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Measurements of the branching fractions for B(s)→D (s)πππ and Λb0→Λc+πππ

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 84:9 (2011)

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R Aaij, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, C Adrover, A Affolder, Z Ajaltouni, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, AA Alves, S Amato, Y Amhis, J Anderson, RB Appleby, O Aquines Gutierrez, F Archilli, L Arrabito, A Artamonov, M Artuso, E Aslanides, G Auriemma, S Bachmann, JJ Back, DS Bailey, V Balagura, W Baldini, RJ Barlow, C Barschel, S Barsuk, W Barter, A Bates, C Bauer, T Bauer, A Bay, I Bediaga, K Belous, I Belyaev, E Ben-Haim, M Benayoun, G Bencivenni, S Benson, J Benton, R Bernet, MO Bettler, M Van Beuzekom, A Bien, S Bifani, A Bizzeti, PM Bjørnstad, T Blake, F Blanc, C Blanks, J Blouw, S Blusk, A Bobrov, V Bocci, A Bondar, N Bondar, W Bonivento, S Borghi, A Borgia, TJV Bowcock, C Bozzi, T Brambach, J Van Den Brand, J Bressieux, D Brett, S Brisbane, M Britsch, T Britton, NH Brook, H Brown, A Büchler-Germann, I Burducea, A Bursche, J Buytaert, S Cadeddu, JM Caicedo Carvajal, O Callot, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, A Camboni, P Campana, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, L Carson, K Carvalho Akiba, G Casse, M Cattaneo, M Charles, P Charpentier, N Chiapolini, K Ciba, X Cid Vidal, G Ciezarek, PEL Clarke

Abstract:

Branching fractions of the decays HbHcπ -π+π- relative to Hb→ Hcπ- are presented, where Hb (Hc) represents B̄0 (D+), B- (D0), B̄s0 (Ds+), and Λb0 (Λc+). The measurements are performed with the LHCb detector using 35pb-1 of data collected at √s=7TeV. The ratios of branching fractions are measured to be [B(B̄0→D +π-π+π-)]/[B(B ̄0→D+π-)]=2.38±0. 11±0.21, [B(B-→D0π -π+π-)]/[B(B -→D0π-)]=1.27±0.06±0.11, [B(B̄s0→Ds+π-π+π-)]/ [B(B̄s0→Ds+π-)]=2.01±0.37±0.20, [B(Λb0→Λc+π-π+π-)]/ [B(Λb0→Λc+π-)]=1.43±0.16±0.13 We also report measurements of partial decay rates of these decays to excited charm hadrons. These results are of comparable or higher precision than existing measurements. © 2011 CERN. Published by the American Physical Society.
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Search for CP violation in $D^{+} \to K^{-}K^{+}\pi^{+}$ decays

(2011)

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LHCb Collaboration, R Aaij, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, C Adrover, A Affolder, Z Ajaltouni, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, AA Alves, S Amato, Y Amhis, J Anderson, RB Appleby, O Aquines Gutierrez, F Archilli, L Arrabito, A Artamonov, M Artuso, E Aslanides, G Auriemma, S Bachmann, JJ Back, DS Bailey, V Balagura, W Baldini, RJ Barlow, C Barschel, S Barsuk, W Barter, A Bates, C Bauer, Th Bauer, A Bay, I Bediaga, K Belous, I Belyaev, E Ben-Haim, M Benayoun, G Bencivenni, S Benson, J Benton, R Bernet, M-O Bettler, M van Beuzekom, A Bien, S Bifani, A Bizzeti, PM Bjørnstad, T Blake, F Blanc, C Blanks, J Blouw, S Blusk, A Bobrov, V Bocci, A Bondar, N Bondar, W Bonivento, S Borghi, A Borgia, TJV Bowcock, C Bozzi, T Brambach, J van den Brand, J Bressieux, D Brett, S Brisbane, M Britsch, T Britton, NH Brook, H Brown, A Büchler-Germann, I Burducea, A Bursche, J Buytaert, S Cadeddu, JM Caicedo Carvajal, O Callot, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, A Camboni, P Campana, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, L Carson, K Carvalho Akiba, G Casse, M Cattaneo, M Charles, Ph Charpentier, N Chiapolini, K Ciba, X Cid Vidal, G Ciezarek, PEL Clarke, M Clemencic, HV Cliff, J Closier, C Coca, V Coco, J Cogan, P Collins, F Constantin, G Conti, A Contu, A Cook, M Coombes, G Corti, GA Cowan, R Currie, B D'Almagne, C D'Ambrosio, P David, I De Bonis, S De Capua, M De Cian, F De Lorenzi, JM De Miranda, L De Paula, P De Simone, D Decamp, M Deckenhoff, H Degaudenzi, M Deissenroth, L Del Buono, C Deplano, O Deschamps, F Dettori, J Dickens, H Dijkstra, P Diniz Batista, S Donleavy, F Dordei, A Dosil Suárez, D Dossett, A Dovbnya, F Dupertuis, R Dzhelyadin, C Eames, S Easo, U Egede, V Egorychev, S Eidelman, D van Eijk, F Eisele, S Eisenhardt, R Ekelhof, L Eklund, Ch Elsasser, DG d'Enterria, D Esperante Pereira, L Estève, A Falabella, E Fanchini, C Färber, G Fardell, C Farinelli, S Farry, V Fave, V Fernandez Albor, M Ferro-Luzzi, S Filippov, C Fitzpatrick, M Fontana, F Fontanelli, R Forty, M Frank, C Frei, M Frosini, S Furcas, A Gallas Torreira, D Galli, M Gandelman, P Gandini, Y Gao, J-C Garnier, J Garofoli, J Garra Tico, L Garrido, C Gaspar, N Gauvin, M Gersabeck, T Gershon, Ph Ghez, V Gibson, VV Gligorov, C Göbel, D Golubkov, A Golutvin, A Gomes, H Gordon, M Grabalosa Gándara, R Graciani Diaz, LA Granado Cardoso, E Graugés, G Graziani, A Grecu, S Gregson, B Gui, E Gushchin, Yu Guz, T Gys, G Haefeli, C Haen, SC Haines, T Hampson, S Hansmann-Menzemer, R Harji, N Harnew, J Harrison, PF Harrison, J He, V Heijne, K Hennessy, P Henrard, JA Hernando Morata, E van Herwijnen, E Hicks, W Hofmann, K Holubyev, P Hopchev, W Hulsbergen, P Hunt, T Huse, RS Huston, D Hutchcroft, D Hynds, V Iakovenko, P Ilten, J Imong, R Jacobsson, A Jaeger, M Jahjah Hussein, E Jans, F Jansen, P Jaton, B Jean-Marie, F Jing, M John, D Johnson, CR Jones, B Jost, S Kandybei, M Karacson, TM Karbach, J Keaveney, U Kerzel, T Ketel, A Keune, B Khanji, YM Kim, M Knecht, S Koblitz, P Koppenburg, A Kozlinskiy, L Kravchuk, K Kreplin, M Kreps, G Krocker, P Krokovny, F Kruse, K Kruzelecki, M Kucharczyk, S Kukulak, R Kumar, T Kvaratskheliya, VN La Thi, D Lacarrere, G Lafferty, A Lai, D Lambert, RW Lambert, E Lanciotti, G Lanfranchi, C Langenbruch, T Latham, R Le Gac, J van Leerdam, J-P Lees, R Lefèvre, A Leflat, J Lefrançois, O Leroy, T Lesiak, L Li, L Li Gioi, M Lieng, M Liles, R Lindner, C Linn, B Liu, G Liu, JH Lopes, E Lopez Asamar, N Lopez-March, J Luisier, F Machefert, IV Machikhiliyan, F Maciuc, O Maev, J Magnin, S Malde, RMD Mamunur, G Manca, G Mancinelli, N Mangiafave, U Marconi, R Märki, J Marks, G Martellotti, A Martens, L Martin, A Martín Sánchez, D Martinez Santos, D Martins Tostes, A Massafferri, Z Mathe, C Matteuzzi, M Matveev, E Maurice, B Maynard, A Mazurov, G McGregor, R McNulty, C Mclean, M Meissner, M Merk, J Merkel, R Messi, S Miglioranzi, DA Milanes, M-N Minard, J Molina Rodriguez, S Monteil, D Moran, P Morawski, R Mountain, I Mous, F Muheim, K Müller, R Muresan, B Muryn, M Musy, J Mylroie-Smith, P Naik, T Nakada, R Nandakumar, J Nardulli, I Nasteva, M Nedos, M Needham, N Neufeld, C Nguyen-Mau, M Nicol, S Nies, V Niess, N Nikitin, A Oblakowska-Mucha, V Obraztsov, S Oggero, S Ogilvy, O Okhrimenko, R Oldeman, M Orlandea, JM Otalora Goicochea, P Owen, B Pal, J Palacios, M Palutan, J Panman, A Papanestis, M Pappagallo, C Parkes, CJ Parkinson, G Passaleva, GD Patel, M Patel, SK Paterson, GN Patrick, C Patrignani, C Pavel-Nicorescu, A Pazos Alvarez, A Pellegrino, G Penso, M Pepe Altarelli, S Perazzini, DL Perego, E Perez Trigo, A Pérez-Calero Yzquierdo, P Perret, M Perrin-Terrin, G Pessina, A Petrella, A Petrolini, B Pie Valls, B Pietrzyk, T Pilar, D Pinci, R Plackett, S Playfer, M Plo Casasus, G Polok, A Poluektov, E Polycarpo, D Popov, B Popovici, C Potterat, A Powell, T du Pree, J Prisciandaro, V Pugatch, A Puig Navarro, W Qian, JH Rademacker, B Rakotomiaramanana, MS Rangel, I Raniuk, G Raven, S Redford, MM Reid, AC dos Reis, S Ricciardi, K Rinnert, DA Roa Romero, P Robbe, E Rodrigues, F Rodrigues, P Rodriguez Perez, GJ Rogers, S Roiser, V Romanovsky, J Rouvinet, T Ruf, H Ruiz, G Sabatino, JJ Saborido Silva, N Sagidova, P Sail, B Saitta, C Salzmann, M Sannino, R Santacesaria, C Santamarina Rios, R Santinelli, E Santovetti, M Sapunov, A Sarti, C Satriano, A Satta, M Savrie, D Savrina, P Schaack, M Schiller, S Schleich, M Schmelling, B Schmidt, O Schneider, A Schopper, M-H Schune, R Schwemmer, A Sciubba, M Seco, A Semennikov, K Senderowska, I Sepp, N Serra, J Serrano, P Seyfert, B Shao, M Shapkin, I Shapoval, P Shatalov, Y Shcheglov, T Shears, L Shekhtman, O Shevchenko, V Shevchenko, A Shires, R Silva Coutinho, HP Skottowe, T Skwarnicki, AC Smith, NA Smith, K Sobczak, FJP Soler, A Solomin, F Soomro, B Souza De Paula, B Spaan, A Sparkes, P Spradlin, F Stagni, S Stahl, O Steinkamp, S Stoica, S Stone, B Storaci, M Straticiuc, U Straumann, N Styles, VK Subbiah, S Swientek, M Szczekowski, P Szczypka, T Szumlak, S T'Jampens, E Teodorescu, F Teubert, C Thomas, E Thomas, J van Tilburg, V Tisserand, M Tobin, S Topp-Joergensen, MT Tran, A Tsaregorodtsev, N Tuning, M Ubeda Garcia, A Ukleja, P Urquijo, U Uwer, V Vagnoni, G Valenti, R Vazquez Gomez, P Vazquez Regueiro, S Vecchi, JJ Velthuis, M Veltri, K Vervink, B Viaud, I Videau, D Vieira, X Vilasis-Cardona, J Visniakov, A Vollhardt, D Voong, A Vorobyev, H Voss, K Wacker, S Wandernoth, J Wang, DR Ward, AD Webber, D Websdale, M Whitehead, D Wiedner, L Wiggers, G Wilkinson, MP Williams, M Williams, FF Wilson, J Wishahi, M Witek, W Witzeling, SA Wotton, K Wyllie, Y Xie, F Xing, Z Yang, R Young, O Yushchenko, M Zavertyaev, F Zhang, L Zhang, WC Zhang, Y Zhang, A Zhelezov, L Zhong, E Zverev, A Zvyagin
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Search for CP violation in $D^{+} \to K^{-}K^{+}π^{+}$ decays

ArXiv 1110.397 (2011)

Authors:

LHCb Collaboration, R Aaij, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, C Adrover, A Affolder, Z Ajaltouni, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, AA Alves Jr, S Amato, Y Amhis, J Anderson, RB Appleby, O Aquines Gutierrez, F Archilli, L Arrabito, A Artamonov, M Artuso, E Aslanides, G Auriemma, S Bachmann, JJ Back, DS Bailey, V Balagura, W Baldini, RJ Barlow, C Barschel, S Barsuk, W Barter, A Bates, C Bauer, Th Bauer, A Bay, I Bediaga, K Belous, I Belyaev, E Ben-Haim, M Benayoun, G Bencivenni, S Benson, J Benton, R Bernet, M-O Bettler, M van Beuzekom, A Bien, S Bifani, A Bizzeti, PM Bjørnstad, T Blake, F Blanc, C Blanks, J Blouw, S Blusk, A Bobrov, V Bocci, A Bondar, N Bondar, W Bonivento, S Borghi, A Borgia, TJV Bowcock, C Bozzi, T Brambach, J van den Brand, J Bressieux, D Brett, S Brisbane, M Britsch, T Britton, NH Brook, H Brown, A Büchler-Germann, I Burducea, A Bursche, J Buytaert, S Cadeddu, JM Caicedo Carvajal, O Callot, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, A Camboni, P Campana, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, L Carson, K Carvalho Akiba, G Casse, M Cattaneo, M Charles, Ph Charpentier, N Chiapolini, K Ciba, X Cid Vidal, G Ciezarek, PEL Clarke, M Clemencic, HV Cliff, J Closier, C Coca, V Coco, J Cogan, P Collins, F Constantin, G Conti, A Contu, A Cook, M Coombes, G Corti, GA Cowan, R Currie, B D'Almagne, C D'Ambrosio, P David, I De Bonis, S De Capua, M De Cian, F De Lorenzi, JM De Miranda, L De Paula, P De Simone, D Decamp, M Deckenhoff, H Degaudenzi, M Deissenroth, L Del Buono, C Deplano, O Deschamps, F Dettori, J Dickens, H Dijkstra, P Diniz Batista, S Donleavy, F Dordei, A Dosil Suárez, D Dossett, A Dovbnya, F Dupertuis, R Dzhelyadin, C Eames, S Easo, U Egede, V Egorychev, S Eidelman, D van Eijk, F Eisele, S Eisenhardt, R Ekelhof, L Eklund, Ch Elsasser, DG d'Enterria, D Esperante Pereira, L Estève, A Falabella, E Fanchini, C Färber, G Fardell, C Farinelli, S Farry, V Fave, V Fernandez Albor, M Ferro-Luzzi, S Filippov, C Fitzpatrick, M Fontana, F Fontanelli, R Forty, M Frank, C Frei, M Frosini, S Furcas, A Gallas Torreira, D Galli, M Gandelman, P Gandini, Y Gao, J-C Garnier, J Garofoli, J Garra Tico, L Garrido, C Gaspar, N Gauvin, M Gersabeck, T Gershon, Ph Ghez, V Gibson, VV Gligorov, C Göbel, D Golubkov, A Golutvin, A Gomes, H Gordon, M Grabalosa Gándara, R Graciani Diaz, LA Granado Cardoso, E Graugés, G Graziani, A Grecu, S Gregson, B Gui, E Gushchin, Yu Guz, T Gys, G Haefeli, C Haen, SC Haines, T Hampson, S Hansmann-Menzemer, R Harji, N Harnew, J Harrison, PF Harrison, J He, V Heijne, K Hennessy, P Henrard, JA Hernando Morata, E van Herwijnen, E Hicks, W Hofmann, K Holubyev, P Hopchev, W Hulsbergen, P Hunt, T Huse, RS Huston, D Hutchcroft, D Hynds, V Iakovenko, P Ilten, J Imong, R Jacobsson, A Jaeger, M Jahjah Hussein, E Jans, F Jansen, P Jaton, B Jean-Marie, F Jing, M John, D Johnson, CR Jones, B Jost, S Kandybei, M Karacson, TM Karbach, J Keaveney, U Kerzel, T Ketel, A Keune, B Khanji, YM Kim, M Knecht, S Koblitz, P Koppenburg, A Kozlinskiy, L Kravchuk, K Kreplin, M Kreps, G Krocker, P Krokovny, F Kruse, K Kruzelecki, M Kucharczyk, S Kukulak, R Kumar, T Kvaratskheliya, VN La Thi, D Lacarrere, G Lafferty, A Lai, D Lambert, RW Lambert, E Lanciotti, G Lanfranchi, C Langenbruch, T Latham, R Le Gac, J van Leerdam, J-P Lees, R Lefèvre, A Leflat, J Lefrançois, O Leroy, T Lesiak, L Li, L Li Gioi, M Lieng, M Liles, R Lindner, C Linn, B Liu, G Liu, JH Lopes, E Lopez Asamar, N Lopez-March, J Luisier, F Machefert, IV Machikhiliyan, F Maciuc, O Maev, J Magnin, S Malde, RMD Mamunur, G Manca, G Mancinelli, N Mangiafave, U Marconi, R Märki, J Marks, G Martellotti, A Martens, L Martin, A Martín Sánchez, D Martinez Santos, D Martins Tostes, A Massafferri, Z Mathe, C Matteuzzi, M Matveev, E Maurice, B Maynard, A Mazurov, G McGregor, R McNulty, C Mclean, M Meissner, M Merk, J Merkel, R Messi, S Miglioranzi, DA Milanes, M-N Minard, J Molina Rodriguez, S Monteil, D Moran, P Morawski, R Mountain, I Mous, F Muheim, K Müller, R Muresan, B Muryn, M Musy, J Mylroie-Smith, P Naik, T Nakada, R Nandakumar, J Nardulli, I Nasteva, M Nedos, M Needham, N Neufeld, C Nguyen-Mau, M Nicol, S Nies, V Niess, N Nikitin, A Oblakowska-Mucha, V Obraztsov, S Oggero, S Ogilvy, O Okhrimenko, R Oldeman, M Orlandea, JM Otalora Goicochea, P Owen, B Pal, J Palacios, M Palutan, J Panman, A Papanestis, M Pappagallo, C Parkes, CJ Parkinson, G Passaleva, GD Patel, M Patel, SK Paterson, GN Patrick, C Patrignani, C Pavel-Nicorescu, A Pazos Alvarez, A Pellegrino, G Penso, M Pepe Altarelli, S Perazzini, DL Perego, E Perez Trigo, A Pérez-Calero Yzquierdo, P Perret, M Perrin-Terrin, G Pessina, A Petrella, A Petrolini, B Pie Valls, B Pietrzyk, T Pilar, D Pinci, R Plackett, S Playfer, M Plo Casasus, G Polok, A Poluektov, E Polycarpo, D Popov, B Popovici, C Potterat, A Powell, T du Pree, J Prisciandaro, V Pugatch, A Puig Navarro, W Qian, JH Rademacker, B Rakotomiaramanana, MS Rangel, I Raniuk, G Raven, S Redford, MM Reid, AC dos Reis, S Ricciardi, K Rinnert, DA Roa Romero, P Robbe, E Rodrigues, F Rodrigues, P Rodriguez Perez, GJ Rogers, S Roiser, V Romanovsky, J Rouvinet, T Ruf, H Ruiz, G Sabatino, JJ Saborido Silva, N Sagidova, P Sail, B Saitta, C Salzmann, M Sannino, R Santacesaria, C Santamarina Rios, R Santinelli, E Santovetti, M Sapunov, A Sarti, C Satriano, A Satta, M Savrie, D Savrina, P Schaack, M Schiller, S Schleich, M Schmelling, B Schmidt, O Schneider, A Schopper, M-H Schune, R Schwemmer, A Sciubba, M Seco, A Semennikov, K Senderowska, I Sepp, N Serra, J Serrano, P Seyfert, B Shao, M Shapkin, I Shapoval, P Shatalov, Y Shcheglov, T Shears, L Shekhtman, O Shevchenko, V Shevchenko, A Shires, R Silva Coutinho, HP Skottowe, T Skwarnicki, AC Smith, NA Smith, K Sobczak, FJP Soler, A Solomin, F Soomro, B Souza De Paula, B Spaan, A Sparkes, P Spradlin, F Stagni, S Stahl, O Steinkamp, S Stoica, S Stone, B Storaci, M Straticiuc, U Straumann, N Styles, VK Subbiah, S Swientek, M Szczekowski, P Szczypka, T Szumlak, S T'Jampens, E Teodorescu, F Teubert, C Thomas, E Thomas, J van Tilburg, V Tisserand, M Tobin, S Topp-Joergensen, MT Tran, A Tsaregorodtsev, N Tuning, M Ubeda Garcia, A Ukleja, P Urquijo, U Uwer, V Vagnoni, G Valenti, R Vazquez Gomez, P Vazquez Regueiro, S Vecchi, JJ Velthuis, M Veltri, K Vervink, B Viaud, I Videau, D Vieira, X Vilasis-Cardona, J Visniakov, A Vollhardt, D Voong, A Vorobyev, H Voss, K Wacker, S Wandernoth, J Wang, DR Ward, AD Webber, D Websdale, M Whitehead, D Wiedner, L Wiggers, G Wilkinson, MP Williams, M Williams, FF Wilson, J Wishahi, M Witek, W Witzeling, SA Wotton, K Wyllie, Y Xie, F Xing, Z Yang, R Young, O Yushchenko, M Zavertyaev, F Zhang, L Zhang, WC Zhang, Y Zhang, A Zhelezov, L Zhong, E Zverev, A Zvyagin

Abstract:

A model-independent search for direct CP violation in the Cabibbo suppressed decay $D^+ \to K^- K^+\pi^+$ in a sample of approximately 370,000 decays is carried out. The data were collected by the LHCb experiment in 2010 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 35 pb$^{-1}$. The normalized Dalitz plot distributions for $D^+$ and $D^-$ are compared using four different binning schemes that are sensitive to different manifestations of CP violation. No evidence for CP asymmetry is found.
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Absolute luminosity measurements with the LHCb detector at the LHC

ArXiv 1110.2866 (2011)

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The LHCb Collaboration, R Aaij, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, C Adrover, A Affolder, Z Ajaltouni, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, AA Alves Jr, S Amato, Y Amhis, J Anderson, RB Appleby, O Aquines Gutierrez, F Archilli, L Arrabito, A Artamonov, M Artuso, E Aslanides, G Auriemma, S Bachmann, JJ Back, DS Bailey, V Balagura, W Baldini, RJ Barlow, C Barschel, S Barsuk, W Barter, A Bates, C Bauer, Th Bauer, A Bay, I Bediaga, K Belous, I Belyaev, E Ben-Haim, M Benayoun, G Bencivenni, S Benson, J Benton, R Bernet, M-O Bettler, M van Beuzekom, A Bien, S Bifani, A Bizzeti, PM Bjørnstad, T Blake, F Blanc, C Blanks, J Blouw, S Blusk, A Bobrov, V Bocci, A Bondar, N Bondar, W Bonivento, S Borghi, A Borgia, TJV Bowcock, C Bozzi, T Brambach, J van den Brand, J Bressieux, D Brett, S Brisbane, M Britsch, T Britton, NH Brook, H Brown, A Büchler-Germann, I Burducea, A Bursche, J Buytaert, S Cadeddu, JM Caicedo Carvajal, O Callot, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, A Camboni, P Campana, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, L Carson, K Carvalho Akiba, G Casse, M Cattaneo, M Charles, Ph Charpentier, N Chiapolini, K Ciba, X Cid Vidal, G Ciezarek, PEL Clarke, M Clemencic, HV Cliff, J Closier, C Coca, V Coco, J Cogan, P Collins, F Constantin, G Conti, A Contu, A Cook, M Coombes, G Corti, GA Cowan, R Currie, B D'Almagne, C D'Ambrosio, P David, I De Bonis, S De Capua, M De Cian, F De Lorenzi, JM De Miranda, L De Paula, P De Simone, D Decamp, M Deckenhoff, H Degaudenzi, M Deissenroth, L Del Buono, C Deplano, O Deschamps, F Dettori, J Dickens, H Dijkstra, P Diniz Batista, S Donleavy, F Dordei, A Dosil Suárez, D Dossett, A Dovbnya, F Dupertuis, R Dzhelyadin, C Eames, S Easo, U Egede, V Egorychev, S Eidelman, D van Eijk, F Eisele, S Eisenhardt, R Ekelhof, L Eklund, Ch Elsasser, DG d'Enterria, D Esperante Pereira, L Estève, A Falabella, E Fanchini, C Färber, G Fardell, C Farinelli, S Farry, V Fave, V Fernandez Albor, M Ferro-Luzzi, S Filippov, C Fitzpatrick, M Fontana, F Fontanelli, R Forty, M Frank, C Frei, M Frosini, S Furcas, A Gallas Torreira, D Galli, M Gandelman, P Gandini, Y Gao, J-C Garnier, J Garofoli, J Garra Tico, L Garrido, C Gaspar, N Gauvin, M Gersabeck, T Gershon, Ph Ghez, V Gibson, VV Gligorov, C Göbel, D Golubkov, A Golutvin, A Gomes, H Gordon, M Grabalosa Gándara, R Graciani Diaz, LA Granado Cardoso, E Graugés, G Graziani, A Grecu, S Gregson, B Gui, E Gushchin, Yu Guz, T Gys, G Haefeli, C Haen, SC Haines, T Hampson, S Hansmann-Menzemer, R Harji, N Harnew, J Harrison, PF Harrison, J He, V Heijne, K Hennessy, P Henrard, JA Hernando Morata, E van Herwijnen, E Hicks, W Hofmann, K Holubyev, P Hopchev, W Hulsbergen, P Hunt, T Huse, RS Huston, D Hutchcroft, D Hynds, V Iakovenko, P Ilten, J Imong, R Jacobsson, A Jaeger, M Jahjah Hussein, E Jans, F Jansen, P Jaton, B Jean-Marie, F Jing, M John, D Johnson, CR Jones, B Jost, S Kandybei, M Karacson, TM Karbach, J Keaveney, U Kerzel, T Ketel, A Keune, B Khanji, YM Kim, M Knecht, S Koblitz, P 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Abstract:

Absolute luminosity measurements are of general interest for colliding-beam experiments at storage rings. These measurements are necessary to determine the absolute cross-sections of reaction processes and are valuable to quantify the performance of the accelerator. Using data taken in 2010, LHCb has applied two methods to determine the absolute scale of its luminosity measurements for proton-proton collisions at the LHC with a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. In addition to the classic "van der Meer scan" method a novel technique has been developed which makes use of direct imaging of the individual beams using beam-gas and beam-beam interactions. This beam imaging method is made possible by the high resolution of the LHCb vertex detector and the close proximity of the detector to the beams, and allows beam parameters such as positions, angles and widths to be determined. The results of the two methods have comparable precision and are in good agreement. Combining the two methods, an overall precision of 3.5% in the absolute luminosity determination is reached. The techniques used to transport the absolute luminosity calibration to the full 2010 data-taking period are presented.
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LHCb detector performance

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