LHCb detector performance
LHCb Collaboration - International Journal of Modern Physics A, 2015 - World Scientific
The LHCb detector is a forward spectrometer at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.
The experiment is designed for precision measurements of CP violation and rare decays of …
The experiment is designed for precision measurements of CP violation and rare decays of …
Rare B decays as tests of the standard model
T Blake, G Lanfranchi, DM Straub - Progress in Particle and Nuclear …, 2017 - Elsevier
One of the most interesting puzzles in particle physics today is that new physics is expected
at the TeV energy scale to solve the hierarchy problem, and stabilises the Higgs mass, but …
at the TeV energy scale to solve the hierarchy problem, and stabilises the Higgs mass, but …
Physics case for an LHCb Upgrade II-Opportunities in flavour physics, and beyond, in the HL-LHC era
I Bediaga, MC Torres, JM De Miranda, A Gomes… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
The LHCb Upgrade II will fully exploit the flavour-physics opportunities of the HL-LHC, and
study additional physics topics that take advantage of the forward acceptance of the LHCb …
study additional physics topics that take advantage of the forward acceptance of the LHCb …
Measurement of the Branching Fraction and Effective Lifetime and Search for Decays
R Aaij, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, Z Ajaltouni, S Akar… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
A search for the rare decays B s 0→ μ+ μ-and B 0→ μ+ μ-is performed at the LHCb
experiment using data collected in pp collisions corresponding to a total integrated …
experiment using data collected in pp collisions corresponding to a total integrated …
Averages of b-hadron, c-hadron, and -lepton properties as of summer 2016
Heavy Flavor Averaging Group (HFLAV):… - The European Physical …, 2017 - Springer
This article reports world averages of measurements of b-hadron, c-hadron, and τ τ-lepton
properties obtained by the Heavy Flavor Averaging Group using results available through …
properties obtained by the Heavy Flavor Averaging Group using results available through …
Minimal Leptoquark Explanation for the , , and Anomalies
M Bauer, M Neubert - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
We show that by adding a single new scalar particle to the standard model, a TeV-scale
leptoquark with the quantum numbers of a right-handed down quark, one can explain in a …
leptoquark with the quantum numbers of a right-handed down quark, one can explain in a …
The pidcalib package
L Anderlini, A Contu, Y Zhang, R Vazquez Gomez… - 2016 - cds.cern.ch
The PIDCalib package is a tool, widely used within the LHCb Collaboration, which provides
access to the calibration samples of electrons, muons, pions, kaons and protons. This note …
access to the calibration samples of electrons, muons, pions, kaons and protons. This note …
Selection and processing of calibration samples to measure the particle identification performance of the LHCb experiment in Run 2
R Aaij, L Anderlini, S Benson, M Cattaneo… - EPJ Techniques and …, 2019 - epjti.epj.org
Since 2015, with the restart of the LHC for its second run of data taking, the LHCb
experiment has been empowered with a dedicated computing model to select and analyse …
experiment has been empowered with a dedicated computing model to select and analyse …
Continuing search for new physics in b→ sμμ decays: two operators at a time
The anomalies in the measurements of observables involving b→ sμμ decays, namely RK,
RK*, P 5′, and B s ϕ, may be addressed by adding lepton-universality-violating new …
RK*, P 5′, and B s ϕ, may be addressed by adding lepton-universality-violating new …
B s, d→ ℓ+ ℓ− in the Standard Model with reduced theoretical uncertainty
C Bobeth, M Gorbahn, T Hermann, M Misiak… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
We combine our new results for the O (α em) and O (α s 2) corrections to B s, d→ ℓ+ ℓ−, and
present updated branching ratio predictions for these decays in the standard model …
present updated branching ratio predictions for these decays in the standard model …