard, M-N Minard, O Mineev, L Minzoni, SE Mitchell, B Mitreska, DS Mitzel, A Mödden, A Mogini, RD Moise, T Mombächer, IA Monroy, S Monteil, M Morandin, G Morello, MJ Morello, J Moron, AB Morris, AG Morris, R Mountain, H Mu, F Muheim, M Mukherjee, M Mulder, D Müller, K Müller, CH Murphy, D Murray, P Muzzetto, P Naik, T Nakada, R Nandakumar, T Nanut, I Nasteva, M Needham, I Neri, N Neri, S Neubert, N Neufeld, R Newcombe, TD Nguyen, C Nguyen-Mau, EM Niel, S Nieswand, N Nikitin, NS Nolte, C Nunez, A Oblakowska-Mucha, V Obraztsov, S Ogilvy, DP O’Hanlon, R Oldeman, CJG Onderwater, JD Osborn, A Ossowska, JM Otalora Goicochea, T Ovsiannikova, P Owen, A Oyanguren, PR Pais, T Pajero, A Palano, M Palutan, G Panshin, A Papanestis, M Pappagallo, LL Pappalardo, C Pappenheimer, W Parker, C Parkes, CJ Parkinson, G Passaleva, A Pastore, M Patel, C Patrignani, A Pearce, A Pellegrino, M Pepe Altarelli, S Perazzini, D Pereima, P Perret, K Petridis, A Petrolini, A Petrov, S Petrucci, M Petruzzo, B Pietrzyk, G Pietrzyk, M Pili, D Pinci, J Pinzino, F Pisani, A Piucci, V Placinta, S Playfer, J Plews, M Plo Casasus, F Polci, M Poli Lener, M Poliakova, A Poluektov, N Polukhina, I Polyakov, E Polycarpo, GJ Pomery, S Ponce, A Popov, D Popov, S Poslavskii, K Prasanth, L Promberger, C Prouve, V Pugatch, A Puig Navarro, H Pullen, G Punzi, W Qian, J Qin, R Quagliani, B Quintana, NV Raab, RI Rabadan Trejo, B Rachwal, JH Rademacker, M Rama, M Ramos Pernas, MS Rangel, F Ratnikov, G Raven, M Reboud, F Redi, F Reiss, C Remon Alepuz, Z Ren, V Renaudin, S Ricciardi, DS Richards, S Richards, K Rinnert, P Robbe, A Robert, AB Rodrigues, E Rodrigues, JA Rodriguez Lopez, M Roehrken, A Rollings, V Romanovskiy, M Romero Lamas, A Romero Vidal, JD Roth, M Rotondo, MS Rudolph, T Ruf, J Ruiz Vidal, A Ryzhikov, J Ryzka, JJ Saborido Silva, N Sagidova, N Sahoo, B Saitta, C Sanchez Gras, C Sanchez Mayordomo, R Santacesaria, C Santamarina Rios, M Santimaria, E Santovetti, G Sarpis, M Sarpis, A Sarti, C Satriano, A Satta, M Saur, D Savrina, LG Scantlebury Smead, S Schael, M Schellenberg, M Schiller, H Schindler, M Schmelling, T Schmelzer, B Schmidt, O Schneider, A Schopper, HF Schreiner, M Schubiger, S Schulte, MH Schune, R Schwemmer, B Sciascia, A Sciubba, S Sellam, A Semennikov, A Sergi, N Serra, J Serrano, L Sestini, A Seuthe, P Seyfert, DM Shangase, M Shapkin, L Shchutska, T Shears, L Shekhtman, V Shevchenko, E Shmanin, JD Shupperd, BG Siddi, R Silva Coutinho, L Silva de Oliveira, G Simi, S Simone, I Skiba, N Skidmore, T Skwarnicki, MW Slater, JG Smeaton, A Smetkina, E Smith, IT Smith, M Smith, A Snoch, M Soares, L Soares Lavra, MD Sokoloff, FJP Soler, B Souza De Paula, B Spaan, E Spadaro Norella, P Spradlin, F Stagni, M Stahl, S Stahl, P Stefko, O Steinkamp, S Stemmle, O Stenyakin, M Stepanova, H Stevens, S Stone, S Stracka, ME Stramaglia, M Straticiuc, S Strokov, J Sun, L Sun, Y Sun, P Svihra, K Swientek, A Szabelski, T Szumlak, M Szymanski, S Taneja, Z Tang, T Tekampe, F Teubert, E Thomas, KA Thomson, MJ Tilley, V Tisserand, S T’Jampens, M Tobin, S Tolk, L Tomassetti, D Torres Machado, DY Tou, E Tournefier, M Traill, MT Tran, E Trifonova, C Trippl, A Tsaregorodtsev, G Tuci, A Tully, N Tuning, A Ukleja, A Usachov, A Ustyuzhanin, U Uwer, A Vagner, V Vagnoni, A Valassi, G Valenti, M van Beuzekom, H Van Hecke, E van Herwijnen, CB Van Hulse, M van Veghel, R Vazquez Gomez, P Vazquez Regueiro, C Vázquez Sierra, S Vecchi, JJ Velthuis, M Veltri, A Venkateswaran, M Veronesi, M Vesterinen, JV Viana Barbosa, D Vieira, M Vieites Diaz, H Viemann, X Vilasis-Cardona, G Vitali, A Vitkovskiy, A Vollhardt, D Vom Bruch, A Vorobyev, V Vorobyev, N Voropaev, R Waldi, J Walsh, J Wang, J Wang, J Wang, M Wang, Y Wang, Z Wang, DR Ward, HM Wark, NK Watson, D Websdale, A Weiden, C Weisser, BDC Westhenry, DJ White, M Whitehead, D Wiedner, G Wilkinson, M Wilkinson, I Williams, M Williams, MRJ Williams, T Williams, FF Wilson, W Wislicki, M Witek, L Witola, G Wormser, SA Wotton, H Wu, K Wyllie, Z Xiang, D Xiao, Y Xie, H Xing, A Xu, J Xu, L Xu, M Xu, Q Xu, Z Xu, Z Xu, Z Yang, Z Yang, Y Yao, LE Yeomans, H Yin, J Yu, X Yuan, O Yushchenko, KA Zarebski, M Zavertyaev, M Zdybal, M Zeng, D Zhang, L Zhang, S Zhang, WC Zhang, Y Zhang, A Zhelezov, Y Zheng, X Zhou, Y Zhou, X Zhu, V Zhukov, JB Zonneveld, S ZucchelliSearch for the Rare Decays Bs0→e+e- and B0→e+e-
Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 124:21 (2020) 211802
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R Aaij, C Abellán Beteta, T Ackernley, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, H Afsharnia, CA Aidala, S Aiola, Z Ajaltouni, S Akar, P Albicocco, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, A Alfonso Albero, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, AA Alves, S Amato, Y Amhis, L An, L Anderlini, G Andreassi, M Andreotti, F Archilli, A Artamonov, M Artuso, K Arzymatov, E Aslanides, M Atzeni, B Audurier, S Bachmann, JJ Back, S Baker, V Balagura, W Baldini, A Baranov, RJ Barlow, S Barsuk, W Barter, M Bartolini, F Baryshnikov, JM Basels, G Bassi, V Batozskaya, B Batsukh, A Battig, A Bay, M Becker, F Bedeschi, I Bediaga, A Beiter, V Belavin, S Belin, V Bellee, K Belous, I Belyaev, G Bencivenni, E Ben-Haim, S Benson, A Berezhnoy, R Bernet, D Berninghoff, HC Bernstein, C Bertella, E Bertholet, A Bertolin, C Betancourt, F Betti, MO Bettler, Ia Bezshyiko, S Bhasin, J Bhom, MS Bieker, S Bifani, P Billoir, A Bizzeti, M Bjørn, MP Blago, T Blake, F Blanc, S Blusk, D Bobulska, V Bocci, O Boente Garcia, T Boettcher, A Boldyrev, A Bondar, N Bondar, S Borghi, M Borisyak, M Borsato, JT Borsuk, TJV Bowcock, C Bozzi, MJ Bradley, S Braun, A Brea Rodriguez, M Brodski, J Brodzicka, A Brossa Gonzalo, D Brundu, E Buchanan, A Büchler-Germann, A Buonaura, C Burr, A Bursche, A Butkevich, JS Butter, J Buytaert, W Byczynski, S Cadeddu, H Cai, R Calabrese, L Calero Diaz, S Cali, R Calladine, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, P Camargo Magalhaes, A Camboni, P Campana, DH Campora Perez, AF Campoverde Quezada, L Capriotti, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, I Carli, P Carniti, K Carvalho Akiba, A Casais Vidal, G Casse, M Cattaneo, G Cavallero, S Celani, R Cenci, J Cerasoli, MG Chapman, M Charles, Ph Charpentier, G Chatzikonstantinidis, M Chefdeville, V Chekalina, C Chen, S Chen, A Chernov, S-G Chitic, V Chobanova, S Cholak, M Chrzaszcz, A Chubykin, V Chulikov, P Ciambrone, MF Cicala, X Cid Vidal, G Ciezarek, F Cindolo, PEL Clarke, M Clemencic, HV Cliff, J Closier, JL Cobbledick, V Coco, JAB Coelho, J Cogan, E Cogneras, L Cojocariu, P Collins, T Colombo, A Contu, N Cooke, G Coombs, S Coquereau, G Corti, CM Costa Sobral, B Couturier, DC Craik, J Crkovská, A Crocombe, M Cruz Torres, R Currie, CL Da Silva, E Dall’Occo, J Dalseno, C D’Ambrosio, A Danilina, P d’Argent, A Davis, O De Aguiar Francisco, K De Bruyn, S De Capua, M De Cian, JM De Miranda, L De Paula, M De Serio, P De Simone, JA de Vries, CT Dean, W Dean, D Decamp, L Del Buono, B Delaney, H-P Dembinski, A Dendek, V Denysenko, D Derkach, O Deschamps, F Desse, F Dettori, B Dey, A Di Canto, P Di Nezza, S Didenko, H Dijkstra, V Dobishuk, F Dordei, M Dorigo, AC dos Reis, L Douglas, A Dovbnya, K Dreimanis, MW Dudek, L Dufour, P Durante, JM Durham, D Dutta, M Dziewiecki, 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, N Farley, S Farry, D Fazzini, P Fedin, M Féo, P Fernandez Declara, A Fernandez Prieto, 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, C Fitzpatrick, T Fiutowski, F Fleuret, M Fontana, F Fontanelli, R Forty, V Franco Lima, M Franco Sevilla, M Frank, C Frei, DA Friday, J Fu, Q Fuehring, W Funk, E Gabriel, A Gallas Torreira, D Galli, S Gallorini, S Gambetta, Y Gan, M Gandelman, P Gandini, Y Gao, LM Garcia Martin, J García Pardiñas, B Garcia Plana, FA Garcia Rosales, L Garrido, D Gascon, C Gaspar, D Gerick, E Gersabeck, M Gersabeck, T Gershon, D Gerstel, Ph Ghez, V Gibson, A Gioventù, P Gironella Gironell, L Giubega, C Giugliano, K Gizdov, VV Gligorov, C Göbel, E Golobardes, D Golubkov, A Golutvin, A Gomes, P Gorbounov, IV Gorelov, C Gotti, E Govorkova, JP Grabowski, R Graciani Diaz, T Grammatico, LA Granado Cardoso, E Graugés, E Graverini, G Graziani, A Grecu, R Greim, P Griffith, L Grillo, L Gruber, BR Gruberg Cazon, C Gu, E Gushchin, A Guth, Yu Guz, T Gys, PA Günther, T Hadavizadeh, G Haefeli, C Haen, SC Haines, PM Hamilton, Q Han, X Han, TH Hancock, S Hansmann-Menzemer, N Harnew, T Harrison, R Hart, C Hasse, M Hatch, J He, M Hecker, K Heijhoff, K Heinicke, AM Hennequin, K Hennessy, L Henry, J Heuel, A Hicheur, D Hill, M Hilton, PH Hopchev, J Hu, J Hu, W Hu, W Huang, W Hulsbergen, T Humair, RJ Hunter, M Hushchyn, D Hutchcroft, D Hynds, P Ibis, M Idzik, P Ilten, A Inglessi, K Ivshin, R Jacobsson, S Jakobsen, E Jans, BK Jashal, A Jawahery, V Jevtic, F Jiang, M John, D Johnson, CR Jones, B Jost, N Jurik, S Kandybei, M Karacson, JM Kariuki, N Kazeev, M Kecke, F Keizer, M Kelsey, M Kenzie, T Ketel, B Khanji, A Kharisova, KE Kim, T Kirn, VS Kirsebom, S Klaver, K Klimaszewski, S Koliiev, A Kondybayeva, A Konoplyannikov, P Kopciewicz, R Kopecna, P Koppenburg, M Korolev, I Kostiuk, O Kot, S Kotriakhova, L Kravchuk, RD Krawczyk, M Kreps, F Kress, S Kretzschmar, P Krokovny, W Krupa, W Krzemien, W Kucewicz, M Kucharczyk, V Kudryavtsev, HS Kuindersma, GJ Kunde, T Kvaratskheliya, D Lacarrere, G Lafferty, A Lai, D Lancierini, JJ Lane, G Lanfranchi, C Langenbruch, O Lantwin, T Latham, F Lazzari, R Le Gac, SH Lee, R Lefèvre, A Leflat, O Leroy, T Lesiak, B Leverington, H Li, L Li, X Li, Y Li, Z Li, X Liang, T Lin, R Lindner, V Lisovskyi, G Liu, X Liu, D Loh, A Loi, J Lomba Castro, I Longstaff, JH Lopes, G Loustau, GH Lovell, Y Lu, D Lucchesi, M Lucio Martinez, Y Luo, A Lupato, E Luppi, O Lupton, A Lusiani, X Lyu, S Maccolini, F Machefert, F Maciuc, V Macko, P Mackowiak, S Maddrell-Mander, LR Madhan Mohan, O Maev, A Maevskiy, D Maisuzenko, MW Majewski, S Malde, B Malecki, A Malinin, T Maltsev, H Malygina, G Manca, G Mancinelli, R Manera Escalero, D Manuzzi, D Marangotto, J Maratas, JF Marchand, U Marconi, S Mariani, C Marin Benito, M Marinangeli, P Marino, J Marks, PJ Marshall, G Martellotti, L Martinazzoli, M Martinelli, D Martinez Santos, F Martinez Vidal, A Massafferri, M Materok, R Matev, A Mathad, Z Mathe, V Matiunin, C Matteuzzi, KR Mattioli, A Mauri, E 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Whitehead, D Wiedner, G Wilkinson, M Wilkinson, I Williams, M Williams, MRJ Williams, T Williams, FF Wilson, W Wislicki, M Witek, L Witola, G Wormser, SA Wotton, H Wu, K Wyllie, Z Xiang, D Xiao, Y Xie, H Xing, A Xu, J Xu, L Xu, M Xu, Q Xu, Z Xu, Z Yang, Z Yang, Y Yao, LE Yeomans, H Yin, J Yu, X Yuan, O Yushchenko, KA Zarebski, M Zavertyaev, M Zdybal, M Zeng, D Zhang, L Zhang, S Zhang, WC Zhang, Y Zhang, A Zhelezov, Y Zheng, X Zhou, Y Zhou, X Zhu, V Zhukov, JB Zonneveld, S ZucchelliTest of lepton universality with Λ b 0 → pK − ℓ + ℓ − decays
Journal of High Energy Physics Springer 2020:5 (2020) 40
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R Aaij, C Abellán Beteta, T Ackernley, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, H Afsharnia, CA Aidala, S Aiola, Z Ajaltouni, S Akar, P Albicocco, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, A Alfonso Albero, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, AA Alves, S Amato, Y Amhis, L An, L Anderlini, G Andreassi, M AndreottiAbstract:
The ratio of branching fractions of the decays Λb0 → pK−e+e− and Λb0 → pK−μ+μ−, RpK−1, is measured for the first time using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb−1 recorded with the LHCb experiment at center-of-mass energies of 7, 8 and 13 TeV. In the dilepton mass-squared range 0.1 < q2< 6.0 GeV2/c4 and the pK− mass range m(pK−) < 2600 MeV/c2, the ratio of branching fractions is measured to be RpK−1=1.17−0.16+0.18±0.07, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. This is the first test of lepton universality with b baryons and the first observation of the decay Λb0 → pK−e+e−.Test-beam studies of a small-scale TORCH time-of-flight demonstrator
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment Elsevier BV 961 (2020) 163671