Measuring CP violation and mixing in charm with inclusive self-conjugate multibody decay modes

Physical Review D American Physical Society 91:9 (2015) ARTN 094032

Authors:

Sneha Malde, C Thomas, Guy Wilkinson

Abstract:

Time-dependent studies of inclusive charm decays to multibody self-conjugate final states can be used to determine the indirect CP-violating observable AΓ and the mixing observable yCP, provided that the fractional CP-even content of the final state, F+, is known. This approach can yield significantly improved sensitivity compared with the conventional method that relies on decays to CP eigenstates. In particular, D→π+π−π0 appears to be an especially powerful channel, given its relatively large branching fraction and the high value of F+ that has recently been measured at charm threshold

Measurement of the forward $Z$ boson production cross-section in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV

(2015)

Authors:

LHCb collaboration, R Aaij, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, A Affolder, 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, J Anderson, M Andreotti, JE Andrews, RB Appleby, O Aquines Gutierrez, F Archilli, P d'Argent, A Artamonov, M Artuso, E Aslanides, G Auriemma, M Baalouch, S Bachmann, JJ Back, A Badalov, C Baesso, W Baldini, RJ Barlow, C Barschel, S Barsuk, W Barter, V Batozskaya, V Battista, A Bay, L Beaucourt, J Beddow, F Bedeschi, I Bediaga, LJ Bel, I Belyaev, E Ben-Haim, G Bencivenni, S Benson, J Benton, A Berezhnoy, R Bernet, A Bertolin, M-O Bettler, M van Beuzekom, A Bien, S Bifani, T Bird, A Birnkraut, A Bizzeti, T Blake, F Blanc, J Blouw, S Blusk, V Bocci, A Bondar, N Bondar, W Bonivento, S Borghi, A Borgia, M Borsato, TJV Bowcock, E Bowen, C Bozzi, D Brett, M Britsch, T Britton, J Brodzicka, NH Brook, A Bursche, J Buytaert, S Cadeddu, R Calabrese, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, P Campana, D Campora Perez, L Capriotti, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, P Carniti, L Carson, K Carvalho Akiba, R Casanova Mohr, G Casse, L Cassina, L Castillo Garcia, M Cattaneo, Ch Cauet, G Cavallero, R Cenci, M Charles, Ph Charpentier, M Chefdeville, S Chen, S-F Cheung, N Chiapolini, M Chrzaszcz, X Cid Vidal, G Ciezarek, PEL Clarke, M Clemencic, HV Cliff, J Closier, V Coco, J Cogan, E Cogneras, V Cogoni, L Cojocariu, G Collazuol, P Collins, A Comerma-Montells, A Contu, A Cook, M Coombes, S Coquereau, G Corti, M Corvo, I Counts, B Couturier, GA Cowan, DC Craik, A Crocombe, M Cruz Torres, S Cunliffe, R Currie, C D'Ambrosio, J Dalseno, PNY David, A Davis, K De Bruyn, S De Capua, M De Cian, JM De Miranda, L De Paula, W De Silva, P De Simone, C-T Dean, D Decamp, M Deckenhoff, L Del Buono, N Déléage, D Derkach, O Deschamps, F Dettori, B Dey, A Di Canto, F Di Ruscio, H Dijkstra, S Donleavy, F Dordei, M Dorigo, A Dosil Suárez, D Dossett, A Dovbnya, K Dreimanis, G Dujany, F Dupertuis, P Durante, R Dzhelyadin, A Dziurda, A Dzyuba, S Easo, U Egede, V Egorychev, S Eidelman, S Eisenhardt, U Eitschberger, R Ekelhof, L Eklund, I El Rifai, Ch Elsasser, S Ely, S Esen, HM Evans, T Evans, A Falabella, C Färber, C Farinelli, N Farley, S Farry, R Fay, D Ferguson, V Fernandez Albor, F Ferrari, F Ferreira Rodrigues, M Ferro-Luzzi, S Filippov, M Fiore, M Fiorini, M Firlej, C Fitzpatrick, T Fiutowski, P Fol, M Fontana, F Fontanelli, R Forty, O Francisco, M Frank, C Frei, M Frosini, J Fu, E Furfaro, A Gallas Torreira, D Galli, S Gallorini, S Gambetta, M Gandelman, P Gandini, Y Gao, J García Pardiñas, J Garofoli, J Garra Tico, L Garrido, D Gascon, C Gaspar, U Gastaldi, R Gauld, L Gavardi, G Gazzoni, A Geraci, D Gerick, E Gersabeck, M Gersabeck, T Gershon, Ph Ghez, A Gianelle, S Gianì, V Gibson, L Giubega, VV Gligorov, C Göbel, D Golubkov, A Golutvin, A Gomes, C Gotti, M Grabalosa Gándara, R Graciani Diaz, LA Granado Cardoso, E Graugés, E Graverini, G Graziani, A Grecu, E Greening, S Gregson, P Griffith, L Grillo, O Grünberg, B Gui, E Gushchin, Yu Guz, T Gys, C Hadjivasiliou, G Haefeli, C Haen, SC Haines, S Hall, B Hamilton, T Hampson, X Han, S Hansmann-Menzemer, N Harnew, ST Harnew, J Harrison, J He, T Head, V Heijne, K Hennessy, P Henrard, L Henry, JA Hernando Morata, E van Herwijnen, M Heß, A Hicheur, D Hill, M Hoballah, C Hombach, W Hulsbergen, T Humair, N Hussain, D Hutchcroft, D Hynds, M Idzik, P Ilten, R Jacobsson, A Jaeger, J Jalocha, E Jans, A Jawahery, F Jing, M John, D Johnson, CR Jones, C Joram, B Jost, N Jurik, S Kandybei, W Kanso, M Karacson, TM Karbach, S Karodia, M Kelsey, IR Kenyon, M Kenzie, T Ketel, B Khanji, C Khurewathanakul, S Klaver, K Klimaszewski, O Kochebina, M Kolpin, I Komarov, RF Koopman, P Koppenburg, M Korolev, L Kravchuk, K Kreplin, M Kreps, G Krocker, P Krokovny, F Kruse, W Kucewicz, M Kucharczyk, V Kudryavtsev, K Kurek, T Kvaratskheliya, VN La Thi, D Lacarrere, G Lafferty, A Lai, D Lambert, RW Lambert, G Lanfranchi, C Langenbruch, B Langhans, T Latham, C Lazzeroni, R Le Gac, J van Leerdam, J-P Lees, R Lefèvre, A Leflat, J Lefrançois, O Leroy, T Lesiak, B Leverington, Y Li, T Likhomanenko, M Liles, R Lindner, C Linn, F Lionetto, B Liu, S Lohn, I Longstaff, JH Lopes, P Lowdon, D Lucchesi, H Luo, A Lupato, E Luppi, O Lupton, F Machefert, IV Machikhiliyan, F Maciuc, O Maev, S Malde, A Malinin, G Manca, G Mancinelli, P Manning, A Mapelli, J Maratas, JF Marchand, U Marconi, C Marin Benito, P Marino, R Märki, J Marks, G Martellotti, M Martinelli, D Martinez Santos, F Martinez Vidal, D Martins Tostes, A Massafferri, R Matev, Z Mathe, C Matteuzzi, A Mauri, B Maurin, A Mazurov, M McCann, J McCarthy, A McNab, R McNulty, B McSkelly, B Meadows, F Meier, M Meissner, M Merk, DA Milanes, M-N Minard, DS Mitzel, J Molina Rodriguez, S Monteil, M Morandin, P Morawski, A Mordà, MJ Morello, J Moron, AB Morris, R Mountain, F Muheim, J Müller, K Müller, V Müller, M Mussini, B Muster, P Naik, T Nakada, R Nandakumar, I Nasteva, M Needham, N Neri, S Neubert, N Neufeld, M Neuner, AD Nguyen, TD Nguyen, C Nguyen-Mau, V Niess, R Niet, N Nikitin, T Nikodem, A Novoselov, DP O'Hanlon, A Oblakowska-Mucha, V Obraztsov, S Ogilvy, O Okhrimenko, R Oldeman, CJG Onderwater, B Osorio Rodrigues, JM Otalora Goicochea, A Otto, P Owen, A Oyanguren, A Palano, F Palombo, M Palutan, J Panman, A Papanestis, M Pappagallo, LL Pappalardo, C Parkes, G Passaleva, GD Patel, M Patel, C Patrignani, A Pearce, A Pellegrino, G Penso, M Pepe Altarelli, S Perazzini, P Perret, L Pescatore, K Petridis, A Petrolini, M Petruzzo, E Picatoste Olloqui, B Pietrzyk, T Pilař, D Pinci, A Pistone, S Playfer, M Plo Casasus, T Poikela, F Polci, A Poluektov, I Polyakov, E Polycarpo, A Popov, D Popov, B Popovici, C Potterat, E Price, JD Price, J Prisciandaro, A Pritchard, C Prouve, V Pugatch, A Puig Navarro, G Punzi, W Qian, R Quagliani, B Rachwal, JH Rademacker, B Rakotomiaramanana, M Rama, MS Rangel, I Raniuk, N Rauschmayr, G Raven, F Redi, S Reichert, MM Reid, AC dos Reis, S Ricciardi, S Richards, M Rihl, K Rinnert, V Rives Molina, P Robbe, AB Rodrigues, E Rodrigues, P Rodriguez Perez, S Roiser, V Romanovsky, A Romero Vidal, M Rotondo, J Rouvinet, T Ruf, H Ruiz, P Ruiz Valls, JJ Saborido Silva, N Sagidova, P Sail, B Saitta, V Salustino Guimaraes, C Sanchez Mayordomo, B Sanmartin Sedes, R Santacesaria, C Santamarina Rios, E Santovetti, A Sarti, C Satriano, A Satta, DM Saunders, D Savrina, M Schiller, H Schindler, M Schlupp, M Schmelling, T Schmelzer, B Schmidt, O Schneider, A Schopper, M-H Schune, R Schwemmer, B Sciascia, A Sciubba, A Semennikov, I Sepp, N Serra, J Serrano, L Sestini, P Seyfert, M Shapkin, I Shapoval, Y Shcheglov, T Shears, L Shekhtman, V Shevchenko, A Shires, R Silva Coutinho, G Simi, M Sirendi, N Skidmore, I Skillicorn, T Skwarnicki, E Smith, E Smith, J Smith, M Smith, H Snoek, MD Sokoloff, FJP Soler, F Soomro, D Souza, B Souza De Paula, B Spaan, P Spradlin, S Sridharan, F Stagni, M Stahl, S Stahl, O Steinkamp, O Stenyakin, F Sterpka, S Stevenson, S Stoica, S Stone, B Storaci, S Stracka, M Straticiuc, U Straumann, R Stroili, L Sun, W Sutcliffe, K Swientek, S Swientek, V Syropoulos, M Szczekowski, P Szczypka, T Szumlak, S T'Jampens, T Tekampe, M Teklishyn, G Tellarini, F Teubert, C Thomas, E Thomas, J van Tilburg, V Tisserand, M Tobin, J Todd, S Tolk, L Tomassetti, D Tonelli, S Topp-Joergensen, N Torr, E Tournefier, S Tourneur, K Trabelsi, MT Tran, M Tresch, A Trisovic, A Tsaregorodtsev, P Tsopelas, N Tuning, M Ubeda Garcia, A Ukleja, A Ustyuzhanin, U Uwer, C Vacca, V Vagnoni, G Valenti, A Vallier, R Vazquez Gomez, P Vazquez Regueiro, C Vázquez Sierra, S Vecchi, JJ Velthuis, M Veltri, G Veneziano, M Vesterinen, B Viaud, D Vieira, M Vieites Diaz, X Vilasis-Cardona, A Vollhardt, D Volyanskyy, D Voong, A Vorobyev, V Vorobyev, C Voß, JA de Vries, R Waldi, C Wallace, R Wallace, J Walsh, S Wandernoth, J Wang, DR Ward, NK Watson, D Websdale, A Weiden, M Whitehead, D Wiedner, G Wilkinson, M Wilkinson, M Williams, MP Williams, M Williams, FF Wilson, J Wimberley, J Wishahi, W Wislicki, M Witek, G Wormser, SA Wotton, S Wright, K Wyllie, Y Xie, Z Xu, Z Yang, X Yuan, O Yushchenko, M Zangoli, M Zavertyaev, L Zhang, Y Zhang, A Zhelezov, A Zhokhov, L Zhong

Study of $B^{-}\to DK^-\pi^+\pi^-$ and $B^-\to D\pi^-\pi^+\pi^-$ decays and determination of the CKM angle $\gamma$

(2015)

Authors:

LHCb collaboration, R Aaij, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, A Affolder, 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, J Anderson, M Andreotti, JE Andrews, RB Appleby, O Aquines Gutierrez, F Archilli, P d'Argent, A Artamonov, M Artuso, E Aslanides, G Auriemma, M Baalouch, S Bachmann, JJ Back, A Badalov, C Baesso, W Baldini, RJ Barlow, C Barschel, S Barsuk, W Barter, V Batozskaya, V Battista, A Bay, L Beaucourt, J Beddow, F Bedeschi, I Bediaga, LJ Bel, I Belyaev, E Ben-Haim, G Bencivenni, S Benson, J Benton, A Berezhnoy, R Bernet, A Bertolin, M-O Bettler, M van Beuzekom, A Bien, S Bifani, T Bird, A Birnkraut, A Bizzeti, T Blake, F Blanc, J Blouw, S Blusk, V Bocci, A Bondar, N Bondar, W Bonivento, S Borghi, M Borsato, TJV Bowcock, E Bowen, C Bozzi, S Braun, D Brett, M Britsch, T Britton, J Brodzicka, NH Brook, A Bursche, J Buytaert, S Cadeddu, R Calabrese, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, P Campana, D Campora Perez, L Capriotti, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, P Carniti, L Carson, K Carvalho Akiba, R Casanova Mohr, G Casse, L Cassina, L Castillo Garcia, M Cattaneo, Ch Cauet, G Cavallero, R Cenci, M Charles, Ph Charpentier, M Chefdeville, S Chen, S-F Cheung, N Chiapolini, M Chrzaszcz, X Cid Vidal, G Ciezarek, PEL Clarke, M Clemencic, HV Cliff, J Closier, V Coco, J Cogan, E Cogneras, V Cogoni, L Cojocariu, G Collazuol, P Collins, A Comerma-Montells, A Contu, A Cook, M Coombes, S Coquereau, G Corti, M Corvo, B Couturier, GA Cowan, DC Craik, A Crocombe, M Cruz Torres, S Cunliffe, R Currie, C D'Ambrosio, J Dalseno, PNY David, A Davis, K De Bruyn, S De Capua, M De Cian, JM De Miranda, L De Paula, W De Silva, P De Simone, C-T Dean, D Decamp, M Deckenhoff, L Del Buono, N Déléage, D Derkach, O Deschamps, F Dettori, B Dey, A Di Canto, F Di Ruscio, H Dijkstra, S Donleavy, F Dordei, M Dorigo, A Dosil Suárez, D Dossett, A Dovbnya, K Dreimanis, L Dufour, G Dujany, F Dupertuis, P Durante, R Dzhelyadin, A Dziurda, A Dzyuba, S Easo, U Egede, V Egorychev, S Eidelman, S Eisenhardt, U Eitschberger, R Ekelhof, L Eklund, I El Rifai, Ch Elsasser, S Ely, S Esen, HM Evans, T Evans, A Falabella, C Färber, C Farinelli, N Farley, S Farry, R Fay, D Ferguson, V Fernandez Albor, F Ferrari, F Ferreira Rodrigues, M Ferro-Luzzi, S Filippov, M Fiore, M Fiorini, M Firlej, C Fitzpatrick, T Fiutowski, K Fohl, P Fol, M Fontana, F Fontanelli, R Forty, O Francisco, M Frank, C Frei, M Frosini, J Fu, E Furfaro, A Gallas Torreira, D Galli, S Gallorini, S Gambetta, M Gandelman, P Gandini, Y Gao, J García Pardiñas, J Garofoli, J Garra Tico, L Garrido, D Gascon, C Gaspar, U Gastaldi, R Gauld, L Gavardi, G Gazzoni, A Geraci, D Gerick, E Gersabeck, M Gersabeck, T Gershon, Ph Ghez, A Gianelle, S Gianì, V Gibson, OG Girard, L Giubega, VV Gligorov, C Göbel, D Golubkov, A Golutvin, A Gomes, C Gotti, M Grabalosa Gándara, R Graciani Diaz, LA Granado Cardoso, E Graugés, E Graverini, G Graziani, A Grecu, E Greening, S Gregson, P Griffith, L Grillo, O Grünberg, B Gui, E Gushchin, Yu Guz, T Gys, C Hadjivasiliou, G Haefeli, C Haen, SC Haines, S Hall, B Hamilton, T Hampson, X Han, S Hansmann-Menzemer, N Harnew, ST Harnew, J Harrison, J He, T Head, V Heijne, K Hennessy, P Henrard, L Henry, JA Hernando Morata, E van Herwijnen, M Heß, A Hicheur, D Hill, M Hoballah, C Hombach, W Hulsbergen, T Humair, N Hussain, D Hutchcroft, D Hynds, M Idzik, P Ilten, R Jacobsson, A Jaeger, J Jalocha, E Jans, A Jawahery, F Jing, M John, D Johnson, CR Jones, C Joram, B Jost, N Jurik, S Kandybei, W Kanso, M Karacson, TM Karbach, S Karodia, M Kelsey, IR Kenyon, M Kenzie, T Ketel, B Khanji, C Khurewathanakul, S Klaver, K Klimaszewski, O Kochebina, M Kolpin, I Komarov, RF Koopman, P Koppenburg, M Korolev, L Kravchuk, K Kreplin, M Kreps, G Krocker, P Krokovny, F Kruse, W Kucewicz, M Kucharczyk, V Kudryavtsev, AK Kuonen, K Kurek, T Kvaratskheliya, VN La Thi, D Lacarrere, G Lafferty, A Lai, D Lambert, RW Lambert, G Lanfranchi, C Langenbruch, B Langhans, T Latham, C Lazzeroni, R Le Gac, J van Leerdam, J-P Lees, R Lefèvre, A Leflat, J Lefrançois, O Leroy, T Lesiak, B Leverington, Y Li, T Likhomanenko, M Liles, R Lindner, C Linn, F Lionetto, B Liu, X Liu, S Lohn, I Longstaff, JH Lopes, D Lucchesi, M Lucio Martinez, H Luo, A Lupato, E Luppi, O Lupton, F Machefert, F Maciuc, O Maev, K Maguire, S Malde, A Malinin, G Manca, G Mancinelli, P Manning, A Mapelli, J Maratas, JF Marchand, U Marconi, C Marin Benito, P Marino, R Märki, J Marks, G Martellotti, M Martinelli, D Martinez Santos, F Martinez Vidal, D Martins Tostes, A Massafferri, R Matev, A Mathad, Z Mathe, C Matteuzzi, K Matthieu, A Mauri, B Maurin, A Mazurov, M McCann, J McCarthy, A McNab, R McNulty, B Meadows, F Meier, M Meissner, M Merk, DA Milanes, M-N Minard, DS Mitzel, J Molina Rodriguez, S Monteil, M Morandin, P Morawski, A Mordà, MJ Morello, J Moron, AB Morris, R Mountain, F Muheim, J Müller, K Müller, V Müller, M Mussini, B Muster, P Naik, T Nakada, R Nandakumar, I Nasteva, M Needham, N Neri, S Neubert, N Neufeld, M Neuner, AD Nguyen, TD Nguyen, C Nguyen-Mau, V Niess, R Niet, N Nikitin, T Nikodem, D Ninci, A Novoselov, DP O'Hanlon, A Oblakowska-Mucha, V Obraztsov, S Ogilvy, O Okhrimenko, R Oldeman, CJG Onderwater, B Osorio Rodrigues, JM Otalora Goicochea, A Otto, P Owen, A Oyanguren, A Palano, F Palombo, M Palutan, J Panman, A Papanestis, M Pappagallo, LL Pappalardo, C Parkes, G Passaleva, GD Patel, M Patel, C Patrignani, A Pearce, A Pellegrino, G Penso, M Pepe Altarelli, S Perazzini, P Perret, L Pescatore, K Petridis, A Petrolini, M Petruzzo, E Picatoste Olloqui, B Pietrzyk, T Pilař, D Pinci, A Pistone, A Piucci, S Playfer, M Plo Casasus, T Poikela, F Polci, A Poluektov, I Polyakov, E Polycarpo, A Popov, D Popov, B Popovici, C Potterat, E Price, JD Price, J Prisciandaro, A Pritchard, C Prouve, V Pugatch, A Puig Navarro, G Punzi, W Qian, R Quagliani, B Rachwal, JH Rademacker, B Rakotomiaramanana, M Rama, MS Rangel, I Raniuk, N Rauschmayr, G Raven, F Redi, S Reichert, MM Reid, AC dos Reis, S Ricciardi, S Richards, M Rihl, K Rinnert, V Rives Molina, P Robbe, AB Rodrigues, E Rodrigues, JA Rodriguez Lopez, P Rodriguez Perez, S Roiser, V Romanovsky, A Romero Vidal, M Rotondo, J Rouvinet, T Ruf, H Ruiz, P Ruiz Valls, JJ Saborido Silva, N Sagidova, P Sail, B Saitta, V Salustino Guimaraes, 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, M Schiller, H Schindler, M Schlupp, M Schmelling, T Schmelzer, B Schmidt, O Schneider, A Schopper, M Schubiger, M-H Schune, R Schwemmer, B Sciascia, A Sciubba, A Semennikov, I Sepp, N Serra, J Serrano, L Sestini, P Seyfert, M Shapkin, I Shapoval, Y Shcheglov, T Shears, L Shekhtman, V Shevchenko, A Shires, R Silva Coutinho, G Simi, M Sirendi, N Skidmore, I Skillicorn, T Skwarnicki, E Smith, E Smith, IT Smith, J Smith, M Smith, H Snoek, MD Sokoloff, FJP Soler, F Soomro, D Souza, B Souza De Paula, B Spaan, P Spradlin, S Sridharan, F Stagni, M Stahl, S Stahl, O Steinkamp, O Stenyakin, F Sterpka, S Stevenson, S Stoica, S Stone, B Storaci, S Stracka, M Straticiuc, U Straumann, L Sun, W Sutcliffe, K Swientek, S Swientek, V Syropoulos, M Szczekowski, P Szczypka, T Szumlak, S T'Jampens, T Tekampe, M Teklishyn, G Tellarini, F Teubert, C Thomas, E Thomas, J van Tilburg, V Tisserand, M Tobin, J Todd, S Tolk, L Tomassetti, D Tonelli, S Topp-Joergensen, N Torr, E Tournefier, S Tourneur, K Trabelsi, MT Tran, M Tresch, A Trisovic, A Tsaregorodtsev, P Tsopelas, N Tuning, A Ukleja, A Ustyuzhanin, U Uwer, C Vacca, V Vagnoni, G Valenti, A Vallier, R Vazquez Gomez, P Vazquez Regueiro, C Vázquez Sierra, S Vecchi, JJ Velthuis, M Veltri, G Veneziano, M Vesterinen, B Viaud, D Vieira, M Vieites Diaz, X Vilasis-Cardona, A Vollhardt, D Volyanskyy, D Voong, A Vorobyev, V Vorobyev, C Voß, JA de Vries, R Waldi, C Wallace, R Wallace, J Walsh, S Wandernoth, J Wang, DR Ward, NK Watson, D Websdale, A Weiden, M Whitehead, D Wiedner, G Wilkinson, M Wilkinson, M Williams, MP Williams, M Williams, T Williams, FF Wilson, J Wimberley, J Wishahi, W Wislicki, M Witek, G Wormser, SA Wotton, S Wright, K Wyllie, Y Xie, Z Xu, Z Yang, J Yu, X Yuan, O Yushchenko, M Zangoli, M Zavertyaev, L Zhang, Y Zhang, A Zhelezov, A Zhokhov, L Zhong

Study of $W$ boson production in association with beauty and charm

(2015)

Authors:

LHCb collaboration, R Aaij, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, A Affolder, 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, J Anderson, M Andreotti, JE Andrews, RB Appleby, O Aquines Gutierrez, F Archilli, P d'Argent, A Artamonov, M Artuso, E Aslanides, G Auriemma, M Baalouch, S Bachmann, JJ Back, A Badalov, C Baesso, W Baldini, RJ Barlow, C Barschel, S Barsuk, W Barter, V Batozskaya, V Battista, A Bay, L Beaucourt, J Beddow, F Bedeschi, I Bediaga, LJ Bel, I Belyaev, E Ben-Haim, G Bencivenni, S Benson, J Benton, A Berezhnoy, R Bernet, A Bertolin, M-O Bettler, M van Beuzekom, A Bien, S Bifani, T Bird, A Birnkraut, A Bizzeti, T Blake, F Blanc, J Blouw, S Blusk, V Bocci, A Bondar, N Bondar, W Bonivento, S Borghi, M Borsato, TJV Bowcock, E Bowen, C Bozzi, S Braun, D Brett, M Britsch, T Britton, J Brodzicka, NH Brook, A Bursche, J Buytaert, S Cadeddu, R Calabrese, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, P Campana, D 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, Ch Cauet, G Cavallero, R Cenci, M Charles, Ph Charpentier, M Chefdeville, S Chen, S-F Cheung, N Chiapolini, M Chrzaszcz, X Cid Vidal, G Ciezarek, PEL Clarke, M Clemencic, HV Cliff, J Closier, V Coco, J Cogan, E Cogneras, V Cogoni, L Cojocariu, G Collazuol, P Collins, A Comerma-Montells, A Contu, A Cook, M Coombes, S Coquereau, G Corti, M Corvo, B Couturier, GA Cowan, DC Craik, A Crocombe, M Cruz Torres, S Cunliffe, R Currie, C D'Ambrosio, J Dalseno, PNY David, A Davis, K De Bruyn, S De Capua, M De Cian, JM De Miranda, L De Paula, W De Silva, P De Simone, C-T Dean, D Decamp, M Deckenhoff, L Del Buono, N Déléage, M Demmer, D Derkach, O Deschamps, F Dettori, A Di Canto, F Di Ruscio, H Dijkstra, S Donleavy, F Dordei, M Dorigo, A Dosil Suárez, D Dossett, A Dovbnya, K Dreimanis, L Dufour, G Dujany, F Dupertuis, P Durante, R 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Editorial

The 15th International Conference on B-Physics at Frontier Machines at the University of Edinburgh (Beauty2014) Proceedings of Science (2015) 1-5

Authors:

Robert Fleischer, Neville Harnew, Franz Muheim, Matt Needham

Abstract:

The 15th International Conference on B-Physics at Frontier Machines (Beauty 2014) was held from 14th to 18th July 2014 at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Beauty 2014 was hosted in the magnificent Playfair Library in the historic centre of the city, which provided a spectacular setting for the scientific presentations. The conference attracted approximately ninety physicists, including many well known experts on flavour physics from all over the world. The programme consisted of 61 invited talks in 13 topical sessions. The majority of the presentations were on the discussion of experimental results. These were complemented by a series of theory review talks. In addition, seven early career researchers (PhD students and post docs) presented posters in a dedicated session.