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J/ψ photoproduction in Pb-Pb peripheral collisions at √sNN=5 TeV

Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Olivier Schneider, Frédéric Blanc, Lesya Shchutska, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Violaine Bellée, Pavol Stefko, Surapat Ek-In, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Vladimir Macko, Tara Nanut, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Federico Leo Redi, Michel De Cian, Sebastian Schulte, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Carina Trippl, Sara Celani, Serhii Cholak, Elena Graverini, Maria Vieites Diaz, Ettore Zaffaroni, Donal Patrick Hill

The photoproduction of J/ψ mesons at low transverse momentum is studied in peripheral lead-lead collisions collected by the LHCb Collaboration at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 210 μb−1. The J ...

2022

Analysis of Neutral B-Meson Decays into Two Muons

Aurelio Bay, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Olivier Schneider, Frédéric Blanc, Lesya Shchutska, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Violaine Bellée, Pavol Stefko, Surapat Ek-In, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Vladimir Macko, Tara Nanut, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Federico Leo Redi, Michel De Cian, Sebastian Schulte, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Carina Trippl, Sara Celani, Serhii Cholak, Elena Graverini, Maria Vieites Diaz, Ettore Zaffaroni, Donal Patrick Hill

Branching fraction and effective lifetime measurements of the rare decay B0s→μ+μ− and searches for the decays B0→μ+μ− and B0s→μ+μ−γ are reported using proton-proton collision data collected with the LHCb detector at center-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13 ...

2022

Measurement of the B0s→μ+μ− decay properties and search for the B0→μ+μ− and B0s→μ+μ−γ decays

Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Olivier Schneider, Frédéric Blanc, Lesya Shchutska, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Violaine Bellée, Pavol Stefko, Surapat Ek-In, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Vladimir Macko, Tara Nanut, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Federico Leo Redi, Michel De Cian, Sebastian Schulte, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Carina Trippl, Sara Celani, Serhii Cholak, Elena Graverini, Maria Vieites Diaz, Ettore Zaffaroni, Donal Patrick Hill

An improved measurement of the decay B0s→μ+μ− and searches for the decays B0→μ+μ− and B0s→μ+μ−γ are performed at the LHCb experiment using data collected in proton-proton collisions at √s=7, 8 and 13 TeV, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 1, 2 an ...

American Physical Society2022

Centrality determination in heavy-ion collisions with the LHCb detector

Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Olivier Schneider, Frédéric Blanc, Lesya Shchutska, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Violaine Bellée, Pavol Stefko, Surapat Ek-In, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Vladimir Macko, Tara Nanut, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Federico Leo Redi, Michel De Cian, Sebastian Schulte, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Carina Trippl, Sara Celani, Serhii Cholak, Elena Graverini, Maria Vieites Diaz, Ettore Zaffaroni, Donal Patrick Hill

The centrality of heavy-ion collisions is directly related to the created medium in these interactions. A procedure to determine the centrality of collisions with the LHCb detector is implemented for lead-lead collisions root s(NN) = 5 TeV and lead-neon fi ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Measurement of prompt charged-particle production in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV

Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Olivier Schneider, Frédéric Blanc, Lesya Shchutska, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Violaine Bellée, Pavol Stefko, Surapat Ek-In, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Vladimir Macko, Tara Nanut, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Federico Leo Redi, Sebastian Schulte, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Carina Trippl, Sara Celani, Serhii Cholak, Elena Graverini, Maria Vieites Diaz, Ettore Zaffaroni, Donal Patrick Hill

The differential cross-section of prompt inclusive production of long-lived charged particles in proton-proton collisions is measured using a data sample recorded by the LHCb experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 13 TeV. The data sample, col- lecte ...

Springer Nature2022

Measurement of the Nuclear Modification Factor and Prompt Charged Particle Production in p-Pb and pp Collisions at √sNN=5 TeV

Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Olivier Schneider, Frédéric Blanc, Lesya Shchutska, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Violaine Bellée, Pavol Stefko, Surapat Ek-In, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Vladimir Macko, Tara Nanut, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Federico Leo Redi, Michel De Cian, Sebastian Schulte, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Carina Trippl, Sara Celani, Serhii Cholak, Elena Graverini, Maria Vieites Diaz, Ettore Zaffaroni, Donal Patrick Hill

The production of prompt charged particles in proton-lead collisions and in proton-proton collisions at the nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy root s(NN) = 5 TeV is studied at LHCb as a function of pseudorapidity (eta) and transverse momentum (p(T) ) wi ...

2022

Precise determination of the B-s(0)-B-s(-0) oscillation frequency

Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Olivier Schneider, Frédéric Blanc, Lesya Shchutska, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Violaine Bellée, Pavol Stefko, Surapat Ek-In, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Vladimir Macko, Tara Nanut, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Federico Leo Redi, Michel De Cian, Sebastian Schulte, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Carina Trippl, Sara Celani, Serhii Cholak, Elena Graverini, Maria Vieites Diaz, Ettore Zaffaroni, Donal Patrick Hill

Mesons comprising a beauty quark and strange quark can oscillate between particle (B-s(0)) and antiparticle (B-s(-0)) flavour eigenstates, with a frequency given by the mass difference between heavy and light mass eigenstates, Delta m(s). Here we present a ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Test of lepton universality in beauty-quark decays

Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Olivier Schneider, Frédéric Blanc, Lesya Shchutska, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Violaine Bellée, Pavol Stefko, Surapat Ek-In, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Vladimir Macko, Tara Nanut, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Federico Leo Redi, Michel De Cian, Sebastian Schulte, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Carina Trippl, Sara Celani, Serhii Cholak, Elena Graverini, Maria Vieites Diaz, Ettore Zaffaroni, Donal Patrick Hill

The standard model of particle physics currently provides our best description of fundamental particles and their interactions. The theory predicts that the different charged leptons, the electron, muon and tau, have identical electroweak interaction stren ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Search for the doubly heavy baryons Omega(0)(bc) and Xi(0)(bc) decaying to Lambda(+)(c)pi(-) and Xi(+)(c)pi-

Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Olivier Schneider, Frédéric Blanc, Lesya Shchutska, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Violaine Bellée, Pavol Stefko, Surapat Ek-In, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Vladimir Macko, Pietro Marino, Tara Nanut, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Federico Leo Redi, Michel De Cian, Sebastian Schulte, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Carina Trippl, Sara Celani, Serhii Cholak, Elena Graverini, Maria Vieites Diaz, Ettore Zaffaroni, Donal Patrick Hill

The first search for the doubly heavy Omega(0)(bc) baryon and a search for the Xi(0)(bc) baryon are performed using collision data collected via the experiment from 2016 to 2018 at a centre-of-mass energy of, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5. ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Measurement of the CKM angle gamma and Bs0-Bs0 mixing frequency with Bs0 -> Ds -/+h +/-pi +/-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, 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, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Evidence of a J/psi Lambda structure and observation of excited Xi(-) states in the Xi(-)(b) -> J/psi Lambda K- decay

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 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, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

First Observation of the Decay B-s(0) -> K-mu(+)nu(mu) and a Measurement of vertical bar V-ub vertical bar/vertical bar V-cb vertical bar

Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Olivier Schneider, Frédéric Blanc, Lesya Shchutska, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Violaine Bellée, Pavol Stefko, Surapat Ek-In, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Vladimir Macko, Pietro Marino, Tara Nanut, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Federico Leo Redi, Michel De Cian, Sebastian Schulte, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Carina Trippl, Sara Celani, Serhii Cholak, Elena Graverini, Maria Vieites Diaz, Ettore Zaffaroni

The first observation of the suppressed semileptonic B-s(0) -> K-mu(+)nu(mu) decay is reported. Using a data sample recorded in pp collisions in 2012 with the LHCb detector, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2 fb(-1), the branching fraction B(B- ...

2021

Observation of CP violation in two-body B-(s)(0)-meson decays to charged pions and kaons

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, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Measurement of the CKM angle gamma in B-+/- -> DK +/- and B-+/- -> D pi(+/-) decays with D -> K(S)(0)h(+)h(-)

Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Olivier Schneider, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Axel Kuonen, Olivier Göran Girard, Maxime Schubiger, Brice Emile Maurin, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Violaine Bellée, Vincenzo Battista, Guido Andreassi, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Preema Rennee Pais, Pavol Stefko, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Luca Pescatore, Vladimir Macko, Pietro Marino, Tara Nanut, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Federico Leo Redi, Michel De Cian, Sebastian Schulte, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Elena Graverini, Maria Vieites Diaz

A measurement of CP-violating observables is performed using the decays B-+/- -> DK +/- and B-+/- -> D pi(+/-), where the D meson is reconstructed in one of the self-conjugate three-body final states K-S(0)pi(+)pi(-) and (KSK+K-)-K-0 (commonly denoted K(S) ...

Springer Nature2021

Angular Analysis of the B+ -> K*(+)mu(+) mu(-) Decay

Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Olivier Schneider, Frédéric Blanc, Lesya Shchutska, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Violaine Bellée, Pavol Stefko, Surapat Ek-In, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Vladimir Macko, Pietro Marino, Tara Nanut, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Federico Leo Redi, Michel De Cian, Sebastian Schulte, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Carina Trippl, Sara Celani, Elena Graverini, Maria Vieites Diaz, Donal Patrick Hill

We present an angular analysis of the B+ -> K*(+)(-> K-S(0)pi(+))mu(+) mu(-) decay using 9 fb(-1) of pp collision data collected with the LHCb experiment. For the first time, the full set of CP-averaged angular observables is measured in intervals of the d ...

2021

Observation of the Bs0 -> (DD -/+)-D-*+/- decay

Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Olivier Schneider, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Frédéric Blanc, Axel Kuonen, Olivier Göran Girard, Maxime Schubiger, Brice Emile Maurin, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Violaine Bellée, Vincenzo Battista, Guido Andreassi, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Preema Rennee Pais, Pavol Stefko, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Luca Pescatore, Vladimir Macko, Pietro Marino, Tara Nanut, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Federico Leo Redi, Michel De Cian, Sebastian Schulte, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Maria Vieites Diaz

A search for the B-s(0) -> D*(+/-) D--/+ decay is performed using proton-proton collision data at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8 and 13TeV collected by the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 fb(-1). The decay is observed with ...

Springer Nature2021

Search for the doubly charmed baryon Omega(+)(cc)

Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Olivier Schneider, Frédéric Blanc, Lesya Shchutska, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Violaine Bellée, Pavol Stefko, Surapat Ek-In, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Vladimir Macko, Tara Nanut, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Federico Leo Redi, Michel De Cian, Sebastian Schulte, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Carina Trippl, Sara Celani, Serhii Cholak, Elena Graverini, Maria Vieites Diaz, Ettore Zaffaroni, Donal Patrick Hill

A search for the doubly charmed baryon Omega(+)(cc) with the decay mode Omega(+)(cc) -> Xi(+)(c) K-pi(+) is performed using proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected by the LHCb experiment from 2016 to 2018, corresponding ...

SCIENCE PRESS2021

Measurement of the branching fraction of the B0→ D+s π− decay

Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Olivier Schneider, Frédéric Blanc, Lesya Shchutska, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Vincenzo Battista, Guido Andreassi, Pavol Stefko, Surapat Ek-In, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Vladimir Macko, Pietro Marino, Tara Nanut, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Federico Leo Redi, Michel De Cian, Sebastian Schulte, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Carina Trippl, Sara Celani, Serhii Cholak, Elena Graverini, Maria Vieites Diaz, Donal Patrick Hill

A branching fraction measurement of the B0 -> Ds+pi- decay is presented using proton-proton collision data collected with the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.0fb-1. T ...

SPRINGER2021

Observation of new excited Bs0 states

Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Olivier Schneider, Frédéric Blanc, Lesya Shchutska, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Violaine Bellée, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Pavol Stefko, Surapat Ek-In, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Vladimir Macko, Pietro Marino, Tara Nanut, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Federico Leo Redi, Michel De Cian, Sebastian Schulte, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Carina Trippl, Sara Celani, Serhii Cholak, Elena Graverini, Maria Vieites Diaz

A structure is observed in the B +/- K -/+ mass spectrum in a sample of proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13 TeV, collected with the LHCb detector and corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 9

SPRINGER2021