This report reviews the study of open heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in high-
energy hadronic collisions, as tools to investigate fundamental aspects of Quantum …

After an introduction motivating the study of quarkonium production, we review the recent
developments in the phenomenology of quarkonium production in inclusive scatterings of …

Quantum chromodynamics, the theory of the strong force, describes interactions of coloured
quarks and gluons and the formation of hadronic matter. Conventional hadronic matter …

Using proton-proton collision data at centre-of-mass energies of s= 7, 8 and 13 TeV
recorded by the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an …

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 …

Motivated by the success of the flavour physics programme carried out over the last decade
at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), we characterize in detail the physics potential of its High …

A search for a long-lived scalar particle χ is performed, looking for the decay B+→ K+ χ with
χ→ μ+ μ-in pp collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb-1, collected by …

A bstract We review the modelling of multiple interactions in the event generator H erwig++
and study implications of recent tuning efforts to Tevatron and LHC data. It is often said that …

A bstract The decays B+→ J/ψπ+ π− K+ are studied using a data set corresponding to an
integrated luminosity of 9 fb− 1 collected with the LHCb detector in proton-proton collisions …

The question of whether there exist bound states of two heavy quarks Q=(c, b) and
antiquarks Q¯=(c¯, b¯), distinct from a pair of quark-antiquark mesons, has been debated for …