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Measurement of the CP Asymmetry in B_{s}^{0}-B[over ¯]_{s}^{0} Mixing.

Physical review letters 117:6 (2016) 061803-061803

Authors:

R Aaij, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, 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, G Andreassi, M Andreotti, JE Andrews, RB Appleby, O Aquines Gutierrez, F Archilli, P d'Argent, J Arnau Romeu, 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, V Bellee, N Belloli, K Belous, I Belyaev, E Ben-Haim, G Bencivenni, S Benson, J Benton, A Berezhnoy, R Bernet, A Bertolin, M-O Bettler, M van Beuzekom, S Bifani, P Billoir, T Bird, A Birnkraut, A Bitadze, A Bizzeti, T Blake, F Blanc, J Blouw, S Blusk, V Bocci, T Boettcher, A Bondar, N Bondar, W Bonivento, S Borghi, M Borisyak, M Borsato, F Bossu, M Boubdir, TJV Bowcock, E Bowen, C Bozzi, S Braun, M Britsch, T Britton, J Brodzicka, E Buchanan, C Burr, 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, C Cauet, G Cavallero, R Cenci, M Charles, P Charpentier, G Chatzikonstantinidis, M Chefdeville, S Chen, S-F Cheung, V Chobanova, 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, S Coquereau, G Corti, M Corvo, CM Costa Sobral, B Couturier, GA Cowan, DC Craik, A Crocombe, M Cruz Torres, S Cunliffe, R Currie, C D'Ambrosio, E Dall'Occo, J Dalseno, PNY David, A Davis, O De Aguiar Francisco, K De Bruyn, S De Capua, M De Cian, JM De Miranda, L De Paula, P De Simone, C-T Dean, D Decamp, M Deckenhoff, L Del Buono, M Demmer, D Derkach, O Deschamps, F Dettori, B Dey, A Di Canto, H Dijkstra, F Dordei, M Dorigo, A Dosil Suárez, A Dovbnya, K Dreimanis, L Dufour, G Dujany, K Dungs, P Durante, R Dzhelyadin, A Dziurda, A Dzyuba, N Déléage, S Easo, U Egede, V Egorychev, S Eidelman, S Eisenhardt, U Eitschberger, R Ekelhof, L Eklund, C Elsasser, S Ely, S Esen, HM Evans, T Evans, A Falabella, 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, F Fleuret, K Fohl, M Fontana, F Fontanelli, DC Forshaw, R Forty, M Frank, C Frei, M Frosini, J Fu, E Furfaro, C Färber, A Gallas Torreira, D Galli, S Gallorini, S Gambetta, M Gandelman, P Gandini, Y Gao, J García Pardiñas, J Garra Tico, L Garrido, PJ Garsed, D Gascon, C Gaspar, L Gavardi, G Gazzoni, D Gerick, E Gersabeck, M Gersabeck, T Gershon, P Ghez, S Gianì, V Gibson, OG Girard, L Giubega, K Gizdov, VV Gligorov, D Golubkov, A Golutvin, A Gomes, IV Gorelov, C Gotti, M Grabalosa Gándara, R Graciani Diaz, LA Granado Cardoso, E Graugés, E Graverini, G Graziani, A Grecu, P Griffith, L Grillo, BR Gruberg Cazon, O Grünberg, E Gushchin, Y Guz, T Gys, C Göbel, T Hadavizadeh, C Hadjivasiliou, G Haefeli, C Haen, SC Haines, S Hall, B Hamilton, X Han, S Hansmann-Menzemer, N Harnew, ST Harnew, J Harrison, J He, T Head, A Heister, K Hennessy, P Henrard, L Henry, JA Hernando Morata, E van Herwijnen, M Heß, A Hicheur, D Hill, C Hombach, W Hulsbergen, T Humair, M Hushchyn, N Hussain, D Hutchcroft, M Idzik, P Ilten, R Jacobsson, A Jaeger, J Jalocha, E Jans, A Jawahery, M John, D Johnson, CR Jones, C Joram, B Jost, N Jurik, S Kandybei, W Kanso, M Karacson, JM Kariuki, S Karodia, M Kecke, M Kelsey, IR Kenyon, M Kenzie, T Ketel, E Khairullin, B Khanji, C Khurewathanakul, T Kirn, S Klaver, K Klimaszewski, S Koliiev, M Kolpin, I Komarov, RF Koopman, P Koppenburg, A Kozachuk, M Kozeiha, L Kravchuk, K Kreplin, M Kreps, P Krokovny, F Kruse, W Krzemien, W Kucewicz, M Kucharczyk, V Kudryavtsev, AK Kuonen, K Kurek, T Kvaratskheliya, D Lacarrere, G Lafferty, A Lai, D Lambert, G Lanfranchi, C Langenbruch, B Langhans, T Latham, C Lazzeroni, R Le Gac, J van Leerdam, J-P Lees, A Leflat, J Lefrançois, R Lefèvre, F Lemaitre, E Lemos Cid, O Leroy, T Lesiak, B Leverington, Y Li, T Likhomanenko, R Lindner, C Linn, F Lionetto, B Liu, X Liu, D Loh, I Longstaff, JH Lopes, D Lucchesi, M Lucio Martinez, H Luo, A Lupato, E Luppi, O Lupton, A Lusiani, X Lyu, F Machefert, F Maciuc, O Maev, K Maguire, S Malde, A Malinin, T Maltsev, G Manca, G Mancinelli, P Manning, J Maratas, JF Marchand, U Marconi, C Marin Benito, P Marino, J Marks, G Martellotti, M Martin, M Martinelli, D Martinez Santos, F Martinez Vidal, D Martins Tostes, LM Massacrier, A Massafferri, R Matev, A Mathad, Z Mathe, C Matteuzzi, A Mauri, B Maurin, A Mazurov, M McCann, J McCarthy, A McNab, R McNulty, B Meadows, F Meier, M Meissner, D Melnychuk, M Merk, E Michielin, DA Milanes, M-N Minard, DS Mitzel, J Molina Rodriguez, IA Monroy, S Monteil, M Morandin, P Morawski, A Mordà, MJ Morello, J Moron, AB Morris, R Mountain, F Muheim, M Mulder, M Mussini, D Müller, J Müller, K Müller, V Müller, P Naik, T Nakada, R Nandakumar, A Nandi, I Nasteva, M Needham, N Neri, S Neubert, N Neufeld, M Neuner, AD Nguyen, C Nguyen-Mau, V Niess, S Nieswand, R Niet, N Nikitin, T Nikodem, A Novoselov, DP O'Hanlon, A Oblakowska-Mucha, V Obraztsov, S Ogilvy, R Oldeman, CJG Onderwater, JM Otalora Goicochea, A Otto, P Owen, A Oyanguren, A Palano, F Palombo, M Palutan, J Panman, A Papanestis, M Pappagallo, LL Pappalardo, C Pappenheimer, W Parker, 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, A Petrov, M Petruzzo, E Picatoste Olloqui, B Pietrzyk, M Pikies, D Pinci, A Pistone, A Piucci, S Playfer, M Plo Casasus, T Poikela, F Polci, A Poluektov, I Polyakov, E Polycarpo, GJ Pomery, 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, M Rama, M Ramos Pernas, MS Rangel, I Raniuk, G Raven, F Redi, S Reichert, AC Dos Reis, C Remon Alepuz, V Renaudin, S Ricciardi, S Richards, M Rihl, K Rinnert, V Rives Molina, P Robbe, AB Rodrigues, E Rodrigues, JA Rodriguez Lopez, P Rodriguez Perez, A Rogozhnikov, S Roiser, V Romanovskiy, A Romero Vidal, JW Ronayne, M Rotondo, T Ruf, P Ruiz Valls, JJ Saborido Silva, N Sagidova, 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, S Schael, 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, A Sergi, N Serra, J Serrano, L Sestini, P Seyfert, M Shapkin, I Shapoval, Y Shcheglov, T Shears, L Shekhtman, V Shevchenko, A Shires, BG Siddi, R Silva Coutinho, L Silva de Oliveira, G Simi, M Sirendi, N Skidmore, T Skwarnicki, E Smith, IT Smith, J Smith, M Smith, H Snoek, MD Sokoloff, FJP Soler, D Souza, B Souza De Paula, B Spaan, P Spradlin, S Sridharan, F Stagni, M Stahl, S Stahl, P Stefko, S Stefkova, O Steinkamp, O Stenyakin, S Stevenson, S Stoica, S Stone, B Storaci, S Stracka, M Straticiuc, U Straumann, L Sun, W Sutcliffe, K Swientek, V Syropoulos, M Szczekowski, T Szumlak, S T'Jampens, A Tayduganov, T Tekampe, G Tellarini, F Teubert, C Thomas, E Thomas, J van Tilburg, V Tisserand, M Tobin, S Tolk, L Tomassetti, D Tonelli, S Topp-Joergensen, E Tournefier, S Tourneur, K Trabelsi, M Traill, MT Tran, M Tresch, A Trisovic, A Tsaregorodtsev, P Tsopelas, A Tully, N Tuning, A Ukleja, A Ustyuzhanin, U Uwer, C Vacca, V Vagnoni, S Valat, G Valenti, A Vallier, R Vazquez Gomez, P Vazquez Regueiro, S Vecchi, M van Veghel, JJ Velthuis, M Veltri, G Veneziano, A Venkateswaran, M Vesterinen, B Viaud, D Vieira, M Vieites Diaz, X Vilasis-Cardona, V Volkov, A Vollhardt, B Voneki, D Voong, A Vorobyev, V Vorobyev, C Voß, JA de Vries, C Vázquez Sierra, C Vázquez Sierra, R Waldi, C Wallace, R Wallace, J Walsh, J Wang, DR Ward, HM Wark, NK Watson, D Websdale, A Weiden, M Whitehead, J Wicht, 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, K Wraight, S Wright, K Wyllie, Y Xie, Z Xing, Z Xu, Z Yang, H Yin, J Yu, X Yuan, O Yushchenko, M Zangoli, KA Zarebski, M Zavertyaev, L Zhang, Y Zhang, Y Zhang, A Zhelezov, Y Zheng, A Zhokhov, V Zhukov, S Zucchelli

Abstract:

The CP asymmetry in the mixing of B_{s}^{0} and B[over ¯]_{s}^{0} mesons is measured in proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0  fb^{-1}, recorded by the LHCb experiment at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. Semileptonic B_{s}^{0} and B[over ¯]_{s}^{0} decays are studied in the inclusive mode D_{s}^{∓}μ^{±}ν[over (-)]_{μ}X with the D_{s}^{∓} mesons reconstructed in the K^{+}K^{-}π^{∓} final state. Correcting the observed charge asymmetry for detection and background effects, the CP asymmetry is found to be a_{sl}^{s}=(0.39±0.26±0.20)%, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. This is the most precise measurement of a_{sl}^{s} to date. It is consistent with the prediction from the standard model and will constrain new models of particle physics.

Amplitude analysis of $B^{-} \to D^{+} \pi^{-} \pi^{-}$ decays

(2016)

Authors:

LHCb collaboration, R Aaij, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, 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, G Andreassi, M Andreotti, JE Andrews, RB Appleby, O Aquines Gutierrez, F Archilli, P d'Argent, J Arnau Romeu, A Artamonov, M Artuso, E Aslanides, G Auriemma, M Baalouch, I Babuschkin, S Bachmann, JJ Back, A Badalov, C Baesso, S Baker, W Baldini, RJ Barlow, C Barschel, S Barsuk, W Barter, V Batozskaya, B Batsukh, V Battista, A Bay, L Beaucourt, J Beddow, F Bedeschi, I Bediaga, LJ Bel, V Bellee, N Belloli, K Belous, I Belyaev, E Ben-Haim, G Bencivenni, S Benson, J Benton, A Berezhnoy, R Bernet, A Bertolin, F Betti, M-O Bettler, M van Beuzekom, I Bezshyiko, S Bifani, P Billoir, T Bird, A Birnkraut, A Bitadze, A Bizzeti, T Blake, F Blanc, J Blouw, S Blusk, V Bocci, T Boettcher, A Bondar, N Bondar, W Bonivento, A Borgheresi, S Borghi, M Borisyak, M Borsato, F Bossu, M Boubdir, TJV Bowcock, E Bowen, C Bozzi, S Braun, M Britsch, T Britton, J Brodzicka, E Buchanan, C Burr, A Bursche, J Buytaert, S Cadeddu, R Calabrese, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, A Camboni, P Campana, D Campora Perez, DH 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, G Chatzikonstantinidis, M Chefdeville, S Chen, S-F Cheung, V Chobanova, 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, S Coquereau, G Corti, M Corvo, CM Costa Sobral, B Couturier, GA Cowan, DC Craik, A Crocombe, M Cruz Torres, S Cunliffe, R Currie, C D'Ambrosio, E Dall'Occo, J Dalseno, PNY David, A Davis, O De Aguiar Francisco, K De Bruyn, S De Capua, M De Cian, JM De Miranda, L De Paula, M De Serio, P De Simone, C-T Dean, D Decamp, M Deckenhoff, L Del Buono, M Demmer, D Derkach, O Deschamps, F Dettori, B Dey, A Di Canto, H Dijkstra, F Dordei, M Dorigo, A Dosil Suárez, A Dovbnya, K Dreimanis, L Dufour, G Dujany, K Dungs, P Durante, R Dzhelyadin, A Dziurda, A Dzyuba, N Déléage, S Easo, M Ebert, U Egede, V Egorychev, S Eidelman, S Eisenhardt, U Eitschberger, R Ekelhof, L Eklund, Ch Elsasser, S Ely, S Esen, HM Evans, T Evans, A Falabella, N Farley, S Farry, R Fay, D Fazzini, D Ferguson, V Fernandez Albor, A Fernandez Prieto, F Ferrari, F Ferreira Rodrigues, M Ferro-Luzzi, S Filippov, RA Fini, M Fiore, M Fiorini, M Firlej, C Fitzpatrick, T Fiutowski, F Fleuret, K Fohl, M Fontana, F Fontanelli, DC Forshaw, R Forty, V Franco Lima, M Frank, C Frei, J Fu, E Furfaro, C Färber, A Gallas Torreira, D Galli, S Gallorini, S Gambetta, M Gandelman, P Gandini, Y Gao, LM Garcia Martin, J García Pardiñas, J Garra Tico, L Garrido, PJ Garsed, D Gascon, C Gaspar, L Gavardi, G Gazzoni, D Gerick, E Gersabeck, M Gersabeck, T Gershon, Ph Ghez, S Gianí, V Gibson, OG Girard, L Giubega, K Gizdov, VV Gligorov, D Golubkov, A Golutvin, A Gomes, IV Gorelov, C Gotti, M Grabalosa Gándara, R Graciani Diaz, LA Granado Cardoso, E Graugés, E Graverini, G Graziani, A Grecu, P Griffith, L Grillo, BR Gruberg Cazon, O Grünberg, E Gushchin, Yu Guz, T Gys, C Göbel, T Hadavizadeh, C Hadjivasiliou, G Haefeli, C Haen, SC Haines, S Hall, B Hamilton, X Han, S Hansmann-Menzemer, N Harnew, ST Harnew, J Harrison, M Hatch, J He, T Head, A Heister, K Hennessy, P Henrard, L Henry, JA Hernando Morata, E van Herwijnen, M Heß, A Hicheur, D Hill, C Hombach, W Hulsbergen, T Humair, M Hushchyn, N Hussain, D Hutchcroft, M Idzik, P Ilten, R Jacobsson, A Jaeger, J Jalocha, E Jans, A Jawahery, F Jiang, M John, D Johnson, CR Jones, C Joram, B Jost, N Jurik, S Kandybei, W Kanso, M Karacson, JM Kariuki, S Karodia, M Kecke, M Kelsey, IR Kenyon, M Kenzie, T Ketel, E Khairullin, B Khanji, C Khurewathanakul, T Kirn, S Klaver, K Klimaszewski, S Koliiev, M Kolpin, I Komarov, RF Koopman, P Koppenburg, A Kozachuk, M Kozeiha, L Kravchuk, K Kreplin, M Kreps, P Krokovny, F Kruse, W Krzemien, W Kucewicz, M Kucharczyk, V Kudryavtsev, AK Kuonen, K Kurek, T Kvaratskheliya, D Lacarrere, G Lafferty, A Lai, D Lambert, G Lanfranchi, C Langenbruch, T Latham, C Lazzeroni, R Le Gac, J van Leerdam, J-P Lees, A Leflat, J Lefrançois, R Lefèvre, F Lemaitre, E Lemos Cid, O Leroy, T Lesiak, B Leverington, Y Li, T Likhomanenko, R Lindner, C Linn, F Lionetto, B Liu, X Liu, D Loh, I Longstaff, JH Lopes, D Lucchesi, M Lucio Martinez, H Luo, A Lupato, E Luppi, O Lupton, A Lusiani, X Lyu, F Machefert, F Maciuc, O Maev, K Maguire, S Malde, A Malinin, T Maltsev, G Manca, G Mancinelli, P Manning, J Maratas, JF Marchand, U Marconi, C Marin Benito, P Marino, J Marks, G Martellotti, M Martin, M Martinelli, D Martinez Santos, F Martinez Vidal, D Martins Tostes, LM Massacrier, A Massafferri, R Matev, A Mathad, Z Mathe, C Matteuzzi, A Mauri, B Maurin, A Mazurov, M McCann, J McCarthy, A McNab, R McNulty, B Meadows, F Meier, M Meissner, D Melnychuk, M Merk, A Merli, E Michielin, DA Milanes, M-N Minard, DS Mitzel, A Mogini, J Molina Rodriguez, IA Monroy, S Monteil, M Morandin, P Morawski, A Mordà, MJ Morello, J Moron, AB Morris, R Mountain, F Muheim, M Mulder, M Mussini, D Müller, J Müller, K Müller, V Müller, P Naik, T Nakada, R Nandakumar, A Nandi, I Nasteva, M Needham, N Neri, S Neubert, N Neufeld, M Neuner, AD Nguyen, C Nguyen-Mau, S Nieswand, R Niet, N Nikitin, T Nikodem, A Novoselov, DP O'Hanlon, A Oblakowska-Mucha, V Obraztsov, S Ogilvy, R Oldeman, CJG Onderwater, JM Otalora Goicochea, A Otto, P Owen, A Oyanguren, PR Pais, A Palano, F Palombo, M Palutan, J Panman, A Papanestis, M Pappagallo, LL Pappalardo, W Parker, C Parkes, G Passaleva, A Pastore, 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, A Petrov, M Petruzzo, E Picatoste Olloqui, B Pietrzyk, M Pikies, D Pinci, A Pistone, A Piucci, S Playfer, M Plo Casasus, T Poikela, F Polci, A Poluektov, I Polyakov, E Polycarpo, GJ Pomery, A Popov, D Popov, B Popovici, S Poslavskii, 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, M Rama, M Ramos Pernas, MS Rangel, I Raniuk, G Raven, F Redi, S Reichert, AC dos Reis, C Remon Alepuz, V Renaudin, S Ricciardi, S Richards, M Rihl, K Rinnert, V Rives Molina, P Robbe, AB Rodrigues, E Rodrigues, JA Rodriguez Lopez, P Rodriguez Perez, A Rogozhnikov, S Roiser, V Romanovskiy, A Romero Vidal, JW Ronayne, M Rotondo, MS Rudolph, T Ruf, P Ruiz Valls, JJ Saborido Silva, E Sadykhov, N Sagidova, 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, S Schael, M Schellenberg, M Schiller, H Schindler, M Schlupp, M Schmelling, T Schmelzer, B Schmidt, O Schneider, A Schopper, K Schubert, M Schubiger, M-H Schune, R Schwemmer, B Sciascia, A Sciubba, A Semennikov, A Sergi, N Serra, J Serrano, L Sestini, P Seyfert, M Shapkin, I Shapoval, Y Shcheglov, T Shears, L Shekhtman, V Shevchenko, A Shires, BG Siddi, R Silva Coutinho, L Silva de Oliveira, G Simi, S Simone, M Sirendi, N Skidmore, T Skwarnicki, E Smith, IT Smith, J Smith, M Smith, H Snoek, MD Sokoloff, FJP Soler, D Souza, B Souza De Paula, B Spaan, P Spradlin, S Sridharan, F Stagni, M Stahl, S Stahl, P Stefko, S Stefkova, O Steinkamp, S Stemmle, O Stenyakin, S Stevenson, S Stoica, S Stone, B Storaci, S Stracka, M Straticiuc, U Straumann, L Sun, W Sutcliffe, K Swientek, V Syropoulos, M Szczekowski, T Szumlak, S T'Jampens, A Tayduganov, T Tekampe, G Tellarini, F Teubert, C Thomas, E Thomas, J van Tilburg, MJ Tilley, V Tisserand, M Tobin, S Tolk, L Tomassetti, D Tonelli, S Topp-Joergensen, F Toriello, E Tournefier, S Tourneur, K Trabelsi, M Traill, MT Tran, M Tresch, A Trisovic, A Tsaregorodtsev, P Tsopelas, A Tully, N Tuning, A Ukleja, A Ustyuzhanin, U Uwer, C Vacca, V Vagnoni, S Valat, G Valenti, A Vallier, R Vazquez Gomez, P Vazquez Regueiro, S Vecchi, M van Veghel, JJ Velthuis, M Veltri, G Veneziano, A Venkateswaran, M Vernet, M Vesterinen, B Viaud, D Vieira, M Vieites Diaz, X Vilasis-Cardona, V Volkov, A Vollhardt, B Voneki, D Voong, A Vorobyev, V Vorobyev, C Voß, JA de Vries, C Vázquez Sierra, R Waldi, C Wallace, R Wallace, J Walsh, J Wang, DR Ward, HM Wark, NK Watson, D Websdale, A Weiden, M Whitehead, J Wicht, 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, K Wraight, S Wright, K Wyllie, Y Xie, Z Xing, Z Xu, Z Yang, H Yin, J Yu, X Yuan, O Yushchenko, M Zangoli, KA Zarebski, M Zavertyaev, L Zhang, Y Zhang, Y Zhang, A Zhelezov, Y Zheng, A Zhokhov, X Zhu, V Zhukov, S Zucchelli

Production of associated Y and open charm hadrons in pp collisions at root s=7 and 8 TeV via double parton scattering

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (2016) ARTN 052

Authors:

R Aaij, CA Beteta, M Adinolfi, A Affolder, Z Ajaltouni, S Akar, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, S Ali, G Alkhazov, PA Cartelle, AAA Jr, S Amato, S Amerio, Y Amhis, L An, L Anderlini, J Anderson, G Andreassi, M Andreotti, JE Andrews, RB Appleby, OA 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, V Bellee, N Belloli, 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, P Billoir, 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 Borisyak, M Borsato, TJV Bowcock, E Bowen, C Bozzi, S Braun, M Britsch, T Britton, J Brodzicka, NH Brook, E Buchanan, C Burr, A Bursche, J Buytaert, S Cadeddu, R Calabrese, M Calvi, MC Gomez, P Campana, DC Perez, L Capriotti, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, P Carniti, L Carson, K Carvalho Akiba, G Casse, L Cassina, LC Garcia, M Cattaneo, C Cauet, G Cavallero, R Cenci, M Charles, P Charpentier, M Chefdeville, S Chen, S-F Cheung, N Chiapolini, M Chrzaszcz, XC 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, MC Torres, S Cunliff, R Currie, C D'Ambrosio, E Dall'Occo, J Dalseno, PNY David, A Davis, O De Aguiar Francisco, K De Bruyn, S De Capua, M De Cian, JM De Miranda, L De Paula, P De Simone, C-T Dean, D Decamp, M Deckenhoff, L Del Buono, N Deleage, M Demmer, D Derkach, O Deschamps, F Dettori, B Dey, A Di Canto, F Di Ruscio, H Dijkstra, S Donleavy, F Dordei, M Dorigo, A Dosil Suarez, D Dossett, A Dovbnya, K Dreimanis, L Dufour, G Dujany, 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, C Elsasser, S Ely, S Esen, HM Evans, T Evans, A Falabella, C Farber, N Farley, S Farry, R Fay, D Ferguson, VF 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, DC Forshaw, R Forty, 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 Garcia Pardinas, JG Tico, L Garrido, D Gascon, C Gaspar, R Gauld, L Gavardi, G Gazzoni, D Gerick, E Gersabeck, M Gersabeck, T Gershon, P Ghez, S Giani, V Gibson, OG Girard, L Giubega, VV Gligorov, C Gobel, D Golubkov, A Golutvin, A Gomes, C Gotti, MG Gandara, R Graciani Diaz, LAG Cardoso, E Grauges, E Graverini, G Graziani, A Grecu, E Greening, S Gregson, P Griffith, L Grillo, O Gruenberg, B Gui, E Gushchin, Y Guz, T Gys, T Hadavizadeh, C Hadjivasiliou, G Haefeli, C Haen, SC Haines, S Hall, B Hamilton, X Han, S Hansmann-Menzemer, N Harnew, ST Harnew, J Harrison, J He, T Head, V Heijne, K Hennessy, P Henrard, L Henry, 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, M John, D Johnson, CR Jones, C Joram, B Jost, N Jurik, S Kandybei, W Kanso, M Karacson, TM Karbach, S Karodia, M Kecke, M Kelsey, IR Kenyon, M Kenzie, T Ketel, E Khairullin, B Khanji, C Khurewathanakul, S Klaver, K Klimaszewski, O Kochebina, M Kolpin, I Komarov, RF Koopman, P Koppenburg, M Kozeiha, L Kravchuk, K Kreplin, M Kreps, G Krocker, P Krokovny, F Kruse, W Krzemien, W Kucewicz, M Kucharczyk, V Kudryavtsev, AK Kuonen, K Kurek, T Kvaratskheliya, D Lacarrere, G Lafferty, A Lai, D Lambert, G Lanfranchi, C Langenbruch, B Langhans, T Latham, C Lazzeroni, R Le Gac, J van Leerdam, J-P Lees, R Lefevre, A Leflat, J Lefrancois, E Lemos Cid, O Leroy, T Lesiak, B Leverington, Y Li, T Likhomanenko, M Liles, R Lindner, C Linn, F Lionetto, B Liu, X Liu, D Loh, I Longstaff, JH Lopes, D Lucchesi, M Lucio Martinez, H Luo, A Lupato, E Luppi, O Lupton, A Lusiani, 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, J Marks, G Martellotti, M Martin, M Martinelli, D Martinez Santos, F Martinez Vidal, D Martins Tostes, A Massafferri, R Matev, A Mathad, Z Mathe, C Matteuzzi, A Mauri, B Maurin, A Mazurov, M McCann, J McCarthy, A Mcnab, R McNulty, B Meadows, F Meier, M Meissner, D Melnychuk, M Merk, E Michielin, DA Milanes, M-N Minard, DS Mitzel, J Molina Rodriguez, IA Monroy, S Monteil, M Morandin, P Morawski, A Morda, MJ Morello, J Moron, AB Morris, R Mountain, F Muheim, D Mueller, J Mueller, K Mueller, V Mueller, M Mussini, B Muster, P Naik, T Nakada, R Nandakumar, A Nandi, 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 Pappenheimer, W Parker, C Parkes, G Passaleva, GD Patel, M Patel, C Patrignani, A Pearce, A Pellegrino, G Penso, MP Altarelli, S Perazzini, P Perret, L Pescatore, K Petridis, A Petrolini, M Petruzzo, E Picatoste Olloqui, B Pietrzyk, T Pila, D Pinci, A Pistone, A Piucci, S Playfer, MP 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, AP Navarro, G Punzi, W Qian, R Quagliani, B Rachwal, JH Rademacker, M Rama, M Ramos Pernas, 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, VR Molina, P Robbe, AB Rodrigues, E Rodrigues, JA Rodriguez Lopez, P Rodriguez Perez, S Roiser, V Romanovsky, A Romero Vidal, JW Ronayne, M Rotondo, T Ruf, 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, N Serra, J Serrano, L Sestini, P Seyfert, M Shapkin, I Shapoval, Y Shcheglov, T Shears, L Shekhtman, V Shevchenko, A Shires, BG Siddi, RS Coutinho, L Silva de Oliveira, G Simi, M Sirendi, N Skidmore, 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, S Stefkova, O Steinkamp, O Stenyakin, 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, T Szumlak, S T'Jampens, A Tayduganov, 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, RV Gomez, P Vazquez Regueiro, C Vazquez Sierra, S Vecchi, JJ Velthuis, M Veltri, G Veneziano, M Vesterinen, B Viaud, D Vieira, M Vieites Diaz, X Vilasis-Cardona, V Volkov, 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, 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, S Zucchelli

The TORCH time-of-flight detector

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 824 (2016) 106-110

Authors:

N Harnew, N Brook, L Castillo García, D Cussans, K Föhl, R Forty, C Frei, R Gao, T Gys, D Piedigrossi, J Rademacker, A Ros Garcia, M Van Dijk

Abstract:

© 2015 The Authors. The TORCH time-of-flight detector is being developed to provide particle identification between 2 and 10 GeV/c momentum over a flight distance of 10 m. TORCH is designed for large-area coverage, up to 30 m2, and has a DIRC-like construction. The goal is to achieve a 15 ps time-of-flight resolution per incident particle by combining arrival times from multiple Cherenkov photons produced within quartz radiator plates of 10 mm thickness. A four-year R&D programme is underway with an industrial partner (Photek, UK) to produce 53×53 mm2 Micro-Channel Plate (MCP) detectors for the TORCH application. The MCP-PMT will provide a timing accuracy of 40 ps per photon and it will have a lifetime of up to at least 5 Ccm-2 of integrated anode charge by utilizing an Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) coating. The MCP will be read out using charge division with customised electronics incorporating the NINO chipset. Laboratory results on prototype MCPs are presented. The construction of a prototype TORCH module and its simulated performance are also described.

A precise measurement of the B0 meson oscillation frequency

European Physical Journal C Springer 76:7 (2016) 412

Authors:

Shu-Faye Cheung, Tim Evans, Paolo Gandini, Thomas Hadavizadeh, Neville Harnew, Donal Hill, Pawel G Jalocha, Malcolm John, Oliver J Lupton, Sneha S Malde, Anita K Nandi, Stig Topp-Jorgenson, Guy R Wilkinson

Abstract:

The oscillation frequency, Δ md, of B0 mesons is measured using semileptonic decays with a D- or D∗- meson in the final state. The data sample corresponds to 3.0fb-1 of pp collisions, collected by the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies √s = 7 and 8 TeV. A combination of the two decay modes gives Δmd = (505.0 ± 2.1 ± 1.0) ns-1, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. This is the most precise single measurement of this parameter. It is consistent with the current world average and has similar precision.