Publications by François Bianchi

Test beam performance of a CBC3-based mini-module for the Phase-2 CMS Outer Tracker before and after neutron irradiation

François Bianchi, Rakesh Chawla, Albert Perez, François Robert, Andrea Rizzi, Martin Fuchs, Stefano Michelis, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Varun Sharma, Davide Ceresa, Ashish Sharma, David Vannerom, David Parker, Alessandro Caratelli, Simone Scarfì, Thomas Muller, Yong Yang, Kai Yi, Andromachi Tsirou, Georgios Anagnostou, Konstantin Androsov, Ajay Kumar, Werner Lustermann, Xin Chen, Jing Li

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will undergo major upgrades to increase the instantaneous luminosity up to 5-7.5 x 1034 cm-2s-1. This High Luminosity upgrade of the LHC (HL-LHC) will deliver a total of 3000-4000 fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at ...

2023

Observed coupling between air mass history, secondary growth of nucleation mode particles and aerosol pollution levels in Beijing

François Bianchi, Yu Fu, Jingjing Jiang, Lubna Dada

Atmospheric aerosols have significant effects on the climate and on human health. New particle formation (NPF) is globally an important source of aerosols but its relevance especially towards aerosol mass loadings in highly polluted regions is still contro ...

2022

Beam test performance of a prototype module with Short Strip ASICs for the CMS HL-LHC tracker upgrade

François Bianchi, Rakesh Chawla, Albert Perez, François Robert, Andrea Rizzi, Stefano Michelis, Chun Xia, Tian Cheng, Qian Wang, Varun Sharma, Jessica Prisciandaro, Davide Ceresa, Francesco Fiori, Ashish Sharma, David Vannerom, David Parker, Alessandro Caratelli, Simone Scarfì, Yong Yang, Muhammad Ahmad, Kai Yi, Andromachi Tsirou, Georgios Anagnostou, Konstantin Androsov, Ajay Kumar, Werner Lustermann, Davide Di Croce, Hui Wang, Xin Chen, Jing Li

The Short Strip ASIC (SSA) is one of the four front-end chips designed for the upgrade of the CMS Outer Tracker for the High Luminosity LHC. Together with the Macro-Pixel ASIC (MPA) it will instrument modules containing a strip and a macro-pixel sensor sta ...

2022

The CMS Phase-1 pixel detector upgrade

François Bianchi, Rakesh Chawla, Albert Perez, François Robert, Andrea Rizzi, Stefano Michelis, Tian Cheng, Qian Wang, Varun Sharma, Jessica Prisciandaro, Davide Ceresa, Francesco Fiori, David Vannerom, Abhisek Datta, Alessandro Caratelli, Simone Scarfì, Yong Yang, Matthias Weber, Kai Yi, Andromachi Tsirou, Georgios Anagnostou, Konstantin Androsov, Ajay Kumar, Werner Lustermann, Ali Harb, Giorgia Rauco, Davide Di Croce, Hui Wang, Xin Chen, Jing Li

The CMS detector at the CERN LHC features a silicon pixel detector as its innermost subdetector. The original CMS pixel detector has been replaced with an upgraded pixel system (CMS Phase-1 pixel detector) in the extended year-end technical stop of the LHC ...

2021

Beam test performance of prototype silicon detectors for the Outer Tracker for the Phase-2 Upgrade of CMS

François Bianchi, Albert Perez, François Robert, Andrea Rizzi, Stefano Michelis, Quentin Python, Tian Cheng, Meng Xiao, Qian Wang, Varun Sharma, Davide Ceresa, Francesco Fiori, David Vannerom, Abhisek Datta, Alessandro Caratelli, Simone Scarfì, Yong Yang, Matthias Weber, Kai Yi, Andromachi Tsirou, Georgios Anagnostou, Konstantin Androsov, Werner Lustermann, Ali Harb, Giorgia Rauco, Davide Di Croce, Hui Wang, Xin Chen

A new CMS tracker detector will be installed for operation at the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). This detector comprises modules with two closely spaced parallel sensor plates and front-end ASICs capable of transmitting tracking information to the CMS Level ...

2020

The DAQ and control system for the CMS Phase-1 pixel detector upgrade

François Bianchi, Albert Perez, François Robert, Andrea Rizzi, Stefano Michelis, Quentin Python, Tian Cheng, Meng Xiao, Qian Wang, Varun Sharma, Davide Ceresa, Francesco Fiori, David Vannerom, Chia-Chun Chen, Abhisek Datta, Alessandro Caratelli, Simone Scarfì, Thomas Muller, Yong Yang, Matthias Weber, Kai Yi, Andromachi Tsirou, Georgios Anagnostou, Konstantin Androsov, Werner Lustermann, Ali Harb, Giorgia Rauco, Davide Di Croce, Hui Wang, Xin Chen

In 2017 a new pixel detector was installed in the CMS detector. This so-called Phase-1 pixel detector features four barrel layers in the central region and three disks per end in the forward regions. The upgraded pixel detector requires an upgraded data ac ...

2019

Measurement of cos 2 beta in B-0 -> D((*))h(0) with D -> K-S(0)pi(+) pi(-) decays by a combined time-dependent Dalitz plot analysis of BABAR and Belle data

François Bianchi, Roberto Gargiani, Olivier Schneider, Sun Hee Kim, Tagir Aushev, Gerhard Raven, Mingkui Wang, Marilisa Neri, Liang Sun, Chao Wang, Taoufiq Harach, Songmei Wu, Yong Chan Choi, Greig Alan Cowan, Alexandra Bondarenko, Lorenzo Vitale, Arnaud Michel Gelb, Aaron James Rossini, Amaury Robert Dame, Gaétan Charles Antoine Giriat, Jun Yong Kim, Mithilesh Nayak, Jiayun Shen, Armend Gazmeno Hati, John Wilson, Tara Nanut, Donghyun Kim, Martin Lubej, Lei Li, Ji Hyun Kim, Yiming Li

We report measurements of sin 2 beta and cos 2 beta using a time-dependent Dalitz plot analysis of B-0 -> D((*))h(0) with D -> K-S(0)pi(+)pi(-) decays, where the light unflavored and neutral hadron h(0) is a pi(0),eta, or omega meson. The analysis uses a c ...

American Physical Society2018

First Evidence for cos 2 beta > 0 and Resolution of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Quark-Mixing Unitarity Triangle Ambiguity

François Bianchi, Roberto Gargiani, Olivier Schneider, Sun Hee Kim, Tagir Aushev, Gerhard Raven, Mingkui Wang, Marilisa Neri, Liang Sun, Chao Wang, Taoufiq Harach, Songmei Wu, Yong Chan Choi, Greig Alan Cowan, Alexandra Bondarenko, Lorenzo Vitale, Seyed Sina Mirrazavi Salehian, Arnaud Michel Gelb, Aaron James Rossini, Amaury Robert Dame, Gaétan Charles Antoine Giriat, Jun Yong Kim, Mithilesh Nayak, Jiayun Shen, Armend Gazmeno Hati, John Wilson, Tara Nanut, Donghyun Kim, Martin Lubej, Lei Li, Ji Hyun Kim, Yiming Li

We present first evidence that the cosine of the CP-violating weak phase 2 beta is positive, and hence exclude trigonometric multifold solutions of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) Unitarity Triangle using a time-dependent Dalitz plot analysis of B-0 -> ...

2018

Study of chi(cJ) decaying into phi K*(892)(K)over-bar

François Bianchi, Jun Dong, Jiannong Fang, Hua Zhang, Mingkui Wang, Fang Liu, Yixing Chen, Shan Jin, Xiaoqing Zhou, Yuan Yuan, Fengping Li, Qian Wang, Lei Zhou, Sofia Carmen Suzanne Spataro, Zhirui Xu, Lin Yang, Ke Liu, Yu Zheng, Siyuan Wang, Junqiu Liu, Yi Zhang, Jianing Li, Lei Zhang, Yong Yang, Hao Liu, Jian Liu, Yang Qin, Feng Liu, Xuan Li, Lei Li, Kun Liu, Cheng Li, Xiao Wang, Yi Wang, Xin Chen, Wei Li, Jie Chen, Yifei Guo, Shuai Liu, Zheng Wang, Qianyu Zhao

Using a data sample of 106 million psi(3686) events collected with the BESIII detector operated at the BEPCII storage ring, we study for the first time the decays chi(cJ) -> phi(KSK +/-)-K-0 pi(-/+) and chi(cJ) -> phi K+K-pi(0) in the E1 radiative transiti ...

2015

First Observation of CP Violation in (B)over-bar(0) -> D(CP)((*))h(0) Decays by a Combined Time-Dependent Analysis of BABAR and Belle Data

François Bianchi, Olivier Schneider, Sun Hee Kim, Tagir Aushev, Gerhard Raven, Mingkui Wang, Liang Sun, Chao Wang, Songmei Wu, Greig Alan Cowan, Dipanwita Dutta, Jun Yong Kim, John Wilson, Tara Nanut, Donghyun Kim, Ji Hyun Kim

We report a measurement of the time-dependent CP asymmetry of (B) over bar (0) -> D(CP)((*))h(0) decays, where the light neutral hadron h(0) is a pi(0), eta , or omega meson, and the neutral D meson is reconstructed in the CP eigenstates K+K-, K-S(0)pi(0) ...

Amer Physical Soc2015

The Physics of the B Factories

François Bianchi, Albert Perez, Guillaume Wagner, Christian Jacoby, Jean Wicht, Aurelio Bay, Marc Kunze, Patricia Besson, Remi Léandre Albert Louvot, Jérôme Krebs, Nicolas Zwahlen, Olivier Schneider, Sun Hee Kim, Tagir Aushev, Gerhard Raven, Mingkui Wang, Stewart Cole, Yan Yan, Nicolas Berger, Frédéric Blanc, Fang Liu, Liang Sun, Chao Wang, Yixing Chen, Yuan Yuan, Songmei Wu, Greig Alan Cowan, Doohyun Kim, Varun Sharma, Sourav Sen, Vladislav Balagura, Zhirui Xu, Sanjeev Kumar, Martin George Friedl, Yu Zheng, Bingqing Cheng, Maurizio Martinelli, Dipanwita Dutta, Junqiu Liu, Jian Wang, Ho Ling Li, Jun Yong Kim, Lei Zhang, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Microfluidic system based on thermoexpandable polymer for on chip blood coagulation testing

François Bianchi, Philippe Renaud, Lynda Metref, Raphaël Goetschmann

This paper describes a simple system for the actuation of a biological fluid through micro-channels with a thermoactivated polymer actuator. This system is of interest for the development of single-use diagnostic test-strips since the actuation of the samp ...

2009

On-chip thermopneumatic actuation system for coagulation time measurement

François Bianchi, Philippe Renaud, Lynda Metref, Pierre Lemaire

This work reports the demonstration of a thermopneumatic microfluidic actuator used to determine blood coagulation time. In this new system, the detection principle is the obstruction of a microfluidic channel by clotted blood. The sample actuation is done ...

Elsevier2009

Ionode detection and capillary electrophoresis integrated on a polymer micro-chip

François Bianchi, Hubert Girault

2002

Electroosmotic Flow in Composite Microchannels and Implications in Microcapillary Electrophoresis Systems

François Bianchi, Hubert Girault, Patrik Willi Hoffmann, Frank Rüdiger Wagner

The electroosmotic flow in laminated excimer laser-ablated microchannels has been studied as a function of the depth of the rectangular channels, and particular emphasis has been given to the difference in the ζ-potentials between the lamination layer and ...

2001

Photomodification of Polymer Microchannels induced by Static and Dynamic Excimer Ablation: Effect on the Electroosmotic Flow