Publications related to Exotic hadron

Weyl metallic state induced by helical magnetic order

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Ivica Zivkovic, Jan Hugo Dil, Jian Rui Soh, Xupeng Yang

In the rapidly expanding field of topological materials there is growing interest in systems whose topological electronic band features can be induced or controlled by magnetism. Magnetic Weyl semimetals, which contain linear band crossings near the Fermi ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Search for the lepton flavour violating decays B0→e±μ∓ and B0s→e±μ∓ with LHCb Run 2 data

Sebastian Schulte

A large variety of new physics models suggest that the rates for lepton flavour violating

b

-hadron decays may be much higher than predicted in the Standard Model, which leads to a high interest in the search for such decays. This thesis presents the se ...

EPFL2024

Numerical investigation of bound states in quantum magnets

Mithilesh Nayak

Bound-states of particles are an interesting problem in quantum mechanics dating back to 1931 Bethe's solution of spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain. These exotic composite states are realized in quantum magnets and are detectable in inelastic neutron scattering (I ...

EPFL2023

Testing lepton flavour universality in $B^+\to K^+\pi^+\pi^-\ell^+\ell^-$ decays with LHCb

Sara Celani

This PhD thesis aims at testing one of the fundamental properties of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics: the lepton flavour universality (LFU), which states that

W

and

Z

bosons are equally coupled to the three lepton generations. In this work, ...

EPFL2023

Search for Heavy Neutral Leptons with LHCb

Serhii Cholak

This thesis presents a search for a beyond the Standard Model (SM) heavy neutral lepton (HNL), which does not interact via any of the SM interactions. This hypothetical particle has been proposed by multiple theories as an extension to the SM, and it could ...

EPFL2023

Seeding and Emergence of Composite Skyrmions in a van der Waals Magnet

Klaus Kern, Marko Burghard, Lukas Powalla

Topological charge plays a significant role in a range of physical systems. In particular, observations of real-space topological objects in magnetic materials have been largely limited to skyrmions - states with a unitary topological charge. Recently, mor ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Deep learning exotic hadrons

Jannes Willy E. Nys

We perform the first amplitude analysis of experimental data using deep neural networks to determine the nature of an exotic hadron. Specifically, we study the line shape of the P-c(4312) signal reported by the LHCb collaboration, and we find that its most ...

American Physical Society2022

From the line shape of the X(3872) to its structure

Angelo Esposito

From a study of the line shape of the X(3872), the LHCb collaboration measures a sizeable negative effective range. This cannot be reconciled with a shallow D (D) over bar* bound state hypothesis. Based on Weinberg's compositeness criterion, together with ...

American Physical Society2022

Effective Field Theories for New and Old Physics

Alfredo Glioti

Effective Field Theories have changed our understanding of Quantum Field Theories. This thesis shows several applications of this powerful tool in the context of the Standard Model and for searches of New Physics. The thesis starts with a review of the St ...

EPFL2022

Hunting for tetraquarks in ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions

Angelo Esposito, Claudio Andrea Manzari

Ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions constitute an ideal setup to look for exotic hadrons because of their low event multiplicity and the possibility of an efficient background rejection. We propose to look for fourquark states produced by photon-photon fu ...

American Physical Society2021

Observation of New Resonances Decaying to J=Psi K plus and J=Psi phi

Lesya Shchutska, Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Yiming Li, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Christoph Frei, Tatsuya Nakada, Michel De Cian, Elena Graverini, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, François Fleuret, Ettore Zaffaroni, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Renato Quagliani, Federico Betti, Minh Tâm Tran, Donal Patrick Hill, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Pietro Marino, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Federico Leo Redi, Violaine Bellée, Elisabeth Maria Niel, Pavol Stefko, Tara Nanut, Jian Wang, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Mingkui Wang, Vladimir Macko, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Zhirui Xu, Chao Wang, Sebastian Schulte, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Yi Zhang, Surapat Ek-In, Lei Zhang, Carina Trippl, Ho Ling Li, Sara Celani, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Measurement of the prompt-production cross-section ratio sigma(chi(c2))/sigma(chi(c1)) in pPb collisions at root s(NN)=8.16 TeV

Lesya Shchutska, Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Yiming Li, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Christoph Frei, Tatsuya Nakada, Michel De Cian, Elena Graverini, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, François Fleuret, Ettore Zaffaroni, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Renato Quagliani, Federico Betti, Minh Tâm Tran, Donal Patrick Hill, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Pietro Marino, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Federico Leo Redi, Violaine Bellée, Elisabeth Maria Niel, Maria Vieites Diaz, Pavol Stefko, Jian Wang, Tara Nanut, Mingkui Wang, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Zhirui Xu, Vladimir Macko, Chao Wang, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Yi Zhang, Sebastian Schulte, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Lei Zhang, Surapat Ek-In, Ho Ling Li, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Search for lepton flavour violation in B meson decays at LHCb

Lino Ferreira Lopes

The current limitations of the standard model of elementary particle physics drive the search for phenomenons forbidden within that framework with the goal to unveil a more universal theory. This thesis presents the search for two lepton flavour violating ...

EPFL2021

A parametrized Kalman filter for fast track fitting at LHCb

Michel De Cian

We present an alternative implementation of the Kalman filter employed for track fitting within the LHCb experiment. It uses simple parametrizations for the extrapolation of particle trajectories in the field of the LHCb dipole magnet and for the effects o ...

2021

Magnetic Design of a Superconducting Toroidal Gantry for Hadron Therapy

Luca Bottura, Enrico Felcini, Bertrand Dutoit, Bertrand Dutoit

Hadron and proton therapy are cutting edge techniques for cancer treatment and a great development of specialized medical centers and research facilities is foreseen in the next decades. One of the main obstacles to the penetration of the use of charged pa ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Measurement of the Lambda(0)(b) -> J/psi Lambda angular distribution and the Lambda(0)(b) polarisation in pp collisions

Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Yiming Li, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Christoph Frei, Tatsuya Nakada, Michel De Cian, Luca Pescatore, François Fleuret, Elena Graverini, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Minh Tâm Tran, Renato Quagliani, Liang Sun, Federico Betti, Pietro Marino, Federico Leo Redi, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Maxime Schubiger, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Violaine Bellée, Olivier Göran Girard, Jian Wang, Mingkui Wang, Axel Kuonen, Zhirui Xu, Preema Rennee Pais, Pavol Stefko, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Tara Nanut, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Jessica Prisciandaro, Vladimir Macko, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Amplitude analysis for the measurement of the photon polarisation in B rightarrow K pi pi gamma decays

Violaine Bellée

This work proposes a method to measure the photon polarisation in

B^+ \rightarrow K^+ \pi^- \pi^+ \gamma

decays and prepares the necessary elements for this measurement using the data sets collected by the LHCb experiment at CERN in

2011

,

2012

, $2016 ...

EPFL2020

Measurement of the branching fractions for B+ -> D+ D- K+, B+ -> D- D+ K+, and B0 -> D*- D0 K+ decays

Pavol Stefko

Charmed hadron spectroscopy is a quickly progressing field that has enjoyed a growing interest in recent years from both theorist and experimentalists. Open-charmed hadrons consist of a heavy

c

quark bound to a light quark (

u

,

d

,

s

quarks). These p ...

EPFL2020

Diffraction artefacts from twins and stacking faults, and the mirage of hexagonal, polytypes or other superstructures

Cyril Cayron

Recently, a hexagonal phase has been reported in high carbon steels in several studies. Here, we show that the electron microscopy results used in these studies were erroneously interpreted. The extra-spots in the diffraction patterns and the odd contrasts ...

2020

Highlights from the LHCb experiment

Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Christoph Frei, Tatsuya Nakada, Frédéric Blanc, Michel De Cian, Elena Graverini, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Luca Pescatore, François Fleuret, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Pietro Marino, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Federico Leo Redi, Violaine Bellée, Renato Quagliani, Maria Vieites Diaz, Federico Betti, Pavol Stefko, Tara Nanut, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Vladimir Macko, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Jian Wang, Simon Van Mulders, Mingkui Wang, Darius Constantin Merk, Zhirui Xu, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Jessica Prisciandaro, Mark Tobin, Minh Tâm Tran, Niko Neufeld, Matthew Needham, Marc-Olivier Bettler, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,