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Guy Wilkinson

Professor of Physics

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  • Particle Physics

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Guy.Wilkinson@physics.ox.ac.uk
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Determination of quantum numbers for several excited charmed mesons observed in B − → D * + π − π − decays

Physical Review D American Physical Society 101:3 (2020) 32005

Authors:

R Aaij, C Abellán Beteta, T Ackernley, Kamil Fischer, Thomas Hadavizadeh, Thomas Hancock, Neville Harnew, Donal Hill, Malcolm John, Nathan Jurik, Sneha Malde, Colm Murphy, Martina Pili, Hannah Pullen, Victor Daussy-Renaudin, Alexandra Rollings, Luke Scantlebury-Smead, Guy Wilkinson, LHCb Collaboration

Abstract:

A four-body amplitude analysis of the B− → D*+π−π− decay is performed, where fractions and relative phases of the various resonances contributing to the decay are measured. Several quasi-model-independent analyses are performed aimed at searching for the presence of new states and establishing the quantum numbers of previously observed charmed meson resonances. In particular the resonance parameters and quantum numbers are determined for the D1(2420), D1(2430), D0(2550), D∗1(2600), D2(2740) and D∗3(2750) states. The mixing between the D1(2420) and D1(2430) resonances is studied and the mixing parameters are measured. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.7fb−1, collected in proton-proton collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7, 8 and 13 TeV with the LHCb detector.
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Observation of the decays chi(cJ) -> phi phi eta

Physical Review D American Physical Society 101:1 (2020) 12012

Authors:

M Ablikim, P Adlarson, S Ahmed, M Albrecht, M Alekseev, A Amoroso, Ff An, Q An, Y Bai, O Bakina, R Baldini Ferroli, I Balossino, K Begzsuren, Jv Bennett, M Bertani, D Bettoni, J Bloms, I Boyko, Ra Briere, A Calcaterra, Sa Cetin, Jf Chang, F Cossio

Abstract:

Using a data sample of (448.1±2.9)×106 ψ(3686) decays collected by the BESIII detector at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPCII), we observe the decays χcJ→φφη(J=0,1,2), where the χcJ are produced via the radiative processes ψ(3686)→γχcJ. The branching fractions are measured to be B(χc0→φφη)=(8.41±0.74±0.62)×10-4, B(χc1→φφη)=(2.96±0.43±0.22)×10-4, and B(χc2→φφη)=(5.33±0.52±0.39)×10-4, where the first uncertainties are statistical, and the second are systematic. We also search for intermediate states in the φφ or ηφ subsystems, but no significant structure is seen due to the limited statistics.
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Observation of a Narrow Pentaquark State, P_{c}(4312)^{+}, and of the Two-Peak Structure of the P_{c}(4450)^{+}.

Physical review letters 122:22 (2019) 222001

Authors:

R Aaij, C Abellán Beteta, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, CA Aidala, 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, JE Andrews, F Archilli, P d'Argent, J Arnau Romeu, 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, V Batozskaya, B Batsukh, A Battig, V Battista, A Bay, F Bedeschi, I Bediaga, A Beiter, LJ Bel, V Belavin, S Belin, N Beliy, V Bellee, N Belloli, K Belous, I Belyaev, E Ben-Haim, G Bencivenni, S Benson, S Beranek, A Berezhnoy, R Bernet, D Berninghoff, E Bertholet, A Bertolin, C Betancourt, F Betti, MO Bettler, M van Beuzekom, Ia Bezshyiko, S Bhasin, J Bhom, MS Bieker, S Bifani, P Billoir, A Birnkraut, A Bizzeti, M Bjørn, MP Blago, T Blake, F Blanc, S Blusk, D Bobulska, V Bocci, O Boente Garcia, T Boettcher, A Bondar, N Bondar, S Borghi, M Borisyak, M Borsato, M Boubdir, TJV Bowcock, C Bozzi, S Braun, A Brea Rodriguez, M Brodski, J Brodzicka, A Brossa Gonzalo, D Brundu, E Buchanan, A Buonaura, C Burr, A Bursche, JS Butter, J Buytaert, W Byczynski, S Cadeddu, H Cai, R Calabrese, S Cali, R Calladine, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, A Camboni, P Campana, DH Campora Perez, L Capriotti, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, P Carniti, K Carvalho Akiba, A Casais Vidal, G Casse, M Cattaneo, G Cavallero, R Cenci, MG Chapman, M Charles, Ph Charpentier, G Chatzikonstantinidis, M Chefdeville, V Chekalina, C Chen, S Chen, S-G Chitic, V Chobanova, M Chrzaszcz, A Chubykin, P Ciambrone, X Cid Vidal, G Ciezarek, F Cindolo, PEL Clarke, M Clemencic, HV Cliff, J Closier, V Coco, JAB Coelho, J Cogan, E Cogneras, L Cojocariu, P Collins, T Colombo, A Comerma-Montells, A Contu, G Coombs, S Coquereau, G Corti, CM Costa Sobral, B Couturier, GA Cowan, DC Craik, A Crocombe, M Cruz Torres, R Currie, C D'Ambrosio, CL Da Silva, E Dall'Occo, J Dalseno, A Danilina, 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, CT Dean, W Dean, D Decamp, L Del Buono, B Delaney, H-P Dembinski, M Demmer, A Dendek, D Derkach, O Deschamps, F Desse, F Dettori, B Dey, A Di Canto, P Di Nezza, S Didenko, H Dijkstra, F Dordei, M Dorigo, A Dosil Suárez, L Douglas, A Dovbnya, K Dreimanis, L Dufour, G Dujany, P Durante, JM Durham, D Dutta, R Dzhelyadin, M Dziewiecki, A Dziurda, A Dzyuba, S Easo, U Egede, V Egorychev, S Eidelman, S Eisenhardt, U Eitschberger, S Ek-In, R Ekelhof, L Eklund, S Ely, A Ene, S Escher, S Esen, T Evans, A Falabella, N Farley, S Farry, D Fazzini, P Fernandez Declara, A Fernandez Prieto, C Fernández-Ramírez, F Ferrari, L Ferreira Lopes, F Ferreira Rodrigues, S Ferreres Sole, M Ferro-Luzzi, S Filippov, RA Fini, M Fiorini, M Firlej, C Fitzpatrick, T Fiutowski, F Fleuret, M Fontana, F Fontanelli, R Forty, V Franco Lima, M Franco Sevilla, M Frank, C Frei, J Fu, W Funk, C Färber, M Féo, E Gabriel, A Gallas Torreira, D Galli, S Gallorini, S Gambetta, Y Gan, M Gandelman, P Gandini, Y Gao, LM Garcia Martin, B Garcia Plana, J García Pardiñas, J Garra Tico, L Garrido, D Gascon, C Gaspar, G Gazzoni, D Gerick, E Gersabeck, M Gersabeck, T Gershon, D Gerstel, Ph Ghez, V Gibson, OG Girard, P Gironella Gironell, L Giubega, K Gizdov, VV Gligorov, D Golubkov, A Golutvin, A Gomes, IV Gorelov, C Gotti, E Govorkova, JP Grabowski, R Graciani Diaz, LA Granado Cardoso, E Graugés, E Graverini, G Graziani, A Grecu, R Greim, P Griffith, L Grillo, L Gruber, BR Gruberg Cazon, C Gu, X Guo, E Gushchin, A Guth, Yu Guz, T Gys, C Göbel, T Hadavizadeh, C Hadjivasiliou, G Haefeli, C Haen, SC Haines, B Hamilton, Q Han, X Han, TH Hancock, S Hansmann-Menzemer, N Harnew, T Harrison, C Hasse, M Hatch, J He, M Hecker, K Heinicke, A Heister, K Hennessy, L Henry, E van Herwijnen, J Heuel, M Heß, A Hicheur, R Hidalgo Charman, D Hill, M Hilton, PH Hopchev, J Hu, W Hu, W Huang, ZC Huard, W Hulsbergen, T Humair, M Hushchyn, D Hutchcroft, D Hynds, P Ibis, M Idzik, P Ilten, A Inglessi, A Inyakin, K Ivshin, R Jacobsson, S Jakobsen, J Jalocha, E Jans, BK Jashal, A Jawahery, F Jiang, M John, D Johnson, CR Jones, C Joram, B Jost, N Jurik, S Kandybei, M Karacson, JM Kariuki, S Karodia, N Kazeev, M Kecke, F Keizer, M Kelsey, M Kenzie, T Ketel, B Khanji, A Kharisova, C Khurewathanakul, KE Kim, T Kirn, VS Kirsebom, S Klaver, K Klimaszewski, S Koliiev, M Kolpin, A Kondybayeva, A Konoplyannikov, R Kopecna, P Koppenburg, I Kostiuk, O Kot, S Kotriakhova, M Kozeiha, L Kravchuk, M Kreps, F Kress, S Kretzschmar, P Krokovny, W Krupa, W Krzemien, W Kucewicz, M Kucharczyk, V Kudryavtsev, GJ Kunde, AK Kuonen, T Kvaratskheliya, D Lacarrere, G Lafferty, A Lai, D Lancierini, G Lanfranchi, C Langenbruch, T Latham, C Lazzeroni, R Le Gac, A Leflat, R Lefèvre, F Lemaitre, O Leroy, T Lesiak, B Leverington, H Li, P-R Li, X Li, Y Li, Z Li, X Liang, T Likhomanenko, R Lindner, P Ling, F Lionetto, V Lisovskyi, G Liu, X Liu, D Loh, A Loi, J Lomba Castro, I Longstaff, JH Lopes, G Loustau, GH Lovell, D Lucchesi, M Lucio Martinez, Y Luo, A Lupato, E Luppi, O Lupton, A Lusiani, X Lyu, R Ma, F Machefert, F Maciuc, V Macko, P Mackowiak, S Maddrell-Mander, O Maev, K Maguire, D Maisuzenko, MW Majewski, S Malde, B Malecki, A Malinin, T Maltsev, H Malygina, G Manca, G Mancinelli, D Marangotto, J Maratas, JF Marchand, U Marconi, 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, B Maurin, M McCann, A McNab, R McNulty, JV Mead, B Meadows, C Meaux, N Meinert, D Melnychuk, M Merk, A Merli, E Michielin, M Mikhasenko, DA Milanes, E Millard, M-N Minard, L Minzoni, DS Mitzel, A Mogini, RD Moise, T Mombächer, IA Monroy, S Monteil, M Morandin, G Morello, MJ Morello, J Moron, AB Morris, R Mountain, H Mu, F Muheim, M Mukherjee, M Mulder, CH Murphy, D Murray, A Mödden, D Müller, J Müller, K Müller, V Müller, P Naik, T Nakada, R Nandakumar, A Nandi, T Nanut, I Nasteva, M Needham, N Neri, S Neubert, N Neufeld, R Newcombe, TD Nguyen, C Nguyen-Mau, S Nieswand, R Niet, N Nikitin, NS Nolte, DP O'Hanlon, A Oblakowska-Mucha, V Obraztsov, S Ogilvy, 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, W Parker, C Parkes, G Passaleva, A Pastore, M Patel, C Patrignani, A Pearce, A Pellegrino, G Penso, M Pepe Altarelli, S Perazzini, D Pereima, P Perret, L Pescatore, K Petridis, A Petrolini, A Petrov, S Petrucci, M Petruzzo, B Pietrzyk, G Pietrzyk, M Pikies, M Pili, A Pilloni, 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, E Price, C Prouve, V Pugatch, A Puig Navarro, H Pullen, G Punzi, W Qian, J Qin, R Quagliani, B Quintana, NV Raab, B Rachwal, JH Rademacker, M Rama, M Ramos Pernas, MS Rangel, F Ratnikov, G Raven, M Ravonel Salzgeber, M Reboud, F Redi, S Reichert, AC Dos Reis, F Reiss, C Remon Alepuz, Z Ren, V Renaudin, S Ricciardi, S Richards, K Rinnert, P Robbe, A Robert, AB Rodrigues, E Rodrigues, JA Rodriguez Lopez, M Roehrken, S Roiser, A Rollings, V Romanovskiy, A Romero Vidal, JD Roth, M Rotondo, MS Rudolph, T Ruf, J Ruiz Vidal, JJ Saborido Silva, N Sagidova, B Saitta, V Salustino Guimaraes, C Sanchez Gras, C Sanchez Mayordomo, B Sanmartin Sedes, R Santacesaria, C Santamarina Rios, M Santimaria, E Santovetti, G Sarpis, A Sarti, C Satriano, A Satta, M Saur, D Savrina, 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, A Semennikov, ES Sepulveda, A Sergi, N Serra, J Serrano, L Sestini, A Seuthe, P Seyfert, M Shapkin, T Shears, L Shekhtman, V Shevchenko, E Shmanin, BG Siddi, R Silva Coutinho, L Silva de Oliveira, G Simi, S Simone, I Skiba, N Skidmore, T Skwarnicki, MW Slater, JG Smeaton, E Smith, IT Smith, M Smith, 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, S Stefkova, O Steinkamp, S Stemmle, O Stenyakin, M Stepanova, H Stevens, A Stocchi, S Stone, S Stracka, ME Stramaglia, M Straticiuc, U Straumann, S Strokov, J Sun, L Sun, Y Sun, K Swientek, A Szabelski, A Szczepaniak, T Szumlak, M Szymanski, S T'Jampens, Z Tang, T Tekampe, G Tellarini, F Teubert, E Thomas, J van Tilburg, MJ Tilley, V Tisserand, M Tobin, S Tolk, L Tomassetti, D Tonelli, DY Tou, E Tournefier, M Traill, MT Tran, A Trisovic, A Tsaregorodtsev, G Tuci, A Tully, N Tuning, A Ukleja, A Usachov, A Ustyuzhanin, U Uwer, A Vagner, V Vagnoni, A Valassi, S Valat, G Valenti, H Van Hecke, CB Van Hulse, A Vasiliev, R Vazquez Gomez, P Vazquez Regueiro, S Vecchi, M van Veghel, JJ Velthuis, M Veltri, A Venkateswaran, M Vernet, M Veronesi, M Vesterinen, JV Viana Barbosa, D Vieira, M Vieites Diaz, H Viemann, X Vilasis-Cardona, A Vitkovskiy, M Vitti, V Volkov, A Vollhardt, D Vom Bruch, B Voneki, A Vorobyev, V Vorobyev, N Voropaev, JA de Vries, C Vázquez Sierra, R Waldi, J Walsh, J Wang, J Wang, M Wang, Y Wang, Z Wang, DR Ward, HM Wark, NK Watson, D Websdale, A Weiden, C Weisser, M Whitehead, G Wilkinson, M Wilkinson, I Williams, MRJ Williams, M Williams, T Williams, FF Wilson, M Winn, W Wislicki, M Witek, G Wormser, SA Wotton, K Wyllie, D Xiao, Y Xie, H Xing, A 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 Zeng, D Zhang, L Zhang, S Zhang, WC Zhang, Y Zhang, A Zhelezov, Y Zheng, X Zhu, V Zhukov, JB Zonneveld, S Zucchelli, LHCb Collaboration

Abstract:

A narrow pentaquark state, P_{c}(4312)^{+}, decaying to J/ψp, is discovered with a statistical significance of 7.3σ in a data sample of Λ_{b}^{0}→J/ψpK^{-} decays, which is an order of magnitude larger than that previously analyzed by the LHCb Collaboration. The P_{c}(4450)^{+} pentaquark structure formerly reported by LHCb is confirmed and observed to consist of two narrow overlapping peaks, P_{c}(4440)^{+} and P_{c}(4457)^{+}, where the statistical significance of this two-peak interpretation is 5.4σ. The proximity of the Σ_{c}^{+}D[over ¯]^{0} and Σ_{c}^{+}D[over ¯]^{*0} thresholds to the observed narrow peaks suggests that they play an important role in the dynamics of these states.
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Observation of CP violation in charm decays

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society 122:21 (2019) 211803

Authors:

R Aaij, C Abellán Beteta, B Adeva, M Bjørn, BR Gruberg Cazon, Thomas Hadavizadeh, TH Hancock, N Harnew, D Hill, Pawel Jalocha, M John, Nathan Jurik, Sneha Malde, Christopher Murphy, H Pullen, V Renaudin, A Nandi, Alexandra Rollings, Guy Wilkinson

Abstract:

A search for charge-parity (CP) violation in D0→K−K+ and D0→π−π+ decays is reported, using pp collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.9 fb−1 collected at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the LHCb detector. The flavor of the charm meson is inferred from the charge of the pion in D∗(2010)+→D0π+ decays or from the charge of the muon in ¯B→D0μ−¯νμX decays. The difference between the CP asymmetries in D0→K−K+ and D0→π−π+ decays is measured to be ΔACP=[−18.2±3.2(stat)±0.9(syst)]×10−4 for π-tagged and ΔACP=[−9±8(stat)±5(syst)]×10−4 for μ-tagged D0 mesons. Combining these with previous LHCb results leads to ΔACP=(−15.4±2.9)×10−4, where the uncertainty includes both statistical and systematic contributions. The measured value differs from zero by more than 5 standard deviations. This is the first observation of CP violation in the decay of charm hadrons.
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LHCb Collaboration

Nuclear Physics A 982 (2019) 1040-1050

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I Bediaga, M Cruz Torres, JM De Miranda, AC dos Reis, A Gomes, A Massafferri, J Molina Rodriguez, L Soares Lavra, R Tourinho Jadallah Aoude, S Amato, K Carvalho Akiba, F Da Cunha Marinho, L De Paula, F Ferreira Rodrigues, M Gandelman, A Hicheur, JH Lopes, I Nasteva, JM Otalora Goicochea, E Polycarpo, C Potterat, MS Rangel, L Silva de Oliveira, B Souza De Paula, L An, C Chen, A Davis, Y Gan, Y Gao, C Gu, F Jiang, T Li, X Liu, Z Ren, J Sun, Z Tang, M Wang, A Xu, Z Xu, Z Yang, L Zhang, WC Zhang, X Zhu, M Chefdeville, D Decamp, P Ghez, JF Marchand, MN Minard, B Pietrzyk, M Reboud, S T'Jampens, E Tournefier, Z Ajaltouni, E Cogneras, O Deschamps, G Gazzoni, C Hadjivasiliou, M Kozeiha, R Lefèvre, J Maratas, S Monteil, P Perret, B Quintana, V Tisserand, M Vernet, J Arnau Romeu, E Aslanides, J Cogan, D Gerstel, R Le Gac, O Leroy, G Mancinelli, M Martin, C Meaux, AB Morris, J Serrano, A Tayduganov, A Tsaregorodtsev, Y Amhis, V Balagura, S Barsuk, F Bossu, D Chamont, JAB Coelho, F Desse, F Fleuret, J Lefrançois, V Lisovskyi, F Machefert, C Marin Benito, E Maurice, V Renaudin, P Robbe, MH Schune, A Stocchi, A Usachov, M Winn, G Wormser, Y Zhang, E Ben-Haim
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