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 …

QCD and strongly coupled gauge theories: challenges and perspectives

N Brambilla, S Eidelman, P Foka, S Gardner… - The European Physical …, 2014 - Springer
We highlight the progress, current status, and open challenges of QCD-driven physics, in
theory and in experiment. We discuss how the strong interaction is intimately connected to a …

Measurement of the decay properties and search for the and decays

R Aaij, C Abellán Beteta, T Ackernley, B Adeva… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
An improved measurement of the decay B s 0→ μ+ μ-and searches for the decays B 0→ μ+
μ-and B s 0→ μ+ μ-γ are performed at the LHCb experiment using data collected in proton …

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 …

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 …

Measurement of the Bs0→ μ+ μ-decay properties and search for the B0→ μ+ μ-and Bs0→ μ+ μ-γ decays

LHCb Collaboration - Physical Review D, 2022 - research.birmingham.ac.uk
Decays mediated by a quark flavor-changing neutral interaction are not allowed at tree level
in the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics but can proceed through quantum loops …

Measurement of the fragmentation fraction ratio fs/fd and its dependence on B meson kinematics

R Aaij, C Abellan Beteta, A Adametz, B Adeva… - Journal of High Energy …, 2013 - Springer
A bstract The relative production rate of\(B_s^ 0\) and B 0 mesons is determined with the
hadronic decays\(B_s^ 0\to D_s^{-}{\pi^{+}}\) and B 0→ D− K+. The measurement uses data …

RapidSim: an application for the fast simulation of heavy-quark hadron decays

GA Cowan, DC Craik, MD Needham - Computer Physics Communications, 2017 - Elsevier
RapidSim is a lightweight application for the fast simulation of phase space decays of beauty
and charm quark hadrons, allowing for quick studies of the properties of signal and …

[KNIHA][B] Dynamics of the standard model

JF Donoghue, E Golowich, BR Holstein - 2014 - library.oapen.org
Describing the fundamental theory of particle physics and its applications, this book provides
a detailed account of the Standard Model, focusing on techniques that can produce …

Flavor-phenomenology of two-Higgs-doublet models with generic Yukawa structure

A Crivellin, C Greub, A Kokulu - … Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2013 - APS
In this article, we perform an extensive study of flavor observables in a two-Higgs-doublet
model with generic Yukawa structure (of type III). This model is interesting not only because …