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Insertion of STC into TRT at the Department of Physics, Oxford
Credit: CERN

Malcolm John

Professor of Physics

Research theme

  • Fundamental particles and interactions

Sub department

  • Particle Physics

Research groups

  • LHCb
malcolm.john@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865 (2)73401
Denys Wilkinson Building, room 670
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  • Publications

Measurement of branching fractions and charge asymmetries in B ± → ρ±π0 and B ± → ρ0π± decays, and search for B0 → ρ0π0

Physical Review Letters 93:5 (2004) 1-51802

Authors:

B Aubert, R Barate, D Boutigny, F Couderc, JM Gaillard, A Hicheur, Y Karyotakis, JP Lees, P Robbe, V Tisserand, A Zghiche, A Palano, A Pompili, JC Chen, ND Qi, G Rong, P Wang, YS Zhu, G Eigen, I Ofte, B Stugu, GS Abrams, AW Borgland, AB Breon, DN Brown, J Button-Shafer, RN Cahn, E Charles, CT Day, MS Gill, AV Gritsan, Y Groysman, RG Jacobsen, RW Kadel, J Kadyk, LT Kerth, YG Kolomensky, G Kukartsev, C LeClerc, ME Levi, G Lynch, LM Mir, PJ Oddone, TJ Orimoto, M Pripstein, NA Roe, A Romosan, MT Ronan, VG Shelkov, AV Telnov, WA Wenzel, K Ford, TJ Harrison, CM Hawkes, DJ Knowles, SE Morgan, RC Penny, AT Watson, NK Watson, K Goetzen, T Held, H Koch, B Lewandowski, M Pelizaeus, K Peters, H Schmuecker, M Steinke, JT Boyd, N Chevalier, WN Cottingham, MP Kelly, TE Latham, C Mackay, FF Wilson, K Abe, T Cuhadar-Donszelmann, C Hearty, TS Mattison, JA McKenna, D Thiessen, P Kyberd, AK McKemey, L Teodorescu, VE Blinov, AD Bukin, VB Golubev, VN Ivanchenko, EA Kravchenko, AP Onuchin, SI Serednyakov, YI Skovpen, EP Solodov, AN Yushkov, D Best, M Bruinsma, M Chao, D Kirkby, AJ Lankford, M Mandelkern, RK Mommsen

Abstract:

The branching fractions and charge asymmeteries in B-meson decays were discussed. The decay amplitudes were evaluated from the measurements of decay rates and CP-violating charge asymmetries. The B-background from charmed and charmless B decays was investigated using MC-simulated events. The uncertainties in the signal MC simulation, which include signal misreconstruction, were evaluated from fully reconstructed B-decays. The misreconstruction signal was due the presence of low momentum pions in the B-decays.
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Observation of the decay B → J/ψK and search for X(3872)→ J/ψ

Physical Review Letters 93:4 (2004)

Authors:

B Aubert, R Barate, D Boutigny, F Couderc, JM Gaillard, A Hicheur, Y Karyotakis, JP Lees, V Tisserand, A Zghiche, A Palano, A Pompili, JC Chen, ND Qi, G Rong, P Wang, YS Zhu, G Eigen, I Ofte, B Stugu, GS Abrams, AW Borgland, AB Breon, DN Brown, J Button-Shafer, RN Cahn, E Charles, CT Day, MS Gill, AV Gritsan, Y Groysman, RG Jacobsen, RW Kadel, J Kadyk, LT Kerth, YG Kolomensky, G Kukartsev, C LeClerc, ME Levi, G Lynch, LM Mir, PJ Oddone, TJ Orimoto, M Pripstein, NA Roe, MT Ronan, VG Shelkov, AV Telnov, WA Wenzel, K Ford, TJ Harrison, CM Hawkes, SE Morgan, AT Watson, NK Watson, M Fritsch, K Goetzen, T Held, H Koch, B Lewandowski, M Pelizaeus, M Steinke, JT Boyd, N Chevalier, WN Cottingham, MP Kelly, TE Latham, FF Wilson, K Abe, T Cuhadar-Donszelmann, C Hearty, TS Mattison, JA McKenna, D Thiessen, P Kyberd, L Teodorescu, VE Blinov, AD Bukin, VP Druzhinin, VB Golubev, VN Ivanchenko, EA Kravchenko, AP Onuchin, SI Serednyakov, YI Skovpen, EP Solodov, AN Yushkov, D Best, M Bruinsma, M Chao, I Eschrich, D Kirkby, AJ Lankford, M Mandelkern, RK Mommsen, W Roethel, DP Stoker, C Buchanan, BL Hartfiel, JW Gary

Abstract:

The observation of charmonium production in B meson decays by color-supressed b → cc̄s quark transition was discussed. The data used in the observation correspond to a integrated luminosity of 81.9 fb -1 taken on the γ(4S) resonance. The data were collected at the asymmetric energy e+e- storage ring with BABAR detectors. The results show that with an upper limit of X(3872) in the product branching fraction the magnitude of possibole enhancements with charmonium hybrid states can restrict.
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Search for the rare leptonic decay B+ → μ+vμ

Physical Review Letters 92:22 (2004)

Authors:

B Aubert, R Barate, D Boutigny, F Couderc, JM Gaillard, A Hicheur, Y Karyotakis, JP Lees, V Tisserand, A Zghiche, A Palano, A Pompili, JC Chen, ND Qi, G Rong, P Wang, YS Zhu, G Eigen, I Ofte, B Stugu, GS Abrams, A Borgland, AB Breon, DN Brown, J Button-Shafer, RN Cahn, E Charles, CT Day, MS Gill, AV Gritsan, Y Groysman, RG Jacobsen, RW Kadel, J Kadyk, LT Kerth, YG Kolomensky, G Kukartsev, C LeClerc, ME Levi, G Lynch, LM Mir, PJ Oddone, TJ Orimoto, M Pripstein, NA Roe, MT Ronan, VG Shelkov, AV Telnov, WA Wenzel, K Ford, TJ Harrison, CM Hawkes, SE Morgan, AT Watson, NK Watson, M Fritsch, K Goetzen, T Held, H Koch, B Lewandowski, M Pelizaeus, K Peters, H Schmuecker, M Steinke, JT Boyd, N Chevalier, WN Cottingham, MP Kelly, TE Latham, C Mackay, FF Wilson, K Abe, T Cuhadar-Donszelmann, C Hearty, TS Mattison, JA McKenna, D Thiessen, P Kyberd, AK McKemey, L Teodorescu, VE Blinov, AD Bukin, VB Golubev, VN Ivanchenko, EA Kravchenko, AP Onuchin, SI Serednyakov, YI Skovpen, EP Solodov, AN Yushkov, D Best, M Bruinsma, M Chao, I Eschrich, D Kirkby, AJ Lankford, M Mandelkern, RK Mommsen, W Roethel, DP Stoker

Abstract:

A search for the rare leptonic decay with data collected at the resonance by the BABAR experiment was carried out. The decay rate was sensitive to the product of the Cabibbo Kobayashi Maskawa matrix element (Vub and the B decay constant fb, which was propotional to the wave function for zero separation between the quarks. The data used in the analysis was collectd with BABAR detector at the PEP-II storage ring and the sample consisted of an integrity luminosity of 81.4 fb-1. The systematic uncertainty in the signal efficiency was evaluated which included the muon candidate selection and the reconstruction efficiency of the companion B.
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Determination of the branching fraction for B → Xcℓ decays and of

Physical Review Letters 93:1 (2004)

Authors:

B Aubert, R Barate, D Boutigny, F Couderc, JM Gaillard, A Hicheur, Y Karyotakis, JP Lees, V Tisserand, A Zghiche, A Palano, A Pompili, JC Chen, ND Qi, G Rong, P Wang, YS Zhu, G Eigen, I Ofte, B Stugu, GS Abrams, A Borgland, AB Breon, DN Brown, J Button-Shafer, RN Cahn, E Charles, CT Day, MS Gill, AV Gritsan, Y Groysman, RG Jacobsen, RW Kadel, J Kadyk, LT Kerth, YG Kolomensky, G Kukartsev, C LeClerc, G Lynch, AM Merchant, LM Mir, PJ Oddone, TJ Orimoto, M Pripstein, NA Roe, MT Ronan, VG Shelkov, WA Wenzel, K Ford, TJ Harrison, CM Hawkes, SE Morgan, AT Watson, M Fritsch, K Goetzen, T Held, H Koch, B Lewandowski, M Pelizaeus, M Steinke, JT Boyd, N Chevalier, WN Cottingham, MP Kelly, TE Latham, FF Wilson, T Cuhadar-Donszelmann, C Hearty, NS Knecht, TS Mattison, JA McKenna, D Thiessen, A Khan, P Kyberd, L Teodorescu, VE Blinov, AD Bukin, VP Druzhinin, VB Golubev, VN Ivanchenko, EA Kravchenko, AP Onuchin, SI Serednyakov, YI Skovpen, EP Solodov, AN Yushkov, D Best, M Bruinsma, M Chao, I Eschrich, D Kirkby, AJ Lankford, M Mandelkern, RK Mommsen, W Roethel, DP Stoker, C Buchanan, BL Hartfiel, JW Gary, BC Shen

Abstract:

The inclusive B→Xcℓν branching fraction, B cℓν, the Cabibo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element, and other heavy quark parameters were determined from a simultaneous fit moments of the hadronic mass and lepton-energy distributions in semileptonic B-meson decays. Using data recorded with BABAR detector, the values were mesured as function of the lower limit on the lepton energy. The vaues for Bceν were extracted using heavy quark expansions (HQE) to the order of 1÷m b3. The stated errors were referred to the experimental, HQE and additional theoretical uncertainties.
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Measurement of time-dependent CP asymmetries and constraints on sin(2β + γ) with partial reconstruction of B0 → D*±π± decays

Physical Review Letters 92:25 I (2004)

Authors:

B Aubert, R Barate, D Boutigny, F Couderc, JM Gaillard, A Hicheur, Y Karyotakis, JP Lees, P Robbe, V Tisserand, A Zghiche, A Palano, A Pompili, JC Chen, ND Qi, G Rong, P Wang, YS Zhu, G Eigen, I Ofte, B Stugu, GS Abrams, AW Borgland, AB Breon, DN Brown, J Button-Shafer, RN Cahn, E Charles, CT Day, MS Gill, AV Gritsan, Y Groysman, RG Jacobsen, RW Kadel, J Kadyk, LT Kerth, YG Kolomensky, G Kukartsev, C LeClerc, ME Levi, G Lynch, LM Mir, PJ Oddone, TJ Orimoto, M Pripstein, NA Roe, A Romosan, MT Ronan, VG Shelkov, AV Telnov, WA Wenzel, K Ford, TJ Harrison, CM Hawkes, DJ Knowles, SE Morgan, RC Penny, AT Watson, NK Watson, K Goetzen, T Held, H Koch, B Lewandowski, M Pelizaeus, K Peters, H Schmuecker, M Steinke, JT Boyd, N Chevalier, WN Cottingham, MP Kelly, TE Latham, C Mackay, FF Wilson, K Abe, T Cuhadar-Donszelmann, C Hearty, TS Mattison, JA McKenna, D Thiessen, P Kyberd, AK McKemey, L Teodorescu, VE Blinov, AD Bukin, VB Golubev, VN Ivanchenko, EA Kravchenko, AP Onuchin, SI Serednyakov, YI Skovpen, EP Solodov, AN Yushkov, D Best, M Bruinsma, M Chao, D Kirkby, AJ Lankford, M Mandelkern, RK Mommsen

Abstract:

The time-dependent CP-violating asymmetries in partial reconstruction of B0 → D*=∓π∓ decays and constraints on sin(2β + γ) were investigated. The events containing decays were selected with partial reconstruction technique in which only high-momentum π∓ from the B decay and low-momentum π+ from D*∓ were used. The analysis was carried out with series of unbinned maximum-likelihood fits, which were performed simultaneously on the on- and off-resonance data samples. The amplitude of asymmetry was observed to be -0.063∓0.024(stat)∓0.014(stat).
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