Measurement of $B^{0}_{s}$ and $D^{-}_{s}$ meson lifetimes

(2017)

Authors:

LHCb collaboration, R Aaij, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, Z Ajaltouni, S Akar, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, S Ali, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, AA Alves, S Amato, S Amerio, Y Amhis, L An, L Anderlini, G Andreassi, M Andreotti, JE Andrews, RB Appleby, F Archilli, P d'Argent, J Arnau Romeu, A Artamonov, M Artuso, E Aslanides, G Auriemma, M Baalouch, I Babuschkin, S Bachmann, JJ Back, A Badalov, C Baesso, S Baker, V Balagura, W Baldini, A Baranov, RJ Barlow, C Barschel, S Barsuk, W Barter, F Baryshnikov, M Baszczyk, V Batozskaya, B Batsukh, V Battista, A Bay, L Beaucourt, J Beddow, F Bedeschi, I Bediaga, A Beiter, LJ Bel, V Bellee, N Belloli, K Belous, I Belyaev, E Ben-Haim, G Bencivenni, S Benson, S Beranek, A Berezhnoy, R Bernet, A Bertolin, C Betancourt, F Betti, M-O Bettler, M van Beuzekom, Ia Bezshyiko, S Bifani, P Billoir, A Birnkraut, A Bitadze, A Bizzeti, T Blake, F Blanc, J Blouw, S Blusk, V Bocci, T Boettcher, A Bondar, N Bondar, W Bonivento, I Bordyuzhin, A Borgheresi, S Borghi, M Borisyak, M Borsato, F Bossu, M Boubdir, TJV Bowcock, E Bowen, C Bozzi, S Braun, T Britton, J Brodzicka, E Buchanan, C Burr, A Bursche, J Buytaert, S Cadeddu, R Calabrese, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, A Camboni, P Campana, DH Campora Perez, L Capriotti, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, P Carniti, L Carson, K Carvalho Akiba, G Casse, L Cassina, L Castillo Garcia, M Cattaneo, G Cavallero, R Cenci, D Chamont, M Charles, Ph Charpentier, G Chatzikonstantinidis, M Chefdeville, S Chen, S-F Cheung, V Chobanova, M Chrzaszcz, A Chubykin, X Cid Vidal, G Ciezarek, PEL Clarke, M Clemencic, HV Cliff, J Closier, V Coco, J Cogan, E Cogneras, V Cogoni, L Cojocariu, P Collins, A Comerma-Montells, A Contu, A Cook, G Coombs, S Coquereau, G Corti, M Corvo, CM Costa Sobral, B Couturier, GA Cowan, DC Craik, A Crocombe, M Cruz Torres, S Cunliffe, R Currie, C D'Ambrosio, F Da Cunha Marinho, E Dall'Occo, J Dalseno, PNY David, A Davis, K De Bruyn, S De Capua, M De Cian, JM De Miranda, L De Paula, M De Serio, P De Simone, CT Dean, D Decamp, M Deckenhoff, L Del Buono, H-P Dembinski, M Demmer, A Dendek, D Derkach, O Deschamps, F Dettori, B Dey, A Di Canto, P Di Nezza, H Dijkstra, F Dordei, M Dorigo, A Dosil Suárez, A Dovbnya, K Dreimanis, L Dufour, G Dujany, K Dungs, P Durante, R Dzhelyadin, M Dziewiecki, A Dziurda, A Dzyuba, N Déléage, S Easo, M Ebert, U Egede, V Egorychev, S Eidelman, S Eisenhardt, U Eitschberger, R Ekelhof, L Eklund, S Ely, S Esen, HM Evans, T Evans, A Falabella, N Farley, S Farry, R Fay, D Fazzini, D Ferguson, G Fernandez, A Fernandez Prieto, F Ferrari, F Ferreira Rodrigues, M Ferro-Luzzi, S Filippov, RA Fini, M Fiore, M Fiorini, M Firlej, C Fitzpatrick, T Fiutowski, F Fleuret, K Fohl, M Fontana, F Fontanelli, DC Forshaw, R Forty, V Franco Lima, M Frank, C Frei, J Fu, W Funk, E Furfaro, C Färber, A Gallas Torreira, D Galli, S Gallorini, S Gambetta, M Gandelman, P Gandini, Y Gao, LM Garcia Martin, J García Pardiñas, J Garra Tico, L Garrido, PJ Garsed, D Gascon, C Gaspar, L Gavardi, G Gazzoni, D Gerick, E Gersabeck, M Gersabeck, T Gershon, Ph Ghez, S Gianì, V Gibson, OG Girard, L Giubega, K Gizdov, VV Gligorov, D Golubkov, A Golutvin, A Gomes, IV Gorelov, C Gotti, E Govorkova, R Graciani Diaz, LA Granado Cardoso, E Graugés, E Graverini, G Graziani, A Grecu, R Greim, P Griffith, L Grillo, BR Gruberg Cazon, O Grünberg, E Gushchin, Yu Guz, T Gys, C Göbel, T Hadavizadeh, C Hadjivasiliou, G Haefeli, C Haen, SC Haines, B Hamilton, X Han, S Hansmann-Menzemer, N Harnew, ST Harnew, J Harrison, M Hatch, J He, T Head, A Heister, K Hennessy, P Henrard, L Henry, E van Herwijnen, M Heß, A Hicheur, D Hill, C Hombach, H Hopchev, Z-C Huard, W Hulsbergen, T Humair, M Hushchyn, D Hutchcroft, M Idzik, P Ilten, R Jacobsson, J Jalocha, E Jans, A Jawahery, F Jiang, M John, D Johnson, CR Jones, C Joram, B Jost, N Jurik, S Kandybei, M Karacson, JM Kariuki, S Karodia, M Kecke, M Kelsey, M Kenzie, T Ketel, E Khairullin, B Khanji, C Khurewathanakul, T Kirn, S Klaver, K Klimaszewski, T Klimkovich, S Koliiev, M Kolpin, I Komarov, R Kopecna, P Koppenburg, A Kosmyntseva, S Kotriakhova, A Kozachuk, M Kozeiha, L Kravchuk, M Kreps, P Krokovny, F Kruse, W Krzemien, W Kucewicz, M Kucharczyk, V Kudryavtsev, AK Kuonen, K Kurek, T Kvaratskheliya, D Lacarrere, G Lafferty, A Lai, G Lanfranchi, C Langenbruch, T Latham, C Lazzeroni, R Le Gac, J van Leerdam, A Leflat, J Lefrançois, R Lefèvre, F Lemaitre, E Lemos Cid, O Leroy, T Lesiak, B Leverington, T Li, Y Li, Z Li, T Likhomanenko, R Lindner, F Lionetto, X Liu, D Loh, I Longstaff, JH Lopes, D Lucchesi, M Lucio Martinez, H Luo, A Lupato, E Luppi, O Lupton, A Lusiani, X Lyu, F Machefert, F Maciuc, O Maev, K Maguire, S Malde, A Malinin, T Maltsev, G Manca, G Mancinelli, P Manning, J Maratas, JF Marchand, U Marconi, C Marin Benito, M Marinangeli, P Marino, J Marks, G Martellotti, M Martin, M Martinelli, D Martinez Santos, F Martinez Vidal, D Martins Tostes, LM Massacrier, A Massafferri, R Matev, A Mathad, Z Mathe, C Matteuzzi, A Mauri, E Maurice, B Maurin, A Mazurov, M McCann, A McNab, R McNulty, B Meadows, F Meier, D Melnychuk, M Merk, A Merli, E Michielin, DA Milanes, M-N Minard, DS Mitzel, A Mogini, J Molina Rodriguez, IA Monroy, S Monteil, M Morandin, MJ Morello, O Morgunova, J Moron, AB Morris, R Mountain, F Muheim, M Mulder, M Mussini, D Müller, J Müller, K Müller, V Müller, P Naik, T Nakada, R Nandakumar, A Nandi, I Nasteva, M Needham, N Neri, S Neubert, N Neufeld, M Neuner, TD Nguyen, C Nguyen-Mau, S Nieswand, R Niet, N Nikitin, T Nikodem, A Nogay, A Novoselov, DP O'Hanlon, A Oblakowska-Mucha, V Obraztsov, S Ogilvy, R Oldeman, CJG Onderwater, A Ossowska, JM Otalora Goicochea, P Owen, A Oyanguren, PR Pais, A Palano, M Palutan, A Papanestis, M Pappagallo, LL Pappalardo, C Pappenheimer, W Parker, C Parkes, G Passaleva, A Pastore, M Patel, C Patrignani, A Pearce, A Pellegrino, G Penso, M Pepe Altarelli, S Perazzini, P Perret, L Pescatore, K Petridis, A Petrolini, A Petrov, M Petruzzo, E Picatoste Olloqui, B Pietrzyk, M Pikies, D Pinci, A Pistone, A Piucci, V Placinta, S Playfer, M Plo Casasus, T Poikela, F Polci, M Poli Lener, A Poluektov, I Polyakov, E Polycarpo, GJ Pomery, S Ponce, A Popov, D Popov, B Popovici, S Poslavskii, C Potterat, E Price, J Prisciandaro, C Prouve, V Pugatch, A Puig Navarro, G Punzi, C Qian, W Qian, R Quagliani, B Rachwal, JH Rademacker, M Rama, M Ramos Pernas, MS Rangel, I Raniuk, F Ratnikov, G Raven, F Redi, S Reichert, AC dos Reis, C Remon Alepuz, V Renaudin, S Ricciardi, S Richards, M Rihl, K Rinnert, V Rives Molina, P Robbe, AB Rodrigues, E Rodrigues, JA Rodriguez Lopez, P Rodriguez Perez, A Rogozhnikov, S Roiser, A Rollings, V Romanovskiy, A Romero Vidal, JW Ronayne, M Rotondo, MS Rudolph, T Ruf, P Ruiz Valls, JJ Saborido Silva, E Sadykhov, N Sagidova, B Saitta, V Salustino Guimaraes, D Sanchez Gonzalo, C Sanchez Mayordomo, B Sanmartin Sedes, R Santacesaria, C Santamarina Rios, M Santimaria, E Santovetti, A Sarti, C Satriano, A Satta, DM Saunders, D Savrina, S Schael, M Schellenberg, M Schiller, H Schindler, M Schlupp, M Schmelling, T Schmelzer, B Schmidt, O Schneider, A Schopper, HF Schreiner, K Schubert, M Schubiger, M-H Schune, R Schwemmer, B Sciascia, A Sciubba, A Semennikov, A Sergi, N Serra, J Serrano, L Sestini, P Seyfert, M Shapkin, I Shapoval, Y Shcheglov, T Shears, L Shekhtman, V Shevchenko, BG Siddi, R Silva Coutinho, L Silva de Oliveira, G Simi, S Simone, M Sirendi, N Skidmore, T Skwarnicki, E Smith, IT Smith, J Smith, M Smith, L Soares Lavra, MD Sokoloff, FJP Soler, B Souza De Paula, B Spaan, P Spradlin, S Sridharan, F Stagni, M Stahl, S Stahl, P Stefko, S Stefkova, O Steinkamp, S Stemmle, O Stenyakin, H Stevens, S Stoica, S Stone, B Storaci, S Stracka, ME Stramaglia, M Straticiuc, U Straumann, L Sun, W Sutcliffe, K Swientek, V Syropoulos, M Szczekowski, T Szumlak, S T'Jampens, A Tayduganov, T Tekampe, G Tellarini, F Teubert, E Thomas, J van Tilburg, MJ Tilley, V Tisserand, M Tobin, S Tolk, L Tomassetti, D Tonelli, S Topp-Joergensen, F Toriello, R Tourinho Jadallah Aoude, E Tournefier, S Tourneur, K Trabelsi, M Traill, MT Tran, M Tresch, A Trisovic, A Tsaregorodtsev, P Tsopelas, A Tully, N Tuning, A Ukleja, A Ustyuzhanin, U Uwer, C Vacca, V Vagnoni, A Valassi, S Valat, G Valenti, R Vazquez Gomez, P Vazquez Regueiro, S Vecchi, M van Veghel, JJ Velthuis, M Veltri, G Veneziano, A Venkateswaran, TA Verlage, M Vernet, M Vesterinen, JV Viana Barbosa, B Viaud, D Vieira, M Vieites Diaz, H Viemann, X Vilasis-Cardona, M Vitti, V Volkov, A Vollhardt, B Voneki, A Vorobyev, V Vorobyev, C Voß, JA de Vries, C Vázquez Sierra, R Waldi, C Wallace, R Wallace, J Walsh, J Wang, DR Ward, HM Wark, NK Watson, D Websdale, A Weiden, M Whitehead, J Wicht, G Wilkinson, M Wilkinson, M Williams, MP Williams, M Williams, T Williams, FF Wilson, J Wimberley, MA Winn, J Wishahi, W Wislicki, M Witek, G Wormser, SA Wotton, K Wraight, K Wyllie, Y Xie, Z Xing, Z Xu, Z Yang, Z Yang, Y Yao, H Yin, J Yu, X Yuan, O Yushchenko, KA Zarebski, M Zavertyaev, L Zhang, Y Zhang, A Zhelezov, Y Zheng, X Zhu, V Zhukov, S Zucchelli

Prospects for new physics in τ → lμμ at current and future colliders

Journal of High Energy Physics Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2017:5 (2017) 14

Authors:

Christopher Hays, M Mitra, M Spannowsky, P Waite

Abstract:

The discovery of lepton flavour violating interactions will be striking evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model. Focusing on the three decays τ∓ → μ±μ∓μ∓, τ∓ → e±μ∓μ∓ and τ∓ → e∓μ∓μ±, we evaluate the discovery potential of current and future high-energy colliders to probe lepton flavour violation in the τ sector. Based on this potential we determine the expected constraints on parameters of new physics in the context of the Type-II Seesaw Model, the Left-Right Symmetric Model, and the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. The existing and ongoing 13 TeV run of the Large Hadron Collider has the potential to produce constraints that outperform the existing e+e− collider limits for the τ∓ → μ±μ∓μ∓ decay and achieve a branching fraction limit of ≲ 10−8. With a future circular e+e− collider, constraints on the τ → lμμ branching fractions could reach as low as a few times 10−12.

Prompt neutrino fluxes in the atmosphere with PROSA parton distribution functions

Journal of High Energy Physics Springer 2017:5 (2017)

Authors:

MV Garzelli, S Moch, O Zenaiev, Amanda Cooper-Sarkar, A Geiser, K Lipka, R Placakyte, G Sigl

Abstract:

Effects on atmospheric prompt neutrino fluxes of present uncertainties affecting the nucleon composition are studied by using the PROSA fit to parton distribution functions (PDFs). The PROSA fit extends the precision of the PDFs to low x, which is the kinematic region of relevance for high-energy neutrino production, by taking into account LHCb data on charm and bottom hadroproduction collected at the center-of-mass energy of s√=7 TeV. In the range of neutrino energies explored by present Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescopes, it is found that PDF uncertainties are far smaller with respect to those due to renormalization and factorization scale variation and to assumptions on the cosmic ray composition, which at present dominate and limit our knowledge of prompt neutrino fluxes. A discussion is presented on how these uncertainties affect the expected number of atmospheric prompt neutrino events in the analysis of high-energy events characterized by interaction vertices fully contained within the instrumented volume of the detector, performed by the IceCube collaboration.

Measurement of the D+-meson production cross section at low transverse momentum in pp¯ collisions at s=1.96 TeV

Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 95:9 (2017) 092006

Authors:

T Aaltonen, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, A Annovi, J Antos, G Apollinari, JA Appel, T Arisawa, A Artikov, J Asaadi, W Ashmanskas, B Auerbach, A Aurisano, F Azfar, W Badgett, T Bae, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, P Barria, P Bartos, M Bauce, F Bedeschi, S Behari, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, KR Bland, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, A Boveia, L Brigliadori, C Bromberg, E Brucken, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, P Butti, A Buzatu, A Calamba, S Camarda, M Campanelli, F Canelli, B Carls, D Carlsmith, R Carosi, S Carrillo, B Casal, M Casarsa, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, V Cavaliere, A Cerri, L Cerrito, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, K Cho, D Chokheli, A Clark, C Clarke, ME Convery, J Conway, M Corbo, M Cordelli, CA Cox, DJ Cox, M Cremonesi, D Cruz, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, N d’Ascenzo, M Datta, P de Barbaro, L Demortier, M Deninno, M D’Errico, F Devoto, A Di Canto, B Di Ruzza, JR Dittmann, S Donati, M D’Onofrio, M Dorigo, A Driutti, K Ebina, R Edgar, R Erbacher, S Errede, B Esham, S Farrington, JP Fernández Ramos, R Field, G Flanagan, R Forrest, M Franklin, JC Freeman, H Frisch, Y Funakoshi, C Galloni, AF Garfinkel, P Garosi, H Gerberich, E Gerchtein, S Giagu, V Giakoumopoulou, K Gibson, CM Ginsburg, N Giokaris, P Giromini, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, D Goldin, A Golossanov, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González López, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, E Gramellini, C Grosso-Pilcher, J Guimaraes da Costa, SR Hahn, JY Han, F Happacher, K Hara, M Hare, RF Harr, T Harrington-Taber, K Hatakeyama, C Hays, J Heinrich, M Herndon, A Hocker, Z Hong, W Hopkins, S Hou, RE Hughes, U Husemann, M Hussein, J Huston, G Introzzi, M Iori, A Ivanov, E James, D Jang, B Jayatilaka, EJ Jeon, S Jindariani, M Jones, KK Joo, SY Jun, TR Junk, M Kambeitz, T Kamon, PE Karchin, A Kasmi, Y Kato, W Ketchum, J Keung, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, SH Kim, SB Kim, YJ Kim, YK Kim, N Kimura, M Kirby, K Kondo, DJ Kong, J Konigsberg, AV Kotwal, M Kreps, J Kroll, M Kruse, T Kuhr, M Kurata, AT Laasanen, S Lammel, M Lancaster, K Lannon, G Latino, HS Lee, JS Lee, S Leo, S Leone, JD Lewis, A Limosani, E Lipeles, A Lister, Q Liu, T Liu, S Lockwitz, A Loginov, D Lucchesi, A Lucà, J Lueck, P Lujan, P Lukens, G Lungu, J Lys, R Lysak, R Madrak, P Maestro, S Malik, G Manca, A Manousakis-Katsikakis, L Marchese, F Margaroli, P Marino, K Matera, ME Mattson, A Mazzacane, P Mazzanti, R McNulty, A Mehta, P Mehtala, C Mesropian, T Miao, D Mietlicki, A Mitra, H Miyake, S Moed, N Moggi, CS Moon, R Moore, MJ Morello, A Mukherjee, Th Muller, P Murat, M Mussini, J Nachtman, Y Nagai, J Naganoma, I Nakano, A Napier, J Nett, T Nigmanov, L Nodulman, SY Noh, O Norniella, L Oakes, SH Oh, YD Oh, T Okusawa, R Orava, L Ortolan, C Pagliarone, E Palencia, P Palni, V Papadimitriou, W Parker, G Pauletta, M Paulini, C Paus, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, E Pianori, J Pilot, K Pitts, C Plager, L Pondrom, S Poprocki, K Potamianos, A Pranko, F Prokoshin, F Ptohos, G Punzi, I Redondo Fernández, P Renton, M Rescigno, F Rimondi, L Ristori, A Robson, T Rodriguez, S Rolli, M Ronzani, R Roser, JL Rosner, F Ruffini, A Ruiz, J Russ, V Rusu, WK Sakumoto, Y Sakurai, L Santi, K Sato, V Saveliev, A Savoy-Navarro, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, T Schwarz, L Scodellaro, F Scuri, S Seidel, Y Seiya, A Semenov, F Sforza, SZ Shalhout, T Shears, PF Shepard, M Shimojima, M Shochet, I Shreyber-Tecker, A Simonenko, K Sliwa, JR Smith, FD Snider, H Song, V Sorin, R St. Denis, M Stancari, D Stentz, J Strologas, Y Sudo, A Sukhanov, I Suslov, K Takemasa, Y Takeuchi, J Tang, M Tecchio, PK Teng, J Thom, E Thomson, V Thukral, D Toback, S Tokar, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, S Torre, D Torretta, P Totaro, M Trovato, F Ukegawa, S Uozumi, F Vázquez, G Velev, C Vellidis, C Vernieri, M Vidal, R Vilar, J Vizán, M Vogel, G Volpi, P Wagner, R Wallny, SM Wang, D Waters, WC Wester, D Whiteson, AB Wicklund, S Wilbur, HH Williams, JS Wilson, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittich, S Wolbers, H Wolfe, T Wright, X Wu, Z Wu, K Yamamoto, D Yamato, T Yang, UK Yang, YC Yang, W-M Yao, GP Yeh, K Yi, J Yoh, K Yorita, T Yoshida, GB Yu, I Yu, AM Zanetti, Y Zeng, C Zhou, S Zucchelli

Performance of the ATLAS trigger system in 2015.

European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields Springer 77:5 (2017) 317

Authors:

M Aaboud, G Aad, B Abbott, Giacomo Artoni, Moritz P Backes, Alan Barr, A Kathrin Becker, Lydia A Beresford, Daniela Bortoletto, Jonathan TP Burr, Amanda M Cooper-Sarkar, William J Fawcett, James A Frost, Elizabeth J Gallas, Francesco Giuli, Claire Gwenlan, Christopher P Hays, B Todd Huffman, Cigdem Issever, Jesse KK Liu, Luigi Marchese, Koichi Nagai, Michael E Nelson, Richard B Nickerson, Nurfikri bin Norjoharuddeen, Mariyan B Petrov, Ian PJ Shipsey, Jeffrey C-L Tseng, Georg HA Viehhauser, Luigi Vigani, Anthony R Weidberg

Abstract:

During 2015 the ATLAS experiment recorded 3.8 fb^−1 of proton–proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The ATLAS trigger system is a crucial component of the experiment, responsible for selecting events of interest at a recording rate of approximately 1 kHz from up to 40 MHz of collisions. This paper presents a short overview of the changes to the trigger and data acquisition systems during the first long shutdown of the LHCand shows the performance of the trigger system and its components based on the 2015 proton–proton collision data.