Measurement of charged particle multiplicities in pp collisions at √S = 7 in the forward region
European Physical Journal C 72:4 (2012) 1-14
Abstract:
Charged particle production in proton-proton collisions is studied with the LHCb detector at a centre-of-mass energy of √S = 7 TeV in different intervals of pseudorapidity η. Charged particles are reconstructed close to the interaction region in the vertex detector, which provides high reconstruction efficiency in the η ranges -2.5<η<-2.0 and 2.0<η<4.5. The data were taken with a minimum bias trigger, only requiring one or more reconstructed tracks in the vertex detector. By selecting an event sample with at least one track with a transverse momentum greater than 1 GeV/c a hard QCD subsample is investigated. Several event generators are compared with the data; none are able to describe fully the multiplicity distributions or the charged particle density distribution as a function of η. In general, the models underestimate charged particle production. © 2012 CERN for the benefit of the LHCb collaboration.Measurement of charged particle multiplicities in pp collisions at √S = 7 in the forward region
European Physical Journal C 72:4 (2012) 1-14
Abstract:
Charged particle production in proton-proton collisions is studied with the LHCb detector at a centre-of-mass energy of √S = 7 TeV in different intervals of pseudorapidity η. Charged particles are reconstructed close to the interaction region in the vertex detector, which provides high reconstruction efficiency in the η ranges -2.5<η<-2.0 and 2.0<η<4.5. The data were taken with a minimum bias trigger, only requiring one or more reconstructed tracks in the vertex detector. By selecting an event sample with at least one track with a transverse momentum greater than 1 GeV/c a hard QCD subsample is investigated. Several event generators are compared with the data; none are able to describe fully the multiplicity distributions or the charged particle density distribution as a function of η. In general, the models underestimate charged particle production. © 2012 CERN for the benefit of the LHCb collaboration.Erratum: Evidence for CP violation in time-integrated D0→h -h + decay rates (Physical Review Letters (2012) 108 (111602))
Physical Review Letters 108:12 (2012)
Measurement of the B s 0-B -s 0 oscillation frequency δm s in B s 0→D s -(3)π decays
Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 709:3 (2012) 177-184
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The B s0-B -s0 oscillation frequency δm s is measured with 36 pb -1 of data collected in pp collisions at s=7TeV by the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. A total of 1381 B s0→D s-π+ and B s0→D s-π +π -π + signal decays are reconstructed, with average decay time resolutions of 44 fs and 36 fs, respectively. An oscillation signal with a statistical significance of 4.6σ is observed. The measured oscillation frequency is δm s=17.63±0.11(stat)±0.02(syst)ps -1. © 2012 CERN.First observation of the decay B s 0→K *0K̄ *0
Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 709:1-2 (2012) 50-58