Test of lepton universality in beauty-quark decays
(2021)
Authors:
LHCb collaboration, R Aaij, C Abellán Beteta, T Ackernley, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, H Afsharnia, 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, Y Amhis, L An, L Anderlini, 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 Leite, RJ Barlow, S Barsuk, W Barter, M Bartolini, F Baryshnikov, JM Basels, G Bassi, B Batsukh, A Battig, A Bay, 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, Ia Bezshyiko, S Bhasin, J Bhom, L Bian, MS Bieker, S Bifani, P Billoir, 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, M Brodski, J Brodzicka, A Brossa Gonzalo, D Brundu, A Buonaura, C Burr, A Bursche, A Butkevich, JS Butter, J Buytaert, W Byczynski, S Cadeddu, H Cai, R Calabrese, L Calefice, L Calero Diaz, S Cali, R Calladine, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, P Camargo Magalhaes, A Camboni, 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, G Casse, M Cattaneo, G Cavallero, S Celani, J Cerasoli, AJ Chadwick, MG Chapman, M Charles, Ph 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, G Corti, CM Costa Sobral, B Couturier, DC Craik, J Crkovská, M Cruz Torres, R Currie, CL Da Silva, E Dall'Occo, J Dalseno, C D'Ambrosio, A Danilina, P d'Argent, A Davis, O De Aguiar Francisco, K De Bruyn, S De Capua, M De Cian, JM De Miranda, L De Paula, M De Serio, D De Simone, P De Simone, JA de Vries, CT Dean, D Decamp, L Del Buono, B Delaney, H-P Dembinski, A Dendek, V Denysenko, D Derkach, O Deschamps, F Desse, F Dettori, B Dey, P Di Nezza, S Didenko, L Dieste Maronas, H Dijkstra, V Dobishuk, AM Donohoe, F Dordei, AC dos Reis, L Douglas, A Dovbnya, AG Downes, K Dreimanis, 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, A Falabella, J Fan, Y Fan, B Fang, S Farry, D Fazzini, M Féo, A Fernandez Prieto, JM Fernandez-tenllado Arribas, 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, D Fitzgerald, C Fitzpatrick, T Fiutowski, F Fleuret, M Fontana, F Fontanelli, R Forty, V Franco Lima, M Franco Sevilla, M Frank, E Franzoso, G Frau, C Frei, DA Friday, J Fu, Q Fuehring, W Funk, E Gabriel, T Gaintseva, 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, Ph Ghez, V Gibson, HK Giemza, M Giovannetti, A Gioventù, P Gironella Gironell, L Giubega, 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, P Griffith, L Grillo, S Gromov, BR Gruberg Cazon, C Gu, M Guarise, 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, S Hansmann-Menzemer, N Harnew, T Harrison, C Hasse, M Hatch, J He, M Hecker, K Heijhoff, K Heinicke, AM Hennequin, K Hennessy, L Henry, J Heuel, A Hicheur, D Hill, M Hilton, SE Hollitt, J Hu, J Hu, W 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, S Jakobsen, E Jans, BK Jashal, A Jawahery, V Jevtic, M Jezabek, F Jiang, M John, D Johnson, CR Jones, TP Jones, B Jost, N Jurik, S Kandybei, Y Kang, M Karacson, M Karpov, F Keizer, M Kenzie, T Ketel, B Khanji, A Kharisova, S Kholodenko, T Kirn, VS Kirsebom, O Kitouni, S Klaver, K Klimaszewski, 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, W Kucewicz, 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, L 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, S Liu, X Liu, A Loi, J Lomba Castro, I Longstaff, JH Lopes, GH Lovell, Y Lu, 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, D Maisuzenko, 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 Martellotti, L Martinazzoli, M Martinelli, D Martinez Santos, F Martinez Vidal, A Massafferri, M Materok, R Matev, A Mathad, Z Mathe, V Matiunin, C Matteuzzi, KR Mattioli, A Mauri, E Maurice, J Mauricio, M Mazurek, M McCann, L Mcconnell, TH Mcgrath, A McNab, R McNulty, JV Mead, B Meadows, C Meaux, G Meier, N Meinert, 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, 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, P Muzzetto, P Naik, T Nakada, R Nandakumar, T Nanut, I Nasteva, M Needham, I Neri, N Neri, S Neubert, N Neufeld, R Newcombe, TD Nguyen, C Nguyen-Mau, EM Niel, S Nieswand, N Nikitin, NS Nolte, C Nunez, A Oblakowska-Mucha, V Obraztsov, DP O'Hanlon, R Oldeman, ME Olivares, CJG Onderwater, A Ossowska, JM Otalora Goicochea, T Ovsiannikova, P Owen, A Oyanguren, 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, CJ Parkinson, B Passalacqua, G Passaleva, A Pastore, M Patel, C Patrignani, CJ Pawley, A Pearce, A Pellegrino, M Pepe Altarelli, S Perazzini, D Pereima, P Perret, M Petric, K Petridis, A Petrolini, A Petrov, S Petrucci, M Petruzzo, TTH Pham, A Philippov, L Pica, M Piccini, B Pietrzyk, G Pietrzyk, M Pili, D Pinci, F Pisani, Resmi P K, V Placinta, J Plews, M Plo Casasus, F Polci, M Poli Lener, M Poliakova, A Poluektov, N Polukhina, I Polyakov, E Polycarpo, GJ Pomery, S Ponce, D Popov, S Popov, S Poslavskii, K Prasanth, L Promberger, C Prouve, V Pugatch, H Pullen, G Punzi, W Qian, J Qin, R Quagliani, B Quintana, NV Raab, RI Rabadan Trejo, B Rachwal, JH Rademacker, M Rama, M Ramos Pernas, MS Rangel, F Ratnikov, G Raven, M Reboud, F Redi, F Reiss, C Remon Alepuz, Z Ren, V Renaudin, R Ribatti, S Ricciardi, K Rinnert, P Robbe, G Robertson, AB Rodrigues, E Rodrigues, JA Rodriguez Lopez, A Rollings, P Roloff, V Romanovskiy, M Romero Lamas, A Romero Vidal, JD Roth, M Rotondo, MS Rudolph, T Ruf, J Ruiz Vidal, A Ryzhikov, J Ryzka, JJ Saborido Silva, N Sagidova, N Sahoo, B Saitta, M Salomoni, D Sanchez Gonzalo, C Sanchez Gras, R Santacesaria, C Santamarina Rios, M Santimaria, E Santovetti, D Saranin, G Sarpis, M Sarpis, A Sarti, C Satriano, A Satta, M Saur, D Savrina, H Sazak, LG Scantlebury Smead, S Schael, M Schellenberg, M Schiller, H Schindler, M Schmelling, B Schmidt, O Schneider, A Schopper, M Schubiger, S Schulte, MH Schune, R Schwemmer, B Sciascia, S Sellam, A Semennikov, M Senghi Soares, A Sergi, N Serra, L Sestini, A Seuthe, P Seyfert, Y Shang, DM Shangase, M Shapkin, I Shchemerov, L Shchutska, T Shears, L Shekhtman, Z Shen, V Shevchenko, EB Shields, E Shmanin, JD Shupperd, BG Siddi, R Silva Coutinho, G Simi, S Simone, N Skidmore, T Skwarnicki, MW Slater, I Slazyk, JC Smallwood, JG Smeaton, A Smetkina, E Smith, M Smith, A Snoch, M Soares, L Soares Lavra, MD Sokoloff, FJP Soler, A Solovev, I Solovyev, FL Souza De Almeida, B Souza De Paula, B Spaan, E Spadaro Norella, P Spradlin, F Stagni, M Stahl, S Stahl, P Stefko, O Steinkamp, O Stenyakin, H Stevens, S Stone, ME Stramaglia, M Straticiuc, D Strekalina, F Suljik, J Sun, L Sun, Y Sun, P Svihra, PN Swallow, K Swientek, A Szabelski, T Szumlak, M Szymanski, S Taneja, F Teubert, E Thomas, KA Thomson, V Tisserand, S T'Jampens, M Tobin, L Tomassetti, D Torres Machado, DY Tou, MT Tran, E Trifonova, C Trippl, G Tuci, A Tully, N Tuning, A Ukleja, DJ Unverzagt, E Ursov, A Usachov, A Ustyuzhanin, U Uwer, A Vagner, V Vagnoni, A Valassi, G Valenti, N Valls Canudas, M van Beuzekom, M Van Dijk, E van Herwijnen, CB Van Hulse, M van Veghel, R Vazquez Gomez, P Vazquez Regueiro, C Vázquez Sierra, S Vecchi, JJ Velthuis, M Veltri, A Venkateswaran, M Veronesi, M Vesterinen, D Vieira, M Vieites Diaz, H Viemann, X Vilasis-Cardona, E Vilella Figueras, P Vincent, D Vom Bruch, A Vorobyev, V Vorobyev, N Voropaev, R Waldi, J Walsh, C Wang, J Wang, J Wang, J Wang, J Wang, M Wang, R Wang, Y Wang, Z Wang, Z Wang, HM Wark, NK Watson, SG Weber, D Websdale, C Weisser, BDC Westhenry, DJ White, M Whitehead, D Wiedner, G Wilkinson, M Wilkinson, I Williams, M Williams, MRJ Williams, FF Wilson, W Wislicki, M Witek, L Witola, G Wormser, SA Wotton, H Wu, K Wyllie, Z Xiang, D Xiao, Y Xie, A Xu, J Xu, L Xu, M Xu, Q Xu, Z Xu, Z Xu, D Yang, S Yang, Y Yang, Z Yang, Z Yang, Y Yao, LE Yeomans, H Yin, J Yu, X Yuan, O Yushchenko, E Zaffaroni, M Zavertyaev, M Zdybal, O Zenaiev, M Zeng, D Zhang, L Zhang, S Zhang, Y Zhang, Y Zhang, A Zhelezov, Y Zheng, X Zhou, Y Zhou, X Zhu, Z Zhu, V Zhukov, JB Zonneveld, Q Zou, S Zucchelli, D Zuliani, G ZunicaSearch for $CP$ violation in $D_{(s)}^{+}\rightarrow h^{+}\pi^{0}$ and $D_{(s)}^{+}\rightarrow h^{+}\eta$ decays
(2021)
Authors:
LHCb collaboration, R Aaij, C Abellán Beteta, T Ackernley, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, H Afsharnia, 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, Y Amhis, L An, L Anderlini, 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 Leite, RJ Barlow, S Barsuk, W Barter, M Bartolini, F Baryshnikov, JM Basels, G Bassi, B Batsukh, A Battig, A Bay, 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, F Bernard, R Bernet, D Berninghoff, HC Bernstein, C Bertella, A Bertolin, C Betancourt, F Betti, Ia Bezshyiko, S Bhasin, J Bhom, L Bian, MS Bieker, S Bifani, P Billoir, 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, M Brodski, J Brodzicka, A Brossa Gonzalo, D Brundu, A Buonaura, C Burr, A Bursche, A Butkevich, JS Butter, J Buytaert, W Byczynski, S Cadeddu, H Cai, R Calabrese, L Calefice, L Calero Diaz, S Cali, R Calladine, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, P Camargo Magalhaes, A Camboni, 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, G Casse, M Cattaneo, G Cavallero, S Celani, J Cerasoli, AJ Chadwick, MG Chapman, M Charles, Ph 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, G Corti, CM Costa Sobral, B Couturier, DC Craik, J Crkovská, M Cruz Torres, R Currie, CL Da Silva, S Dadabaev, E Dall'Occo, J Dalseno, C D'Ambrosio, A Danilina, P d'Argent, A Davis, O De Aguiar Francisco, K De Bruyn, S De Capua, M De Cian, JM De Miranda, L De Paula, M De Serio, D De Simone, P De Simone, JA de Vries, CT Dean, D Decamp, 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, AM Donohoe, F Dordei, AC dos Reis, L Douglas, A Dovbnya, AG Downes, K Dreimanis, 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, A Falabella, J Fan, Y Fan, B Fang, S Farry, D Fazzini, M Féo, A Fernandez Prieto, JM Fernandez-tenllado Arribas, 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, D Fitzgerald, C Fitzpatrick, T Fiutowski, A Fkiaras, F Fleuret, M Fontana, F Fontanelli, R Forty, V Franco Lima, M Franco Sevilla, M Frank, E Franzoso, G Frau, C Frei, DA Friday, J Fu, Q Fuehring, W Funk, E Gabriel, T Gaintseva, 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, Ph Ghez, V Gibson, HK Giemza, M Giovannetti, A Gioventù, P Gironella Gironell, L Giubega, 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, P Griffith, L Grillo, S Gromov, BR Gruberg Cazon, C Gu, M Guarise, 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, S Hansmann-Menzemer, N Harnew, T Harrison, C Hasse, M Hatch, J He, M Hecker, K Heijhoff, K Heinicke, AM Hennequin, K Hennessy, L Henry, J Heuel, A Hicheur, D Hill, M Hilton, SE Hollitt, 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, S Jakobsen, E Jans, BK Jashal, A Jawahery, V Jevtic, M Jezabek, F Jiang, M John, D Johnson, CR Jones, TP Jones, B Jost, N Jurik, S Kandybei, Y Kang, M Karacson, M Karpov, F Keizer, M Kenzie, T Ketel, B Khanji, A Kharisova, S Kholodenko, T Kirn, VS Kirsebom, O Kitouni, S Klaver, K Klimaszewski, 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, W Kucewicz, 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, L 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, S Liu, A Loi, J Lomba Castro, I Longstaff, JH Lopes, GH Lovell, Y Lu, 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, D Maisuzenko, 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 Martellotti, L Martinazzoli, M Martinelli, D Martinez Santos, F Martinez Vidal, A Massafferri, M Materok, R Matev, A Mathad, Z Mathe, V Matiunin, C Matteuzzi, KR Mattioli, A Mauri, E Maurice, J Mauricio, M Mazurek, M McCann, L Mcconnell, TH Mcgrath, A McNab, R McNulty, JV Mead, B Meadows, G Meier, N Meinert, 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, 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, P Muzzetto, P Naik, T Nakada, R Nandakumar, T Nanut, I Nasteva, M Needham, I Neri, N Neri, S Neubert, N Neufeld, R Newcombe, TD Nguyen, C Nguyen-Mau, EM Niel, S Nieswand, N Nikitin, NS Nolte, C Normand, C Nunez, A Oblakowska-Mucha, V Obraztsov, DP O'Hanlon, R Oldeman, ME Olivares, CJG Onderwater, A Ossowska, JM Otalora Goicochea, T Ovsiannikova, P Owen, A Oyanguren, 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, CJ Parkinson, B Passalacqua, G Passaleva, A Pastore, M Patel, C Patrignani, CJ Pawley, A Pearce, A Pellegrino, M Pepe Altarelli, S Perazzini, D Pereima, P Perret, M Petric, K Petridis, A Petrolini, A Petrov, S Petrucci, M Petruzzo, TTH Pham, A Philippov, L Pica, M Piccini, B Pietrzyk, G Pietrzyk, M Pili, D Pinci, F Pisani, Resmi P K, V Placinta, J Plews, M Plo Casasus, F Polci, M Poli Lener, M Poliakova, A Poluektov, N Polukhina, I Polyakov, E Polycarpo, GJ Pomery, S Ponce, D Popov, S Popov, S Poslavskii, K Prasanth, L 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European Physical Journal H EDP Sciences 46:1 (2021) 3
Authors:
I Belyaev, G Carboni, Neville Harnew, C Matteuzzi, F TeubertAbstract:
In this paper, we describe the history of the LHCb experiment over the last three decades, and its remarkable successes and achievements. LHCb was conceived primarily as a -physics experiment, dedicated to violation studies and measurements of very rare decays; however, the tremendous potential for -physics was also clear. At first data taking, the versatility of the experiment as a general-purpose detector in the forward region also became evident, with measurements achievable such as electroweak physics, jets and new particle searches in open states. These were facilitated by the excellent capability of the detector to identify muons and to reconstruct decay vertices close to the primary interaction region. By the end of the LHC Run 2 in 2018, before the accelerator paused for its second long shut down, LHCb had measured the CKM quark mixing matrix elements and violation parameters to world-leading precision in the heavy-quark systems. The experiment had also measured many rare decays of and quark mesons and baryons to below their Standard Model expectations, some down to branching ratios of order 10. In addition, world knowledge of and spectroscopy had improved significantly through discoveries of many new resonances already anticipated in the quark model, and also adding new exotic four and five quark states. The paper describes the evolution of the LHCb detector, from conception to its operation at the present time. The authors’ subjective summary of the experiment’s important contributions is then presented, demonstrating the wide domain of successful physics measurements that have been achieved over the years.
A simple method to determine charge-dependent curvature biases in track reconstruction in hadron collider experiments
Eur.Phys.J.C 81 (2021) 3, 251
Authors:
William Barter, Martina Pili, Mika Vesterinen
Abstract:
A new data-driven method, using Z→μ+μ− decays, is proposed to correct for charge-dependent curvature biases in spectrometer experiments at hadron colliders. The method is studied assuming a detector with a "forward-spectrometer" geometry similar to that of the LHCb experiment, and is shown to reliably control several simplified detector mis-alignment configurations. The applicability of the method for use in measurements of precision electroweak observables is evaluated.
Measurement of the prompt-production cross-section ratio $\sigma(\chi_{c2})/\sigma(\chi_{c1})$ in $p$Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 8.16 TeV
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