Measurement of sigma(pp -> b anti-b X) at \sqrt(s)=7 TeV in the forward region
ArXiv 1009.2731 (2010)
Authors:
LHCb Collaboration, R Aaij, C Abellan Beteta, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, C Adrover, A Affolder, M Agari, Z Ajaltouni, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, M Alfonsi, P Alvarez Cartelle, AA Alves Jr, S Amato, Y Amhis, J Amoraal, J Anderson, R Antunes Nobrega, R Appleby, O Aquines Gutierrez, A Arefyev, L Arrabito, M Artuso, E Aslanides, G Auriemma, S Bachmann, Y Bagaturia, DS Bailey, V Balagura, W Baldini, G Barber, C Barham, RJ Barlow, S Barsuk, S Basiladze, A Bates, C Bauer, Th Bauer, A Bay, I Bediaga, T Bellunato, K Belous, I Belyaev, M Benayoun, G Bencivenni, R Bernet, RP Bernhard, M-O Bettler, M van Beuzekom, JH Bibby, S Bifani, A Bizzeti, PM Bjørnstad, T Blake, F Blanc, C Blanks, J Blouw, S Blusk, A Bobrov, V Bocci, B Bochin, E Bonaccorsi, A Bondar, N Bondar, W Bonivento, S Borghi, A Borgia, E Bos, TJV Bowcock, C Bozzi, T Brambach, J van den Brand, L Brarda, J Bressieux, S Brisbane, M Britsch, NH Brook, H Brown, S Brusa, A Büchler-Germann, A Bursche, J Buytaert, S Cadeddu, JM Caicedo Carvajal, O Callot, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, A Camboni, W Cameron, L Camilleri, P Campana, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, J Carroll, L Carson, K Carvalho Akiba, G Casse, M Cattaneo, B Chadaj, M Charles, Ph Charpentier, J Cheng, N Chiapolini, A Chlopik, J Christiansen, P Ciambrone, X Cid Vidal, PJ Clark, PEL Clarke, M Clemencic, HV Cliff, J Closier, C Coca, V Coco, J Cogan, P Collins, A Comerma-Montells, F Constantin, G Conti, A Contu, P Cooke, M Coombes, B Corajod, G Corti, GA Cowan, R Currie, B D'Almagne, C D'Ambrosio, I D'Antone, W Da Silva, E Dane', P David, I De Bonis, S De Capua, M De Cian, F De Lorenzi, JM De Miranda, L De Paula, P De Simone, D Decamp, G Decreuse, H Degaudenzi, M Deissenroth, L Del Buono, CJ Densham, C Deplano, O Deschamps, F Dettori, J Dickens, H Dijkstra, M Dima, S Donleavy, P Dornan, D Dossett, A Dovbnya, R Dumps, F Dupertuis, L Dwyer, R Dzhelyadin, C Eames, S Easo, U Egede, V Egorychev, S Eidelman, D van Eijk, F Eisele, S Eisenhardt, L Eklund, DG d'Enterria, D Esperante Pereira, L Estève, E Fanchini, C Färber, G Fardell, C Farinelli, S Farry, V Fave, G Felici, V Fernandez Albor, M Ferro-Luzzi, S Filippov, C Fitzpatrick, W Flegel, F Fontanelli, C Forti, R Forty, C Fournier, B Franek, M Frank, C Frei, M Frosini, JL Fungueirino Pazos, S Furcas, A Gallas Torreira, D Galli, M Gandelman, P Gandini, Y Gao, J-C Garnier, L Garrido, D Gascon, C Gaspar, A Gaspar De Valenzuela Cue, J Gassner, N Gauvin, P Gavillet, M Gersabeck, T Gershon, Ph Ghez, V Gibson, VV Gligorov, C Göbel, D Golubkov, A Golutvin, A Gomes, G Gong, H Gong, H Gordon, M Grabalosa Gándara, V Gracco, R Graciani Diaz, LA Granado Cardoso, E Graugés, G Graziani, A Grecu, S Gregson, G Guerrer, B Gui, E Gushchin, Yu Guz, Z Guzik, T Gys, G Haefeli, SC Haines, T Hampson, S Hansmann-Menzemer, R Harji, N Harnew, PF Harrison, J He, K Hennessy, P Henrard, JA Hernando Morata, E van Herwijnen, A Hicheur, E Hicks, HJ Hilke, W Hofmann, K Holubyev, P Hopchev, W Hulsbergen, P Hunt, T Huse, RS Huston, D Hutchcroft, F Iacoangeli, V Iakovenko, C Iglesias Escudero, C Ilgner, P Ilten, J Imong, R Jacobsson, M Jahjah Hussein, O Jamet, E Jans, F Jansen, P Jaton, B Jean-Marie, M John, D Johnson, CR Jones, B Jost, F Kapusta, TM Karbach, A Kashchuk, S Katvars, J Keaveney, U Kerzel, T Ketel, A Keune, S Khalil, B Khanji, YM Kim, M Knecht, S Koblitz, A Konoplyannikov, P Koppenburg, M Korolev, A Kozlinskiy, L Kravchuk, R Kristic, G Krocker, P Krokovny, F Kruse, K Kruzelecki, M Kucharczyk, I Kudryashov, S Kukulak, R Kumar, T Kvaratskheliya, VN La Thi, D Lacarrere, G Lafferty, A Lai, RW Lambert, G Lanfranchi, C Langenbruch, T Latham, R Le Gac, J-P Lees, R Lefèvre, A Leflat, J Lefrançois, F Lehner, M Lenzi, O Leroy, T Lesiak, L Li, YY Li, L Li Gioi, J Libby, M Lieng, R Lindner, S Lindsay, C Linn, B Liu, G Liu, S Löchner, JH Lopes, E Lopez Asamar, N Lopez-March, P Loveridge, J Luisier, B M'charek, F Machefert, IV Machikhiliyan, F Maciuc, O Maev, J Magnin, A Maier, S Malde, RMD Mamunur, G Manca, G Mancinelli, N Mangiafave, U Marconi, R Märki, J Marks, G Martellotti, A Martens, L Martin, D Martinez Santos, A Massafferri, Z Mathe, C Matteuzzi, V Matveev, E Maurice, B Maynard, A Mazurov, G McGregor, R McNulty, C Mclean, M Merk, J Merkel, M Merkin, R Messi, S Miglioranzi, M-N Minard, G Moine, S Monteil, D Moran, J Morant, P Morawski, JV Morris, J Moscicki, R Mountain, I Mous, F Muheim, K Müller, R Muresan, F Murtas, B Muryn, M Musy, J Mylroie-Smith, P Naik, T Nakada, R Nandakumar, J Nardulli, A Nawrot, M Nedos, M Needham, N Neufeld, P Neustroev, M Nicol, L Nicolas, S Nies, V Niess, N Nikitin, A Noor, A Oblakowska-Mucha, V Obraztsov, S Oggero, O Okhrimenko, R Oldeman, M Orlandea, A Ostankov, B Pal, J Palacios, M Palutan, J Panman, A Papadelis, A Papanestis, M Pappagallo, C Parkes, CJ Parkinson, G Passaleva, GD Patel, M Patel, SK Paterson, GN Patrick, C Patrignani, E Pauna, C Pauna, C Pavel, A Pazos Alvarez, A Pellegrino, G Penso, M Pepe Altarelli, S Perazzini, DL Perego, E Perez Trigo, A Pérez-Calero Yzquierdo, P Perret, G Pessina, A Petrella, A Petrolini, E Picatoste Olloqui, B Pie Valls, D Piedigrossi, B Pietrzyk, D Pinci, S Playfer, M Plo Casasus, M Poli-Lener, G Polok, A Poluektov, E Polycarpo, D Popov, B Popovici, S Poss, C Potterat, A Powell, S Pozzi, T du Pree, V Pugatch, A Puig Navarro, W Qian, JH Rademacker, B Rakotomiaramanana, I Raniuk, G Raven, S Redford, W Reece, AC dos Reis, S Ricciardi, J Riera, K Rinnert, DA Roa Romero, P Robbe, E Rodrigues, F Rodrigues, C Rodriguez Cobo, P Rodriguez Perez, GJ Rogers, V Romanovsky, E Rondan Sanabria, M Rosello, J Rouvinet, L Roy, T Ruf, H Ruiz, C Rummel, V Rusinov, G Sabatino, JJ Saborido Silva, N Sagidova, P Sail, B Saitta, T Sakhelashvili, C Salzmann, A Sambade Varela, M Sannino, R Santacesaria, R Santinelli, E Santovetti, M Sapunov, A Sarti, C Satriano, A Satta, T Savidge, M Savrie, D Savrina, P Schaack, M Schiller, S Schleich, M Schmelling, B Schmidt, O Schneider, T Schneider, A Schopper, M-H Schune, R Schwemmer, A Sciubba, M Seco, A Semennikov, K Senderowska, N Serra, J Serrano, B Shao, M Shapkin, I Shapoval, P Shatalov, Y Shcheglov, T Shears, L Shekhtman, V Shevchenko, A Shires, S Sigurdsson, E Simioni, HP Skottowe, T Skwarnicki, N Smale, A Smith, AC Smith, NA Smith, K Sobczak, FJP Soler, A Solomin, P Somogy, F Soomro, B Souza De Paula, B Spaan, A Sparkes, E Spiridenkov, P Spradlin, A Srednicki, F Stagni, S Stahl, S Steiner, O Steinkamp, O Stenyakin, S Stoica, S Stone, B Storaci, U Straumann, N Styles, M Szczekowski, P Szczypka, T Szumlak, S T'Jampens, E Tarkovskiy, E Teodorescu, H Terrier, F Teubert, C Thomas, E Thomas, J van Tilburg, V Tisserand, M Tobin, S Topp-Joergensen, MT Tran, S Traynor, U Trunk, A Tsaregorodtsev, N Tuning, A Ukleja, O Ullaland, P Urquijo, U Uwer, V Vagnoni, G Valenti, R Vazquez Gomez, P Vazquez Regueiro, S Vecchi, JJ Velthuis, M Veltri, K Vervink, B Viaud, I Videau, X Vilasis-Cardona, J Visniakov, A Vollhardt, D Volyanskyy, D Voong, A Vorobyev, An Vorobyev, H Voss, K Wacker, S Wandernoth, J Wang, DR Ward, AD Webber, D Websdale, M Whitehead, D Wiedner, L Wiggers, G Wilkinson, MP Williams, M Williams, FF Wilson, J Wishahi, M Witek, W Witzeling, ML Woodward, SA Wotton, K Wyllie, Y Xie, F Xing, Z Yang, G Ybeles Smit, R Young, O Yushchenko, M Zeng, L Zhang, Y Zhang, A Zhelezov, E ZverevAbstract:
Decays of b hadrons into final states containing a D0 meson and a muon are used to measure the b anti-b production cross-section in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV at the LHC. In the pseudorapidity interval 2 < eta < 6 and integrated over all transverse momenta we find that the average cross-section to produce b-flavoured or anti-b-flavoured hadrons is (75.3 +/- 5.4 +/- 13.0) microbarns.Measurement of the effective B → J/ψK lifetime
Nuclear Physics B 837:1-2 (2010) 275-292
Authors:
I Bediaga, JM De Miranda, F Ferreira Rodrigues, A Massafferri, I Nasteva, AC dos Reis, S Amato, K Carvalho Akiba, L De Paula, O Francisco, M Gandelman, A Gomes, JH Lopes, D Martins Tostes, JM Otalora Goicochea, E Polycarpo, MS Rangel, V Salustino Guimaraes, B Souza De Paula, D Vieira, P Chen, Y Gao, F Jing, Y Li, B Liu, H Lu, S Wu, Z Yang, X Yuan, F Zhang, Y Zhang, L Zhong, I De Bonis, D Decamp, N Déléage, P Ghez, P Hopchev, J-P Lees, IV Machikhiliyan, M-N Minard, B Pietrzyk, W Qian, S T'Jampens, V Tisserand, E Tournefier, Z Ajaltouni, E Cogneras, O Deschamps, I El Rifai, M Grabalosa Gándara, P Henrard, M Hoballah, R Lefèvre, L Li Gioi, S Monteil, V Niess, P Perret, DA Roa Romero, C Adrover, E Aslanides, J Cogan, R Le Gac, O Leroy, G Mancinelli, E Maurice, M Perrin-Terrin, M Sapunov, J Serrano, A Tsaregorodtsev, Y Amhis, S Barsuk, O Callot, O Kochebina, J Lefrançois, F Machefert, A Martín Sánchez, M Nicol, P Robbe, M-H Schune, M Teklishyn, B Viaud, E Ben-Haim, S Coquereau, P David, L Del Buono, A Martens, DA Milanes, F Polci, J Albrecht, T Brambach, C Cauet, M Deckenhoff, U Eitschberger, R Ekelhof, M Kaballo, F Kruse, F Meier, R Niet, M Schlupp, B Spaan, S Swientek, J Wishahi, O Aquines Gutierrez, M Britsch, M Fontana, D Popov, M Schmelling, D Volyanskyy, H Voss, M Zavertyaev, S Bachmann, A Bien, J Blouw, A Di Canto, F Dordei, C Färber, E Gersabeck, S Hansmann-Menzemer, A Jaeger, K Kreplin, G Krocker, B Leverington, C Linn, J Marks, M Meissner, T Nikodem, P Seyfert, S Stahl, J van Tilburg, U Uwer, S Wandernoth, D Wiedner, A Zhelezov, S Farry, P Ilten, R McNulty, R Wallace, WC Zhang, A Palano, A Carbone, D Derkach, A Falabella, D Galli, U Marconi, S Perazzini, V Vagnoni, G Valenti, M Zangoli, W Bonivento, S Cadeddu, A Cardini, A Contu, A Lai, G Manca, R Oldeman, B Saitta, W Baldini, C Bozzi, M Fiore, A Mazurov, M Savrie, I Shapoval, S Vecchi, L Anderlini, A Bizzeti, M Frosini, G Graziani, G Passaleva, M Veltri, F Archilli, G Bencivenni, P Campana, P De Simone, G Lanfranchi, M Palutan, A Sarti, B Sciascia, F Soomro, R Cardinale, F Fontanelli, C Patrignani, A Petrolini, M Sannino, M Calvi, S Furcas, B Khanji, M Kucharczyk, C Matteuzzi, DL Perego, G Pessina, S Amerio, G Busetto, D Lucchesi, F Bedeschi, S Leo, MJ Morello, G Punzi, F Ruffini, G Carboni, F Di Ruscio, E Furfaro, E Santovetti, A Satta, AA Alves Jr, G Auriemma, V Bocci, G Martellotti, G Penso, D Pinci, G Sabatino, R Santacesaria, C Satriano, A Sciubba, M Chrzaszcz, A Dziurda, T Lesiak, P Morawski, G Polok, J Wiechczynski, M Witek, M Idzik, B Muryn, A Oblakowska-Mucha, K Senderowska, T Szumlak, M Szczekowski, A Ukleja, I Burducea, C Coca, M Dogaru, A Grecu, F Maciuc, R Muresan, M Orlandea, C Pavel-Nicorescu, B Popovici, S Stoica, M Straticiuc, E Teodorescu, G Alkhazov, N Bondar, A Dzyuba, O Maev, N Sagidova, Y Shcheglov, A Vorobyev, V Balagura, S Belogurov, I Belyaev, V Egorychev, D Golubkov, A Golutvin, T Kvaratskheliya, D Savrina, A Semennikov, P Shatalov, V Shevchenko, A Zhokhov, A Berezhnoy, M Korolev, A Leflat, N Nikitin, S Filippov, E Gushchin, L Kravchuk, A Bondar, S Eidelman, P Krokovny, V Kudryavtsev, A Poluektov, L Shekhtman, V Vorobyev, A Artamonov, K Belous, R Dzhelyadin, Y Guz, A Novoselov, V Obraztsov, A Popov, V Romanovsky, M Shapkin, O Yushchenko, C Abellan Beteta, M Calvo Gomez, A Camboni, A Comerma-Montells, L Garrido, R Graciani Diaz, E Graugés, E Lopez Asamar, A Oyanguren, A Pérez-Calero Yzquierdo, E Picatoste Olloqui, C Potterat, V Rives Molina, H Ruiz, P Ruiz Valls, R Vazquez Gomez, X Vilasis-Cardona, B Adeva, P Alvarez Cartelle, A Dosil Suárez, V Fernandez Albor, A Gallas Torreira, JA Hernando Morata, A Pazos Alvarez, E Perez Trigo, M Plo Casasus, P Rodriguez Perez, A Romero Vidal, JJ Saborido Silva, B Sanmartin Sedes, C Santamarina Rios, M Seco, P Vazquez Regueiro, F Alessio, C Barschel, T Blake, J Buytaert, D Campora Perez, L Castillo Garcia, M Cattaneo, P Charpentier, K Ciba, X Cid Vidal, M Clemencic, J Closier, P Collins, G Corti, B Couturier, C D'Ambrosio, H Dijkstra, S Easo, L Eklund, M Ferro-Luzzi, C Fitzpatrick, R Forty, M Frank, C Frei, C Gaspar, T Gershon, VV Gligorov, LA Granado Cardoso, T Gys, C Haen, J He, E van Herwijnen, R Jacobsson, C Joram, B Jost, M Karacson, TM Karbach, U Kerzel, D Lacarrere, E Lanciotti, C Langenbruch, R Lindner, G Liu, S Lohn, R Matev, Z Mathe, N Neufeld, J Panman, M Pepe Altarelli, N Rauschmayr, S Roiser, T Ruf, H Schindler, B Schmidt, A Schopper, R Schwemmer, T Shears, F Stagni, VK Subbiah, P Szczypka, F Teubert, E Thomas, D Tonelli, M Ubeda Garcia, M Vesterinen, J Wicht, K Wyllie, Y Xie, A Zvyagin, A Bay, F Blanc, J Bressieux, F Dupertuis, V Fave, G Haefeli, P Jaton, A Keune, I Komarov, VN La Thi, N Lopez-March, J Luisier, R Märki, B Muster, T Nakada, AD Nguyen, TD Nguyen, C Nguyen-Mau, J Prisciandaro, A Puig Navarro, B Rakotomiaramanana, J Rouvinet, O Schneider, M Tobin, S Tourneur, MT Tran, G Veneziano, J Anderson, R Bernet, E Bowen, A Bursche, N Chiapolini, M De Cian, C Elsasser, K Müller, C Salzmann, N Serra, O Steinkamp, B Storaci, U Straumann, M Tresch, A Vollhardt, R Aaij, S Ali, T Bauer, M van Beuzekom, V Coco, PNY David, K De Bruyn, D van Eijk, C Farinelli, V Heijne, W Hulsbergen, E Jans, P Koppenburg, A Kozlinskiy, J van Leerdam, M Martinelli, M Merk, I Mous, S Oggero, A Pellegrino, P Tsopelas, N Tuning, L Wiggers, J van den Brand, F Dettori, T Ketel, RF Koopman, RW Lambert, D Martinez Santos, G Raven, M Schiller, V Syropoulos, S Tolk, A Dovbnya, S Kandybei, I Raniuk, O Shevchenko, V Iakovenko, O Okhrimenko, V Pugatch, S Bifani, D Elsby, P Griffith, IR Kenyon, C Lazzeroni, J McCarthy, NK Watson, M Adinolfi, J Benton, NH Brook, A Cook, M Coombes, T Hampson, ST Harnew, P Naik, JH Rademacker, D Souza, JJ Velthuis, D Voong, W Barter, M-O Bettler, HV Cliff, J Garra Tico, V Gibson, S Gregson, SC Haines, CR Jones, DR Ward, SA Wotton, S Wright, JJ Back, DC Craik, D Dossett, M Kreps, T Latham, T Pilař, MM Reid, R Silva Coutinho, M Whitehead, MP Williams, R Nandakumar, A Papanestis, GN Patrick, S Ricciardi, E Smith, FF Wilson, S Benson, H Carranza-Mejia, PEL Clarke, GA Cowan, R Currie, S Eisenhardt, G Fardell, D Ferguson, D Lambert, H Luo, F Muheim, M Needham, S Playfer, A Sparkes, R Young, M Alexander, J Beddow, D Hynds, I Longstaff, S Ogilvy, M Pappagallo, P Sail, FJP Soler, P Spradlin, A Affolder, TJV Bowcock, H Brown, G Casse, S Donleavy, K Hennessy, E Hicks, T Huse, D Hutchcroft, M Liles, GD Patel, K Rinnert, NA Smith, L Carson, G Ciezarek, S Cunliffe, U Egede, S Hall, P Owen, CJ Parkinson, M Patel, K Petridis, A Richards, P Schaack, I Sepp, A Shires, D Websdale, RB Appleby, RJ Barlow, T Bird, PM Bjørnstad, S Borghi, D Brett, S De Capua, P Garosi, M Gersabeck, J Harrison, C Hombach, G Lafferty, A McNab, D Moran, C Parkes, E Rodrigues, M Smith, D Urner, AD Webber, M Charles, R Gauld, H Gordon, E Greening, N Harnew, D Hill, P Hunt, N Hussain, M John, D Johnson, S Malde, L Martin, B Meadows, A Nomerotski, A Powell, S Redford, C Thomas, S Topp-Joergensen, N Torr, G Wilkinson, F Xing, M Williams, R Andreassen, A Davis, W De Silva, MD Sokoloff, L Sun, M Artuso, S Blusk, A Borgia, T Britton, P Gandini, J Garofoli, B Gui, C Hadjivasiliou, R Mountain, BK Pal, A Phan, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, J Wang, Z Xing, L Zhang, C Baesso, C Göbel, J Molina Rodriguez, O Grünberg, T Hartmann, C Voß, R WaldiAbstract:
This paper reports the first measurement of the effective B →J/ψK lifetime and an updated measurement of its time-integrated branching fraction. Both measurements are performed with a data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb of pp collisions, recorded by the LHCb experiment in 2011 at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. The results are: τ = 1.75±0.12 (stat)±0.07 (syst) ps and B(B →J/ψK ) = (1.97 ± 0.23) × 10. For the latter measurement, the uncertainty includes both statistical and systematic sources. © 2013 CERN. Published by Elsevier B.V.Prompt K_short production in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=0.9 TeV
ArXiv 1008.3105 (2010)
Authors:
LHCb Collaboration, R Aaij, C Abellan Beteta, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, C Adrover, A Affolder, M Agari, Z Ajaltouni, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, M Alfonsi, P Alvarez Cartelle, AA Alves Jr, S Amato, Y Amhis, J Amoraal, J Anderson, R Antunes Nobrega, R Appleby, O Aquines Gutierrez, A Arefyev, L Arrabito, M Artuso, E Aslanides, G Auriemma, S Bachmann, Y Bagaturia, DS Bailey, V Balagura, W Baldini, G Barber, C Barham, RJ Barlow, S Barsuk, S Basiladze, A Bates, C Bauer, Th Bauer, A Bay, I Bediaga, T Bellunato, K Belous, I Belyaev, M Benayoun, G Bencivenni, R Bernet, RP Bernhard, M-O Bettler, M van Beuzekom, JH Bibby, S Bifani, A Bizzeti, PM Bjørnstad, T Blake, F Blanc, C Blanks, J Blouw, S Blusk, A Bobrov, V Bocci, B Bochin, E Bonaccorsi, A Bondar, N Bondar, W Bonivento, S Borghi, A Borgia, E Bos, TJV Bowcock, C Bozzi, T Brambach, J van den Brand, L Brarda, J Bressieux, S Brisbane, M Britsch, NH Brook, H Brown, S Brusa, A Büchler-Germann, A Bursche, J Buytaert, S Cadeddu, JM Caicedo Carvajal, O Callot, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, A Camboni, W Cameron, L Camilleri, P Campana, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, J Carroll, L Carson, K Carvalho Akiba, G Casse, M Cattaneo, B Chadaj, M Charles, Ph Charpentier, J Cheng, N Chiapolini, A Chlopik, J Christiansen, P Ciambrone, X Cid Vidal, PJ Clark, PEL Clarke, M Clemencic, HV Cliff, J Closier, C Coca, V Coco, J Cogan, P Collins, A Comerma-Montells, F Constantin, G Conti, A Contu, P Cooke, M Coombes, B Corajod, G Corti, GA Cowan, R Currie, B D'Almagne, C D'Ambrosio, I D'Antone, W Da Silva, E Dane', P David, I De Bonis, S De Capua, M De Cian, F De Lorenzi, JM De Miranda, L De Paula, P De Simone, D Decamp, G Decreuse, H Degaudenzi, M Deissenroth, L Del Buono, CJ Densham, C Deplano, O Deschamps, F Dettori, J Dickens, H Dijkstra, M Dima, S Donleavy, P Dornan, D Dossett, A Dovbnya, R Dumps, F Dupertuis, L Dwyer, R Dzhelyadin, C Eames, S Easo, U Egede, V Egorychev, S Eidelman, D van Eijk, F Eisele, S Eisenhardt, L Eklund, DG d'Enterria, D Esperante Pereira, L Estève, E Fanchini, C Färber, G Fardell, C Farinelli, S Farry, V Fave, G Felici, V Fernandez Albor, M Ferro-Luzzi, S Filippov, C Fitzpatrick, W Flegel, F Fontanelli, C Forti, R Forty, C Fournier, B Franek, M Frank, C Frei, M Frosini, JL Fungueirino Pazos, S Furcas, A Gallas Torreira, D Galli, M Gandelman, P Gandini, Y Gao, J-C Garnier, L Garrido, D Gascon, C Gaspar, A Gaspar De Valenzuela Cue, J Gassner, N Gauvin, P Gavillet, M Gersabeck, T Gershon, Ph Ghez, V Gibson, Yu Gilitsky, VV Gligorov, C Göbel, D Golubkov, A Golutvin, A Gomes, G Gong, H Gong, H Gordon, M Grabalosa Gándara, V Gracco, R Graciani Diaz, LA Granado Cardoso, E Graugés, G Graziani, A Grecu, S Gregson, G Guerrer, B Gui, E Gushchin, Yu Guz, Z Guzik, T Gys, G Haefeli, SC Haines, T Hampson, S Hansmann-Menzemer, R Harji, N Harnew, PF Harrison, J He, K Hennessy, P Henrard, JA Hernando Morata, E van Herwijnen, A Hicheur, E Hicks, HJ Hilke, W Hofmann, K Holubyev, P Hopchev, W Hulsbergen, P Hunt, T Huse, RS Huston, D Hutchcroft, F Iacoangeli, V Iakovenko, C Iglesias Escudero, C Ilgner, J Imong, R Jacobsson, M Jahjah Hussein, O Jamet, E Jans, F Jansen, P Jaton, B Jean-Marie, M John, D Johnson, CR Jones, B Jost, F Kapusta, TM Karbach, A Kashchuk, S Katvars, J Keaveney, U Kerzel, T Ketel, A Keune, S Khalil, B Khanji, YM Kim, M Knecht, S Koblitz, A Konoplyannikov, P Koppenburg, M Korolev, A Kozlinskiy, L Kravchuk, R Kristic, G Krocker, P Krokovny, F Kruse, K Kruzelecki, M Kucharczyk, I Kudryashov, S Kukulak, R Kumar, T Kvaratskheliya, VN La Thi, D Lacarrere, A Lai, RW Lambert, G Lanfranchi, C Langenbruch, T Latham, R Le Gac, J-P Lees, R Lefèvre, A Leflat, J Lefrançois, F Lehner, M Lenzi, O Leroy, T Lesiak, L Li, YY Li, L Li Gioi, J Libby, M Lieng, R Lindner, S Lindsey, C Linn, B Liu, G Liu, S Löchner, JH Lopes, E Lopez Asamar, N Lopez-March, P Loveridge, J Luisier, B M'charek, F Machefert, IV Machikhiliyan, F Maciuc, O Maev, J Magnin, A Maier, S Malde, RMD Mamunur, G Manca, 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Vorobyev, An Vorobyev, H Voss, K Wacker, S Wandernoth, J Wang, DR Ward, AD Webber, D Websdale, M Whitehead, D Wiedner, L Wiggers, G Wilkinson, MP Williams, M Williams, FF Wilson, J Wishahi, M Witek, W Witzeling, ML Woodward, SA Wotton, K Wyllie, Y Xie, F Xing, Z Yang, G Ybeles Smit, R Young, O Yushchenko, M Zeng, L Zhang, Y Zhang, A Zhelezov, E ZverevAbstract:
The production of K_short mesons in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 0.9 TeV is studied with the LHCb detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The luminosity of the analysed sample is determined using a novel technique, involving measurements of the beam currents, sizes and positions, and is found to be 6.8 +/- 1.0 microbarn^-1. The differential prompt K_short production cross-section is measured as a function of the K_short transverse momentum and rapidity in the region 0 < pT < 1.6 GeV/c and 2.5 < y < 4.0. The data are found to be in reasonable agreement with previous measurements and generator expectations.First spatial alignment of the LHCb VELO and analysis of beam absorber collision data
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment Elsevier 618:1-3 (2010) 108-120
Authors:
S Borghi, M Gersabeck, C Parkes, T Szumlak, A Affolder, K Akiba, J Anderson, M Artuso, S Basiladze, A Bates, A Bay, O Behrendt, M van Beuzekom, A Borgia, T Bowcock, J Buytaert, G Casse, P Collins, S de Capua, H de Vries, S Donleavy, L Eklund, M Ferro-Luzzi, R Frei, K Hennessy, T Huse, D Hutchcroft, E Jans, M John, T Ketel, G Lefeuvre, A Leflat, F Marinho, R McNulty, R Mountain, I Mous, J Mylroie-Smith, A Noor, A Papadelis, G Patel, B Rakotomiaramanana, K Rinnert, E Rodrigues, T Shears, NA Smith, M Tobin, S Traynor, A Van Lysebetten, B Verlaat, J WangPrompt KS 0 production in pp collisions at s=0.9 TeV
Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 693:2 (2010) 69-80