The TORCH time-of-flight detector for Upgrade II of the LHCb experiment

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment Elsevier 1069 (2024) 169797

Authors:

T Blake, F Cicala, T Conneely, D Cussans, A Davidson, C Frei, R Forty, R Gao, T Gershon, T Gys, T Hadavizadeh, T Hancock, Neville Harnew, T Jones, S Korpar, M Kreps, J Lappington, M Lehuraux, A Lowe, J Milnes, R Pestonik, D Piedigrossi, I Polyakov, J Rademacker, S Trilov, M Tat, E Walton, G Wilkinson, A York, L Zhu

Abstract:

The TORCH (Time Of internally Reflected Cherenkov light) detector is proposed for the high-luminosity Upgrade II of the LHCb experiment. The aim of TORCH is to measure time-of-flight with a 15 ps resolution per charged-particle, providing particle identification over the momentum range 2–15 GeV/c. TORCH is to be located approximately 9.5 m downstream of the LHCb interaction point, and comprises 18 modules of highly-polished 1 cm-thick quartz plates, each of 250×66cm2. Cherenkov photons, radiated in the quartz, are focused onto an array of fast-timing micro-channel-plate detectors (MCP-PMTs) that each have a pixelation of 8 × 64 within an active area of 5.3 × 5.3 cm2. Test-beam studies have previously shown that a timing resolution better than 100 ps per single photon can be achieved on a half-height module. Recent advances in the development of a 16 × 96 pixelated MCP-PMT are described. A full-height module is being developed with a light-weight carbon-fibre support structure. A novel exo-skeleton jigging system is used to bond the optical elements and support each module during installation.

First observation of Λb0→Σc(*)++D(*)-K- decays

Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 110:3 (2024) l031104

Authors:

R Aaij, ASW Abdelmotteleb, C Abellan Beteta, F Abudinén, T Ackernley, AA Adefisoye, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, P Adlarson, C Agapopoulou, CA Aidala, Z Ajaltouni, S Akar, K Akiba, P Albicocco, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, Z Aliouche, P Alvarez Cartelle, R Amalric, S Amato, JL Amey, Y Amhis, L An, L Anderlini, M Andersson, A Andreianov, P Andreola, M Andreotti, D Andreou, A Anelli, D Ao, F Archilli, M Argenton, S Arguedas Cuendis, A Artamonov, M Artuso, E Aslanides, M Atzeni, B Audurier, D Bacher, I Bachiller Perea, S Bachmann, M Bachmayer, JJ Back, P Baladron Rodriguez, V Balagura, W Baldini, J Baptista de Souza Leite, M Barbetti, IR Barbosa, RJ Barlow, S Barsuk, W Barter, M Bartolini, J Bartz, F Baryshnikov, JM Basels, G Bassi, B Batsukh, A Battig, A Bay, A Beck, M Becker, F Bedeschi, IB Bediaga, A Beiter, S Belin, V Bellee, K Belous, I Belov, I Belyaev, G Benane, G Bencivenni, E Ben-Haim, A Berezhnoy, R Bernet, S Bernet Andres, C Bertella, A Bertolin, C Betancourt, F Betti, J Bex, Ia Bezshyiko, J Bhom, MS Bieker, NV Biesuz, P Billoir, A Biolchini, M Birch, FCR Bishop, A Bitadze, A Bizzeti, T Blake, F Blanc, JE Blank, S Blusk, V Bocharnikov, JA Boelhauve, O Boente Garcia, T Boettcher, A Bohare, A Boldyrev, CS Bolognani, R Bolzonella, N Bondar, F Borgato, S Borghi, M Borsato, JT Borsuk, SA Bouchiba, TJV Bowcock, A Boyer, C Bozzi, MJ Bradley, A Brea Rodriguez, N Breer, J Brodzicka, A Brossa Gonzalo, J Brown, D Brundu, E Buchanan, 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, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, JI Cambon Bouzas, P Campana, DH Campora Perez, AF Campoverde Quezada, S Capelli, L Capriotti, R Caravaca-Mora, A Carbone, L Carcedo Salgado, R Cardinale, A Cardini, P Carniti, L Carus, A Casais Vidal, R Caspary, G Casse, J Castro Godinez, M Cattaneo, G Cavallero, V Cavallini, S Celani, J Cerasoli, D Cervenkov, S Cesare, AJ Chadwick, I Chahrour, M Charles, Ph Charpentier, CA Chavez Barajas, M Chefdeville, C Chen, S Chen, Z Chen, A Chernov, S Chernyshenko, V Chobanova, S Cholak, M Chrzaszcz, A Chubykin, V Chulikov, P Ciambrone, X Cid Vidal, G Ciezarek, P Cifra, PEL Clarke, M Clemencic, HV Cliff, J Closier, C Cocha Toapaxi, V Coco, J Cogan, E Cogneras, L Cojocariu, P Collins, T Colombo, A Comerma-Montells, L Congedo, A Contu, N Cooke, I Corredoira, A Correia, G Corti, JJ Cottee Meldrum, B Couturier, DC Craik, M Cruz Torres, E Curras Rivera, R Currie, CL Da Silva, S Dadabaev, L Dai, X Dai, E Dall’Occo, J Dalseno, C D’Ambrosio, J Daniel, A Danilina, P d’Argent, A Davidson, JE Davies, A Davis, O De Aguiar Francisco, C De Angelis, F De Benedetti, J de Boer, K De Bruyn, S De Capua, M De Cian, U De Freitas Carneiro Da Graca, E De Lucia, JM De Miranda, L De Paula, M De Serio, D De Simone, P De Simone, F De Vellis, JA de Vries, F Debernardis, D Decamp, V Dedu, L Del Buono, B Delaney, H-P Dembinski, J Deng, V Denysenko, O Deschamps, F Dettori, B Dey, P Di Nezza, I Diachkov, S Didenko, S Ding, L Dittmann, V Dobishuk, AD Docheva, A Dolmatov, C Dong, AM Donohoe, F Dordei, AC dos Reis, AD Dowling, AG Downes, W Duan, P Duda, MW Dudek, L Dufour, V Duk, P Durante, MM Duras, JM Durham, OD Durmus, A Dziurda, A Dzyuba, S Easo, E Eckstein, U Egede, A Egorychev, V Egorychev, S Eisenhardt, E Ejopu, S Ek-In, L Eklund, M Elashri, J Ellbracht, S Ely, A Ene, E Epple, S Escher, J Eschle, S Esen, T Evans, F Fabiano, LN Falcao, Y Fan, B Fang, L Fantini, M Faria, K Farmer, D Fazzini, L Felkowski, M Feng, M Feo, M Fernandez Gomez, AD Fernez, F Ferrari, F Ferreira Rodrigues, S Ferreres Sole, M Ferrillo, M Ferro-Luzzi, S Filippov, RA Fini, M Fiorini, KM Fischer, DS Fitzgerald, C Fitzpatrick, F Fleuret, M Fontana, LF Foreman, R Forty, D Foulds-Holt, M Franco Sevilla, M Frank, E Franzoso, G Frau, C Frei, DA Friday, J Fu, Q Fuehring, Y Fujii, T Fulghesu, E Gabriel, G Galati, MD Galati, A Gallas Torreira, D Galli, S Gambetta, M Gandelman, P Gandini, H Gao, R Gao, Y Gao, Y Gao, Y Gao, M Garau, LM Garcia Martin, P Garcia Moreno, J García Pardiñas, KG Garg, L Garrido, C Gaspar, RE Geertsema, LL Gerken, E Gersabeck, M Gersabeck, T Gershon, Z Ghorbanimoghaddam, L Giambastiani, FI Giasemis, V Gibson, HK Giemza, AL Gilman, M Giovannetti, A Gioventù, P Gironella Gironell, C Giugliano, MA Giza, EL Gkougkousis, FC Glaser, VV Gligorov, C Göbel, E Golobardes, D Golubkov, A Golutvin, A Gomes, S Gomez Fernandez, F Goncalves Abrantes, M Goncerz, G Gong, JA Gooding, IV Gorelov, C Gotti, JP Grabowski, LA Granado Cardoso, E Graugés, E Graverini, L Grazette, G Graziani, AT Grecu, LM Greeven, NA Grieser, L Grillo, S Gromov, C Gu, M Guarise, M Guittiere, V Guliaeva, PA Günther, A-K Guseinov, E Gushchin, Y Guz, T Gys, K Habermann, T Hadavizadeh, C Hadjivasiliou, G Haefeli, C Haen, J Haimberger, M Hajheidari, MM Halvorsen, PM Hamilton, J Hammerich, Q Han, X Han, S Hansmann-Menzemer, L Hao, N Harnew, T Harrison, M Hartmann, J He, K Heijhoff, F Hemmer, C Henderson, RDL Henderson, AM Hennequin, K Hennessy, L Henry, J Herd, P Herrero Gascon, J Heuel, A Hicheur, G Hijano Mendizabal, D Hill, SE Hollitt, J Horswill, R Hou, Y Hou, N Howarth, J Hu, J Hu, W Hu, X Hu, W Huang, W Hulsbergen, RJ Hunter, M Hushchyn, D Hutchcroft, D Ilin, P Ilten, A Inglessi, A Iniukhin, A Ishteev, K Ivshin, R Jacobsson, H Jage, SJ Jaimes Elles, S Jakobsen, E Jans, BK Jashal, A Jawahery, V Jevtic, E Jiang, X Jiang, Y Jiang, YJ Jiang, M John, D Johnson, CR Jones, TP Jones, S Joshi, B Jost, N Jurik, I Juszczak, D Kaminaris, S Kandybei, Y Kang, M Karacson, D Karpenkov, A Kauniskangas, JW Kautz, F Keizer, M Kenzie, T Ketel, B Khanji, A Kharisova, S Kholodenko, G Khreich, T Kirn, VS Kirsebom, O Kitouni, S Klaver, N Kleijne, K Klimaszewski, MR Kmiec, S Koliiev, L Kolk, A Konoplyannikov, P Kopciewicz, P Koppenburg, M Korolev, I Kostiuk, O Kot, S Kotriakhova, A Kozachuk, P Kravchenko, L Kravchuk, M Kreps, S Kretzschmar, P Krokovny, W Krupa, W Krzemien, J Kubat, S Kubis, W Kucewicz, M Kucharczyk, V Kudryavtsev, E Kulikova, A Kupsc, BK Kutsenko, D Lacarrere, A Lai, A Lampis, D Lancierini, C Landesa Gomez, JJ Lane, R Lane, C Langenbruch, J Langer, O Lantwin, T Latham, F Lazzari, C Lazzeroni, R Le Gac, R Lefèvre, A Leflat, S Legotin, M Lehuraux, E Lemos Cid, O Leroy, T Lesiak, B Leverington, A Li, H Li, K Li, L Li, P Li, P-R Li, S Li, T Li, T Li, Y Li, Y Li, Z Li, Z Lian, X Liang, S Libralon, C Lin, T Lin, R Lindner, V Lisovskyi, R Litvinov, FL Liu, G Liu, K Liu, Q Liu, S Liu, Y Liu, Y Liu, YL Liu, A Lobo Salvia, A Loi, J Lomba Castro, T Long, JH Lopes, A Lopez Huertas, S López Soliño, GH Lovell, C Lucarelli, D Lucchesi, S Luchuk, M Lucio Martinez, V Lukashenko, Y Luo, A Lupato, E Luppi, K Lynch, X-R Lyu, G M., R Ma, S Maccolini, F Machefert, F Maciuc, BM Mack, I Mackay, LM Mackey, LR Madhan Mohan, MM Madurai, A Maevskiy, D Magdalinski, D Maisuzenko, MW Majewski, JJ Malczewski, S Malde, B Malecki, L Malentacca, A Malinin, T Maltsev, G Manca, G Mancinelli, C Mancuso, R Manera Escalero, D Manuzzi, D Marangotto, JF Marchand, R Marchevski, U Marconi, S Mariani, C Marin Benito, 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, P Mayencourt, M Mazurek, M McCann, L Mcconnell, TH McGrath, NT McHugh, A McNab, R McNulty, B Meadows, G Meier, D Melnychuk, M Merk, A Merli, L Meyer Garcia, D Miao, H Miao, M Mikhasenko, DA Milanes, A Minotti, E Minucci, T Miralles, B Mitreska, DS Mitzel, A Modak, A Mödden, RA Mohammed, RD Moise, S Mokhnenko, T Mombächer, M Monk, S Monteil, A Morcillo Gomez, G Morello, MJ Morello, MP Morgenthaler, AB Morris, AG Morris, R Mountain, H Mu, ZM Mu, E Muhammad, F Muheim, M Mulder, K Müller, F Muñoz-Rojas, R Murta, P Naik, T Nakada, R Nandakumar, T Nanut, I Nasteva, M Needham, N Neri, S Neubert, N Neufeld, P Neustroev, J Nicolini, D 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Observation of strangeness enhancement with charmed mesons in high-multiplicity pPb collisions at sNN=8.16 TeV

Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 110:3 (2024) l031105

Authors:

R Aaij, ASW Abdelmotteleb, C Abellan Beteta, F Abudinén, T Ackernley, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, P Adlarson, H Afsharnia, C Agapopoulou, CA Aidala, Z Ajaltouni, S Akar, K Akiba, P Albicocco, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, A Alfonso Albero, Z Aliouche, P Alvarez Cartelle, R Amalric, S Amato, JL Amey, Y Amhis, L An, L Anderlini, M Andersson, A Andreianov, P Andreola, M Andreotti, D Andreou, D Ao, F Archilli, S Arguedas Cuendis, A Artamonov, M Artuso, E Aslanides, M Atzeni, B Audurier, D Bacher, I Bachiller Perea, S Bachmann, M Bachmayer, JJ Back, A Bailly-reyre, P Baladron Rodriguez, V Balagura, W Baldini, J Baptista de Souza Leite, M Barbetti, IR Barbosa, RJ Barlow, S Barsuk, W Barter, M Bartolini, F Baryshnikov, JM Basels, G Bassi, B Batsukh, A Battig, A Bay, A Beck, M Becker, F Bedeschi, IB Bediaga, A Beiter, S Belin, V Bellee, K Belous, I Belov, I Belyaev, G Benane, G Bencivenni, E Ben-Haim, A Berezhnoy, R Bernet, S Bernet Andres, D Berninghoff, HC Bernstein, C Bertella, A Bertolin, C Betancourt, F Betti, J Bex, Ia Bezshyiko, J Bhom, L Bian, MS Bieker, NV Biesuz, P Billoir, A Biolchini, M Birch, FCR Bishop, A Bitadze, A Bizzeti, MP Blago, T Blake, F Blanc, JE Blank, S Blusk, D Bobulska, V Bocharnikov, JA Boelhauve, O Boente Garcia, T Boettcher, A Bohare, A Boldyrev, CS Bolognani, R Bolzonella, N Bondar, F Borgato, S Borghi, M Borsato, JT Borsuk, SA Bouchiba, TJV Bowcock, A Boyer, C Bozzi, MJ Bradley, S Braun, A Brea Rodriguez, N Breer, J Brodzicka, A Brossa Gonzalo, J Brown, 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, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, J Cambon Bouzas, P Campana, DH Campora Perez, AF Campoverde Quezada, S Capelli, L Capriotti, A Carbone, L Carcedo Salgado, R Cardinale, A Cardini, P Carniti, L Carus, A Casais Vidal, R Caspary, G Casse, J Castro Godinez, M Cattaneo, G Cavallero, V Cavallini, S Celani, J Cerasoli, D Cervenkov, S Cesare, AJ Chadwick, I Chahrour, MG Chapman, M Charles, Ph Charpentier, CA Chavez Barajas, M Chefdeville, C Chen, S Chen, A Chernov, S Chernyshenko, V Chobanova, S Cholak, M Chrzaszcz, A Chubykin, V Chulikov, P Ciambrone, MF Cicala, X Cid Vidal, G Ciezarek, P Cifra, PEL Clarke, M Clemencic, HV Cliff, J Closier, JL Cobbledick, C Cocha Toapaxi, V Coco, J Cogan, E Cogneras, L Cojocariu, P Collins, T Colombo, A Comerma-Montells, L Congedo, A Contu, N Cooke, I Corredoira, A Correia, G Corti, JJ Cottee Meldrum, B Couturier, DC Craik, M Cruz Torres, R Currie, CL Da Silva, S Dadabaev, L Dai, X Dai, E Dall’Occo, J Dalseno, C D’Ambrosio, J Daniel, A Danilina, P d’Argent, A Davidson, JE Davies, A Davis, O De Aguiar Francisco, C De Angelis, J de Boer, K De Bruyn, S De Capua, M De Cian, U De Freitas Carneiro Da Graca, E De Lucia, JM De Miranda, L De Paula, M De Serio, D De Simone, P De Simone, F De Vellis, JA de Vries, F Debernardis, D Decamp, V Dedu, L Del Buono, B Delaney, H-P Dembinski, J Deng, V Denysenko, O Deschamps, F Dettori, B Dey, P Di Nezza, I Diachkov, S Didenko, S Ding, V Dobishuk, AD Docheva, A Dolmatov, C Dong, AM Donohoe, F Dordei, AC dos Reis, L Douglas, AG Downes, W Duan, P Duda, MW Dudek, L Dufour, V Duk, P Durante, MM Duras, JM Durham, D Dutta, A Dziurda, A Dzyuba, S Easo, E Eckstein, U Egede, A Egorychev, V Egorychev, C Eirea Orro, S Eisenhardt, E Ejopu, S Ek-In, L Eklund, M Elashri, J Ellbracht, S Ely, A Ene, E Epple, S Escher, J Eschle, S Esen, T Evans, F Fabiano, LN Falcao, Y Fan, B Fang, L Fantini, M Faria, K Farmer, D Fazzini, L Felkowski, M Feng, M Feo, M Fernandez Gomez, AD Fernez, F Ferrari, 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, F Fleuret, M Fontana, F Fontanelli, LF Foreman, R Forty, D Foulds-Holt, M Franco Sevilla, M Frank, E Franzoso, G Frau, C Frei, DA Friday, L Frontini, J Fu, Q Fuehring, Y Fujii, T Fulghesu, E Gabriel, G 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Search for prompt production of pentaquarks in charm hadron final states

Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 110:3 (2024) 032001

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R Aaij, ASW Abdelmotteleb, C Abellan Beteta, F Abudinén, T Ackernley, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, P Adlarson, H Afsharnia, C Agapopoulou, CA Aidala, Z Ajaltouni, S Akar, K Akiba, P Albicocco, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, A Alfonso Albero, Z Aliouche, P Alvarez Cartelle, R Amalric, S Amato, JL Amey, Y Amhis, L An, L Anderlini, M Andersson, A Andreianov, P Andreola, M Andreotti, D Andreou, D Ao, F Archilli, S Arguedas Cuendis, A Artamonov, M Artuso, E Aslanides, M Atzeni, B Audurier, D Bacher, I Bachiller Perea, S Bachmann, M Bachmayer, JJ Back, A Bailly-reyre, P Baladron Rodriguez, V Balagura, W Baldini, J Baptista de Souza Leite, M Barbetti, IR Barbosa, RJ Barlow, S Barsuk, W Barter, M Bartolini, F Baryshnikov, JM Basels, G Bassi, B Batsukh, A Battig, A Bay, A Beck, M Becker, F Bedeschi, IB Bediaga, A Beiter, S Belin, V Bellee, K Belous, I Belov, I Belyaev, G Benane, G Bencivenni, E Ben-Haim, A Berezhnoy, R Bernet, S Bernet Andres, D Berninghoff, HC Bernstein, C Bertella, A Bertolin, C 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Tracking of charged particles with nanosecond lifetimes at LHCb

The European Physical Journal C SpringerOpen 84:7 (2024) 761

Authors:

R Aaij, ASW Abdelmotteleb, C Abellan Beteta, F Abudinén, T Ackernley, JA Adams, AA Adefisoye, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, P Adlarson, C Agapopoulou, CA Aidala, Z Ajaltouni, S Akar, K Akiba, P Albicocco, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, Z Aliouche, P Alvarez Cartelle, R Amalric, S Amato, JL Amey, D Bacher

Abstract:

A method is presented to reconstruct charged particles with lifetimes between 10ps and 10ns, which considers a combination of their decay products and the partial tracks created by the initial charged particle. Using the Ξ- baryon as a benchmark, the method is demonstrated with simulated events and proton-proton collision data at s=13TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.0fb-1 collected with the LHCb detector in 2018. Significant improvements in the angular resolution and the signal purity are obtained. The method is implemented as part of the LHCb Run 3 event trigger in a set of requirements to select detached hyperons. This is the first demonstration of the applicability of this approach at the LHC, and the first to show its scaling with instantaneous luminosity.