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Search for the lepton-flavor-violating decays Bs0→e ^±μ and B0→e^±μ

Physical Review Letters 111:14 (2013)

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R Aaij, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, C Adrover, A Affolder, Z Ajaltouni, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, S Ali, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, AA Alves, S Amato, S Amerio, Y Amhis, L Anderlini, J Anderson, R Andreassen, JE Andrews, RB Appleby, O Aquines Gutierrez, F Archilli, A Artamonov, M Artuso, E Aslanides, G Auriemma, M Baalouch, S Bachmann, JJ Back, C Baesso, V Balagura, W Baldini, RJ Barlow, C Barschel, S Barsuk, W Barter, T Bauer, A Bay, J Beddow, F Bedeschi, I Bediaga, S Belogurov, K Belous, I Belyaev, E Ben-Haim, G Bencivenni, S Benson, J Benton, A Berezhnoy, R Bernet, MO Bettler, M Van Beuzekom, A Bien, S Bifani, T Bird, A Bizzeti, PM Bjørnstad, T Blake, F Blanc, J Blouw, S Blusk, V Bocci, A Bondar, N Bondar, W Bonivento, S Borghi, A Borgia, TJV Bowcock, E Bowen, C Bozzi, T Brambach, J Van Den Brand, J Bressieux, D Brett, M Britsch, T Britton, NH Brook, H Brown, I Burducea, A Bursche, G Busetto, J Buytaert, S Cadeddu, O Callot, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, A Camboni, P Campana, D Campora Perez, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, H Carranza-Mejia, L Carson, K Carvalho Akiba, G Casse, L Castillo Garcia, M Cattaneo

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A search for the lepton-flavor-violating decays Bs0→e ±μ and B0→e±μ is performed with a data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb-1 of pp collisions at √s=7 TeV, collected by the LHCb experiment. The observed number of Bs0→e±μ and B0→e ±μ candidates is consistent with background expectations. Upper limits on the branching fractions of both decays are determined to be B(Bs0→e±μ)<1.1(1.4)×10-8 and B(B0→e±μ)<2.8(3.7)×10-9 at 90% (95%) confidence level (C.L.). These limits are a factor of 20 lower than those set by previous experiments. Lower bounds on the Pati-Salam leptoquark masses are also calculated, MLQ(Bs0→e±μ)>101 TeV/c2 and MLQ(B0→e±μ)>126 TeV/c2 at 95% C.L., and are a factor of 2 higher than the previous bounds. © 2013 CERN. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.

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Study of D J meson decays to D ⁺ π ⁻ , D ⁰ π ⁺ and D* ⁺ π ⁻ final states in pp collisions

Journal of High Energy Physics 2013:9 (2013)

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R Aaij, B Adeva, M Adinolff, C Adrover, A Affolder, Z Ajaltouni, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, S Ali, G Alkhazov, PA Cartelle, AA Alves, S Amato, S Amerio, Y Amhis, L Anderlini, J Anderson, R Andreassen, JE Andrews, RB Appleby, OA Gutierrez, F Archilli, A Artamonov, M Artuso, E Aslanides, G Auriemma, M Baalouch, S Bachmann, JJ Back, C Baesso, V Balagura, W Baldini, RJ Barlow, C Barschel, S Barsuk, W Barter, T Bauer, A Bay, J Beddow, F Bedeschi, I Bediaga, S Belogurov, K Belous, I Belyaev, E Ben-Haim, G Bencivenni, S Benson, J Benton, A Berezhnoy, R Bernet, MO Bettler, M Van Beuzekom, A Bien, S Bifani, T Bird, A Bizzeti, PM Bjørnstad, T Blake, F Blanc, J Blouw, S Blusk, V Bocci, A Bondar, N Bondar, W Bonivento, S Borghi, A Borgia, TJV Bowcock, E Bowen, C Bozzi, T Brambach, J Van Den Brand, J Bressieux, D Brett, M Britsch, T Britton, NH Brook, H Brown, I Burducea, A Bursche, G Busetto, J Buytaert, S Cadeddu, O Callot, M Calvi, MC Gomez, A Camboni, P Campana, DC Perez, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, H Carranza-Mejia, L Carson, KC Akiba, G Casse, LC Garcia, M Cattaneo

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A study of D + π − , D 0 π + and D* + π − final states is performed using πcollision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb −1 , collected at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the LHCb detector. The D 1 (2420) 0 resonance is observed in the D* + π − final state and the D* 2 (2460) resonance is observed in the D + π − , D 0 π + and D* + π − final states. For both resonances, their properties and spin-parity assignments are obtained. In addition, two natural parity and two unnatural parity resonances are observed in the mass region between 2500 and 2800 MeV. Further structures in the region around 3000 MeV are observed in all the D* + π − , D + π − and D 0 π + final states.

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Measurement of D0-D0bar mixing parameters and search for CP violation using D0->K+pi- decays

ArXiv 1309.6534 (2013)

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LHCb collaboration, R Aaij, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, C Adrover, A Affolder, Z Ajaltouni, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, S Ali, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, AA Alves Jr, S Amato, S Amerio, Y Amhis, L Anderlini, J Anderson, R Andreassen, JE Andrews, RB Appleby, O Aquines Gutierrez, F Archilli, A Artamonov, M Artuso, E Aslanides, G Auriemma, M Baalouch, S Bachmann, JJ Back, A Badalov, C Baesso, V Balagura, W Baldini, RJ Barlow, C Barschel, S Barsuk, W Barter, Th Bauer, A Bay, J Beddow, F Bedeschi, I Bediaga, S Belogurov, K Belous, I Belyaev, E Ben-Haim, G Bencivenni, S Benson, J Benton, A Berezhnoy, R Bernet, M-O Bettler, M van Beuzekom, A Bien, S Bifani, T Bird, A Bizzeti, PM Bjørnstad, T Blake, F Blanc, J Blouw, S Blusk, V Bocci, A Bondar, N Bondar, W Bonivento, S Borghi, A Borgia, TJV Bowcock, E Bowen, C Bozzi, T Brambach, J van den Brand, J Bressieux, D Brett, M Britsch, T Britton, NH Brook, H Brown, A Bursche, G Busetto, J Buytaert, S Cadeddu, O Callot, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, A Camboni, P Campana, D Campora Perez, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, H Carranza-Mejia, L Carson, K Carvalho Akiba, G Casse, L Castillo Garcia, M Cattaneo, Ch Cauet, R Cenci, M Charles, Ph Charpentier, S-F Cheung, N Chiapolini, M Chrzaszcz, K Ciba, X Cid Vidal, G Ciezarek, PEL Clarke, M Clemencic, HV Cliff, J Closier, C Coca, V Coco, J Cogan, E Cogneras, P Collins, A Comerma-Montells, A Contu, A Cook, M Coombes, S Coquereau, G Corti, B Couturier, GA Cowan, DC Craik, M Cruz Torres, S Cunliffe, R Currie, C D'Ambrosio, P David, PNY David, A Davis, I De Bonis, K De Bruyn, S De Capua, M De Cian, JM De Miranda, L De Paula, W De Silva, P De Simone, D Decamp, M Deckenhoff, L Del Buono, N Déléage, D Derkach, O Deschamps, F Dettori, A Di Canto, H Dijkstra, M Dogaru, S Donleavy, F Dordei, P Dornan, A Dosil Suárez, D Dossett, A Dovbnya, F Dupertuis, P Durante, R Dzhelyadin, A Dziurda, A Dzyuba, S Easo, U Egede, V Egorychev, S Eidelman, D van Eijk, S Eisenhardt, U Eitschberger, R Ekelhof, L Eklund, I El Rifai, Ch Elsasser, A Falabella, C Färber, C Farinelli, S Farry, D Ferguson, V Fernandez Albor, F Ferreira Rodrigues, M Ferro-Luzzi, S Filippov, M Fiore, C Fitzpatrick, M Fontana, F Fontanelli, R Forty, O Francisco, M Frank, C Frei, M Frosini, E Furfaro, A Gallas Torreira, D Galli, M Gandelman, P Gandini, Y Gao, J Garofoli, P Garosi, J Garra Tico, L Garrido, C Gaspar, R Gauld, E Gersabeck, M Gersabeck, T Gershon, Ph Ghez, V Gibson, L Giubega, VV Gligorov, C Göbel, D Golubkov, A Golutvin, A Gomes, P Gorbounov, H Gordon, M Grabalosa Gándara, R Graciani Diaz, LA Granado Cardoso, E Graugés, G Graziani, A Grecu, E Greening, S Gregson, P Griffith, L Grillo, O Grünberg, B Gui, E Gushchin, Yu Guz, T Gys, C Hadjivasiliou, G Haefeli, C Haen, SC Haines, S Hall, B Hamilton, T Hampson, S Hansmann-Menzemer, N Harnew, ST Harnew, J Harrison, T Hartmann, J He, T Head, V Heijne, K Hennessy, P Henrard, JA Hernando Morata, E van Herwijnen, M Heß, A Hicheur, E Hicks, D Hill, M Hoballah, C Hombach, W Hulsbergen, P Hunt, T Huse, N Hussain, D Hutchcroft, D Hynds, V Iakovenko, M Idzik, P Ilten, R Jacobsson, A Jaeger, E Jans, P Jaton, A Jawahery, F Jing, M John, D Johnson, CR Jones, C Joram, B Jost, M Kaballo, S Kandybei, W Kanso, M Karacson, TM Karbach, IR Kenyon, T Ketel, B Khanji, O Kochebina, I Komarov, RF Koopman, P Koppenburg, M Korolev, A Kozlinskiy, L Kravchuk, K Kreplin, M Kreps, G Krocker, P Krokovny, F Kruse, M Kucharczyk, V Kudryavtsev, K Kurek, T Kvaratskheliya, VN La Thi, D Lacarrere, G Lafferty, A Lai, D Lambert, RW Lambert, E Lanciotti, G Lanfranchi, C Langenbruch, T Latham, C Lazzeroni, R Le Gac, J van Leerdam, J-P Lees, R Lefèvre, A Leflat, J Lefrançois, S Leo, O Leroy, T Lesiak, B Leverington, Y Li, L Li Gioi, M Liles, R Lindner, C Linn, B Liu, G Liu, S Lohn, I Longstaff, JH Lopes, N Lopez-March, H Lu, D Lucchesi, J Luisier, H Luo, O Lupton, F Machefert, IV Machikhiliyan, F Maciuc, O Maev, S Malde, G Manca, G Mancinelli, J Maratas, U Marconi, P Marino, R Märki, J Marks, G Martellotti, A Martens, A Martín Sánchez, M Martinelli, D Martinez Santos, D Martins Tostes, A Martynov, A Massafferri, R Matev, Z Mathe, C Matteuzzi, E Maurice, A Mazurov, J McCarthy, A McNab, R McNulty, B McSkelly, B Meadows, F Meier, M Meissner, M Merk, DA Milanes, M-N Minard, J Molina Rodriguez, S Monteil, D Moran, P Morawski, A Mordà, MJ Morello, R Mountain, I Mous, F Muheim, K Müller, R Muresan, B Muryn, B Muster, P Naik, T Nakada, R Nandakumar, I Nasteva, M Needham, S Neubert, N Neufeld, AD Nguyen, TD Nguyen, C Nguyen-Mau, M Nicol, V Niess, R Niet, N Nikitin, T Nikodem, A Nomerotski, A Novoselov, A Oblakowska-Mucha, V Obraztsov, S Oggero, S Ogilvy, O Okhrimenko, R Oldeman, M Orlandea, JM Otalora Goicochea, P Owen, A Oyanguren, BK Pal, A Palano, M Palutan, J Panman, A Papanestis, M Pappagallo, C Parkes, CJ Parkinson, G Passaleva, GD Patel, M Patel, GN Patrick, C Patrignani, C Pavel-Nicorescu, A Pazos Alvarez, A Pearce, A Pellegrino, G Penso, M Pepe 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Savrina, M Schiller, H Schindler, M Schlupp, M Schmelling, B Schmidt, O Schneider, A Schopper, M-H Schune, R Schwemmer, B Sciascia, A Sciubba, M Seco, A Semennikov, K Senderowska, I Sepp, N Serra, J Serrano, P Seyfert, M Shapkin, I Shapoval, Y Shcheglov, T Shears, L Shekhtman, O Shevchenko, V Shevchenko, A Shires, R Silva Coutinho, M Sirendi, N Skidmore, T Skwarnicki, NA Smith, E Smith, E Smith, J Smith, M Smith, MD Sokoloff, FJP Soler, F Soomro, D Souza, B Souza De Paula, B Spaan, A Sparkes, P Spradlin, F Stagni, S Stahl, O Steinkamp, S Stevenson, S Stoica, S Stone, B Storaci, M Straticiuc, U Straumann, VK Subbiah, L Sun, W Sutcliffe, S Swientek, V Syropoulos, M Szczekowski, P Szczypka, D Szilard, T Szumlak, S T'Jampens, M Teklishyn, E Teodorescu, F Teubert, C Thomas, E Thomas, J van Tilburg, V Tisserand, M Tobin, S Tolk, D Tonelli, S Topp-Joergensen, N Torr, E Tournefier, S Tourneur, MT Tran, M Tresch, A Tsaregorodtsev, P Tsopelas, N Tuning, M Ubeda Garcia, A Ukleja, A Ustyuzhanin, U 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Measurements of charm mixing parameters from the decay-time-dependent ratio of D0->K+pi- to D0->K-pi+ rates and the charge-conjugate ratio are reported. The analysis uses data, corresponding to 3 fb^{-1} of integrated luminosity, from proton-proton collisions at 7 and 8 TeV center-of-mass energies recorded by the LHCb experiment. In the limit of charge-parity (CP) symmetry, the mixing parameters are determined to be x'^2=(5.5 +- 4.9)x10^{-5}, y'= (4.8 +- 1.0)x10^{-3}, and R_D=(3.568 +- 0.066)x10^{-3}. Allowing for CP violation, the mixing parameters are determined separately for D0 and D0bar mesons yielding A_D = (-0.7 +- 1.9)%, for the direct CP-violating asymmetry, and 0.75 < |q/p|< 1.24 at the 68.3% confidence level, where q and p are parameters that describe the mass eigenstates of the neutral charm mesons in terms of the flavor eigenstates. This is the most precise determination of these parameters from a single experiment and shows no evidence for CP violation.

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Studies of the decays B⁺→pp̄h⁺ and observation of B⁺→Λ̄(1520)p

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 88:5 (2013)

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Dynamics and direct CP violation in three-body charmless decays of charged B mesons to a proton, an antiproton and a light meson (pion or kaon) are studied using data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb-1, collected by the LHCb experiment in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. Production spectra are determined as a function of Dalitz-plot and helicity variables. The forward-backward asymmetry of the light meson in the pp̄ rest frame is measured. No significant CP asymmetry in B +→pp̄K+ decay is found in any region of the Dalitz plane. We present the first observation of the decay B +→Λ̄(1520)(→K+p̄)p near the K+p̄ threshold and measure B(B+→Λ̄ (1520)p)=(3.9-0.9+1.0(stat)±0.1(syst)±0.3(BF))×10 -7, where BF denotes the uncertainty on secondary branching fractions. © 2013 CERN. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the.

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Observation of a resonance in B⁺→K⁺μ ⁺μ^- decays at low recoil

Physical Review Letters 111:11 (2013)

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A broad peaking structure is observed in the dimuon spectrum of B +→K+μ+μ- decays in the kinematic region where the kaon has a low recoil against the dimuon system. The structure is consistent with interference between the B+→K +μ+μ- decay and a resonance and has a statistical significance exceeding six standard deviations. The mean and width of the resonance are measured to be 4191-8+9 MeV/c2 and 65-16+22 MeV/c2, respectively, where the uncertainties include statistical and systematic contributions. These measurements are compatible with the properties of the ψ(4160) meson. First observations of both the decay B+→ψ (4160)K+ and the subsequent decay ψ(4160)→μ +μ- are reported. The resonant decay and the interference contribution make up 20% of the yield for dimuon masses above 3770 MeV/c2. This contribution is larger than theoretical estimates. © 2013 CERN, for the LHCb Collaboration Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.

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Study of D J meson decays to D ⁺ π ⁻ , D ⁰ π ⁺ and D* ⁺ π ⁻ final states in pp collisions

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Measurement of D0-D0bar mixing parameters and search for CP violation using D0->K+pi- decays

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Studies of the decays B⁺→pp̄h⁺ and observation of B⁺→Λ̄(1520)p

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Observation of a resonance in B⁺→K⁺μ ⁺μ^- decays at low recoil

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Search for the lepton-flavor-violating decays Bs0→e ±μ and B0→e±μ

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Study of D J meson decays to D + π − , D 0 π + and D* + π − final states in pp collisions

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Measurement of D0-D0bar mixing parameters and search for CP violation using D0->K+pi- decays

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Studies of the decays B+→pp̄h+ and observation of B+→Λ̄(1520)p

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Observation of a resonance in B+→K+μ +μ- decays at low recoil

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Search for the lepton-flavor-violating decays Bs0→e ^±μ and B0→e^±μ

Study of D J meson decays to D ⁺ π ⁻ , D ⁰ π ⁺ and D* ⁺ π ⁻ final states in pp collisions

Studies of the decays B⁺→pp̄h⁺ and observation of B⁺→Λ̄(1520)p

Observation of a resonance in B⁺→K⁺μ ⁺μ^- decays at low recoil