Cross section measurements of the processes e+e− → ωπ0 and ωη at center-of-mass energies between 3.773 and 4.701 GeV

Journal of High Energy Physics Springer 2022:7 (2022) 64

Authors:

M Ablikim, MN Achasov, P Adlarson, S Ahmed, M Albrecht, R Aliberti, A Amoroso, MR An, Q An, XH Bai, Y Bai, O Bakina, R Baldini Ferroli, I Balossino, Y Ban, V Batozskaya, D Becker, K Begzsuren, N Berger, M Bertani, D Bettoni, F Bianchi, J Bloms, A Bortone, I Boyko, RA Briere, H Cai, X Cai, A Calcaterra, GF Cao, N Cao, SA Cetin, JF Chang, WL Chang, G Chelkov, C Chen, G Chen, HS Chen, ML Chen, SJ Chen, T Chen, XR Chen, XT Chen, YB Chen, ZJ Chen, WS Cheng, G Cibinetto, F Cossio, JJ Cui, XF Cui

Abstract:

A summary of results in heavy flavour physics from Run 1 of the LHC is presented. Topics discussed include spectroscopy, mixing, CP violation and rare decays of charmed and beauty hadrons.Comment: 25 pages, 9 figures (total 17 subfigures). Invited review for Comptes Rendus de Physique de l'Academie des Science

Measurement of e+e− → K+K−π0 cross section and observation of a resonant structure

Journal of High Energy Physics Springer 2022:7 (2022) 45

Authors:

M Ablikim, MN Achasov, P Adlarson, S Ahmed, M Albrecht, R Aliberti, A Amoroso, MR An, Q An, XH Bai, Y Bai, O Bakina, R Baldini Ferroli, I Balossino, Y Ban, V Batozskaya, D Becker, K Begzsuren, N Berger, M Bertani, D Bettoni, F Bianchi, J Bloms, A Bortone, I Boyko, RA Briere, H Cai, X Cai, A Calcaterra, GF Cao, N Cao, SA Cetin, JF Chang, WL Chang, G Chelkov, C Chen, G Chen, HS Chen, ML Chen, SJ Chen, T Chen, XR Chen, XT Chen, YB Chen, ZJ Chen, WS Cheng, G Cibinetto, F Cossio, JJ Cui, XF Cui

Abstract:

We consider the effect of gluon condensation on the holographic entanglement entropy, which can be regarded as an order parameter of deconfinement phase transition, in a holographic model at zero and finite temperature. At zero temperature, it is found that phase transition can occur at critical length for small gluon condensation. With the increase of gluon condensation, the critical length becomes small which means the phase transition is easy to occur. The difference of entanglement entropy between the connected and disconnected surfaces is always negative at large gluon condensation, which indicates no phase transition can occur in the deconfined phase as the subsystem size varies. These results show that the gluon condensation is related to the phase transition and contributes to deconfinement. At finite temperature, we can see that the difference of the entanglement entropy is also always negative and the system is always deconfined for vanishing and non-vanishing gluon condensation in this model. These results confirm that the difference of entanglement entropy is a useful probe to detect whether a system is in the confinement or deconfinement phase

Amplitude analysis and branching fraction measurement of Ds+→ K−K+π+π+π−

Journal of High Energy Physics Springer Nature 2022:7 (2022) 51

Authors:

M Ablikim, MN Achasov, P Adlarson, S Ahmed, M Albrecht, R Aliberti, A Amoroso, MR An, Q An, XH Bai, Y Bai, O Bakina, R Baldini Ferroli, I Balossino, Y Ban, K Begzsuren, N Berger, M Bertani, D Bettoni, F Bianchi, J Bloms, A Bortone, I Boyko, RA Briere, H Cai, X Cai, A Calcaterra, GF Cao, N Cao, SA Cetin, JF Chang, WL Chang, G Chelkov, DY Chen, G Chen, HS Chen, ML Chen, SJ Chen, XR Chen, YB Chen, ZJ Chen, WS Cheng, G Cibinetto, F Cossio, XF Cui, HL Dai, XC Dai, A Dbeyssi, RE de Boer, D Dedovich, ZY Deng, A Denig, I Denysenko, M Destefanis, F De Mori, Y Ding, C Dong, J Dong, LY Dong, MY Dong, X Dong, SX Du, YL Fan, J Fang, SS Fang, Y Fang, R Farinelli, L Fava, F Feldbauer, G Felici, CQ Feng, JH Feng, M Fritsch, CD Fu, Y Gao, Y Gao, Y Gao, YG Gao, I Garzia, PT Ge, C Geng, EM Gersabeck, A Gilman, K Goetzen, L Gong, WX Gong, W Gradl, M Greco, LM Gu, MH Gu, S Gu, YT Gu, CY Guan, AQ Guo, LB Guo, RP Guo, YP Guo, A Guskov, TT Han, WY Han, XQ Hao, FA Harris, KL He, FH Heinsius, CH Heinz, T Held, YK Heng, C Herold, M Himmelreich, T Holtmann, GY Hou, YR Hou, ZL Hou, HM Hu, JF Hu, T Hu, Y Hu, GS Huang, LQ Huang, XT Huang, YP Huang, Z Huang, T Hussain, N Hüsken, W Ikegami Andersson, W Imoehl, M Irshad, S Jaeger, S Janchiv, Q Ji, QP Ji, XB Ji, XL Ji, YY Ji, HB Jiang, XS Jiang, JB Jiao, Z Jiao, S Jin, Y Jin, MQ Jing, T Johansson, N Kalantar-Nayestanaki, XS Kang, R Kappert, M Kavatsyuk, BC Ke, IK Keshk, A Khoukaz, P Kiese, R Kiuchi, R Kliemt, L Koch, OB Kolcu, B Kopf, M Kuemmel, M Kuessner, A Kupsc, MG Kurth, W Kühn, JJ Lane, JS Lange, P Larin, A Lavania, L Lavezzi, ZH Lei, H Leithoff, M Lellmann, T Lenz, C Li, CH Li, Cheng Li, DM Li, F Li, G Li, H Li, H Li, HB Li, HJ Li, JL Li, JQ Li, JS Li, Ke Li, LK Li, Lei Li, PR Li, SY Li, WD Li, WG Li, XH Li, XL Li, Xiaoyu Li, ZY Li, H Liang, H Liang, H Liang, YF Liang, YT Liang, GR Liao, LZ Liao, J Libby, CX Lin, BJ Liu, CX Liu, D Liu, FH Liu, Fang Liu, Feng Liu, HB Liu, HM Liu, Huanhuan Liu, Huihui Liu, JB Liu, JL Liu, JY Liu, K Liu, KY Liu, L Liu, MH Liu, PL Liu, Q Liu, Q Liu, SB Liu, Shuai Liu, T Liu, WM Liu, X Liu, Y Liu, YB Liu, ZA Liu, ZQ Liu, XC Lou, FX Lu, HJ Lu, JD Lu, JG Lu, XL Lu, Y Lu, YP Lu, CL Luo, MX Luo, PW Luo, T Luo, XL Luo, XR Lyu, FC Ma, HL Ma, LL Ma, MM Ma, QM Ma, RQ Ma, RT Ma, XX Ma, XY Ma, FE Maas, M Maggiora, S Maldaner, S Malde, QA Malik, A Mangoni, YJ Mao, ZP Mao, S Marcello, ZX Meng, JG Messchendorp, G Mezzadri, TJ Min, RE Mitchell, XH Mo, YJ Mo, N Yu Muchnoi, H Muramatsu, S Nakhoul, Y Nefedov, F Nerling, IB Nikolaev, Z Ning, S Nisar, SL Olsen, Q Ouyang, S Pacetti, X Pan, Y Pan, A Pathak, A Pathak, P Patteri, M Pelizaeus, HP Peng, K Peters, J Pettersson, JL Ping, RG Ping, R Poling, V Prasad, H Qi, HR Qi, KH Qi, M Qi, TY Qi, S Qian, WB Qian, Z Qian, CF Qiao, LQ Qin, XP Qin, XS Qin, ZH Qin, JF Qiu, SQ Qu, KH Rashid, K Ravindran, CF Redmer, A Rivetti, V Rodin, M Rolo, G Rong, Ch Rosner, M Rump, HS Sang, A Sarantsev, Y Schelhaas, C Schnier, K Schoenning, M Scodeggio, DC Shan, W Shan, XY Shan, JF Shangguan, M Shao, CP Shen, HF Shen, PX Shen, XY Shen, HC Shi, RS Shi, X Shi, XD Shi, JJ Song, WM Song, YX Song, S Sosio, S Spataro, KX Su, PP Su, FF Sui, GX Sun, HK Sun, JF Sun, L Sun, SS Sun, T Sun, WY Sun, WY Sun, X Sun, YJ Sun, YK Sun, YZ Sun, ZT Sun, YH Tan, YX Tan, CJ Tang, GY Tang, J Tang, JX Teng, V Thoren, WH Tian, YT Tian, I Uman, B Wang, CW Wang, DY Wang, HJ Wang, HP Wang, K Wang, LL Wang, M Wang, MZ Wang, Meng Wang, W Wang, WH Wang, WP Wang, X Wang, XF Wang, XL Wang, Y Wang, Y Wang, YD Wang, YF Wang, YQ Wang, YY Wang, Z Wang, ZY Wang, Ziyi Wang, Zongyuan Wang, DH Wei, F Weidner, SP Wen, DJ White, U Wiedner, G Wilkinson, M Wolke, L Wollenberg, JF Wu, LH Wu, LJ Wu, X Wu, Z Wu, L Xia, H Xiao, SY Xiao, ZJ Xiao, XH Xie, YG Xie, YH Xie, TY Xing, GF Xu, QJ Xu, W Xu, XP Xu, YC Xu, F Yan, L Yan, WB Yan, WC Yan, Xu Yan, HJ Yang, HX Yang, L Yang, SL Yang, YX Yang, Yifan Yang, Zhi Yang, M Ye, MH Ye, JH Yin, ZY You, BX Yu, CX Yu, G Yu, JS Yu, T Yu, CZ Yuan, L Yuan, XQ Yuan, Y Yuan, ZY Yuan, CX Yue, AA Zafar, X Zeng, Y Zeng, AQ Zhang, BX Zhang, Guangyi Zhang, H Zhang, HH Zhang, HH Zhang, HY Zhang, JJ Zhang, JL Zhang, JQ Zhang, JW Zhang, JY Zhang, JZ Zhang, Jianyu Zhang, Jiawei Zhang, LM Zhang, LQ Zhang, Lei Zhang, S Zhang, SF Zhang, Shulei Zhang, XD Zhang, XY Zhang, Y Zhang, YT Zhang, YH Zhang, Yan Zhang, Yao Zhang, ZH Zhang, ZY Zhang, G Zhao, J Zhao, JY Zhao, JZ Zhao, Lei Zhao, Ling Zhao, MG Zhao, Q Zhao, SJ Zhao, YB Zhao, YX Zhao, ZG Zhao, A Zhemchugov, B Zheng, JP Zheng, Y Zheng, YH Zheng, B Zhong, C Zhong, LP Zhou, Q Zhou, X Zhou, XK Zhou, XR Zhou, XY Zhou, AN Zhu, J Zhu, K Zhu, KJ Zhu, SH Zhu, TJ Zhu, WJ Zhu, WJ Zhu, XY Zhu, YC Zhu, ZA Zhu, BS Zou, JH Zou

Precision measurement of forward Z boson production in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV

Journal of High Energy Physics Springer Nature 2022:7 (2022) 26

Authors:

R Aaij, ASW Abdelmotteleb, C Abellán Beteta, F Abudinén, T Ackernley, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, H Afsharnia, C Agapopoulou, CA Aidala, S Aiola, Z Ajaltouni, S Akar, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, A Alfonso Albero, Z Aliouche, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, S Amato, JL Amey, Y Amhis, L An, L Anderlini, M Andersson, A Andreianov, M Andreotti, F Archilli, A Artamonov, M Artuso, K Arzymatov, E Aslanides, M Atzeni, B Audurier, S Bachmann, M Bachmayer, JJ Back, P Baladron Rodriguez, V Balagura, W Baldini, J Baptista de Souza Leite, M Barbetti, RJ Barlow, S Barsuk, W Barter, M Bartolini, F Baryshnikov, JM Basels, S Bashir, G Bassi, B Batsukh, A Battig, A Bay, A Beck, M Becker, F Bedeschi, I Bediaga, A Beiter, V Belavin, S Belin, V Bellee, K Belous, I Belov, I Belyaev, G Bencivenni, E Ben-Haim, A Berezhnoy, R Bernet, D Berninghoff, HC Bernstein, C Bertella, A Bertolin, C Betancourt, F Betti, I Bezshyiko, S Bhasin, J Bhom, L Bian, MS Bieker, NV Biesuz, S Bifani, P Billoir, A Biolchini, M Birch, FCR Bishop, A Bitadze, A Bizzeti, M Bjørn, MP Blago, T Blake, F Blanc, S Blusk, D Bobulska, JA Boelhauve, O Boente Garcia, T Boettcher, A Boldyrev, A Bondar, N Bondar, S Borghi, M Borisyak, M Borsato, JT Borsuk, SA Bouchiba, TJV Bowcock, A Boyer, C Bozzi, MJ Bradley, S Braun, A Brea Rodriguez, J Brodzicka, A Brossa Gonzalo, D Brundu, A Buonaura, L Buonincontri, AT Burke, C Burr, A Bursche, A Butkevich, JS Butter, J Buytaert, W Byczynski, S Cadeddu, H Cai, R Calabrese, L Calefice, S Cali, R Calladine, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, P Camargo Magalhaes, P Campana, AF Campoverde Quezada, S Capelli, L Capriotti, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, I Carli, P Carniti, L Carus, K Carvalho Akiba, A Casais Vidal, R Caspary, G Casse, M Cattaneo, G Cavallero, S Celani, J Cerasoli, D Cervenkov, AJ Chadwick, MG Chapman, M Charles, P Charpentier, G Chatzikonstantinidis, CA Chavez Barajas, M Chefdeville, C Chen, S Chen, A Chernov, V Chobanova, S Cholak, M Chrzaszcz, A Chubykin, V Chulikov, P Ciambrone, MF Cicala, X Cid Vidal, G Ciezarek, PEL Clarke, M Clemencic, HV Cliff, J Closier, JL Cobbledick, V Coco, JAB Coelho, J Cogan, E Cogneras, L Cojocariu, P Collins, T Colombo, L Congedo, A Contu, N Cooke, G Coombs, I Corredoira, G Corti, CM Costa Sobral, B Couturier, DC Craik, J Crkovská, M Cruz Torres, R Currie, CL Da Silva, S Dadabaev, L Dai, E Dall’Occo, J Dalseno, C D’Ambrosio, A Danilina, P d’Argent, A Dashkina, JE Davies, A Davis, O De Aguiar Francisco, K De Bruyn, S De Capua, M De Cian, E De Lucia, JM De Miranda, L De Paula, M De Serio, D De Simone, P De Simone, F De Vellis, JA de Vries, CT Dean, F Debernardis, D Decamp, V Dedu, L Del Buono, B Delaney, H-P Dembinski, A Dendek, V Denysenko, D Derkach, O Deschamps, F Desse, F Dettori, B Dey, A Di Cicco, P Di Nezza, S Didenko, L Dieste Maronas, H Dijkstra, V Dobishuk, C Dong, AM Donohoe, F Dordei, AC dos Reis, L Douglas, A Dovbnya, AG Downes, MW Dudek, L Dufour, V Duk, P Durante, JM Durham, D Dutta, A Dziurda, A Dzyuba, S Easo, U Egede, V Egorychev, S Eidelman, S Eisenhardt, S Ek-In, L Eklund, S Ely, A Ene, E Epple, S Escher, J Eschle, S Esen, T Evans, LN Falcao, Y Fan, B Fang, S Farry, D Fazzini, M Féo, A Fernandez Prieto, AD Fernez, F Ferrari, L Ferreira Lopes, F Ferreira Rodrigues, S Ferreres Sole, M Ferrillo, M Ferro-Luzzi, S Filippov, RA Fini, M Fiorini, M Firlej, KM Fischer, DS Fitzgerald, C Fitzpatrick, T Fiutowski, A Fkiaras, F Fleuret, M Fontana, F Fontanelli, R Forty, D Foulds-Holt, V Franco Lima, M Franco Sevilla, M Frank, E Franzoso, G Frau, C Frei, DA Friday, J Fu, Q Fuehring, E Gabriel, G Galati, A Gallas Torreira, D Galli, S Gambetta, Y Gan, M Gandelman, P Gandini, Y Gao, M Garau, LM Garcia Martin, P Garcia Moreno, J García Pardiñas, B Garcia Plana, FA Garcia Rosales, L Garrido, C Gaspar, RE Geertsema, D Gerick, LL Gerken, E Gersabeck, M Gersabeck, T Gershon, D Gerstel, L Giambastiani, V Gibson, HK Giemza, AL Gilman, M Giovannetti, A Gioventù, P Gironella Gironell, C Giugliano, K Gizdov, EL Gkougkousis, VV Gligorov, C Göbel, E Golobardes, D Golubkov, A Golutvin, A Gomes, S Gomez Fernandez, F Goncalves Abrantes, M Goncerz, G Gong, P Gorbounov, IV Gorelov, C Gotti, E Govorkova, JP Grabowski, T Grammatico, LA Granado Cardoso, E Graugés, E Graverini, G Graziani, A Grecu, LM Greeven, NA Grieser, L Grillo, S Gromov, BR Gruberg Cazon, C Gu, M Guarise, M Guittiere, PA Günther, E Gushchin, A Guth, Y Guz, T Gys, T Hadavizadeh, G Haefeli, C Haen, J Haimberger, T Halewood-leagas, PM Hamilton, JP Hammerich, Q Han, X Han, TH Hancock, EB Hansen, S Hansmann-Menzemer, N Harnew, T Harrison, C Hasse, M Hatch, J He, M Hecker, K Heijhoff, K Heinicke, RDL Henderson, AM Hennequin, K Hennessy, L Henry, J Heuel, A Hicheur, D Hill, M Hilton, SE Hollitt, R Hou, Y Hou, J Hu, J Hu, W Hu, X Hu, W Huang, X Huang, W Hulsbergen, RJ Hunter, M Hushchyn, D Hutchcroft, D Hynds, P Ibis, M Idzik, D Ilin, P Ilten, A Inglessi, A Ishteev, K Ivshin, R Jacobsson, H Jage, S Jakobsen, E Jans, BK Jashal, A Jawahery, V Jevtic, X Jiang, M John, D Johnson, CR Jones, TP Jones, B Jost, N Jurik, SH Kalavan Kadavath, S Kandybei, Y Kang, M Karacson, M Karpov, JW Kautz, F Keizer, DM Keller, M Kenzie, T Ketel, B Khanji, A Kharisova, S Kholodenko, T Kirn, VS Kirsebom, O Kitouni, S Klaver, N Kleijne, K Klimaszewski, MR Kmiec, S Koliiev, A Kondybayeva, A Konoplyannikov, P Kopciewicz, R Kopecna, P Koppenburg, M Korolev, I Kostiuk, O Kot, S Kotriakhova, P Kravchenko, L Kravchuk, RD Krawczyk, M Kreps, F Kress, S Kretzschmar, P Krokovny, W Krupa, W Krzemien, J Kubat, M Kucharczyk, V Kudryavtsev, HS Kuindersma, GJ Kunde, T Kvaratskheliya, D Lacarrere, G Lafferty, A Lai, A Lampis, D Lancierini, JJ Lane, R Lane, G Lanfranchi, C Langenbruch, J Langer, O Lantwin, T Latham, F Lazzari, R Le Gac, SH Lee, R Lefèvre, A Leflat, S Legotin, O Leroy, T Lesiak, B Leverington, H Li, P Li, S Li, Y Li, Y Li, Z Li, X Liang, T Lin, R Lindner, V Lisovskyi, R Litvinov, G Liu, H Liu, Q Liu, S Liu, A Lobo Salvia, A Loi, J Lomba Castro, I Longstaff, JH Lopes, S López Soliño, GH Lovell, Y Lu, C Lucarelli, D Lucchesi, S Luchuk, M Lucio Martinez, V Lukashenko, Y Luo, A Lupato, E Luppi, O Lupton, A Lusiani, X Lyu, L Ma, R Ma, S Maccolini, F Machefert, F Maciuc, V Macko, P Mackowiak, S Maddrell-Mander, O Madejczyk, LR Madhan Mohan, O Maev, A Maevskiy, MW Majewski, JJ Malczewski, S Malde, B Malecki, A Malinin, T Maltsev, H Malygina, G Manca, G Mancinelli, D Manuzzi, D Marangotto, J Maratas, JF Marchand, U Marconi, S Mariani, C Marin Benito, M Marinangeli, J Marks, AM Marshall, PJ Marshall, G Martelli, G Martellotti, L Martinazzoli, M Martinelli, D Martinez Santos, F Martinez Vidal, A Massafferri, M Materok, R Matev, A Mathad, V Matiunin, C Matteuzzi, KR Mattioli, A Mauri, E Maurice, J Mauricio, M Mazurek, M McCann, L Mcconnell, TH Mcgrath, NT Mchugh, A McNab, R McNulty, JV Mead, B Meadows, G Meier, D Melnychuk, S Meloni, M Merk, A Merli, L Meyer Garcia, M Mikhasenko, DA Milanes, E Millard, M Milovanovic, M-N Minard, A Minotti, L Minzoni, SE Mitchell, B Mitreska, DS Mitzel, A Mödden, RA Mohammed, RD Moise, S Mokhnenko, T Mombächer, IA Monroy, S Monteil, M Morandin, G Morello, MJ Morello, J Moron, AB Morris, AG Morris, R Mountain, H Mu, F Muheim, M Mulder, D Müller, K Müller, CH Murphy, D Murray, R Murta, P Muzzetto, P Naik, T Nakada, R Nandakumar, T Nanut, I Nasteva, M Needham, N Neri, S Neubert, N Neufeld, R Newcombe, EM Niel, S Nieswand, N Nikitin, NS Nolte, C Normand, C Nunez, A Oblakowska-Mucha, V Obraztsov, T Oeser, DP O’Hanlon, S Okamura, R Oldeman, F Oliva, ME Olivares, CJG Onderwater, RH O’Neil, JM Otalora Goicochea, T Ovsiannikova, P Owen, A Oyanguren, KO Padeken, B Pagare, PR Pais, T Pajero, A Palano, M Palutan, Y Pan, G Panshin, A Papanestis, M Pappagallo, LL Pappalardo, C Pappenheimer, W Parker, C Parkes, B Passalacqua, G Passaleva, A Pastore, M Patel, C Patrignani, CJ Pawley, A Pearce, A Pellegrino, M Pepe Altarelli, S Perazzini, D Pereima, A Pereiro Castro, P Perret, M Petric, K 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Observation of an exotic narrow doubly charmed tetraquark

Nature Physics Nature Research 18:7 (2022) 751-754

Authors:

R Aaij, ASW Abdelmotteleb, C Abellán Beteta, FJ Abudinen Gallego, T Ackernley, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, H Afsharnia, C Agapopoulou, CA Aidala, S Aiola, Z Ajaltouni, S Akar, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, A Alfonso Albero, Z Aliouche, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, S Amato, JL Amey, Y Amhis, L An, L Anderlini

Abstract:

Conventional, hadronic matter consists of baryons and mesons made of three quarks and a quark-antiquark pair, respectively(1,2). Here, we report the observation of a hadronic state containing four quarks in the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment. This so-called tetraquark contains two charm quarks, a (u) over bar and a (d) over tilde quark. This exotic state has a mass of approximately 3,875 MeV and manifests as a narrow peak in the mass spectrum of (DD0)-D-0 pi(+) mesons just below the D*D-+(0) mass threshold. The near-threshold mass together with the narrow width reveals the resonance nature of the state