Averages of b-hadron, c-hadron, and -lepton properties as of 2018: Heavy Flavor Averaging Group (HFLAV)

Y Amhis, S Banerjee, E Ben-Haim… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
This paper reports world averages of measurements of b-hadron, c-hadron, and τ τ-lepton
properties obtained by the Heavy Flavour Averaging Group using results available through …

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 …

Averages of -hadron, -hadron, and -lepton properties as of 2021

Y Amhis, S Banerjee, E Ben-Haim, E Bertholet… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
This paper reports world averages of measurements of b-hadron, c-hadron, and τ-lepton
properties obtained by the Heavy Flavor Averaging Group using results available before …

Observation of an exotic narrow doubly charmed tetraquark

Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Conventional, hadronic matter consists of baryons and mesons made of three quarks and a
quark–antiquark pair, respectively,. Here, we report the observation of a hadronic state …

Study of the doubly charmed tetraquark

Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Quantum chromodynamics, the theory of the strong force, describes interactions of coloured
quarks and gluons and the formation of hadronic matter. Conventional hadronic matter …

The XYZ states: experimental and theoretical status and perspectives

N Brambilla, S Eidelman, C Hanhart, A Nefediev… - Physics reports, 2020 - Elsevier
The quark model was formulated in 1964 to classify mesons as bound states made of a
quark–antiquark pair, and baryons as bound states made of three quarks. For a long time all …

The hidden-charm pentaquark and tetraquark states

HX Chen, W Chen, X Liu, SL Zhu - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
In the past decade many charmonium-like states were observed experimentally. Especially
those charged charmonium-like Z c states and bottomonium-like Z b states cannot be …

Observation of New Resonances Decaying to and

R Aaij, C Abellán Beteta, T Ackernley, B Adeva… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
The first observation of exotic states with a new quark content cc¯ us¯ decaying to the J/ψ
K+ final state is reported with high significance from an amplitude analysis of the B+→ J/ψ ϕ …

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 …

Observation of Resonances Consistent with Pentaquark States in Decays

R Aaij, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, A Affolder, Z Ajaltouni… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
Observations of exotic structures in the J/ψ p channel, which we refer to as charmonium-
pentaquark states, in Λ b 0→ J/ψ Kp decays are presented. The data sample corresponds to …