Publications related to Experimental constraints on the spin and parity of the Λc(2880)+

Precision luminosity measurement at hadron colliders

This thesis links two realms of particle accelerator dynamics and precision particle physics. The achievement of precise luminosity measurement at hadron colliders is enabled with dedicated luminometers. For the Run 3 period, the luminometer upgrade was ...

EPFL2024

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

Search for new heavy resonances decaying to WW, WZ, ZZ, WH, or ZH boson pairs in the all-jets final state in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

Rakesh Chawla, Andrea Rizzi, Matthias Finger, Federica Legger, Matteo Galli, Sun Hee Kim, Jian Zhao, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Tagir Aushev, Hua Zhang, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Yixing Chen, Tian Cheng, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Gabriele Grosso, Valérie Scheurer, Meng Xiao, Qian Wang, Michele Bianco, Varun Sharma, Joao Varela, Sourav Sen, Ashish Sharma, Seungkyu Ha, David Vannerom, Csaba Hajdu, Sanjeev Kumar, Sebastiana Gianì, Kun Shi, Abhisek Datta, Miao Hu, Siyuan Wang, Muhammad Waqas, Anton Petrov, Jian Wang, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Muhammad Ansar Iqbal, Yong Yang, Xin Sun, Muhammad Ahmad, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Search for CP violation in t(t)over-bar H and tH production in multilepton channels in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

Rakesh Chawla, Andrea Rizzi, Matthias Finger, Federica Legger, Matteo Galli, Sun Hee Kim, Jian Zhao, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Tagir Aushev, Hua Zhang, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Yixing Chen, Tian Cheng, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Gabriele Grosso, Valérie Scheurer, Meng Xiao, Qian Wang, Michele Bianco, Varun Sharma, Joao Varela, Sourav Sen, Ashish Sharma, Seungkyu Ha, David Vannerom, Csaba Hajdu, Sanjeev Kumar, Sebastiana Gianì, Kun Shi, Abhisek Datta, Miao Hu, Siyuan Wang, Muhammad Waqas, Anton Petrov, Jian Wang, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Muhammad Ansar Iqbal, Yong Yang, Xin Sun, Muhammad Ahmad, Donghyun Kim, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Observation of the Rare Decay of the η Meson to Four Muons

Rakesh Chawla, Andrea Rizzi, Matthias Finger, Federica Legger, Matteo Galli, Sun Hee Kim, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Tagir Aushev, Hua Zhang, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Yixing Chen, Tian Cheng, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Gabriele Grosso, Valérie Scheurer, Meng Xiao, Qian Wang, Michele Bianco, Varun Sharma, Joao Varela, Sourav Sen, Ashish Sharma, Seungkyu Ha, David Vannerom, Csaba Hajdu, Sanjeev Kumar, Sebastiana Gianì, Kun Shi, Abhisek Datta, Siyuan Wang, Anton Petrov, Jian Wang, Yi Zhang, Muhammad Ansar Iqbal, Yong Yang, Xin Sun, Muhammad Ahmad, Donghyun Kim, Matthias Wolf, Anna Mascellani, Paolo Ronchese, Kai Yi, Ji Hyun Kim, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Model-independent measurement of charm mixing parameters in D0 -> K0S pi+ pi- decays

Surapat Ek-In

This thesis presents a measurement of charm mixing and CP-violation parameters using D0 -> K0S pi+ pi- decays. These mixing parameters include the mass and decay-width differences of the mass eigenstates of the D0-D0bar system. A search for Charge-Parity v ...

EPFL2022

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

Christoph Frei, Peter Clarke, Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, François Fleuret, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Niko Neufeld, Olivier Schneider, Hans Dijkstra, Frédéric Teubert, Gerhard Raven, Mingkui Wang, Frédéric Blanc, Matthew Needham, Lesya Shchutska, Liang Sun, Marco Guarise, Chao Wang, Maxime Schubiger, Xiaoqing Zhou, Hang Yin, Xiaoxue Han, Paolo Durante, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Vladislav Balagura, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Zhirui Xu, Mark Tobin, Victor Coco, Violaine Bellée, Yu Zheng, Alexey Boldyrev, Simone Meloni, Maurizio Martinelli, Maxim Karpov, Tommaso Colombo, Maxim Borisyak, Dipanwita Dutta, Anton Petrov, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Observation of a New Excited Beauty Strange Baryon Decaying to Xi(-)(b)pi(+)pi(-)

Rakesh Chawla, Arvind Shah, Andrea Rizzi, Matthias Finger, Bandeep Singh, Federica Legger, Thomas Berger, Jian Zhao, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Tagir Aushev, Hua Zhang, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Chao Wang, Yixing Chen, Tian Cheng, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Marco Pisano, Valérie Scheurer, Meng Xiao, Wei Sun, Maren Tabea Meinhard, Qian Wang, Michele Bianco, Doohyun Kim, Varun Sharma, Jessica Prisciandaro, Joao Varela, Francesco Fiori, Sourav Sen, Ashish Sharma, Seungkyu Ha, David Vannerom, Csaba Hajdu, Sanjeev Kumar, Sebastiana Gianì, Kun Shi, Abhisek Datta, Guido Andreassi, Miao Hu, Siyuan Wang, Peter Hansen, Muhammad Waqas, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Measurement of R(D) and R(D*) with a Semileptonic Tagging Method

Olivier Schneider, Sun Hee Kim, Tagir Aushev, Mingkui Wang, Chao Wang, Donghyun Kim, Lei Li, Yiming Li, Xiao Wang

The experimental results on the ratios of branching fractions R(D) = B((B) over bar -> D tau(-)(nu) over bar (tau))/B((B) over bar -> Dl(-)(nu) over bar (e)) and R(D*) = B((B) over bar -> Dtau(-)(nu) over bar (tau))/B((B) over bar -> Dtau(-)(nu) over bar ...

2020

Dalitz analysis of D-0 -> K- pi(+)eta decays at Belle

Olivier Schneider, Sun Hee Kim, Tagir Aushev, Mingkui Wang, Chao Wang, Yixing Chen, Donghyun Kim, Lei Li, Yiming Li

We present the results of the first Dalitz plot analysis of the decay D-0 -> K-pi(+)eta. The analysis is performed on a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 953 fb(-1) collected by the Belle detector at the asymmetric-energy e(+)e(-) KEKB ...

American Physical Society2020

Study of B -> ppi pi

Olivier Schneider, Sun Hee Kim, Tagir Aushev, Mingkui Wang, Chao Wang, Donghyun Kim, Lei Li, Xiao Wang

Using a data sample of 772 x 10(6) B (B) over bar pairs collected on the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric energy e(+)e(-) collider, we report the observation of B-0 -> p (p) over bar pi(+)pi(-) and the first observation ...

American Physical Society2020

Measurement of vertical bar V-cb vertical bar with B-s(0) -> D-s(()*()-) mu(+)nu(mu) decays

Christoph Frei, Peter Clarke, Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Marc-Olivier Bettler, François Fleuret, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Niko Neufeld, Olivier Schneider, Hans Dijkstra, Frédéric Teubert, Gerhard Raven, Mingkui Wang, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Frédéric Blanc, Matthew Needham, Axel Kuonen, Olivier Göran Girard, Liang Sun, Maxime Schubiger, Brice Emile Maurin, Thibaud Humair, Hang Yin, Xiaoxue Han, Greig Alan Cowan, Paolo Durante, Jessica Prisciandaro, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Vladislav Balagura, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Zhirui Xu, Mark Tobin, Victor Coco, Violaine Bellée, Mirco Dorigo, Yu Zheng, Vincenzo Battista, Maurizio Martinelli, Tommaso Colombo, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Search for CP Violation in D-s(+) -> K-S(0)pi(+), D+ -> (KSK+)-K-0, and D+ -> phi pi(+) Decays

Christoph Frei, Peter Clarke, Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Marc-Olivier Bettler, François Fleuret, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Niko Neufeld, Olivier Schneider, Hans Dijkstra, Frédéric Teubert, Gerhard Raven, Mingkui Wang, Marilisa Neri, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Frédéric Blanc, Matthew Needham, Nathalie Sophie Adeline Serra, Axel Kuonen, Olivier Göran Girard, Liang Sun, Maxime Schubiger, Thibaud Humair, Hang Yin, Xiaoxue Han, Luis Alberto Granado Cardoso, Greig Alan Cowan, Paolo Durante, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Vladislav Balagura, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Albert Puig Navarro, Zhirui Xu, Mark Tobin, Victor Coco, Violaine Bellée, Mirco Dorigo, Yu Zheng, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Search for X(3872) and X(3915) decay into chi(c1)pi(0) in B decays at Belle

Olivier Schneider, Sun Hee Kim, Tagir Aushev, Mingkui Wang, Chao Wang, Donghyun Kim, Lei Li, Yiming Li, Xiao Wang

We report a search for X(3872) and X(3915) in B+ ->chi(c1)pi K-0(+) decays. We set an upper limit of B(B+ -> X(3872)K+) x B(X(3872) -> chi(c1)pi(0)) < 8.1 x 10(-6) and B(B+ -> X(3915)K+) x B(X(3915) -> chi(c1)pi(0)) < 3.8 x 10(-5) at 90% confidence level. ...

American Physical Society2019

Observation of CP Violation in Charm Decays

Christoph Frei, Peter Clarke, Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Marc-Olivier Bettler, François Fleuret, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Niko Neufeld, Olivier Schneider, Hans Dijkstra, Valérie Jeanne Thérèse Renaudin-Schouler, Frédéric Teubert, Gerhard Raven, Mingkui Wang, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Frédéric Blanc, Matthew Needham, Axel Kuonen, Olivier Göran Girard, Liang Sun, Maxime Schubiger, Adriano Pastore, Thibaud Humair, Hang Yin, Xiaoxue Han, Luis Alberto Granado Cardoso, Greig Alan Cowan, Paolo Durante, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Vladislav Balagura, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Albert Puig Navarro, Zhirui Xu, Mark Tobin, Victor Coco, Violaine Bellée, Mirco Dorigo, Yu Zheng, Vincenzo Battista, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Search for B-0 -> X(3872)gamma

Olivier Schneider, Sun Hee Kim, Tagir Aushev, Mingkui Wang, Chao Wang, Donghyun Kim, Yiming Li

We report the results of a search for the decay B-0 -> X(3872) (-> J/psi pi(+)pi(-))gamma. The analysis is performed on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 711 fb(-1) and containing 772 x 10(6)B (B) over bar pairs, collected with the ...

American Physical Society2019

SixTrack V and runtime environment

Riccardo De Maria, Igor Zacharov, Massimo Giovannozzi, Dario Pellegrini, Giovanni Iadarola

SixTrack is a single-particle tracking code for high-energy circular accelerators routinely used at CERN for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), its luminosity upgrade (HL-LHC), the Future Circular Collider (FCC) and the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) simulat ...

2019

Search for the lepton-flavor-violating decay B-0 -> K-*0 mu(+/-)e(-/+)

Roberto Gargiani, Olivier Schneider, Sun Hee Kim, Tagir Aushev, Mingkui Wang, Chao Wang, Hiroyasu Yamamoto, Taoufiq Harach, Yong Chan Choi, Seyed Sina Mirrazavi Salehian, Arnaud Michel Gelb, Gaétan Charles Antoine Giriat, Jun Yong Kim, Linlin Cao, Jiayun Shen, Tara Nanut, Donghyun Kim, Martin Lubej, Chang-Hyun Park, Lei Li, Ji Hyun Kim, Yiming Li, Xiao Wang

We have searched for the lepton-flavor-violating decay B-0 -> K-*0 mu(+/-)e(-/+) using a data sample of 711 fb(-1) that contains 772 x 10(6) B (B) over bar pairs. The data were collected near the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB as ...

American Physical Society2018

Search for CP violation through an amplitude analysis of D0->K+K-pi+pi- decays at LHCb

Maxime Schubiger

This thesis presents a search for

CP

violation in the

D^0\rightarrow K^+K^-\pi^+\pi^-

Cabibbo-suppressed decay mode using an amplitude analysis. New sources of

CP

violation have to be discovered in order to explain the matter-antimatter imbalance obs ...

EPFL2018

Search for D-0 decays to invisible final states at Belle

Olivier Schneider, Sun Hee Kim, Tagir Aushev, Mingkui Wang, Chao Wang, Dipanwita Dutta, Jun Yong Kim, Tara Nanut, Donghyun Kim, Ji Hyun Kim, Yiming Li

We report the result from the first search for D-0 decays to invisible final states. The analysis is performed on a data sample of 924 fb(-1) collected at and near the gamma(4S) and gamma(5S) resonances with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy ...

American Physical Society2017