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Aaij R, Adeva B, Adinolfi M, Ajaltouni Z, Akar S, Albrecht J, Alessio F, Alexander M, Alfonso Albero A, Ali S, Alkhazov G, Alvarez Cartelle P, Alves AA, Amato S, Amerio S, Amhis Y, An L, Anderlini L, Andreassi G, Andreotti M, Andrews JE, Appleby RB, Archilli F, d'Argent P, Arnau Romeu J, Artamonov A, Artuso M, Aslanides E, Atzeni M, Auriemma G, Baalouch M, Babuschkin I, Bachmann S, Back JJ, Badalov A, Baesso C, Baker S, Balagura V, Baldini W, Baranov A, Barlow RJ, Barschel C, Barsuk S, Barter W, Baryshnikov F, Batozskaya V, Battista V, Bay A, Beaucourt L, Beddow J, Bedeschi F, Bediaga I, Beiter A, Bel LJ, Beliy N, Bellee V, Belloli N, Belous K, Belyaev I, Ben-Haim E, Bencivenni G, Benson S, Beranek S, Berezhnoy A, Bernet R, Berninghoff D, Bertholet E, Bertolin A, Betancourt C, Betti F, Bettler MO, van Beuzekom M, Bezshyiko I, Bifani S, Billoir P, Birnkraut A, Bizzeti A, Bjørn M, Blake T, Blanc F, Blusk S, Bocci V, Boettcher T, Bondar A, Bondar N, Bordyuzhin I, Borghi S, Borisyak M, Borsato M, Bossu F, Boubdir M, Bowcock TJV, Bowen E, Bozzi C, Braun S, Brodzicka J, Brundu D, Buchanan E, Burr C, Bursche A, Buytaert J, Byczynski W, Cadeddu S, Cai H, Calabrese R, Calladine R, Calvi M, Calvo Gomez M, Camboni A, Campana P, Campora Perez DH, Capriotti L, Carbone A, Carboni G, Cardinale R, Cardini A, Carniti P, Carson L, Carvalho Akiba K, Casse G, Cassina L, Cattaneo M, Cavallero G, Cenci R, Chamont D, Chapman MG, Charles M, Charpentier P, Chatzikonstantinidis G, Chefdeville M, Chen S, Cheung SF, Chitic SG, Chobanova V, Chrzaszcz M, Chubykin A, Ciambrone P, Cid Vidal X, Ciezarek G, Clarke PEL, Clemencic M, Cliff HV, Closier J, Coco V, Cogan J, Cogneras E, Cogoni V, Cojocariu L, Collins P, Colombo T, Comerma-Montells A, Contu A, Coombs G, Coquereau S, Corti G, Corvo M, Costa Sobral CM, Couturier B, Cowan GA, Craik DC, Crocombe A, Cruz Torres M, Currie R, D'Ambrosio C, Da Cunha Marinho F, Da Silva CL, Dall'Occo E, Dalseno J, Davis A, De Aguiar Francisco O, De Bruyn K, De Capua S, De Cian M, De Miranda JM, De Paula L, De Serio M, De Simone P, Dean CT, Decamp D, Del Buono L, Dembinski HP, Demmer M, Dendek A, Derkach D, Deschamps O, Dettori F, Dey B, Di Canto A, Di Nezza P, Dijkstra H, Dordei F, Dorigo M, Dosil Suárez A, Douglas L, Dovbnya A, Dreimanis K, Dufour L, Dujany G, Durante P, Durham JM, Dutta D, Dzhelyadin R, Dziewiecki M, Dziurda A, Dzyuba A, Easo S, Egede U, Egorychev V, Eidelman S, Eisenhardt S, Eitschberger U, Ekelhof R, Eklund L, Ely S, Esen S, Evans HM, Evans T, Falabella A, Farley N, Farry S, Fazzini D, Federici L, Ferguson D, Fernandez G, Fernandez Declara P, Fernandez Prieto A, Ferrari F, Ferreira Lopes L, Ferreira Rodrigues F, Ferro-Luzzi M, Filippov S, Fini RA, Fiorini M, Firlej M, Fitzpatrick C, Fiutowski T, Fleuret F, Fontana M, Fontanelli F, Forty R, Franco Lima V, Frank M, Frei C, Fu J, Funk W, Furfaro E, Färber C, Gabriel E, Gallas Torreira A, Galli D, Gallorini S, Gambetta S, Gandelman M, Gandini P, Gao Y, Garcia Martin LM, García Pardiñas J, Garra Tico J, Garrido L, Gascon D, Gaspar C, Gavardi L, Gazzoni G, Gerick D, Gersabeck E, Gersabeck M, Gershon T, Ghez P, Gianì S, Gibson V, Girard OG, Giubega L, Gizdov K, Gligorov VV, Golubkov D, Golutvin A, Gomes A, Gorelov IV, Gotti C, Govorkova E, Grabowski JP, Graciani Diaz R, Granado Cardoso LA, Graugés E, Graverini E, Graziani G, Grecu A, Greim R, Griffith P, Grillo L, Gruber L, Gruberg Cazon BR, Grünberg O, Gushchin E, Guz Y, Gys T, Göbel C, Hadavizadeh T, Hadjivasiliou C, Haefeli G, Haen C, Haines SC, Hamilton B, Han X, Hancock TH, Hansmann-Menzemer S, Harnew N, Harnew ST, Hasse C, Hatch M, He J, Hecker M, Heinicke K, Heister A, Hennessy K, Henrard P, Henry L, van Herwijnen E, Heß M, Hicheur A, Hill D, Hopchev PH, Hu W, Huang W, Huard ZC, Hulsbergen W, Humair T, Hushchyn M, Hutchcroft D, Ibis P, Idzik M, Ilten P, Jacobsson R, Jalocha J, Jans E, Jawahery A, Jiang F, John M, Johnson D, Jones CR, Joram C, Jost B, Jurik N, Kandybei S, Karacson M, Kariuki JM, Karodia S, Kazeev N, Kecke M, Keizer F, Kelsey M, Kenzie M, Ketel T, Khairullin E, Khanji B, Khurewathanakul C, Kim KE, Kirn T, Klaver S, Klimaszewski K, Klimkovich T, Koliiev S, Kolpin M, Kopecna R, Koppenburg P, Kosmyntseva A, Kotriakhova S, Kozeiha M, Kravchuk L, Kreps M, Kress F, Krokovny P, Krzemien W, Kucewicz W, Kucharczyk M, Kudryavtsev V, Kuonen AK, Kvaratskheliya T, Lacarrere D, Lafferty G, Lai A, Lanfranchi G, Langenbruch C, Latham T, Lazzeroni C, Le Gac R, Leflat A, Lefrançois J, Lefèvre R, Lemaitre F, Lemos Cid E, Leroy O, Lesiak T, Leverington B, Li PR, Li T, Li Y, Li Z, Liang X, Likhomanenko T, Lindner R, Lionetto F, Lisovskyi V, Liu X, Loh D, Loi A, Longstaff I, Lopes JH, Lucchesi D, Lucio Martinez M, Luo H, Lupato A, Luppi E, Lupton O, Lusiani A, Lyu X, Machefert F, Maciuc F, Macko V, Mackowiak P, Maddrell-Mander S, Maev O, Maguire K, Maisuzenko D, Majewski MW, Malde S, Malecki B, Malinin A, Maltsev T, Manca G, Mancinelli G, Marangotto D, Maratas J, Marchand JF, Marconi U, Marin Benito C, Marinangeli M, Marino P, Marks J, Martellotti G, Martin M, Martinelli M, Martinez Santos D, Martinez Vidal F, Massafferri A, Matev R, Mathad A, Mathe Z, Matteuzzi C, Mauri A, Maurice E, Maurin B, Mazurov A, McCann M, McNab A, McNulty R, Mead JV, Meadows B, Meaux C, Meier F, Meinert N, Melnychuk D, Merk M, Merli A, Michielin E, Milanes DA, Millard E, Minard MN, Minzoni L, Mitzel DS, Mogini A, Molina Rodriguez J, Mombächer T, Monroy IA, Monteil S, Morandin M, Morello MJ, Morgunova O, Moron J, Morris AB, Mountain R, Muheim F, Mulder M, Müller D, Müller J, Müller K, Müller V, Naik P, Nakada T, Nandakumar R, Nandi A, Nasteva I, Needham M, Neri N, Neubert S, Neufeld N, Neuner M, Nguyen TD, Nguyen-Mau C, Nieswand S, Niet R, Nikitin N, Nikodem T, Nogay A, O'Hanlon DP, Oblakowska-Mucha A, Obraztsov V, Ogilvy S, Oldeman R, Onderwater CJG, Ossowska A, Otalora Goicochea JM, Owen P, Oyanguren A, Pais PR, Palano A, Palutan M, Panshin G, Papanestis A, Pappagallo M, Pappalardo LL, Parker W, Parkes C, Passaleva G, Pastore A, Patel M, Patrignani C, Pearce A, Pellegrino A, Penso G, Pepe Altarelli M, Perazzini S, Pereima D, Perret P, Pescatore L, Petridis K, Petrolini A, Petrov A, Petruzzo M, Picatoste Olloqui E, Pietrzyk B, Pietrzyk G, Pikies M, Pinci D, Pisani F, Pistone A, Piucci A, Placinta V, Playfer S, Plo Casasus M, Polci F, Poli Lener M, Poluektov A, Polyakov I, Polycarpo E, Pomery GJ, Ponce S, Popov A, Popov D, Poslavskii S, Potterat C, Price E, Prisciandaro J, Prouve C, Pugatch V, Puig Navarro A, Pullen H, Punzi G, Qian W, Qin J, Quagliani R, Quintana B, Rachwal B, Rademacker JH, Rama M, Ramos Pernas M, Rangel MS, Raniuk I, Ratnikov F, Raven G, Ravonel Salzgeber M, Reboud M, Redi F, Reichert S, Dos Reis AC, Remon Alepuz C, Renaudin V, Ricciardi S, Richards S, Rihl M, Rinnert K, Robbe P, Robert A, Rodrigues AB, Rodrigues E, Rodriguez Lopez JA, Rogozhnikov A, Roiser S, Rollings A, Romanovskiy V, Romero Vidal A, Rotondo M, Rudolph MS, Ruf T, Ruiz Valls P, Ruiz Vidal J, Saborido Silva JJ, Sadykhov E, Sagidova N, Saitta B, Salustino Guimaraes V, Sanchez Mayordomo C, Sanmartin Sedes B, Santacesaria R, Santamarina Rios C, Santimaria M, Santovetti E, Sarpis G, Sarti A, Satriano C, Satta A, Saunders DM, Savrina D, Schael S, Schellenberg M, Schiller M, Schindler H, Schmelling M, Schmelzer T, Schmidt B, Schneider O, Schopper A, Schreiner HF, Schubiger M, Schune MH, Schwemmer R, Sciascia B, Sciubba A, Semennikov A, Sepulveda ES, Sergi A, Serra N, Serrano J, Sestini L, Seyfert P, Shapkin M, Shcheglov Y, Shears T, Shekhtman L, Shevchenko V, Siddi BG, Silva Coutinho R, Silva de Oliveira L, Simi G, Simone S, Sirendi M, Skidmore N, Skwarnicki T, Smith IT, Smith J, Smith M, Soares Lavra L, Sokoloff MD, Soler FJP, Souza De Paula B, Spaan B, Spradlin P, Stagni F, Stahl M, Stahl S, Stefko P, Stefkova S, Steinkamp O, Stemmle S, Stenyakin O, Stepanova M, Stevens H, Stone S, Storaci B, Stracka S, Stramaglia ME, Straticiuc M, Straumann U, Strokov S, Sun J, Sun L, Swientek K, Syropoulos V, Szumlak T, Szymanski M, T'Jampens S, Tayduganov A, Tekampe T, Tellarini G, Teubert F, Thomas E, van Tilburg J, Tilley MJ, Tisserand V, Tobin M, Tolk S, Tomassetti L, Tonelli D, Tourinho Jadallah Aoude R, Tournefier E, Traill M, Tran MT, Tresch M, Trisovic A, Tsaregorodtsev A, Tsopelas P, Tully A, Tuning N, Ukleja A, Usachov A, Ustyuzhanin A, Uwer U, Vacca C, Vagner A, Vagnoni V, Valassi A, Valat S, Valenti G, Vazquez Gomez R, Vazquez Regueiro P, Vecchi S, van Veghel M, Velthuis JJ, Veltri M, Veneziano G, Venkateswaran A, Verlage TA, Vernet M, Vesterinen M, Viana Barbosa JV, Vieira D, Vieites Diaz M, Viemann H, Vilasis-Cardona X, Vitti M, Volkov V, Vollhardt A, Voneki B, Vorobyev A, Vorobyev V, Voß C, de Vries JA, Vázquez Sierra C, Waldi R, Walsh J, Wang J, Wang Y, Ward DR, Wark HM, Watson NK, Websdale D, Weiden A, Weisser C, Whitehead M, Wicht J, Wilkinson G, Wilkinson M, Williams M, Williams M, Williams T, Wilson FF, Wimberley J, Winn M, Wishahi J, Wislicki W, Witek M, Wormser G, Wotton SA, Wyllie K, Xie Y, Xu M, Xu Q, Xu Z, Xu Z, Yang Z, Yang Z, Yao Y, Yin H, Yu J, Yuan X, Yushchenko O, Zarebski KA, Zavertyaev M, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Zhelezov A, Zheng Y, Zhu X, Zhukov V, Zonneveld JB, Zucchelli S. Evidence for the Rare Decay Σ^{+}→pμ^{+}μ^{-}. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2018; 120:221803. [PMID: 29906142 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.120.221803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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A search for the rare decay Σ^{+}→pμ^{+}μ^{-} is performed using pp collision data recorded by the LHCb experiment at center-of-mass energies sqrt[s]=7 and 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb^{-1}. An excess of events is observed with respect to the background expectation, with a signal significance of 4.1 standard deviations. No significant structure is observed in the dimuon invariant mass distribution, in contrast with a previous result from the HyperCP experiment. The measured Σ^{+}→pμ^{+}μ^{-} branching fraction is (2.2_{-1.3}^{+1.8})×10^{-8}, where statistical and systematic uncertainties are included, which is consistent with the standard model prediction.
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Aaij R, Adeva B, Adinolfi M, Ajaltouni Z, Akar S, Albrecht J, Alessio F, Alexander M, Alfonso Albero A, Ali S, Alkhazov G, Alvarez Cartelle P, Alves AA, Amato S, Amerio S, Amhis Y, An L, Anderlini L, Andreassi G, Andreotti M, Andrews JE, Appleby RB, Archilli F, d'Argent P, Arnau Romeu J, Artamonov A, Artuso M, Aslanides E, Auriemma G, Baalouch M, Babuschkin I, Bachmann S, Back JJ, Badalov A, Baesso C, Baker S, Balagura V, Baldini W, Baranov A, Barlow RJ, Barschel C, Barsuk S, Barter W, Baryshnikov F, Batozskaya V, Battista V, Bay A, Beaucourt L, Beddow J, Bedeschi F, Bediaga I, Beiter A, Bel LJ, Beliy N, Bellee V, Belloli N, Belous K, Belyaev I, Ben-Haim E, Bencivenni G, Benson S, Beranek S, Berezhnoy A, Bernet R, Berninghoff D, Bertholet E, Bertolin A, Betancourt C, Betti F, Bettler MO, van Beuzekom M, Bezshyiko I, Bifani S, Billoir P, Birnkraut A, Bitadze A, Bizzeti A, Bjørn M, Blake T, Blanc F, Blouw J, Blusk S, Bocci V, Boettcher T, Bondar A, Bondar N, Bonivento W, Bordyuzhin I, Borgheresi A, Borghi S, Borisyak M, Borsato M, Bossu F, Boubdir M, Bowcock TJV, Bowen E, Bozzi C, Braun S, Britton T, Brodzicka J, Brundu D, Buchanan E, Burr C, Bursche A, Buytaert J, Byczynski W, Cadeddu S, Cai H, Calabrese R, Calladine R, Calvi M, Calvo Gomez M, Camboni A, Campana P, Campora Perez DH, Capriotti L, Carbone A, Carboni G, Cardinale R, Cardini A, Carniti P, Carson L, Carvalho Akiba K, Casse G, Cassina L, Castillo Garcia L, Cattaneo M, Cavallero G, Cenci R, Chamont D, Chapman MG, Charles M, Charpentier P, Chatzikonstantinidis G, Chefdeville M, Chen S, Cheung SF, Chitic SG, Chobanova V, Chrzaszcz M, Chubykin A, Ciambrone P, Cid Vidal X, Ciezarek G, Clarke PEL, Clemencic M, Cliff HV, Closier J, Coco V, Cogan J, Cogneras E, Cogoni V, Cojocariu L, Collins P, Colombo T, Comerma-Montells A, Contu A, Cook A, Coombs G, Coquereau S, Corti G, Corvo M, Costa Sobral CM, Couturier B, Cowan GA, Craik DC, Crocombe A, Cruz Torres M, Currie R, D'Ambrosio C, Da Cunha Marinho F, Dall'Occo E, Dalseno J, Davis A, De Aguiar Francisco O, De Bruyn K, De Capua S, De Cian M, De Miranda JM, De Paula L, De Serio M, De Simone P, Dean CT, Decamp D, Del Buono L, Dembinski HP, Demmer M, Dendek A, Derkach D, Deschamps O, Dettori F, Dey B, Di Canto A, Di Nezza P, Dijkstra H, Dordei F, Dorigo M, Dosil Suárez A, Douglas L, Dovbnya A, Dreimanis K, Dufour L, Dujany G, Dungs K, Durante P, Dzhelyadin R, Dziewiecki M, Dziurda A, Dzyuba A, Déléage N, Easo S, Ebert M, Egede U, Egorychev V, Eidelman S, Eisenhardt S, Eitschberger U, Ekelhof R, Eklund L, Ely S, Esen S, Evans HM, Evans T, Falabella A, Farley N, Farry S, Fay R, Fazzini D, Federici L, Ferguson D, Fernandez G, Fernandez Declara P, Fernandez Prieto A, Ferrari F, Ferreira Rodrigues F, Ferro-Luzzi M, Filippov S, Fini RA, Fiore M, Fiorini M, Firlej M, Fitzpatrick C, Fiutowski T, Fleuret F, Fohl K, Fontana M, Fontanelli F, Forshaw DC, Forty R, Franco Lima V, Frank M, Frei C, Fu J, Funk W, Furfaro E, Färber C, Gabriel E, Gallas Torreira A, Galli D, Gallorini S, Gambetta S, Gandelman M, Gandini P, Gao Y, Garcia Martin LM, García Pardiñas J, Garra Tico J, Garrido L, Garsed PJ, Gascon D, Gaspar C, Gavardi L, Gazzoni G, Gerick D, Gersabeck E, Gersabeck M, Gershon T, Ghez P, Gianì S, Gibson V, Girard OG, Giubega L, Gizdov K, Gligorov VV, Golubkov D, Golutvin A, Gomes A, Gorelov IV, Gotti C, Govorkova E, Grabowski JP, Graciani Diaz R, Granado Cardoso LA, Graugés E, Graverini E, Graziani G, Grecu A, Greim R, Griffith P, Grillo L, Gruber L, Gruberg Cazon BR, Grünberg O, Gushchin E, Guz Y, Gys T, Göbel C, Hadavizadeh T, Hadjivasiliou C, Haefeli G, Haen C, Haines SC, Hamilton B, Han X, Hancock TH, Hansmann-Menzemer S, Harnew N, Harnew ST, Harrison J, Hasse C, Hatch M, He J, Hecker M, Heinicke K, Heister A, Hennessy K, Henrard P, Henry L, van Herwijnen E, Heß M, Hicheur A, Hill D, Hombach C, Hopchev PH, Huard ZC, Hulsbergen W, Humair T, Hushchyn M, Hutchcroft D, Ibis P, Idzik M, Ilten P, Jacobsson R, Jalocha J, Jans E, Jawahery A, Jiang F, John M, Johnson D, Jones CR, Joram C, Jost B, Jurik N, Kandybei S, Karacson M, Kariuki JM, Karodia S, Kazeev N, Kecke M, Kelsey M, Kenzie M, Ketel T, Khairullin E, Khanji B, Khurewathanakul C, Kirn T, Klaver S, Klimaszewski K, Klimkovich T, Koliiev S, Kolpin M, Komarov I, Kopecna R, Koppenburg P, Kosmyntseva A, Kotriakhova S, Kozeiha M, Kravchuk L, Kreps M, Krokovny P, Kruse F, Krzemien W, Kucewicz W, Kucharczyk M, Kudryavtsev V, Kuonen AK, Kurek K, Kvaratskheliya T, Lacarrere D, Lafferty G, Lai A, Lanfranchi G, Langenbruch C, Latham T, Lazzeroni C, Le Gac R, van Leerdam J, Leflat A, Lefrançois J, Lefèvre R, Lemaitre F, Lemos Cid E, Leroy O, Lesiak T, Leverington B, Li PR, Li T, Li Y, Li Z, Likhomanenko T, Lindner R, Lionetto F, Liu X, Loh D, Loi A, Longstaff I, Lopes JH, Lucchesi D, Lucio Martinez M, Luo H, Lupato A, Luppi E, Lupton O, Lusiani A, Lyu X, Machefert F, Maciuc F, Macko V, Mackowiak P, Maddrell-Mander S, Maev O, Maguire K, Maisuzenko D, Majewski MW, Malde S, Malinin A, Maltsev T, Manca G, Mancinelli G, Manning P, Marangotto D, Maratas J, Marchand JF, Marconi U, Marin Benito C, Marinangeli M, Marino P, Marks J, Martellotti G, Martin M, Martinelli M, Martinez Santos D, Martinez Vidal F, Martins Tostes D, Massacrier LM, Massafferri A, Matev R, Mathad A, Mathe Z, Matteuzzi C, Mauri A, Maurice E, Maurin B, Mazurov A, McCann M, McNab A, McNulty R, Mead JV, Meadows B, Meaux C, Meier F, Meinert N, Melnychuk D, Merk M, Merli A, Michielin E, Milanes DA, Millard E, Minard MN, Minzoni L, Mitzel DS, Mogini A, Molina Rodriguez J, Mombächer T, Monroy IA, Monteil S, Morandin M, Morello MJ, Morgunova O, Moron J, Morris AB, Mountain R, Muheim F, Mulder M, Mussini M, Müller D, Müller J, Müller K, Müller V, Naik P, Nakada T, Nandakumar R, Nandi A, Nasteva I, Needham M, Neri N, Neubert S, Neufeld N, Neuner M, Nguyen TD, Nguyen-Mau C, Nieswand S, Niet R, Nikitin N, Nikodem T, Nogay A, O'Hanlon DP, Oblakowska-Mucha A, Obraztsov V, Ogilvy S, Oldeman R, Onderwater CJG, Ossowska A, Otalora Goicochea JM, Owen P, Oyanguren A, Pais PR, Palano A, Palutan M, Papanestis A, Pappagallo M, Pappalardo LL, Parker W, Parkes C, Passaleva G, Pastore A, Patel M, Patrignani C, Pearce A, Pellegrino A, Penso G, Pepe Altarelli M, Perazzini S, Perret P, Pescatore L, Petridis K, Petrolini A, Petrov A, Petruzzo M, Picatoste Olloqui E, Pietrzyk B, Pikies M, Pinci D, Pisani F, Pistone A, Piucci A, Placinta V, Playfer S, Plo Casasus M, Polci F, Poli Lener M, Poluektov A, Polyakov I, Polycarpo E, Pomery GJ, Ponce S, Popov A, Popov D, Poslavskii S, Potterat C, Price E, Prisciandaro J, Prouve C, Pugatch V, Puig Navarro A, Pullen H, Punzi G, Qian W, Quagliani R, Quintana B, Rachwal B, Rademacker JH, Rama M, Ramos Pernas M, Rangel MS, Raniuk I, Ratnikov F, Raven G, Ravonel Salzgeber M, Reboud M, Redi F, Reichert S, Dos Reis AC, Remon Alepuz C, Renaudin V, Ricciardi S, Richards S, Rihl M, Rinnert K, Rives Molina V, Robbe P, Rodrigues AB, Rodrigues E, Rodriguez Lopez JA, Rodriguez Perez P, Rogozhnikov A, Roiser S, Rollings A, Romanovskiy V, Romero Vidal A, Ronayne JW, Rotondo M, Rudolph MS, Ruf T, Ruiz Valls P, Ruiz Vidal J, Saborido Silva JJ, Sadykhov E, Sagidova N, Saitta B, Salustino Guimaraes V, Sanchez Mayordomo C, Sanmartin Sedes B, Santacesaria R, Santamarina Rios C, Santimaria M, Santovetti E, Sarpis G, Sarti A, Satriano C, Satta A, Saunders DM, Savrina D, Schael S, Schellenberg M, Schiller M, Schindler H, Schlupp M, Schmelling M, Schmelzer T, Schmidt B, Schneider O, Schopper A, Schreiner HF, Schubert K, Schubiger M, Schune MH, Schwemmer R, Sciascia B, Sciubba A, Semennikov A, Sergi A, Serra N, Serrano J, Sestini L, Seyfert P, Shapkin M, Shapoval I, Shcheglov Y, Shears T, Shekhtman L, Shevchenko V, Siddi BG, Silva Coutinho R, Silva de Oliveira L, Simi G, Simone S, Sirendi M, Skidmore N, Skwarnicki T, Smith E, Smith IT, Smith J, Smith M, Soares Lavra L, Sokoloff MD, Soler FJP, Souza De Paula B, Spaan B, Spradlin P, Sridharan S, Stagni F, Stahl M, Stahl S, Stefko P, Stefkova S, Steinkamp O, Stemmle S, Stenyakin O, Stepanova M, Stevens H, Stone S, Storaci B, Stracka S, Stramaglia ME, Straticiuc M, Straumann U, Sun L, Sutcliffe W, Swientek K, Syropoulos V, Szczekowski M, Szumlak T, Szymanski M, T'Jampens S, Tayduganov A, Tekampe T, Tellarini G, Teubert F, Thomas E, van Tilburg J, Tilley MJ, Tisserand V, Tobin M, Tolk S, Tomassetti L, Tonelli D, Toriello F, Tourinho Jadallah Aoude R, Tournefier E, Traill M, Tran MT, Tresch M, Trisovic A, Tsaregorodtsev A, Tsopelas P, Tully A, Tuning N, Ukleja A, Ustyuzhanin A, Uwer U, Vacca C, Vagner A, Vagnoni V, Valassi A, Valat S, Valenti G, Vazquez Gomez R, Vazquez Regueiro P, Vecchi S, van Veghel M, Velthuis JJ, Veltri M, Veneziano G, Venkateswaran A, Verlage TA, Vernet M, Vesterinen M, Viana Barbosa JV, Viaud B, Vieira D, Vieites Diaz M, Viemann H, Vilasis-Cardona X, Vitti M, Volkov V, Vollhardt A, Voneki B, Vorobyev A, Vorobyev V, Voß C, de Vries JA, Vázquez Sierra C, Waldi R, Wallace C, Wallace R, Walsh J, Wang J, Ward DR, Wark HM, Watson NK, Websdale D, Weiden A, Whitehead M, Wicht J, Wilkinson G, Wilkinson M, Williams M, Williams MP, Williams M, Williams T, Wilson FF, Wimberley J, Winn M, Wishahi J, Wislicki W, Witek M, Wormser G, Wotton SA, Wraight K, Wyllie K, Xie Y, Xu Z, Yang Z, Yang Z, Yao Y, Yin H, Yu J, Yuan X, Yushchenko O, Zarebski KA, Zavertyaev M, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Zhelezov A, Zheng Y, Zhu X, Zhukov V, Zonneveld JB, Zucchelli S. Measurement of the Ratio of the B^{0}→D^{*-}τ^{+}ν_{τ} and B^{0}→D^{*-}μ^{+}ν_{μ} Branching Fractions Using Three-Prong τ-Lepton Decays. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2018; 120:171802. [PMID: 29756810 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.120.171802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2017] [Revised: 03/05/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The ratio of branching fractions R(D^{*-})≡B(B^{0}→D^{*-}τ^{+}ν_{τ})/B(B^{0}→D^{*-}μ^{+}ν_{μ}) is measured using a data sample of proton-proton collisions collected with the LHCb detector at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb^{-1}. For the first time, R(D^{*-}) is determined using the τ-lepton decays with three charged pions in the final state. The B^{0}→D^{*-}τ^{+}ν_{τ} yield is normalized to that of the B^{0}→D^{*-}π^{+}π^{-}π^{+} mode, providing a measurement of B(B^{0}→D^{*-}τ^{+}ν_{τ})/B(B^{0}→D^{*-}π^{+}π^{-}π^{+})=1.97±0.13±0.18, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. The value of B(B^{0}→D^{*-}τ^{+}ν_{τ})=(1.42±0.094±0.129±0.054)% is obtained, where the third uncertainty is due to the limited knowledge of the branching fraction of the normalization mode. Using the well-measured branching fraction of the B^{0}→D^{*-}μ^{+}ν_{μ} decay, a value of R(D^{*-})=0.291±0.019±0.026±0.013 is established, where the third uncertainty is due to the limited knowledge of the branching fractions of the normalization and B^{0}→D^{*-}μ^{+}ν_{μ} modes. This measurement is in agreement with the standard model prediction and with previous results.
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Jullien-Petrelli AC, García-Sabrido JL, Orue-Echebarria MI, Lozano P, Álvarez A, Serrano J, Calvo FM, Calvo-Haro JA, Lasso JM, Asencio JM. Role of intraoperative radiotherapy in the treatment of sacral chordoma. Spine J 2018; 18:632-638. [PMID: 28882523 DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2017.08.255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2017] [Revised: 07/29/2017] [Accepted: 08/29/2017] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND CONTEXT Sacral chordoma is a rare entity with high local recurrence rates when complete resection is not achieved. To date, there are no series available in literature combining surgery and intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT). PURPOSE The objective of this study was to report the experience of our center in the management of sacral chordoma combining radical resection with both external radiotherapy and IORT. STUDY DESIGN This is a retrospective case series. PATIENT SAMPLE The patient sample included 15 patients with sacral chordoma resected in our center from 1998 to 2015. OUTCOME MEASURES The outcome measures were overall survival (OS), disease-free survival (DFS), and rates of local and distant recurrences. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the records of all the patients with sacral chordoma resected in our center from 1998 to December 2015. Overall survival, DFS, and rates of local and distant recurrences were calculated. Results between patients treated with or without IORT were compared. RESULTS A total of 15 patients were identified: 8 men and 7 women. The median age was 59 years (range 28-77). Intraoperative radiotherapy was applied in nine patients and six were treated with surgical resection without IORT. In 13 patients, we performed the treatment of the primary tumor, and in two patients, we performed the treatment of recurrence disease. A posterior approach was used in four patients. Wide surgical margins (zero residue) were achieved in six patients, marginal margins (microscopic residue) were achieved in seven patients, and there were no patients with intralesional (R2) margins. At a median follow-up of 38 months (range 11-209 months), the 5-year OS in the IORT group was 100% versus 53% in the group of non-IORT (p=.05). The median DFS in the IORT group was 85 months, and that in the non-IORT group was 41 months. In the group without IORT, two patients died and nobody died during the follow-up in the group treated with IORT. High-sacrectomy treated patients had a median survival of 41 months, and low-sacrectomy treated patients had a median survival of 90 months. Disease-free survival in patients without gluteal involvement was 100% at 5 years, and that in patients with gluteal involvement was 40%. All patients with a recurrence in our study had gluteal involvement. CONCLUSIONS Multidisciplinary management of sacral chordoma seems to improve local control. The use of IORT, in our experience, is associated with an increase in OS and DFS. The level of resection and gluteal involvement seems to affect survival. The posterior approach is useful in selected cases. Multicenter studies should be performed to confirm the utility of IORT.
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Aaij R, Adeva B, Adinolfi M, Ajaltouni Z, Akar S, Albrecht J, Alessio F, Alexander M, Alfonso Albero A, Ali S, Alkhazov G, Alvarez Cartelle P, Alves AA, Amato S, Amerio S, Amhis Y, An L, Anderlini L, Andreassi G, Andreotti M, Andrews JE, Appleby RB, Archilli F, d'Argent P, Arnau Romeu J, Artamonov A, Artuso M, Aslanides E, Atzeni M, Auriemma G, Baalouch M, Babuschkin I, Bachmann S, Back JJ, Badalov A, Baesso C, Baker S, Balagura V, Baldini W, Baranov A, Barlow RJ, Barschel C, Barsuk S, Barter W, Baryshnikov F, Batozskaya V, Battista V, Bay A, Beaucourt L, Beddow J, Bedeschi F, Bediaga I, Beiter A, Bel LJ, Beliy N, Bellee V, Belloli N, Belous K, Belyaev I, Ben-Haim E, Bencivenni G, Benson S, Beranek S, Berezhnoy A, Bernet R, Berninghoff D, Bertholet E, Bertolin A, Betancourt C, Betti F, Bettler MO, van Beuzekom M, Bezshyiko I, Bifani S, Billoir P, Birnkraut A, Bizzeti A, Bjørn M, Blake T, Blanc F, Blusk S, Bocci V, Boettcher T, Bondar A, Bondar N, Bordyuzhin I, Borghi S, Borisyak M, Borsato M, Bossu F, Boubdir M, Bowcock TJV, Bowen E, Bozzi C, Braun S, Britton T, Brodzicka J, Brundu D, Buchanan E, Burr C, Bursche A, Buytaert J, Byczynski W, Cadeddu S, Cai H, Calabrese R, Calladine R, Calvi M, Calvo Gomez M, Camboni A, Campana P, Campora Perez DH, Capriotti L, Carbone A, Carboni G, Cardinale R, Cardini A, Carniti P, Carson L, Carvalho Akiba K, Casse G, Cassina L, Cattaneo M, Cavallero G, Cenci R, Chamont D, Chapman MG, Charles M, Charpentier P, Chatzikonstantinidis G, Chefdeville M, Chen S, Cheung SF, Chitic SG, Chobanova V, Chrzaszcz M, Chubykin A, Ciambrone P, Cid Vidal X, Ciezarek G, Clarke PEL, Clemencic M, Cliff HV, Closier J, Cogan J, Cogneras E, Cogoni V, Cojocariu L, Collins P, Colombo T, Comerma-Montells A, Contu A, Cook A, Coombs G, Coquereau S, Corti G, Corvo M, Costa Sobral CM, Couturier B, Cowan GA, Craik DC, Crocombe A, Cruz Torres M, Currie R, D'Ambrosio C, Da Cunha Marinho F, Dall'Occo E, Dalseno J, Davis A, De Aguiar Francisco O, De Bruyn K, De Capua S, De Cian M, De Miranda JM, De Paula L, De Serio M, De Simone P, Dean CT, Decamp D, Del Buono L, Dembinski HP, Demmer M, Dendek A, Derkach D, Deschamps O, Dettori F, Dey B, Di Canto A, Di Nezza P, Dijkstra H, Dordei F, Dorigo M, Dosil Suárez A, Douglas L, Dovbnya A, Dreimanis K, Dufour L, Dujany G, Durante P, Dzhelyadin R, Dziewiecki M, Dziurda A, Dzyuba A, Easo S, Ebert M, Egede U, Egorychev V, Eidelman S, Eisenhardt S, Eitschberger U, Ekelhof R, Eklund L, Ely S, Esen S, Evans HM, Evans T, Falabella A, Farley N, Farry S, Fazzini D, Federici L, Ferguson D, Fernandez G, Fernandez Declara P, Fernandez Prieto A, Ferrari F, Ferreira Rodrigues F, Ferro-Luzzi M, Filippov S, Fini RA, Fiorini M, Firlej M, Fitzpatrick C, Fiutowski T, Fleuret F, Fohl K, Fontana M, Fontanelli F, Forshaw DC, Forty R, Franco Lima V, Frank M, Frei C, Fu J, Funk W, Furfaro E, Färber C, Gabriel E, Gallas Torreira A, Galli D, Gallorini S, Gambetta S, Gandelman M, Gandini P, Gao Y, Garcia Martin LM, García Pardiñas J, Garra Tico J, Garrido L, Garsed PJ, Gascon D, Gaspar C, Gavardi L, Gazzoni G, Gerick D, Gersabeck E, Gersabeck M, Gershon T, Ghez P, Gianì S, Gibson V, Girard OG, Giubega L, Gizdov K, Gligorov VV, Golubkov D, Golutvin A, Gomes A, Gorelov IV, Gotti C, Govorkova E, Grabowski JP, Graciani Diaz R, Granado Cardoso LA, Graugés E, Graverini E, Graziani G, Grecu A, Greim R, Griffith P, Grillo L, Gruber L, Gruberg Cazon BR, Grünberg O, Gushchin E, Guz Y, Gys T, Göbel C, Hadavizadeh T, Hadjivasiliou C, Haefeli G, Haen C, Haines SC, Hamilton B, Han X, Hancock TH, Hansmann-Menzemer S, Harnew N, Harnew ST, Hasse C, Hatch M, He J, Hecker M, Heinicke K, Heister A, Hennessy K, Henrard P, Henry L, van Herwijnen E, Heß M, Hicheur A, Hill D, Hombach C, Hopchev PH, Hu W, Huard ZC, Hulsbergen W, Humair T, Hushchyn M, Hutchcroft D, Ibis P, Idzik M, Ilten P, Jacobsson R, Jalocha J, Jans E, Jawahery A, Jiang F, John M, Johnson D, Jones CR, Joram C, Jost B, Jurik N, Kandybei S, Karacson M, Kariuki JM, Karodia S, Kazeev N, Kecke M, Keizer F, Kelsey M, Kenzie M, Ketel T, Khairullin E, Khanji B, Khurewathanakul C, Kirn T, Klaver S, Klimaszewski K, Klimkovich T, Koliiev S, Kolpin M, Kopecna R, Koppenburg P, Kosmyntseva A, Kotriakhova S, Kozeiha M, Kravchuk L, Kreps M, Kress F, Krokovny P, Kruse F, Krzemien W, Kucewicz W, Kucharczyk M, Kudryavtsev V, Kuonen AK, Kvaratskheliya T, Lacarrere D, Lafferty G, Lai A, Lanfranchi G, Langenbruch C, Latham T, Lazzeroni C, Le Gac R, Leflat A, Lefrançois J, Lefèvre R, Lemaitre F, Lemos Cid E, Leroy O, Lesiak T, Leverington B, Li PR, Li T, Li Y, Li Z, Likhomanenko T, Lindner R, Lionetto F, Lisovskyi V, Liu X, Loh D, Loi A, Longstaff I, Lopes JH, Lucchesi D, Lucio Martinez M, Luo H, Lupato A, Luppi E, Lupton O, Lusiani A, Lyu X, Machefert F, Maciuc F, Macko V, Mackowiak P, Maddrell-Mander S, Maev O, Maguire K, Maisuzenko D, Majewski MW, Malde S, Malecki B, Malinin A, Maltsev T, Manca G, Mancinelli G, Marangotto D, Maratas J, Marchand JF, Marconi U, Marin Benito C, Marinangeli M, Marino P, Marks J, Martellotti G, Martin M, Martinelli M, Martinez Santos D, Martinez Vidal F, Massacrier LM, Massafferri A, Matev R, Mathad A, Mathe Z, Matteuzzi C, Mauri A, Maurice E, Maurin B, Mazurov A, McCann M, McNab A, McNulty R, Mead JV, Meadows B, Meaux C, Meier F, Meinert N, Melnychuk D, Merk M, Merli A, Michielin E, Milanes DA, Millard E, Minard MN, Minzoni L, Mitzel DS, Mogini A, Molina Rodriguez J, Mombächer T, Monroy IA, Monteil S, Morandin M, Morello MJ, Morgunova O, Moron J, Morris AB, Mountain R, Muheim F, Mulder M, Müller D, Müller J, Müller K, Müller V, Naik P, Nakada T, Nandakumar R, Nandi A, Nasteva I, Needham M, Neri N, Neubert S, Neufeld N, Neuner M, Nguyen TD, Nguyen-Mau C, Nieswand S, Niet R, Nikitin N, Nikodem T, Nogay A, O'Hanlon DP, Oblakowska-Mucha A, Obraztsov V, Ogilvy S, Oldeman R, Onderwater CJG, Ossowska A, Otalora Goicochea JM, Owen P, Oyanguren A, Pais PR, Palano A, Palutan M, Papanestis A, Pappagallo M, Pappalardo LL, Parker W, Parkes C, Passaleva G, Pastore A, Patel M, Patrignani C, Pearce A, Pellegrino A, Penso G, Pepe Altarelli M, Perazzini S, Perret P, Pescatore L, Petridis K, Petrolini A, Petrov A, Petruzzo M, Picatoste Olloqui E, Pietrzyk B, Pikies M, Pinci D, Pisani F, Pistone A, Piucci A, Placinta V, Playfer S, Plo Casasus M, Polci F, Poli Lener M, Poluektov A, Polyakov I, Polycarpo E, Pomery GJ, Ponce S, Popov A, Popov D, Poslavskii S, Potterat C, Price E, Prisciandaro J, Prouve C, Pugatch V, Puig Navarro A, Pullen H, Punzi G, Qian W, Quagliani R, Quintana B, Rachwal B, Rademacker JH, Rama M, Ramos Pernas M, Rangel MS, Raniuk I, Ratnikov F, Raven G, Ravonel Salzgeber M, Reboud M, Redi F, Reichert S, Dos Reis AC, Remon Alepuz C, Renaudin V, Ricciardi S, Richards S, Rihl M, Rinnert K, Rives Molina V, Robbe P, Robert A, Rodrigues AB, Rodrigues E, Rodriguez Lopez JA, Rogozhnikov A, Roiser S, Rollings A, Romanovskiy V, Romero Vidal A, Ronayne JW, Rotondo M, Rudolph MS, Ruf T, Ruiz Valls P, Ruiz Vidal J, Saborido Silva JJ, Sadykhov E, Sagidova N, Saitta B, Salustino Guimaraes V, Sanchez Mayordomo C, Sanmartin Sedes B, Santacesaria R, Santamarina Rios C, Santimaria M, Santovetti E, Sarpis G, Sarti A, Satriano C, Satta A, Saunders DM, Savrina D, Schael S, Schellenberg M, Schiller M, Schindler H, Schmelling M, Schmelzer T, Schmidt B, Schneider O, Schopper A, Schreiner HF, Schubiger M, Schune MH, Schwemmer R, Sciascia B, Sciubba A, Semennikov A, Sepulveda ES, Sergi A, Serra N, Serrano J, Sestini L, Seyfert P, Shapkin M, Shapoval I, Shcheglov Y, Shears T, Shekhtman L, Shevchenko V, Siddi BG, Silva Coutinho R, Silva de Oliveira L, Simi G, Simone S, Sirendi M, Skidmore N, Skwarnicki T, Smith E, Smith IT, Smith J, Smith M, Soares Lavra L, Sokoloff MD, Soler FJP, Souza De Paula B, Spaan B, Spradlin P, Sridharan S, Stagni F, Stahl M, Stahl S, Stefko P, Stefkova S, Steinkamp O, Stemmle S, Stenyakin O, Stepanova M, Stevens H, Stone S, Storaci B, Stracka S, Stramaglia ME, Straticiuc M, Straumann U, Sun J, Sun L, Sutcliffe W, Swientek K, Syropoulos V, Szumlak T, Szymanski M, T'Jampens S, Tayduganov A, Tekampe T, Tellarini G, Teubert F, Thomas E, van Tilburg J, Tilley MJ, Tisserand V, Tobin M, Tolk S, Tomassetti L, Tonelli D, Toriello F, Tourinho Jadallah Aoude R, Tournefier E, Traill M, Tran MT, Tresch M, Trisovic A, Tsaregorodtsev A, Tsopelas P, Tully A, Tuning N, Ukleja A, Usachov A, Ustyuzhanin A, Uwer U, Vacca C, Vagner A, Vagnoni V, Valassi A, Valat S, Valenti G, Vazquez Gomez R, Vazquez Regueiro P, Vecchi S, van Veghel M, Velthuis JJ, Veltri M, Veneziano G, Venkateswaran A, Verlage TA, Vernet M, Vesterinen M, Viana Barbosa JV, Viaud B, Vieira D, Vieites Diaz M, Viemann H, Vilasis-Cardona X, Vitti M, Volkov V, Vollhardt A, Voneki B, Vorobyev A, Vorobyev V, Voß C, de Vries JA, Vázquez Sierra C, Waldi R, Wallace C, Wallace R, Walsh J, Wang J, Ward DR, Wark HM, Watson NK, Websdale D, Weiden A, Weisser C, Whitehead M, Wicht J, Wilkinson G, Wilkinson M, Williams M, Williams MP, Williams M, Williams T, Wilson FF, Wimberley J, Winn M, Wishahi J, Wislicki W, Witek M, Wormser G, Wotton SA, Wraight K, Wyllie K, Xie Y, Xu M, Xu Z, Yang Z, Yang Z, Yao Y, Yin H, Yu J, Yuan X, Yushchenko O, Zarebski KA, Zavertyaev M, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Zhelezov A, Zheng Y, Zhu X, Zhukov V, Zonneveld JB, Zucchelli S. Measurement of the Ratio of Branching Fractions B(B_{c}^{+}→J/ψτ^{+}ν_{τ})/B(B_{c}^{+}→J/ψμ^{+}ν_{μ}). PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2018; 120:121801. [PMID: 29694106 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.120.121801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2017] [Revised: 01/19/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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A measurement is reported of the ratio of branching fractions R(J/ψ)=B(B_{c}^{+}→J/ψτ^{+}ν_{τ})/B(B_{c}^{+}→J/ψμ^{+}ν_{μ}), where the τ^{+} lepton is identified in the decay mode τ^{+}→μ^{+}ν_{μ}ν[over ¯]_{τ}. This analysis uses a sample of proton-proton collision data corresponding to 3.0 fb^{-1} of integrated luminosity recorded with the LHCb experiment at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. A signal is found for the decay B_{c}^{+}→J/ψτ^{+}ν_{τ} at a significance of 3 standard deviations corrected for systematic uncertainty, and the ratio of the branching fractions is measured to be R(J/ψ)=0.71±0.17(stat)±0.18(syst). This result lies within 2 standard deviations above the range of central values currently predicted by the standard model.
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Aaij R, Adeva B, Adinolfi M, Ajaltouni Z, Akar S, Albrecht J, Alessio F, Alexander M, Alfonso Albero A, Ali S, Alkhazov G, Alvarez Cartelle P, Alves AA, Amato S, Amerio S, Amhis Y, An L, Anderlini L, Andreassi G, Andreotti M, Andrews JE, Appleby RB, Archilli F, d'Argent P, Arnau Romeu J, Artamonov A, Artuso M, Aslanides E, Atzeni M, Auriemma G, Baalouch M, Babuschkin I, Bachmann S, Back JJ, Badalov A, Baesso C, Baker S, Balagura V, Baldini W, Baranov A, Barlow RJ, Barschel C, Barsuk S, Barter W, Baryshnikov F, Batozskaya V, Battista V, Bay A, Beaucourt L, Beddow J, Bedeschi F, Bediaga I, Beiter A, Bel LJ, Beliy N, Bellee V, Belloli N, Belous K, Belyaev I, Ben-Haim E, Bencivenni G, Benson S, Beranek S, Berezhnoy A, Bernet R, Berninghoff D, Bertholet E, Bertolin A, Betancourt C, Betti F, Bettler MO, van Beuzekom M, Bezshyiko I, Bifani S, Billoir P, Birnkraut A, Bizzeti A, Bjørn M, Blake T, Blanc F, Blusk S, Bocci V, Boettcher T, Bondar A, Bondar N, Bordyuzhin I, Borghi S, Borisyak M, Borsato M, Bossu F, Boubdir M, Bowcock TJV, Bowen E, Bozzi C, Braun S, Britton T, Brodzicka J, Brundu D, Buchanan E, Burr C, Bursche A, Buytaert J, Byczynski W, Cadeddu S, Cai H, Calabrese R, Calladine R, Calvi M, Calvo Gomez M, Camboni A, Campana P, Campora Perez DH, Capriotti L, Carbone A, Carboni G, Cardinale R, Cardini A, Carniti P, Carson L, Carvalho Akiba K, Casse G, Cassina L, Cattaneo M, Cavallero G, Cenci R, Chamont D, Chapman MG, Charles M, Charpentier P, Chatzikonstantinidis G, Chefdeville M, Chen S, Cheung SF, Chitic SG, Chobanova V, Chrzaszcz M, Chubykin A, Ciambrone P, Cid Vidal X, Ciezarek G, Clarke PEL, Clemencic M, Cliff HV, Closier J, Cogan J, Cogneras E, Cogoni V, Cojocariu L, Collins P, Colombo T, Comerma-Montells A, Contu A, Cook A, Coombs G, Coquereau S, Corti G, Corvo M, Costa Sobral CM, Couturier B, Cowan GA, Craik DC, Crocombe A, Cruz Torres M, Currie R, D'Ambrosio C, Da Cunha Marinho F, Dall'Occo E, Dalseno J, Davis A, De Aguiar Francisco O, De Capua S, De Cian M, De Miranda JM, De Paula L, De Serio M, De Simone P, Dean CT, Decamp D, Del Buono L, Dembinski HP, Demmer M, Dendek A, Derkach D, Deschamps O, Dettori F, Dey B, Di Canto A, Di Nezza P, Dijkstra H, Dordei F, Dorigo M, Dosil Suárez A, Douglas L, Dovbnya A, Dreimanis K, Dufour L, Dujany G, Durante P, Dzhelyadin R, Dziewiecki M, Dziurda A, Dzyuba A, Easo S, Ebert M, Egede U, Egorychev V, Eidelman S, Eisenhardt S, Eitschberger U, Ekelhof R, Eklund L, Ely S, Esen S, Evans HM, Evans T, Falabella A, Farley N, Farry S, Fazzini D, Federici L, Ferguson D, Fernandez G, Fernandez Declara P, Fernandez Prieto A, Ferrari F, Ferreira Rodrigues F, Ferro-Luzzi M, Filippov S, Fini RA, Fiorini M, Firlej M, Fitzpatrick C, Fiutowski T, Fleuret F, Fohl K, Fontana M, Fontanelli F, Forshaw DC, Forty R, Franco Lima V, Frank M, Frei C, Fu J, Funk W, Furfaro E, Färber C, Gabriel E, Gallas Torreira A, Galli D, Gallorini S, Gambetta S, Gandelman M, Gandini P, Gao Y, Garcia Martin LM, García Pardiñas J, Garra Tico J, Garrido L, Garsed PJ, Gascon D, Gaspar C, Gavardi L, Gazzoni G, Gerick D, Gersabeck E, Gersabeck M, Gershon T, Ghez P, Gianì S, Gibson V, Girard OG, Giubega L, Gizdov K, Gligorov VV, Golubkov D, Golutvin A, Gomes A, Gorelov IV, Gotti C, Govorkova E, Grabowski JP, Graciani Diaz R, Granado Cardoso LA, Graugés E, Graverini E, Graziani G, Grecu A, Greim R, Griffith P, Grillo L, Gruber L, Gruberg Cazon BR, Grünberg O, Gushchin E, Guz Y, Gys T, Göbel C, Hadavizadeh T, Hadjivasiliou C, Haefeli G, Haen C, Haines SC, Hamilton B, Han X, Hancock TH, Hansmann-Menzemer S, Harnew N, Harnew ST, Hasse C, Hatch M, He J, Hecker M, Heinicke K, Heister A, Hennessy K, Henrard P, Henry L, van Herwijnen E, Heß M, Hicheur A, Hill D, Hombach C, Hopchev PH, Hu W, Huard ZC, Hulsbergen W, Humair T, Hushchyn M, Hutchcroft D, Ibis P, Idzik M, Ilten P, Jacobsson R, Jalocha J, Jans E, Jawahery A, Jiang F, John M, Johnson D, Jones CR, Joram C, Jost B, Jurik N, Kandybei S, Karacson M, Kariuki JM, Karodia S, Kazeev N, Kecke M, Keizer F, Kelsey M, Kenzie M, Ketel T, Khairullin E, Khanji B, Khurewathanakul C, Kirn T, Klaver S, Klimaszewski K, Klimkovich T, Koliiev S, Kolpin M, Kopecna R, Koppenburg P, Kosmyntseva A, Kotriakhova S, Kozeiha M, Kravchuk L, Kreps M, Kress F, Krokovny P, Kruse F, Krzemien W, Kucewicz W, Kucharczyk M, Kudryavtsev V, Kuonen AK, Kvaratskheliya T, Lacarrere D, Lafferty G, Lai A, Lanfranchi G, Langenbruch C, Latham T, Lazzeroni C, Le Gac R, Leflat A, Lefrançois J, Lefèvre R, Lemaitre F, Lemos Cid E, Leroy O, Lesiak T, Leverington B, Li PR, Li T, Li Y, Li Z, Likhomanenko T, Lindner R, Lionetto F, Lisovskyi V, Liu X, Loh D, Loi A, Longstaff I, Lopes JH, Lucchesi D, Lucio Martinez M, Luo H, Lupato A, Luppi E, Lupton O, Lusiani A, Lyu X, Machefert F, Maciuc F, Macko V, Mackowiak P, Maddrell-Mander S, Maev O, Maguire K, Maisuzenko D, Majewski MW, Malde S, Malecki B, Malinin A, Maltsev T, Manca G, Mancinelli G, Marangotto D, Maratas J, Marchand JF, Marconi U, Marin Benito C, Marinangeli M, Marino P, Marks J, Martellotti G, Martin M, Martinelli M, Martinez Santos D, Martinez Vidal F, Massacrier LM, Massafferri A, Matev R, Mathad A, Mathe Z, Matteuzzi C, Mauri A, Maurice E, Maurin B, Mazurov A, McCann M, McNab A, McNulty R, Mead JV, Meadows B, Meaux C, Meier F, Meinert N, Melnychuk D, Merk M, Merli A, Michielin E, Milanes DA, Millard E, Minard MN, Minzoni L, Mitzel DS, Mogini A, Molina Rodriguez J, Mombächer T, Monroy IA, Monteil S, Morandin M, Morello MJ, Morgunova O, Moron J, Morris AB, Mountain R, Muheim F, Mulder M, Müller D, Müller J, Müller K, Müller V, Naik P, Nakada T, Nandakumar R, Nandi A, Nasteva I, Needham M, Neri N, Neubert S, Neufeld N, Neuner M, Nguyen TD, Nguyen-Mau C, Nieswand S, Niet R, Nikitin N, Nikodem T, Nogay A, O'Hanlon DP, Oblakowska-Mucha A, Obraztsov V, Ogilvy S, Oldeman R, Onderwater CJG, Ossowska A, Otalora Goicochea JM, Owen P, Oyanguren A, Pais PR, Palano A, Palutan M, Papanestis A, Pappagallo M, Pappalardo LL, Parker W, Parkes C, Passaleva G, Pastore A, Patel M, Patrignani C, Pearce A, Pellegrino A, Penso G, Pepe Altarelli M, Perazzini S, Perret P, Pescatore L, Petridis K, Petrolini A, Petrov A, Petruzzo M, Picatoste Olloqui E, Pietrzyk B, Pikies M, Pinci D, Pisani F, Pistone A, Piucci A, Placinta V, Playfer S, Plo Casasus M, Polci F, Poli Lener M, Poluektov A, Polyakov I, Polycarpo E, Pomery GJ, Ponce S, Popov A, Popov D, Poslavskii S, Potterat C, Price E, Prisciandaro J, Prouve C, Pugatch V, Puig Navarro A, Pullen H, Punzi G, Qian W, Quagliani R, Quintana B, Rachwal B, Rademacker JH, Rama M, Ramos Pernas M, Rangel MS, Raniuk I, Ratnikov F, Raven G, Ravonel Salzgeber M, Reboud M, Redi F, Reichert S, Dos Reis AC, Remon Alepuz C, Renaudin V, Ricciardi S, Richards S, Rihl M, Rinnert K, Rives Molina V, Robbe P, Robert A, Rodrigues AB, Rodrigues E, Rodriguez Lopez JA, Rogozhnikov A, Roiser S, Rollings A, Romanovskiy V, Romero Vidal A, Ronayne JW, Rotondo M, Rudolph MS, Ruf T, Ruiz Valls P, Ruiz Vidal J, Saborido Silva JJ, Sadykhov E, Sagidova N, Saitta B, Salustino Guimaraes V, Sanchez Mayordomo C, Sanmartin Sedes B, Santacesaria R, Santamarina Rios C, Santimaria M, Santovetti E, Sarpis G, Sarti A, Satriano C, Satta A, Saunders DM, Savrina D, Schael S, Schellenberg M, Schiller M, Schindler H, Schmelling M, Schmelzer T, Schmidt B, Schneider O, Schopper A, Schreiner HF, Schubiger M, Schune MH, Schwemmer R, Sciascia B, Sciubba A, Semennikov A, Sepulveda ES, Sergi A, Serra N, Serrano J, Sestini L, Seyfert P, Shapkin M, Shapoval I, Shcheglov Y, Shears T, Shekhtman L, Shevchenko V, Siddi BG, Silva Coutinho R, Silva de Oliveira L, Simi G, Simone S, Sirendi M, Skidmore N, Skwarnicki T, Smith E, Smith IT, Smith J, Smith M, Soares Lavra L, Sokoloff MD, Soler FJP, Souza De Paula B, Spaan B, Spradlin P, Sridharan S, Stagni F, Stahl M, Stahl S, Stefko P, Stefkova S, Steinkamp O, Stemmle S, Stenyakin O, Stepanova M, Stevens H, Stone S, Storaci B, Stracka S, Stramaglia ME, Straticiuc M, Straumann U, Sun J, Sun L, Sutcliffe W, Swientek K, Syropoulos V, Szumlak T, Szymanski M, T'Jampens S, Tayduganov A, Tekampe T, Tellarini G, Teubert F, Thomas E, van Tilburg J, Tilley MJ, Tisserand V, Tobin M, Tolk S, Tomassetti L, Tonelli D, Toriello F, Tourinho Jadallah Aoude R, Tournefier E, Traill M, Tran MT, Tresch M, Trisovic A, Tsaregorodtsev A, Tsopelas P, Tully A, Tuning N, Ukleja A, Usachov A, Ustyuzhanin A, Uwer U, Vacca C, Vagner A, Vagnoni V, Valassi A, Valat S, Valenti G, Vazquez Gomez R, Vazquez Regueiro P, Vecchi S, van Veghel M, Velthuis JJ, Veltri M, Veneziano G, Venkateswaran A, Verlage TA, Vernet M, Vesterinen M, Viana Barbosa JV, Viaud B, Vieira D, Vieites Diaz M, Viemann H, Vilasis-Cardona X, Vitti M, Volkov V, Vollhardt A, Voneki B, Vorobyev A, Vorobyev V, Voß C, de Vries JA, Vázquez Sierra C, Waldi R, Wallace C, Wallace R, Walsh J, Wang J, Ward DR, Wark HM, Watson NK, Websdale D, Weiden A, Weisser C, Whitehead M, Wicht J, Wilkinson G, Wilkinson M, Williams M, Williams MP, Williams M, Williams T, Wilson FF, Wimberley J, Winn M, Wishahi J, Wislicki W, Witek M, Wormser G, Wotton SA, Wraight K, Wyllie K, Xie Y, Xu M, Xu Z, Yang Z, Yang Z, Yao Y, Yin H, Yu J, Yuan X, Yushchenko O, Zarebski KA, Zavertyaev M, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Zhelezov A, Zheng Y, Zhu X, Zhukov V, Zonneveld JB, Zucchelli S. Search for Dark Photons Produced in 13 TeV pp Collisions. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2018; 120:061801. [PMID: 29481252 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.120.061801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Searches are performed for both promptlike and long-lived dark photons, A^{'}, produced in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, using A^{'}→μ^{+}μ^{-} decays and a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.6 fb^{-1} collected with the LHCb detector. The promptlike A^{'} search covers the mass range from near the dimuon threshold up to 70 GeV, while the long-lived A^{'} search is restricted to the low-mass region 214<m(A^{'})<350 MeV. No evidence for a signal is found, and 90% confidence level exclusion limits are placed on the γ-A^{'} kinetic-mixing strength. The constraints placed on promptlike dark photons are the most stringent to date for the mass range 10.6<m(A^{'})<70 GeV, and are comparable to the best existing limits for m(A^{'})<0.5 GeV. The search for long-lived dark photons is the first to achieve sensitivity using a displaced-vertex signature.
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Aaij R, Adeva B, Adinolfi M, Ajaltouni Z, Akar S, Albrecht J, Alessio F, Alexander M, Alfonso Albero A, Ali S, Alkhazov G, Alvarez Cartelle P, Alves AA, Amato S, Amerio S, Amhis Y, An L, Anderlini L, Andreassi G, Andreotti M, Andrews JE, Appleby RB, Archilli F, d'Argent P, Arnau Romeu J, Artamonov A, Artuso M, Aslanides E, Auriemma G, Baalouch M, Babuschkin I, Bachmann S, Back JJ, Badalov A, Baesso C, Baker S, Balagura V, Baldini W, Baranov A, Barlow RJ, Barschel C, Barsuk S, Barter W, Baryshnikov F, Batozskaya V, Battista V, Bay A, Beaucourt L, Beddow J, Bedeschi F, Bediaga I, Beiter A, Bel LJ, Beliy N, Bellee V, Belloli N, Belous K, Belyaev I, Ben-Haim E, Bencivenni G, Benson S, Beranek S, Berezhnoy A, Bernet R, Berninghoff D, Bertholet E, Bertolin A, Betancourt C, Betti F, Bettler MO, van Beuzekom M, Bezshyiko I, Bifani S, Billoir P, Birnkraut A, Bitadze A, Bizzeti A, Bjørn M, Blake T, Blanc F, Blouw J, Blusk S, Bocci V, Boettcher T, Bondar A, Bondar N, Bonivento W, Bordyuzhin I, Borgheresi A, Borghi S, Borisyak M, Borsato M, Bossu F, Boubdir M, Bowcock TJV, Bowen E, Bozzi C, Braun S, Britton T, Brodzicka J, Brundu D, Buchanan E, Burr C, Bursche A, Buytaert J, Byczynski W, Cadeddu S, Cai H, Calabrese R, Calladine R, Calvi M, Calvo Gomez M, Camboni A, Campana P, Campora Perez DH, Capriotti L, Carbone A, Carboni G, Cardinale R, Cardini A, Carniti P, Carson L, Carvalho Akiba K, Casse G, Cassina L, Castillo Garcia L, Cattaneo M, Cavallero G, Cenci R, Chamont D, Charles M, Charpentier P, Chatzikonstantinidis G, Chefdeville M, Chen S, Cheung SF, Chitic SG, Chobanova V, Chrzaszcz M, Chubykin A, Ciambrone P, Cid Vidal X, Ciezarek G, Clarke PEL, Clemencic M, Cliff HV, Closier J, Cogan J, Cogneras E, Cogoni V, Cojocariu L, Collins P, Colombo T, Comerma-Montells A, Contu A, Cook A, Coombs G, Coquereau S, Corti G, Corvo M, Costa Sobral CM, Couturier B, Cowan GA, Craik DC, Crocombe A, Cruz Torres M, Currie R, D'Ambrosio C, Da Cunha Marinho F, Dall'Occo E, Dalseno J, Davis A, De Aguiar Francisco O, De Capua S, De Cian M, De Miranda JM, De Paula L, De Serio M, De Simone P, Dean CT, Decamp D, Del Buono L, Dembinski HP, Demmer M, Dendek A, Derkach D, Deschamps O, Dettori F, Dey B, Di Canto A, Di Nezza P, Dijkstra H, Dordei F, Dorigo M, Dosil Suárez A, Douglas L, Dovbnya A, Dreimanis K, Dufour L, Dujany G, Durante P, Dzhelyadin R, Dziewiecki M, Dziurda A, Dzyuba A, Easo S, Ebert M, Egede U, Egorychev V, Eidelman S, Eisenhardt S, Eitschberger U, Ekelhof R, Eklund L, Ely S, Esen S, Evans HM, Evans T, Falabella A, Farley N, Farry S, Fazzini D, Federici L, Ferguson D, Fernandez G, Fernandez Declara P, Fernandez Prieto A, Ferrari F, Ferreira Rodrigues F, Ferro-Luzzi M, Filippov S, Fini RA, Fiore M, Fiorini M, Firlej M, Fitzpatrick C, Fiutowski T, Fleuret F, Fohl K, Fontana M, Fontanelli F, Forshaw DC, Forty R, Franco Lima V, Frank M, Frei C, Fu J, Funk W, Furfaro E, Färber C, Gabriel E, Gallas Torreira A, Galli D, Gallorini S, Gambetta S, Gandelman M, Gandini P, Gao Y, Garcia Martin LM, García Pardiñas J, Garra Tico J, Garrido L, Garsed PJ, Gascon D, Gaspar C, Gavardi L, Gazzoni G, Gerick D, Gersabeck E, Gersabeck M, Gershon T, Ghez P, Gianì S, Gibson V, Girard OG, Giubega L, Gizdov K, Gligorov VV, Golubkov D, Golutvin A, Gomes A, Gorelov IV, Gotti C, Govorkova E, Grabowski JP, Graciani Diaz R, Granado Cardoso LA, Graugés E, Graverini E, Graziani G, Grecu A, Greim R, Griffith P, Grillo L, Gruber L, Gruberg Cazon BR, Grünberg O, Gushchin E, Guz Y, Gys T, Göbel C, Hadavizadeh T, Hadjivasiliou C, Haefeli G, Haen C, Haines SC, Hamilton B, Han X, Hancock TH, Hansmann-Menzemer S, Harnew N, Harnew ST, Harrison J, Hasse C, Hatch M, He J, Hecker M, Heinicke K, Heister A, Hennessy K, Henrard P, Henry L, van Herwijnen E, Heß M, Hicheur A, Hill D, Hombach C, Hopchev PH, Huard ZC, Hulsbergen W, Humair T, Hushchyn M, Hutchcroft D, Ibis P, Idzik M, Ilten P, Jacobsson R, Jalocha J, Jans E, Jawahery A, Jiang F, John M, Johnson D, Jones CR, Joram C, Jost B, Jurik N, Kandybei S, Karacson M, Kariuki JM, Karodia S, Kazeev N, Kecke M, Kelsey M, Kenzie M, Ketel T, Khairullin E, Khanji B, Khurewathanakul C, Kirn T, Klaver S, Klimaszewski K, Klimkovich T, Koliiev S, Kolpin M, Komarov I, Kopecna R, Koppenburg P, Kosmyntseva A, Kotriakhova S, Kozeiha M, Kravchuk L, Kreps M, Krokovny P, Kruse F, Krzemien W, Kucewicz W, Kucharczyk M, Kudryavtsev V, Kuonen AK, Kurek K, Kvaratskheliya T, Lacarrere D, Lafferty G, Lai A, Lanfranchi G, Langenbruch C, Latham T, Lazzeroni C, Le Gac R, Leflat A, Lefrançois J, Lefèvre R, Lemaitre F, Lemos Cid E, Leroy O, Lesiak T, Leverington B, Li PR, Li T, Li Y, Li Z, Likhomanenko T, Lindner R, Lionetto F, Lisovskyi V, Liu X, Loh D, Loi A, Longstaff I, Lopes JH, Lucchesi D, Lucio Martinez M, Luo H, Lupato A, Luppi E, Lupton O, Lusiani A, Lyu X, Machefert F, Maciuc F, Macko V, Mackowiak P, Maddrell-Mander S, Maev O, Maguire K, Maisuzenko D, Majewski MW, Malde S, Malinin A, Maltsev T, Manca G, Mancinelli G, Manning P, Marangotto D, Maratas J, Marchand JF, Marconi U, Marin Benito C, Marinangeli M, Marino P, Marks J, Martellotti G, Martin M, Martinelli M, Martinez Santos D, Martinez Vidal F, Martins Tostes D, Massacrier LM, Massafferri A, Matev R, Mathad A, Mathe Z, Matteuzzi C, Mauri A, Maurice E, Maurin B, Mazurov A, McCann M, McNab A, McNulty R, Mead JV, Meadows B, Meaux C, Meier F, Meinert N, Melnychuk D, Merk M, Merli A, Michielin E, Milanes DA, Millard E, Minard MN, Minzoni L, Mitzel DS, Mogini A, Molina Rodriguez J, Mombacher T, Monroy IA, Monteil S, Morandin M, Morello MJ, Morgunova O, Moron J, Morris AB, Mountain R, Muheim F, Mulder M, Müller D, Müller J, Müller K, Müller V, Naik P, Nakada T, Nandakumar R, Nandi A, Nasteva I, Needham M, Neri N, Neubert S, Neufeld N, Neuner M, Nguyen TD, Nguyen-Mau C, Nieswand S, Niet R, Nikitin N, Nikodem T, Nogay A, O'Hanlon DP, Oblakowska-Mucha A, Obraztsov V, Ogilvy S, Oldeman R, Onderwater CJG, Ossowska A, Otalora Goicochea JM, Owen P, Oyanguren A, Pais PR, Palano A, Palutan M, Papanestis A, Pappagallo M, Pappalardo LL, Parker W, Parkes C, Passaleva G, Pastore A, Patel M, Patrignani C, Pearce A, Pellegrino A, Penso G, Pepe Altarelli M, Perazzini S, Perret P, Pescatore L, Petridis K, Petrolini A, Petrov A, Petruzzo M, Picatoste Olloqui E, Pietrzyk B, Pikies M, Pinci D, Pistone A, Piucci A, Placinta V, Playfer S, Plo Casasus M, Polci F, Poli Lener M, Poluektov A, Polyakov I, Polycarpo E, Pomery GJ, Ponce S, Popov A, Popov D, Poslavskii S, Potterat C, Price E, Prisciandaro J, Prouve C, Pugatch V, Puig Navarro A, Pullen H, Punzi G, Qian W, Quagliani R, Quintana B, Rachwal B, Rademacker JH, Rama M, Ramos Pernas M, Rangel MS, Raniuk I, Ratnikov F, Raven G, Ravonel Salzgeber M, Reboud M, Redi F, Reichert S, Dos Reis AC, Remon Alepuz C, Renaudin V, Ricciardi S, Richards S, Rihl M, Rinnert K, Rives Molina V, Robbe P, Robert A, Rodrigues AB, Rodrigues E, Rodriguez Lopez JA, Rodriguez Perez P, Rogozhnikov A, Roiser S, Rollings A, Romanovskiy V, Romero Vidal A, Ronayne JW, Rotondo M, Rudolph MS, Ruf T, Ruiz Valls P, Ruiz Vidal J, Saborido Silva JJ, Sadykhov E, Sagidova N, Saitta B, Salustino Guimaraes V, Sanchez Mayordomo C, Sanmartin Sedes B, Santacesaria R, Santamarina Rios C, Santimaria M, Santovetti E, Sarpis G, Sarti A, Satriano C, Satta A, Saunders DM, Savrina D, Schael S, Schellenberg M, Schiller M, Schindler H, Schlupp M, Schmelling M, Schmelzer T, Schmidt B, Schneider O, Schopper A, Schreiner HF, Schubert K, Schubiger M, Schune MH, Schwemmer R, Sciascia B, Sciubba A, Semennikov A, Sepulveda ES, Sergi A, Serra N, Serrano J, Sestini L, Seyfert P, Shapkin M, Shapoval I, Shcheglov Y, Shears T, Shekhtman L, Shevchenko V, Siddi BG, Silva Coutinho R, Silva de Oliveira L, Simi G, Simone S, Sirendi M, Skidmore N, Skwarnicki T, Smith E, Smith IT, Smith J, Smith M, Soares Lavra L, Sokoloff MD, Soler FJP, Souza De Paula B, Spaan B, Spradlin P, Sridharan S, Stagni F, Stahl M, Stahl S, Stefko P, Stefkova S, Steinkamp O, Stemmle S, Stenyakin O, Stepanova M, Stevens H, Stone S, Storaci B, Stracka S, Stramaglia ME, Straticiuc M, Straumann U, Sun J, Sun L, Sutcliffe W, Swientek K, Syropoulos V, Szczekowski M, Szumlak T, Szymanski M, T'Jampens S, Tayduganov A, Tekampe T, Tellarini G, Teubert F, Thomas E, van Tilburg J, Tilley MJ, Tisserand V, Tobin M, Tolk S, Tomassetti L, Tonelli D, Toriello F, Tourinho Jadallah Aoude R, Tournefier E, Traill M, Tran MT, Tresch M, Trisovic A, Tsaregorodtsev A, Tsopelas P, Tully A, Tuning N, Ukleja A, Usachov A, Ustyuzhanin A, Uwer U, Vacca C, Vagner A, Vagnoni V, Valassi A, Valat S, Valenti G, Vazquez Gomez R, Vazquez Regueiro P, Vecchi S, van Veghel M, Velthuis JJ, Veltri M, Veneziano G, Venkateswaran A, Verlage TA, Vernet M, Vesterinen M, Viana Barbosa JV, Viaud B, Vieira D, Vieites Diaz M, Viemann H, Vilasis-Cardona X, Vitti M, Volkov V, Vollhardt A, Voneki B, Vorobyev A, Vorobyev V, Voß C, de Vries JA, Vázquez Sierra C, Waldi R, Wallace C, Wallace R, Walsh J, Wang J, Ward DR, Wark HM, Watson NK, Websdale D, Weiden A, Whitehead M, Wicht J, Wilkinson G, Wilkinson M, Williams M, Williams MP, Williams M, Williams T, Wilson FF, Wimberley J, Winn M, Wishahi J, Wislicki W, Witek M, Wormser G, Wotton SA, Wraight K, Wyllie K, Xie Y, Xu Z, Yang Z, Yang Z, Yao Y, Yin H, Yu J, Yuan X, Yushchenko O, Zarebski KA, Zavertyaev M, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Zhelezov A, Zheng Y, Zhu X, Zhukov V, Zonneveld JB, Zucchelli S. First Observation of the Rare Purely Baryonic Decay B^{0}→pp[over ¯]. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 119:232001. [PMID: 29286678 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.232001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
Abstract
The first observation of the decay of a B^{0} meson to a purely baryonic final state, B^{0}→pp[over ¯], is reported. The proton-proton collision data sample used was collected with the LHCb experiment at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb^{-1}. The branching fraction is determined to be B(B^{0}→pp[over ¯])=(1.25±0.27±0.18)×10^{-8}, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. The decay mode B^{0}→pp[over ¯] is the rarest decay of the B^{0} meson observed to date. The decay B_{s}^{0}→pp[over ¯] is also investigated. No signal is seen and the upper limit B(B_{s}^{0}→pp[over ¯])<1.5×10^{-8} at 90% confidence level is set on the branching fraction.
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Aaij R, Adeva B, Adinolfi M, Ajaltouni Z, Akar S, Albrecht J, Alessio F, Alexander M, Alfonso Albero A, Ali S, Alkhazov G, Alvarez Cartelle P, Alves AA, Amato S, Amerio S, Amhis Y, An L, Anderlini L, Andreassi G, Andreotti M, Andrews JE, Appleby RB, Archilli F, d'Argent P, Arnau Romeu J, Artamonov A, Artuso M, Aslanides E, Atzeni M, Auriemma G, Baalouch M, Babuschkin I, Bachmann S, Back JJ, Badalov A, Baesso C, Baker S, Balagura V, Baldini W, Baranov A, Barlow RJ, Barschel C, Barsuk S, Barter W, Baryshnikov F, Batozskaya V, Battista V, Bay A, Beaucourt L, Beddow J, Bedeschi F, Bediaga I, Beiter A, Bel LJ, Beliy N, Bellee V, Belloli N, Belous K, Belyaev I, Ben-Haim E, Bencivenni G, Benson S, Beranek S, Berezhnoy A, Bernet R, Berninghoff D, Bertholet E, Bertolin A, Betancourt C, Betti F, Bettler MO, van Beuzekom M, Bezshyiko I, Bifani S, Billoir P, Birnkraut A, Bizzeti A, Bjørn M, Blake T, Blanc F, Blusk S, Bocci V, Boettcher T, Bondar A, Bondar N, Bordyuzhin I, Borghi S, Borisyak M, Borsato M, Bossu F, Boubdir M, Bowcock TJV, Bowen E, Bozzi C, Braun S, Britton T, Brodzicka J, Brundu D, Buchanan E, Burr C, Bursche A, Buytaert J, Byczynski W, Cadeddu S, Cai H, Calabrese R, Calladine R, Calvi M, Calvo Gomez M, Camboni A, Campana P, Campora Perez DH, Capriotti L, Carbone A, Carboni G, Cardinale R, Cardini A, Carniti P, Carson L, Carvalho Akiba K, Casse G, Cassina L, Cattaneo M, Cavallero G, Cenci R, Chamont D, Chapman MG, Charles M, Charpentier P, Chatzikonstantinidis G, Chefdeville M, Chen S, Cheung SF, Chitic SG, Chobanova V, Chrzaszcz M, Chubykin A, Ciambrone P, Cid Vidal X, Ciezarek G, Clarke PEL, Clemencic M, Cliff HV, Closier J, Cogan J, Cogneras E, Cogoni V, Cojocariu L, Collins P, Colombo T, Comerma-Montells A, Contu A, Cook A, Coombs G, Coquereau S, Corti G, Corvo M, Costa Sobral CM, Couturier B, Cowan GA, Craik DC, Crocombe A, Cruz Torres M, Currie R, D'Ambrosio C, Da Cunha Marinho F, Dall'Occo E, Dalseno J, Davis A, De Aguiar Francisco O, De Capua S, De Cian M, De Miranda JM, De Paula L, De Serio M, De Simone P, Dean CT, Decamp D, Del Buono L, Dembinski HP, Demmer M, Dendek A, Derkach D, Deschamps O, Dettori F, Dey B, Di Canto A, Di Nezza P, Dijkstra H, Dordei F, Dorigo M, Dosil Suárez A, Douglas L, Dovbnya A, Dreimanis K, Dufour L, Dujany G, Durante P, Dzhelyadin R, Dziewiecki M, Dziurda A, Dzyuba A, Easo S, Ebert M, Egede U, Egorychev V, Eidelman S, Eisenhardt S, Eitschberger U, Ekelhof R, Eklund L, Ely S, Esen S, Evans HM, Evans T, Falabella A, Farley N, Farry S, Fazzini D, Federici L, Ferguson D, Fernandez G, Fernandez Declara P, Fernandez Prieto A, Ferrari F, Ferreira Rodrigues F, Ferro-Luzzi M, Filippov S, Fini RA, Fiorini M, Firlej M, Fitzpatrick C, Fiutowski T, Fleuret F, Fohl K, Fontana M, Fontanelli F, Forshaw DC, Forty R, Franco Lima V, Frank M, Frei C, Fu J, Funk W, Furfaro E, Färber C, Gabriel E, Gallas Torreira A, Galli D, Gallorini S, Gambetta S, Gandelman M, Gandini P, Gao Y, Garcia Martin LM, García Pardiñas J, Garra Tico J, Garrido L, Garsed PJ, Gascon D, Gaspar C, Gavardi L, Gazzoni G, Gerick D, Gersabeck E, Gersabeck M, Gershon T, Ghez P, Gianì S, Gibson V, Girard OG, Giubega L, Gizdov K, Gligorov VV, Golubkov D, Golutvin A, Gomes A, Gorelov IV, Gotti C, Govorkova E, Grabowski JP, Graciani Diaz R, Granado Cardoso LA, Graugés E, Graverini E, Graziani G, Grecu A, Greim R, Griffith P, Grillo L, Gruber L, Gruberg Cazon BR, Grünberg O, Gushchin E, Guz Y, Gys T, Göbel C, Hadavizadeh T, Hadjivasiliou C, Haefeli G, Haen C, Haines SC, Hamilton B, Han X, Hancock TH, Hansmann-Menzemer S, Harnew N, Harnew ST, Hasse C, Hatch M, He J, Hecker M, Heinicke K, Heister A, Hennessy K, Henrard P, Henry L, van Herwijnen E, Heß M, Hicheur A, Hill D, Hombach C, Hopchev PH, Hu W, Huard ZC, Hulsbergen W, Humair T, Hushchyn M, Hutchcroft D, Ibis P, Idzik M, Ilten P, Jacobsson R, Jalocha J, Jans E, Jawahery A, Jiang F, John M, Johnson D, Jones CR, Joram C, Jost B, Jurik N, Kandybei S, Karacson M, Kariuki JM, Karodia S, Kazeev N, Kecke M, Keizer F, Kelsey M, Kenzie M, Ketel T, Khairullin E, Khanji B, Khurewathanakul C, Kirn T, Klaver S, Klimaszewski K, Klimkovich T, Koliiev S, Kolpin M, Kopecna R, Koppenburg P, Kosmyntseva A, Kotriakhova S, Kozeiha M, Kravchuk L, Kreps M, Kress F, Krokovny P, Kruse F, Krzemien W, Kucewicz W, Kucharczyk M, Kudryavtsev V, Kuonen AK, Kvaratskheliya T, Lacarrere D, Lafferty G, Lai A, Lanfranchi G, Langenbruch C, Latham T, Lazzeroni C, Le Gac R, Leflat A, Lefrançois J, Lefèvre R, Lemaitre F, Lemos Cid E, Leroy O, Lesiak T, Leverington B, Li PR, Li T, Li Y, Li Z, Likhomanenko T, Lindner R, Lionetto F, Lisovskyi V, Liu X, Loh D, Loi A, Longstaff I, Lopes JH, Lucchesi D, Luchinsky A, Lucio Martinez M, Luo H, Lupato A, Luppi E, Lupton O, Lusiani A, Lyu X, Machefert F, Maciuc F, Macko V, Mackowiak P, Maddrell-Mander S, Maev O, Maguire K, Maisuzenko D, Majewski MW, Malde S, Malecki B, Malinin A, Maltsev T, Manca G, Mancinelli G, Marangotto D, Maratas J, Marchand JF, Marconi U, 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Vidal J, Saborido Silva JJ, Sadykhov E, Sagidova N, Saitta B, Salustino Guimaraes V, Sanchez Mayordomo C, Sanmartin Sedes B, Santacesaria R, Santamarina Rios C, Santimaria M, Santovetti E, Sarpis G, Sarti A, Satriano C, Satta A, Saunders DM, Savrina D, Schael S, Schellenberg M, Schiller M, Schindler H, Schmelling M, Schmelzer T, Schmidt B, Schneider O, Schopper A, Schreiner HF, Schubiger M, Schune MH, Schwemmer R, Sciascia B, Sciubba A, Semennikov A, Sepulveda ES, Sergi A, Serra N, Serrano J, Sestini L, Seyfert P, Shapkin M, Shapoval I, Shcheglov Y, Shears T, Shekhtman L, Shevchenko V, Siddi BG, Silva Coutinho R, Silva de Oliveira L, Simi G, Simone S, Sirendi M, Skidmore N, Skwarnicki T, Smith E, Smith IT, Smith J, Smith M, Soares Lavra L, Sokoloff MD, Soler FJP, Souza De Paula B, Spaan B, Spradlin P, Sridharan S, Stagni F, Stahl M, Stahl S, Stefko P, Stefkova S, Steinkamp O, Stemmle S, Stenyakin O, Stepanova M, Stevens H, Stone S, Storaci B, Stracka S, Stramaglia ME, Straticiuc M, Straumann U, Sun J, Sun L, Sutcliffe W, Swientek K, Syropoulos V, Szumlak T, Szymanski M, T'Jampens S, Tayduganov A, Tekampe T, Tellarini G, Teubert F, Thomas E, van Tilburg J, Tilley MJ, Tisserand V, Tobin M, Tolk S, Tomassetti L, Tonelli D, Toriello F, Tourinho Jadallah Aoude R, Tournefier E, Traill M, Tran MT, Tresch M, Trisovic A, Tsaregorodtsev A, Tsopelas P, Tully A, Tuning N, Ukleja A, Usachov A, Ustyuzhanin A, Uwer U, Vacca C, Vagner A, Vagnoni V, Valassi A, Valat S, Valenti G, Vazquez Gomez R, Vazquez Regueiro P, Vecchi S, van Veghel M, Velthuis JJ, Veltri M, Veneziano G, Venkateswaran A, Verlage TA, Vernet M, Vesterinen M, Viana Barbosa JV, Viaud B, Vieira D, Vieites Diaz M, Viemann H, Vilasis-Cardona X, Vitti M, Volkov V, Vollhardt A, Voneki B, Vorobyev A, Vorobyev V, Voß C, de Vries JA, Vázquez Sierra C, Waldi R, Wallace C, Wallace R, Walsh J, Wang J, Ward DR, Wark HM, Watson NK, Websdale D, Weiden A, Weisser C, Whitehead M, Wicht J, Wilkinson G, Wilkinson M, Williams M, Williams MP, Williams M, Williams T, Wilson FF, Wimberley J, Winn M, Wishahi J, Wislicki W, Witek M, Wormser G, Wotton SA, Wraight K, Wyllie K, Xie Y, Xu M, Xu Z, Yang Z, Yang Z, Yao Y, Yin H, Yu J, Yuan X, Yushchenko O, Zarebski KA, Zavertyaev M, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Zhelezov A, Zheng Y, Zhu X, Zhukov V, Zonneveld JB, Zucchelli S. χ_{c1} and χ_{c2} Resonance Parameters with the Decays χ_{c1,c2}→J/ψμ^{+}μ^{-}. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 119:221801. [PMID: 29286773 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.221801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The decays χ_{c1}→J/ψμ^{+}μ^{-} and χ_{c2}→J/ψμ^{+}μ^{-} are observed and used to study the resonance parameters of the χ_{c1} and χ_{c2} mesons. The masses of these states are measured to be m(χ_{c1})=3510.71±0.04(stat)±0.09(syst) MeV and m(χ_{c2})=3556.10±0.06(stat)±0.11(syst) MeV, where the knowledge of the momentum scale for charged particles dominates the systematic uncertainty. The momentum-scale uncertainties largely cancel in the mass difference m(χ_{c2})-m(χ_{c1})=45.39±0.07(stat)±0.03(syst) MeV. The natural width of the χ_{c2} meson is measured to be Γ(χ_{c2})=2.10±0.20(stat)±0.02(syst) MeV. These results are in good agreement with and have comparable precision to the current world averages.
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Trabelsi K, Traill M, Tran MT, Tresch M, Trisovic A, Tsaregorodtsev A, Tsopelas P, Tully A, Tuning N, Ukleja A, Ustyuzhanin A, Uwer U, Vacca C, Vagnoni V, Valassi A, Valat S, Valenti G, Vazquez Gomez R, Vazquez Regueiro P, Vecchi S, van Veghel M, Velthuis JJ, Veltri M, Veneziano G, Venkateswaran A, Vernet M, Vesterinen M, Viana Barbosa JV, Viaud B, Vieira D, Vieites Diaz M, Viemann H, Vilasis-Cardona X, Vitti M, Volkov V, Vollhardt A, Voneki B, Vorobyev A, Vorobyev V, Voß C, de Vries JA, Vázquez Sierra C, Waldi R, Wallace C, Wallace R, Walsh J, Wang J, Ward DR, Wark HM, Watson NK, Websdale D, Weiden A, Whitehead M, Wicht J, Wilkinson G, Wilkinson M, Williams M, Williams MP, Williams M, Williams T, Wilson FF, Wimberley J, Winn MA, Wishahi J, Wislicki W, Witek M, Wormser G, Wotton SA, Wraight K, Wyllie K, Xie Y, Xu Z, Yang Z, Yao Y, Yin H, Yu J, Yuan X, Yushchenko O, Zarebski KA, Zavertyaev M, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Zhelezov A, Zheng Y, Zhu X, Zhukov V, Zucchelli S. Updated search for long-lived particles decaying to jet pairs. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS 2017; 77:812. [PMID: 31997934 PMCID: PMC6956870 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5178-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2017] [Accepted: 08/31/2017] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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A search is presented for long-lived particles with a mass between 25 and 50 GeV / c 2 and a lifetime between 2 and 500 ps, using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.0 fb - 1 , collected by the LHCb detector at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. The particles are assumed to be pair-produced in the decay of a 125 GeV / c 2 Standard-Model-like Higgs boson. The experimental signature is a single long-lived particle, identified by a displaced vertex with two associated jets. No excess above background is observed and limits are set on the production cross-section as a function of the mass and lifetime of the long-lived particle.
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Aaij R, Adeva B, Adinolfi M, Ajaltouni Z, Akar S, Albrecht J, Alessio F, Alexander M, Alfonso Albero A, Ali S, Alkhazov G, Alvarez Cartelle P, Alves AA, Amato S, Amerio S, Amhis Y, An L, Anderlini L, Andreassi G, Andreotti M, Andrews JE, Appleby RB, Archilli F, d'Argent P, Arnau Romeu J, Artamonov A, Artuso M, Aslanides E, Auriemma G, Baalouch M, Babuschkin I, Bachmann S, Back JJ, Badalov A, Baesso C, Baker S, Balagura V, Baldini W, Baranov A, Barlow RJ, Barschel C, Barsuk S, Barter W, Baryshnikov F, Batozskaya V, Battista V, Bay A, Beaucourt L, Beddow J, Bedeschi F, Bediaga I, Beiter A, Bel LJ, Beliy N, Bellee V, Belloli N, Belous K, Belyaev I, Ben-Haim E, Bencivenni G, Benson S, Beranek S, Berezhnoy A, Bernet R, Berninghoff D, Bertholet E, Bertolin A, Betancourt C, Betti F, Bettler MO, van Beuzekom M, Bezshyiko I, Bifani S, Billoir P, Birnkraut A, Bitadze A, Bizzeti A, Bjørn M, Blake T, Blanc F, Blouw J, Blusk S, Bocci V, Boettcher T, Bondar A, Bondar N, Bonivento W, Bordyuzhin I, Borgheresi A, Borghi S, Borisyak M, Borsato M, Bossu F, Boubdir M, Bowcock TJV, Bowen E, Bozzi C, Braun S, Britton T, Brodzicka J, Brundu D, Buchanan E, Burr C, Bursche A, Buytaert J, Byczynski W, Cadeddu S, Cai H, Calabrese R, Calladine R, Calvi M, Calvo Gomez M, Camboni A, Campana P, Campora Perez DH, Capriotti L, Carbone A, Carboni G, Cardinale R, Cardini A, Carniti P, Carson L, Carvalho Akiba K, Casse G, Cassina L, Castillo Garcia L, Cattaneo M, Cavallero G, Cenci R, Chamont D, Charles M, Charpentier P, Chatzikonstantinidis G, Chefdeville M, Chen S, Cheung SF, Chitic SG, Chobanova V, Chrzaszcz M, Chubykin A, Ciambrone P, Cid Vidal X, Ciezarek G, Clarke PEL, Clemencic M, Cliff HV, Closier J, Cogan J, Cogneras E, Cogoni V, Cojocariu L, Collins P, Colombo T, Comerma-Montells A, Contu A, Cook A, Coombs G, Coquereau S, Corti G, Corvo M, Costa Sobral CM, Couturier B, Cowan GA, Craik DC, Crocombe A, Cruz Torres M, Currie R, D'Ambrosio C, Da Cunha Marinho F, Dall'Occo E, Dalseno J, Davis A, De Aguiar Francisco O, De Capua S, De Cian M, De Miranda JM, De Paula L, De Serio M, De Simone P, Dean CT, Decamp D, Del Buono L, Dembinski HP, Demmer M, Dendek A, Derkach D, Deschamps O, Dettori F, Dey B, Di Canto A, Di Nezza P, Dijkstra H, Dordei F, Dorigo M, Dosil Suárez A, Douglas L, Dovbnya A, Dreimanis K, Dufour L, Dujany G, Durante P, Dzhelyadin R, Dziewiecki M, Dziurda A, Dzyuba A, Easo S, Ebert M, Egede U, Egorychev V, Eidelman S, Eisenhardt S, Eitschberger U, Ekelhof R, Eklund L, Ely S, Esen S, Evans HM, Evans T, Falabella A, Farley N, Farry S, Fay R, Fazzini D, Federici L, Ferguson D, Fernandez G, Fernandez Declara P, Fernandez Prieto A, Ferrari F, Ferreira Rodrigues F, Ferro-Luzzi M, Filippov S, Fini RA, Fiore M, Fiorini M, Firlej M, Fitzpatrick C, Fiutowski T, Fleuret F, Fohl K, Fontana M, Fontanelli F, Forshaw DC, Forty R, Franco Lima V, Frank M, Frei C, Fu J, Funk W, Furfaro E, Färber C, Gabriel E, Gallas Torreira A, Galli D, Gallorini S, Gambetta S, Gandelman M, Gandini P, Gao Y, Garcia Martin LM, García Pardiñas J, Garra Tico J, Garrido L, Garsed PJ, Gascon D, Gaspar C, Gavardi L, Gazzoni G, Gerick D, Gersabeck E, Gersabeck M, Gershon T, Ghez P, Gianì S, Gibson V, Girard OG, Giubega L, Gizdov K, Gligorov VV, Golubkov D, Golutvin A, Gomes A, Gorelov IV, Gotti C, Govorkova E, Grabowski JP, Graciani Diaz R, Granado Cardoso LA, Graugés E, Graverini E, Graziani G, Grecu A, Greim R, Griffith P, Grillo L, Gruber L, Gruberg Cazon BR, Grünberg O, Gushchin E, Guz Y, Gys T, Göbel C, Hadavizadeh T, Hadjivasiliou C, Haefeli G, Haen C, Haines SC, Hamilton B, Han X, Hancock TH, Hansmann-Menzemer S, Harnew N, Harnew ST, Harrison J, Hasse C, Hatch M, He J, Hecker M, Heinicke K, Heister A, Hennessy K, Henrard P, Henry L, van Herwijnen E, Heß M, Hicheur A, Hill D, Hombach C, Hopchev PH, Huard ZC, Hulsbergen W, Humair T, Hushchyn M, Hutchcroft D, Ibis P, Idzik M, Ilten P, Jacobsson R, Jalocha J, Jans E, Jawahery A, Jiang F, John M, Johnson D, Jones CR, Joram C, Jost B, Jurik N, Kandybei S, Karacson M, Kariuki JM, Karodia S, Kazeev N, Kecke M, Kelsey M, Kenzie M, Ketel T, Khairullin E, Khanji B, Khurewathanakul C, Kirn T, Klaver S, Klimaszewski K, Klimkovich T, Koliiev S, Kolpin M, Komarov I, Kopecna R, Koppenburg P, Kosmyntseva A, Kotriakhova S, Kozeiha M, Kreps M, Krokovny P, Kruse F, Krzemien W, Kucewicz W, Kucharczyk M, Kudryavtsev V, Kuonen AK, Kurek K, Kvaratskheliya T, Lacarrere D, Lafferty G, Lai A, Lanfranchi G, Langenbruch C, Latham T, Lazzeroni C, Le Gac R, van Leerdam J, Leflat A, Lefrançois J, Lefèvre R, Lemaitre F, Lemos Cid E, Leroy O, Lesiak T, Leverington B, Li PR, Li T, Li Y, Li Z, Likhomanenko T, Lindner R, Lionetto F, Lisovskyi V, Liu X, Loh D, Loi A, Longstaff I, Lopes JH, Lucchesi D, Lucio Martinez M, Luo H, Lupato A, Luppi E, Lupton O, Lusiani A, Lyu X, Machefert F, Maciuc F, Macko V, Mackowiak P, Maddrell-Mander S, Maev O, Maguire K, Maisuzenko D, Majewski MW, Malde S, Malinin A, Maltsev T, Manca G, Mancinelli G, Manning P, Marangotto D, Maratas J, Marchand JF, Marconi U, Marin Benito C, Marinangeli M, Marino P, Marks J, Martellotti G, Martin M, Martinelli M, Martinez Santos D, Martinez Vidal F, Martins Tostes D, Massacrier LM, Massafferri A, Matev R, Mathad A, Mathe Z, Matteuzzi C, Mauri A, Maurice E, Maurin B, Mazurov A, McCann M, McNab A, McNulty R, Mead JV, Meadows B, Meaux C, Meier F, Meinert N, Melnychuk D, Merk M, Merli A, Michielin E, Milanes DA, Millard E, Minard MN, Minzoni L, Mitzel DS, Mogini A, Molina Rodriguez J, Mombacher T, Monroy IA, Monteil S, Morandin M, Morello MJ, Morgunova O, Moron J, Morris AB, Mountain R, Muheim F, Mulder M, Müller D, Müller J, Müller K, Müller V, Naik P, Nakada T, Nandakumar R, Nandi A, Nasteva I, Needham M, Neri N, Neubert S, Neufeld N, Neuner M, Nguyen TD, Nguyen-Mau C, Nieswand S, Niet R, Nikitin N, Nikodem T, Nogay A, O'Hanlon DP, Oblakowska-Mucha A, Obraztsov V, Ogilvy S, Oldeman R, Onderwater CJG, Ossowska A, Otalora Goicochea JM, Owen P, Oyanguren A, Pais PR, Palano A, Palutan M, Papanestis A, Pappagallo M, Pappalardo LL, Parker W, Parkes C, Passaleva G, Pastore A, Patel M, Patrignani C, Pearce A, Pellegrino A, Penso G, Pepe Altarelli M, Perazzini S, Perret P, Pescatore L, Petridis K, Petrolini A, Petrov A, Petruzzo M, Picatoste Olloqui E, Pietrzyk B, Pikies M, Pinci D, Pistone A, Piucci A, Placinta V, Playfer S, Plo Casasus M, Polci F, Poli Lener M, Poluektov A, Polyakov I, Polycarpo E, Pomery GJ, Ponce S, Popov A, Popov D, Poslavskii S, Potterat C, Price E, Prisciandaro J, Prouve C, Pugatch V, Puig Navarro A, Pullen H, Punzi G, Qian W, Quagliani R, Quintana B, Rachwal B, Rademacker JH, Rama M, Ramos Pernas M, Rangel MS, Raniuk I, Ratnikov F, Raven G, Ravonel Salzgeber M, Reboud M, Redi F, Reichert S, Dos Reis AC, Remon Alepuz C, Renaudin V, Ricciardi S, Richards S, Rihl M, Rinnert K, Rives Molina V, Robbe P, Robert A, Rodrigues AB, Rodrigues E, Rodriguez Lopez JA, Rodriguez Perez P, Rogozhnikov A, Roiser S, Rollings A, Romanovskiy V, Romero Vidal A, Ronayne JW, Rotondo M, Rudolph MS, Ruf T, Ruiz Valls P, Ruiz Vidal J, Saborido Silva JJ, Sadykhov E, Sagidova N, Saitta B, Salustino Guimaraes V, Sanchez Mayordomo C, Sanmartin Sedes B, Santacesaria R, Santamarina Rios C, Santimaria M, Santovetti E, Sarpis G, Sarti A, Satriano C, Satta A, Saunders DM, Savrina D, Schael S, Schellenberg M, Schiller M, Schindler H, Schlupp M, Schmelling M, Schmelzer T, Schmidt B, Schneider O, Schopper A, Schreiner HF, Schubert K, Schubiger M, Schune MH, Schwemmer R, Sciascia B, Sciubba A, Semennikov A, Sergi A, Serra N, Serrano J, Sestini L, Seyfert P, Shapkin M, Shapoval I, Shcheglov Y, Shears T, Shekhtman L, Shevchenko V, Siddi BG, Silva Coutinho R, Silva de Oliveira L, Simi G, Simone S, Sirendi M, Skidmore N, Skwarnicki T, Smith E, Smith IT, Smith J, Smith M, Soares Lavra L, Sokoloff MD, Soler FJP, Souza De Paula B, Spaan B, Spradlin P, Sridharan S, Stagni F, Stahl M, Stahl S, Stefko P, Stefkova S, Steinkamp O, Stemmle S, Stenyakin O, Stepanova M, Stevens H, Stone S, Storaci B, Stracka S, Stramaglia ME, Straticiuc M, Straumann U, Sun L, Sutcliffe W, Swientek K, Syropoulos V, Szczekowski M, Szumlak T, Szymanski M, T'Jampens S, Tayduganov A, Tekampe T, Tellarini G, Teubert F, Thomas E, van Tilburg J, Tilley MJ, Tisserand V, Tobin M, Tolk S, Tomassetti L, Tonelli D, Toriello F, Tourinho Jadallah Aoude R, Tournefier E, Traill M, Tran MT, Tresch M, Trisovic A, Tsaregorodtsev A, Tsopelas P, Tully A, Tuning N, Ukleja A, Usachov A, Ustyuzhanin A, Uwer U, Vacca C, Vagner A, Vagnoni V, Valassi A, Valat S, Valenti G, Vazquez Gomez R, Vazquez Regueiro P, Vecchi S, van Veghel M, Velthuis JJ, Veltri M, Veneziano G, Venkateswaran A, Verlage TA, Vernet M, Vesterinen M, Viana Barbosa JV, Viaud B, Vieira D, Vieites Diaz M, Viemann H, Vilasis-Cardona X, Vitti M, Volkov V, Vollhardt A, Voneki B, Vorobyev A, Vorobyev V, Voß C, de Vries JA, Vázquez Sierra C, Waldi R, Wallace C, Wallace R, Walsh J, Wang J, Ward DR, Wark HM, Watson NK, Websdale D, Weiden A, Whitehead M, Wicht J, Wilkinson G, Wilkinson M, Williams M, Williams MP, Williams M, Williams T, Wilson FF, Wimberley J, Winn MA, Wishahi J, Wislicki W, Witek M, Wormser G, Wotton SA, Wraight K, Wyllie K, Xie Y, Xu Z, Yang Z, Yang Z, Yao Y, Yin H, Yu J, Yuan X, Yushchenko O, Zarebski KA, Zavertyaev M, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Zhelezov A, Zheng Y, Zhu X, Zhukov V, Zonneveld JB, Zucchelli S. Observation of D^{0} Meson Decays to π^{+}π^{-}μ^{+}μ^{-} and K^{+}K^{-}μ^{+}μ^{-} Final States. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 119:181805. [PMID: 29219589 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.181805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
Abstract
The first observation of the D^{0}→π^{+}π^{-}μ^{+}μ^{-} and D^{0}→K^{+}K^{-}μ^{+}μ^{-} decays is reported using a sample of proton-proton collisions collected by LHCb at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, and corresponding to 2 fb^{-1} of integrated luminosity. The corresponding branching fractions are measured using as normalization the decay D^{0}→K^{-}π^{+}[μ^{+}μ^{-}]_{ρ^{0}/ω}, where the two muons are consistent with coming from the decay of a ρ^{0} or ω meson. The results are B(D^{0}→π^{+}π^{-}μ^{+}μ^{-})=(9.64±0.48±0.51±0.97)×10^{-7} and B(D^{0}→K^{+}K^{-}μ^{+}μ^{-})=(1.54±0.27±0.09±0.16)×10^{-7}, where the uncertainties are statistical, systematic, and due to the limited knowledge of the normalization branching fraction. The dependence of the branching fraction on the dimuon mass is also investigated.
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Aaij R, Adeva B, Adinolfi M, Ajaltouni Z, Akar S, Albrecht J, Alessio F, Alexander M, Alfonso Albero A, Ali S, Alkhazov G, Alvarez Cartelle P, Alves AA, Amato S, Amerio S, Amhis Y, An L, Anderlini L, Andreassi G, Andreotti M, Andrews JE, Appleby RB, Archilli F, d'Argent P, Arnau Romeu J, Artamonov A, Artuso M, Aslanides E, Auriemma G, Baalouch M, Babuschkin I, Bachmann S, Back JJ, Badalov A, Baesso C, Baker S, Balagura V, Baldini W, Baranov A, Barlow RJ, Barschel C, Barsuk S, Barter W, Baryshnikov F, Batozskaya V, Battista V, Bay A, Beaucourt L, Beddow J, Bedeschi F, Bediaga I, Beiter A, Bel LJ, Beliy N, Bellee V, Belloli N, Belous K, Belyaev I, Ben-Haim E, Bencivenni G, Benson S, Beranek S, Berezhnoy A, Bernet R, Berninghoff D, Bertholet E, Bertolin A, Betancourt C, Betti F, Bettler MO, van Beuzekom M, Bezshyiko I, Bifani S, Billoir P, Birnkraut A, Bitadze A, Bizzeti A, Bjørn M, Blake T, Blanc F, Blouw J, Blusk S, Bocci V, Boettcher T, Bondar A, Bondar N, Bonivento W, Bordyuzhin I, Borgheresi A, Borghi S, Borisyak M, Borsato M, Bossu F, Boubdir M, Bowcock TJV, Bowen E, Bozzi C, Braun S, Britton T, Brodzicka J, Brundu D, Buchanan E, Burr C, Bursche A, Buytaert J, Byczynski W, Cadeddu S, Cai H, Calabrese R, Calladine R, Calvi M, Calvo Gomez M, Camboni A, Campana P, Campora Perez DH, Capriotti L, Carbone A, Carboni G, Cardinale R, Cardini A, Carniti P, Carson L, Carvalho Akiba K, Casse G, Cassina L, Castillo Garcia L, Cattaneo M, Cavallero G, Cenci R, Chamont D, Charles M, Charpentier P, Chatzikonstantinidis G, Chefdeville M, Chen S, Cheung SF, Chitic SG, Chobanova V, Chrzaszcz M, Chubykin A, Ciambrone P, Cid Vidal X, Ciezarek G, Clarke PEL, Clemencic M, Cliff HV, Closier J, Cogan J, Cogneras E, Cogoni V, Cojocariu L, Collins P, Colombo T, Comerma-Montells A, Contu A, Cook A, Coombs G, Coquereau S, Corti G, Corvo M, Costa Sobral CM, Couturier B, Cowan GA, Craik DC, Crocombe A, Cruz Torres M, Currie R, D'Ambrosio C, Da Cunha Marinho F, Dall'Occo E, Dalseno J, Davis A, De Aguiar Francisco O, De Capua S, De Cian M, De Miranda JM, De Paula L, De Serio M, De Simone P, Dean CT, Decamp D, Del Buono L, Dembinski HP, Demmer M, Dendek A, Derkach D, Deschamps O, Dettori F, Dey B, Di Canto A, Di Nezza P, Dijkstra H, Dordei F, Dorigo M, Dosil Suárez A, Douglas L, Dovbnya A, Dreimanis K, Dufour L, Dujany G, Durante P, Dzhelyadin R, Dziewiecki M, Dziurda A, Dzyuba A, Easo S, Ebert M, Egede U, Egorychev V, Eidelman S, Eisenhardt S, Eitschberger U, Ekelhof R, Eklund L, Ely S, Esen S, Evans HM, Evans T, Falabella A, Farley N, Farry S, Fazzini D, Federici L, Ferguson D, Fernandez G, Fernandez Declara P, Fernandez Prieto A, Ferrari F, Ferreira Rodrigues F, Ferro-Luzzi M, Filippov S, Fini RA, Fiore M, Fiorini M, Firlej M, Fitzpatrick C, Fiutowski T, Fleuret F, Fohl K, Fontana M, Fontanelli F, Forshaw DC, Forty R, Franco Lima V, Frank M, Frei C, Fu J, Funk W, Furfaro E, Färber C, Gabriel E, Gallas Torreira A, Galli D, Gallorini S, Gambetta S, Gandelman M, Gandini P, Gao Y, Garcia Martin LM, García Pardiñas J, Garra Tico J, Garrido L, Garsed PJ, Gascon D, Gaspar C, Gavardi L, Gazzoni G, Gerick D, Gersabeck E, Gersabeck M, Gershon T, Ghez P, Gianì S, Gibson V, Girard OG, Giubega L, Gizdov K, Gligorov VV, Golubkov D, Golutvin A, Gomes A, Gorelov IV, Gotti C, Govorkova E, Grabowski JP, Graciani Diaz R, Granado Cardoso LA, Graugés E, Graverini E, Graziani G, Grecu A, Greim R, Griffith P, Grillo L, Gruber L, Gruberg Cazon BR, Grünberg O, Gushchin E, Guz Y, Gys T, Göbel C, Hadavizadeh T, Hadjivasiliou C, Haefeli G, Haen C, Haines SC, Hamilton B, Han X, Hancock TH, Hansmann-Menzemer S, Harnew N, Harnew ST, Harrison J, Hasse C, Hatch M, He J, Hecker M, Heinicke K, Heister A, Hennessy K, Henrard P, Henry L, van Herwijnen E, Heß M, Hicheur A, Hill D, Hombach C, Hopchev PH, Huard ZC, Hulsbergen W, Humair T, Hushchyn M, Hutchcroft D, Ibis P, Idzik M, Ilten P, Jacobsson R, Jalocha J, Jans E, Jawahery A, Jiang F, John M, Johnson D, Jones CR, Joram C, Jost B, Jurik N, Kandybei S, Karacson M, Kariuki JM, Karodia S, Kazeev N, Kecke M, Kelsey M, Kenzie M, Ketel T, Khairullin E, Khanji B, Khurewathanakul C, Kirn T, Klaver S, Klimaszewski K, Klimkovich T, Koliiev S, Kolpin M, Komarov I, Kopecna R, Koppenburg P, Kosmyntseva A, Kotriakhova S, Kozeiha M, Kravchuk L, Kreps M, Krokovny P, Kruse F, Krzemien W, Kucewicz W, Kucharczyk M, Kudryavtsev V, Kuonen AK, Kurek K, Kvaratskheliya T, Lacarrere D, Lafferty G, Lai A, Lanfranchi G, Langenbruch C, Latham T, Lazzeroni C, Le Gac R, Leflat A, Lefrançois J, Lefèvre R, Lemaitre F, Lemos Cid E, Leroy O, Lesiak T, Leverington B, Li PR, Li T, Li Y, Li Z, Likhomanenko T, Lindner R, Lionetto F, Lisovskyi V, Liu X, Loh D, Loi A, Longstaff I, Lopes JH, Lucchesi D, Lucio Martinez M, Luo H, Lupato A, Luppi E, Lupton O, Lusiani A, Lyu X, Machefert F, Maciuc F, Macko V, Mackowiak P, Maddrell-Mander S, Maev O, Maguire K, Maisuzenko D, Majewski MW, Malde S, Malinin A, Maltsev T, Manca G, Mancinelli G, Manning P, Marangotto D, Maratas J, Marchand JF, Marconi U, Marin Benito C, Marinangeli M, Marino P, Marks J, Martellotti G, Martin M, Martinelli M, Martinez Santos D, Martinez Vidal F, Martins Tostes D, Massacrier LM, Massafferri A, Matev R, Mathad A, Mathe Z, Matteuzzi C, Mauri A, Maurice E, Maurin B, Mazurov A, McCann M, McNab A, McNulty R, Mead JV, Meadows B, Meaux C, Meier F, Meinert N, Melnychuk D, Merk M, Merli A, Michielin E, Milanes DA, Millard E, Minard MN, Minzoni L, Mitzel DS, Mogini A, Molina Rodriguez J, Mombacher T, Monroy IA, Monteil S, Morandin M, Morello MJ, Morgunova O, Moron J, Morris AB, Mountain R, Muheim F, Mulder M, Müller D, Müller J, Müller K, Müller V, Naik P, Nakada T, Nandakumar R, Nandi A, Nasteva I, Needham M, Neri N, Neubert S, Neufeld N, Neuner M, Nguyen TD, Nguyen-Mau C, Nieswand S, Niet R, Nikitin N, Nikodem T, Nogay A, O'Hanlon DP, Oblakowska-Mucha A, Obraztsov V, Ogilvy S, Oldeman R, Onderwater CJG, Ossowska A, Otalora Goicochea JM, Owen P, Oyanguren A, Pais PR, Palano A, Palutan M, Papanestis A, Pappagallo M, Pappalardo LL, Parker W, Parkes C, Passaleva G, Pastore A, Patel M, Patrignani C, Pearce A, Pellegrino A, Penso G, Pepe Altarelli M, Perazzini S, Perret P, Pescatore L, Petridis K, Petrolini A, Petrov A, Petruzzo M, Picatoste Olloqui E, Pietrzyk B, Pikies M, Pinci D, Pistone A, Piucci A, Placinta V, Playfer S, Plo Casasus M, Polci F, Poli Lener M, Poluektov A, Polyakov I, Polycarpo E, Pomery GJ, Ponce S, Popov A, Popov D, Poslavskii S, Potterat C, Price E, Prisciandaro J, Prouve C, Pugatch V, Puig Navarro A, Pullen H, Punzi G, Qian W, Quagliani R, Quintana B, Rachwal B, Rademacker JH, Rama M, Ramos Pernas M, Rangel MS, Raniuk I, Ratnikov F, Raven G, Ravonel Salzgeber M, Reboud M, Redi F, Reichert S, Dos Reis AC, Remon Alepuz C, Renaudin V, Ricciardi S, Richards S, Rihl M, Rinnert K, Rives Molina V, Robbe P, Robert A, Rodrigues AB, Rodrigues E, Rodriguez Lopez JA, Rodriguez Perez P, Rogozhnikov A, Roiser S, Rollings A, Romanovskiy V, Romero Vidal A, Ronayne JW, Rotondo M, Rudolph MS, Ruf T, Ruiz Valls P, Ruiz Vidal J, Saborido Silva JJ, Sadykhov E, Sagidova N, Saitta B, Salustino Guimaraes V, Sanchez Mayordomo C, Sanmartin Sedes B, Santacesaria R, Santamarina Rios C, Santimaria M, Santovetti E, Sarpis G, Sarti A, Satriano C, Satta A, Saunders DM, Savrina D, Schael S, Schellenberg M, Schiller M, Schindler H, Schlupp M, Schmelling M, Schmelzer T, Schmidt B, Schneider O, Schopper A, Schreiner HF, Schubert K, Schubiger M, Schune MH, Schwemmer R, Sciascia B, Sciubba A, Semennikov A, Sepulveda ES, Sergi A, Serra N, Serrano J, Sestini L, Seyfert P, Shapkin M, Shapoval I, Shcheglov Y, Shears T, Shekhtman L, Shevchenko V, Siddi BG, Silva Coutinho R, Silva de Oliveira L, Simi G, Simone S, Sirendi M, Skidmore N, Skwarnicki T, Smith E, Smith IT, Smith J, Smith M, Soares Lavra L, Sokoloff MD, Soler FJP, Souza De Paula B, Spaan B, Spradlin P, Sridharan S, Stagni F, Stahl M, Stahl S, Stefko P, Stefkova S, Steinkamp O, Stemmle S, Stenyakin O, Stepanova M, Stevens H, Stone S, Storaci B, Stracka S, Stramaglia ME, Straticiuc M, Straumann U, Sun J, Sun L, Sutcliffe W, Swientek K, Syropoulos V, Szczekowski M, Szumlak T, Szymanski M, T'Jampens S, Tayduganov A, Tekampe T, Tellarini G, Teubert F, Thomas E, van Tilburg J, Tilley MJ, Tisserand V, Tobin M, Tolk S, Tomassetti L, Tonelli D, Toriello F, Tourinho Jadallah Aoude R, Tournefier E, Traill M, Tran MT, Tresch M, Trisovic A, Tsaregorodtsev A, Tsopelas P, Tully A, Tuning N, Ukleja A, Usachov A, Ustyuzhanin A, Uwer U, Vacca C, Vagner A, Vagnoni V, Valassi A, Valat S, Valenti G, Vazquez Gomez R, Vazquez Regueiro P, Vecchi S, van Veghel M, Velthuis JJ, Veltri M, Veneziano G, Venkateswaran A, Verlage TA, Vernet M, Vesterinen M, Viana Barbosa JV, Viaud B, Vieira D, Vieites Diaz M, Viemann H, Vilasis-Cardona X, Vitti M, Volkov V, Vollhardt A, Voneki B, Vorobyev A, Vorobyev V, Voß C, de Vries JA, Vázquez Sierra C, Waldi R, Wallace C, Wallace R, Walsh J, Wang J, Ward DR, Wark HM, Watson NK, Websdale D, Weiden A, Whitehead M, Wicht J, Wilkinson G, Wilkinson M, Williams M, Williams MP, Williams M, Williams T, Wilson FF, Wimberley J, Winn M, Wishahi J, Wislicki W, Witek M, Wormser G, Wotton SA, Wraight K, Wyllie K, Xie Y, Xu Z, Yang Z, Yang Z, Yao Y, Yin H, Yu J, Yuan X, Yushchenko O, Zarebski KA, Zavertyaev M, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Zhelezov A, Zheng Y, Zhu X, Zhukov V, Zonneveld JB, Zucchelli S. Search for Baryon-Number Violating Ξ_{b}^{0} Oscillations. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 119:181807. [PMID: 29219549 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.181807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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A search for baryon-number violating Ξ_{b}^{0} oscillations is performed with a sample of pp collision data recorded by the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb^{-1}. The baryon number at the moment of production is identified by requiring that the Ξ_{b}^{0} come from the decay of a resonance Ξ_{b}^{*-}→Ξ_{b}^{0}π^{-} or Ξ_{b}^{'-}→Ξ_{b}^{0}π^{-}, and the baryon number at the moment of decay is identified from the final state using the decays Ξ_{b}^{0}→Ξ_{c}^{+}π^{-},Ξ_{c}^{+}→pK^{-}π^{+}. No evidence of baryon-number violation is found, and an upper limit at the 95% confidence level is set on the oscillation rate of ω<0.08 ps^{-1}, where ω is the associated angular frequency.
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Aaij R, Adeva B, Adinolfi M, Ajaltouni Z, Akar S, Albrecht J, Alessio F, Alexander M, Ali S, Alkhazov G, Alvarez Cartelle P, Alves AA, Amato S, Amerio S, Amhis Y, An L, Anderlini L, Andreassi G, Andreotti M, Andrews JE, Appleby RB, Archilli F, d’Argent P, Arnau Romeu J, Artamonov A, Artuso M, Aslanides E, Auriemma G, Baalouch M, Babuschkin I, Bachmann S, Back JJ, Badalov A, Baesso C, Baker S, Balagura V, Baldini W, Baranov A, Barlow RJ, Barschel C, Barsuk S, Barter W, Baryshnikov F, Baszczyk M, Batozskaya V, Battista V, Bay A, Beaucourt L, Beddow J, Bedeschi F, Bediaga I, Beiter A, Bel LJ, Bellee V, Belloli N, Belous K, Belyaev I, Ben-Haim E, Bencivenni G, Benson S, Beranek S, Berezhnoy A, Bernet R, Bertolin A, Betancourt C, Betti F, Bettler MO, van Beuzekom M, Bezshyiko I, Bifani S, Billoir P, Birnkraut A, Bitadze A, Bizzeti A, Blake T, Blanc F, Blouw J, Blusk S, Bocci V, Boettcher T, Bondar A, Bondar N, Bonivento W, Bordyuzhin I, Borgheresi A, Borghi S, Borisyak M, Borsato M, Bossu F, Boubdir M, Bowcock TJV, Bowen E, Bozzi C, Braun S, Britton T, Brodzicka J, Buchanan E, Burr C, Bursche A, Buytaert J, Cadeddu S, Calabrese R, Calvi M, Calvo Gomez M, Camboni A, Campana P, Campora Perez DH, Capriotti L, Carbone A, Carboni G, Cardinale R, Cardini A, Carniti P, Carson L, Carvalho Akiba K, Casse G, Cassina L, Castillo Garcia L, Cattaneo M, Cavallero G, Cenci R, Chamont D, Charles M, Charpentier P, Chatzikonstantinidis G, Chefdeville M, Chen S, Cheung SF, Chobanova V, Chrzaszcz M, Chubykin A, Cid Vidal X, Ciezarek G, Clarke PEL, Clemencic M, Cliff HV, Closier J, Coco V, Cogan J, Cogneras E, Cogoni V, Cojocariu L, Collins P, Comerma-Montells A, Contu A, Cook A, Coombs G, Coquereau S, Corti G, Corvo M, Costa Sobral CM, Couturier B, Cowan GA, Craik DC, Crocombe A, Cruz Torres M, Currie R, D’Ambrosio C, Da Cunha Marinho F, Dall’Occo E, Dalseno J, Davis A, De Bruyn K, De Capua S, De Cian M, De Miranda JM, De Paula L, De Serio M, De Simone P, Dean CT, Decamp D, Deckenhoff M, Del Buono L, Dembinski HP, Demmer M, Dendek A, Derkach D, Deschamps O, Dettori F, Dey B, Di Canto A, Di Nezza P, Dijkstra H, Dordei F, Dorigo M, Dosil Suárez A, Dovbnya A, Dreimanis K, Dufour L, Dujany G, Dungs K, Durante P, Dzhelyadin R, Dziewiecki M, Dziurda A, Dzyuba A, Déléage N, Easo S, Ebert M, Egede U, Egorychev V, Eidelman S, Eisenhardt S, Eitschberger U, Ekelhof R, Eklund L, Ely S, Esen S, Evans HM, Evans T, Falabella A, Farley N, Farry S, Fay R, Fazzini D, Ferguson D, Fernandez G, Fernandez Prieto A, Ferrari F, Ferreira Rodrigues F, Ferro-Luzzi M, Filippov S, Fini RA, Fiore M, Fiorini M, Firlej M, Fitzpatrick C, Fiutowski T, Fleuret F, Fohl K, Fontana M, Fontanelli F, Forshaw DC, Forty R, Franco Lima V, Frank M, Frei C, Fu J, Funk W, Furfaro E, Färber C, Gallas Torreira A, Galli D, Gallorini S, Gambetta S, Gandelman M, Gandini P, Gao Y, Garcia Martin LM, García Pardiñas J, Garra Tico J, Garrido L, Garsed PJ, Gascon D, Gaspar C, Gavardi L, Gazzoni G, Gerick D, Gersabeck E, Gersabeck M, Gershon T, Ghez P, Gianì S, Gibson V, Girard OG, Giubega L, Gizdov K, Gligorov VV, Golubkov D, Golutvin A, Gomes A, Gorelov IV, Gotti C, Govorkova E, Graciani Diaz R, Granado Cardoso LA, Graugés E, Graverini E, Graziani G, Grecu A, Greim R, Griffith P, Grillo L, Gruberg Cazon BR, Grünberg O, Gushchin E, Guz Y, Gys T, Göbel C, Hadavizadeh T, Hadjivasiliou C, Haefeli G, Haen C, Haines SC, Hamilton B, Han X, Hansmann-Menzemer S, Harnew N, Harnew ST, Harrison J, Hatch M, He J, Head T, Heister A, Hennessy K, Henrard P, Henry L, van Herwijnen E, Heß M, Hicheur A, Hill D, Hombach C, Hopchev PH, Huard ZC, Hulsbergen W, Humair T, Hushchyn M, Hutchcroft D, Idzik M, Ilten P, Jacobsson R, Jalocha J, Jans E, Jawahery A, Jiang F, John M, Johnson D, Jones CR, Joram C, Jost B, Jurik N, Kandybei S, Karacson M, Kariuki JM, Karodia S, Kecke M, Kelsey M, Kenzie M, Ketel T, Khairullin E, Khanji B, Khurewathanakul C, Kirn T, Klaver S, Klimaszewski K, Klimkovich T, Koliiev S, Kolpin M, Komarov I, Kopecna R, Koppenburg P, Kosmyntseva A, Kotriakhova S, Kozeiha M, Kravchuk L, Kreps M, Krokovny P, Kruse F, Krzemien W, Kucewicz W, Kucharczyk M, Kudryavtsev V, Kuonen AK, Kurek K, Kvaratskheliya T, Lacarrere D, Lafferty G, Lai A, Lanfranchi G, Langenbruch C, Latham T, Lazzeroni C, Le Gac R, van Leerdam J, Leflat A, Lefrançois J, Lefèvre R, Lemaitre F, Lemos Cid E, Leroy O, Lesiak T, Leverington B, Li T, Li Y, Li Z, Likhomanenko T, Lindner R, Lionetto F, Liu X, Loh D, Longstaff I, Lopes JH, Lucchesi D, Lucio Martinez M, Luo H, Lupato A, Luppi E, Lupton O, Lusiani A, Lyu X, Machefert F, Maciuc F, Maev O, Maguire K, Malde S, Malinin A, Maltsev T, Manca G, Mancinelli G, Manning P, Maratas J, Marchand JF, Marconi U, Marin Benito C, Marinangeli M, Marino P, Marks J, Martellotti G, Martin M, Martinelli M, Martinez Santos D, Martinez Vidal F, Martins Tostes D, Massacrier LM, Massafferri A, Matev R, Mathad A, Mathe Z, Matteuzzi C, Mauri A, Maurice E, Maurin B, Mazurov A, McCann M, McNab A, McNulty R, Meadows B, Meier F, Melnychuk D, Merk M, Merli A, Michielin E, Milanes DA, Minard MN, Mitzel DS, Mogini A, Molina Rodriguez J, Monroy IA, Monteil S, Morandin M, Morello MJ, Morgunova O, Moron J, Morris AB, Mountain R, Muheim F, Mulder M, Mussini M, Müller D, Müller J, Müller K, Müller V, Naik P, Nakada T, Nandakumar R, Nandi A, Nasteva I, Needham M, Neri N, Neubert S, Neufeld N, Neuner M, Nguyen TD, Nguyen-Mau C, Nieswand S, Niet R, Nikitin N, Nikodem T, Nogay A, Novoselov A, O’Hanlon DP, Oblakowska-Mucha A, Obraztsov V, Ogilvy S, Oldeman R, Onderwater CJG, Ossowska A, Otalora Goicochea JM, Owen P, Oyanguren A, Pais PR, Palano A, Palutan M, Papanestis A, Pappagallo M, Pappalardo LL, Pappenheimer C, Parker W, Parkes C, Passaleva G, Pastore A, Patel M, Patrignani C, Pearce A, Pellegrino A, Penso G, Pepe Altarelli M, Perazzini S, Perret P, Pescatore L, Petridis K, Petrolini A, Petrov A, Petruzzo M, Picatoste Olloqui E, Pietrzyk B, Pikies M, Pinci D, Pistone A, Piucci A, Placinta V, Playfer S, Plo Casasus M, Poikela T, Polci F, Poli Lener M, Poluektov A, Polyakov I, Polycarpo E, Pomery GJ, Ponce S, Popov A, Popov D, Popovici B, Poslavskii S, Potterat C, Price E, Prisciandaro J, Prouve C, Pugatch V, Puig Navarro A, Punzi G, Qian W, Quagliani R, Rachwal B, Rademacker JH, Rama M, Ramos Pernas M, Rangel MS, Raniuk I, Ratnikov F, Raven G, Redi F, Reichert S, dos Reis AC, Remon Alepuz C, Renaudin V, Ricciardi S, Richards S, Rihl M, Rinnert K, Rives Molina V, Robbe P, Rodrigues AB, Rodrigues E, Rodriguez Lopez JA, Rodriguez Perez P, Rogozhnikov A, Roiser S, Rollings A, Romanovskiy V, Romero Vidal A, Ronayne JW, Rotondo M, Rudolph MS, Ruf T, Ruiz Valls P, Saborido Silva JJ, Sadykhov E, Sagidova N, Saitta B, Salustino Guimaraes V, Sanchez Gonzalo D, Sanchez Mayordomo C, Sanmartin Sedes B, Santacesaria R, Santamarina Rios C, Santimaria M, Santovetti E, Sarti A, Satriano C, Satta A, Saunders DM, Savrina D, Schael S, Schellenberg M, Schiller M, Schindler H, Schlupp M, Schmelling M, Schmelzer T, Schmidt B, Schneider O, Schopper A, Schreiner HF, Schubert K, Schubiger M, Schune MH, Schwemmer R, Sciascia B, Sciubba A, Semennikov A, Sergi A, Serra N, Serrano J, Sestini L, Seyfert P, Shapkin M, Shapoval I, Shcheglov Y, Shears T, Shekhtman L, Shevchenko V, Siddi BG, Silva Coutinho R, Silva de Oliveira L, Simi G, Simone S, Sirendi M, Skidmore N, Skwarnicki T, Smith E, Smith IT, Smith J, Smith M, Soares Lavra L, Sokoloff MD, Soler FJP, Souza De Paula B, Spaan B, Spradlin P, Sridharan S, Stagni F, Stahl M, Stahl S, Stefko P, Stefkova S, Steinkamp O, Stemmle S, Stenyakin O, Stevens H, Stoica S, Stone S, Storaci B, Stracka S, Stramaglia ME, Straticiuc M, Straumann U, Sun L, Sutcliffe W, Swientek K, Syropoulos V, Szczekowski M, Szumlak T, T’Jampens S, Tayduganov A, Tekampe T, Tellarini G, Teubert F, Thomas E, van Tilburg J, Tilley MJ, Tisserand V, Tobin M, Tolk S, Tomassetti L, Tonelli D, Topp-Joergensen S, Toriello F, Tourinho Jadallah Aoude R, Tournefier E, Tourneur S, Trabelsi K, Traill M, Tran MT, Tresch M, Trisovic A, Tsaregorodtsev A, Tsopelas P, Tully A, Tuning N, Ukleja A, Ustyuzhanin A, Uwer U, Vacca C, Vagnoni V, Valassi A, Valat S, Valenti G, Vazquez Gomez R, Vazquez Regueiro P, Vecchi S, van Veghel M, Velthuis JJ, Veltri M, Veneziano G, Venkateswaran A, Verlage TA, Vernet M, Vesterinen M, Viana Barbosa JV, Viaud B, Vieira D, Vieites Diaz M, Viemann H, Vilasis-Cardona X, Vitti M, Volkov V, Vollhardt A, Voneki B, Vorobyev A, Vorobyev V, Voß C, de Vries JA, Vázquez Sierra C, Waldi R, Wallace C, Wallace R, Walsh J, Wang J, Ward DR, Wark HM, Watson NK, Websdale D, Weiden A, Whitehead M, Wicht J, Wilkinson G, Wilkinson M, Williams M, Williams MP, Williams M, Williams T, Wilson FF, Wimberley J, Winn MA, Wishahi J, Wislicki W, Witek M, Wormser G, Wotton SA, Wraight K, Wyllie K, Xie Y, Xu Z, Yang Z, Yang Z, Yao Y, Yin H, Yu J, Yuan X, Yushchenko O, Zarebski KA, Zavertyaev M, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Zhelezov A, Zheng Y, Zhu X, Zhukov V, Zucchelli S. Improved limit on the branching fraction of the rare decay K S 0 → μ + μ - . THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS 2017; 77:678. [PMID: 31997922 PMCID: PMC6956924 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5230-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2017] [Accepted: 09/18/2017] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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A search for the decay K S 0 → μ + μ - is performed, based on a data sample of proton-proton collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb - 1 , collected by the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV . The observed yield is consistent with the background-only hypothesis, yielding a limit on the branching fraction of B ( K S 0 → μ + μ - ) < 0.8 ( 1.0 ) × 10 - 9 at 90 % ( 95 % ) confidence level. This result improves the previous upper limit on the branching fraction by an order of magnitude.
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Cooper B, Wu S, Bu F, Bowman C, Killian J, Serrano J, Wang S, Gorovets D, Gorlick R, Ladanyi M, Thomas K, Snuderl M, Karajannis M. A DNA Methylation-Based Classifier for Accurate Molecular Diagnosis of Bone Sarcomas. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2017.06.1961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Aaij R, Adeva B, Adinolfi M, Ajaltouni Z, Akar S, Albrecht J, Alessio F, Alexander M, Alfonso Albero A, Ali S, Alkhazov G, Alvarez Cartelle P, Alves AA, Amato S, Amerio S, Amhis Y, An L, Anderlini L, Andreassi G, Andreotti M, Andrews JE, Appleby RB, Archilli F, d'Argent P, Arnau Romeu J, Artamonov A, Artuso M, Aslanides E, Auriemma G, Baalouch M, Babuschkin I, Bachmann S, Back JJ, Badalov A, Baesso C, Baker S, Balagura V, Baldini W, Baranov A, Barlow RJ, Barschel C, Barsuk S, Barter W, Baryshnikov F, Batozskaya V, Battista V, Bay A, Beaucourt L, Beddow J, Bedeschi F, Bediaga I, Beiter A, Bel LJ, Beliy N, Bellee V, Belloli N, Belous K, Belyaev I, Ben-Haim E, Bencivenni G, Benson S, Beranek S, Berezhnoy A, Bernet R, Berninghoff D, Bertholet E, Bertolin A, Betancourt C, Betti F, Bettler MO, van Beuzekom M, Bezshyiko I, Bifani S, Billoir P, Birnkraut A, Bitadze A, Bizzeti A, Bjoern MB, Blake T, Blanc F, Blouw J, Blusk S, Bocci V, Boettcher T, Bondar A, Bondar N, Bonivento W, Bordyuzhin I, Borgheresi A, Borghi S, Borisyak M, Borsato M, Borysova M, Bossu F, Boubdir M, Bowcock TJV, Bowen E, Bozzi C, Braun S, Britton T, Brodzicka J, Brundu D, Buchanan E, Burr C, Bursche A, Buytaert J, Byczynski W, Cadeddu S, Cai H, Calabrese R, Calladine R, Calvi M, Calvo Gomez M, Camboni A, Campana P, Campora Perez DH, Capriotti L, Carbone A, Carboni G, Cardinale R, Cardini A, Carniti P, Carson L, Carvalho Akiba K, Casse G, Cassina L, Castillo Garcia L, Cattaneo M, Cavallero G, Cenci R, Chamont D, Charles M, Charpentier P, Chatzikonstantinidis G, Chefdeville M, Chen S, Cheung SF, Chitic SG, Chobanova V, Chrzaszcz M, Chubykin A, Ciambrone P, Cid Vidal X, Ciezarek G, Clarke PEL, Clemencic M, Cliff HV, Closier J, Cogan J, Cogneras E, Cogoni V, Cojocariu L, Collins P, Colombo T, Comerma-Montells A, Contu A, Cook A, Coombs G, Coquereau S, Corti G, Corvo M, Costa Sobral CM, Couturier B, Cowan GA, Craik DC, Crocombe A, Cruz Torres M, Currie R, D'Ambrosio C, Da Cunha Marinho F, Dall'Occo E, Dalseno J, Davis A, De Aguiar Francisco O, De Capua S, De Cian M, De Miranda JM, De Paula L, De Serio M, De Simone P, Dean CT, Decamp D, Del Buono L, Dembinski HP, Demmer M, Dendek A, Derkach D, Deschamps O, Dettori F, Dey B, Di Canto A, Di Nezza P, Dijkstra H, Dordei F, Dorigo M, Dosil Suárez A, Douglas L, Dovbnya A, Dreimanis K, Dufour L, Dujany G, Durante P, Dzhelyadin R, Dziewiecki M, Dziurda A, Dzyuba A, Easo S, Ebert M, Egede U, Egorychev V, Eidelman S, Eisenhardt S, Eitschberger U, Ekelhof R, Eklund L, Ely S, Esen S, Evans HM, Evans T, Falabella A, Farley N, Farry S, Fay R, Fazzini D, Federici L, Ferguson D, Fernandez G, Fernandez Declara P, Fernandez Prieto A, Ferrari F, Ferreira Rodrigues F, Ferro-Luzzi M, Filippov S, Fini RA, Fiore M, Fiorini M, Firlej M, Fitzpatrick C, Fiutowski T, Fleuret F, Fohl K, Fontana M, Fontanelli F, Forshaw DC, Forty R, Franco Lima V, Frank M, Frei C, Fu J, Funk W, Furfaro E, Färber C, Gabriel E, Gallas Torreira A, Galli D, Gallorini S, Gambetta S, Gandelman M, Gandini P, Gao Y, Garcia Martin LM, García Pardiñas J, Garra Tico J, Garrido L, Garsed PJ, Gascon D, Gaspar C, Gavardi L, Gazzoni G, Gerick D, Gersabeck E, Gersabeck M, Gershon T, Ghez P, Gianì S, Gibson V, Girard OG, Giubega L, Gizdov K, Gligorov VV, Golubkov D, Golutvin A, Gomes A, Gorelov IV, Gotti C, Govorkova E, Grabowski JP, Graciani Diaz R, Granado Cardoso LA, Graugés E, Graverini E, Graziani G, Grecu A, Greim R, Griffith P, Grillo L, Gruber L, Gruberg Cazon BR, Grünberg O, Gushchin E, Guz Y, Gys T, Göbel C, Hadavizadeh T, Hadjivasiliou C, Haefeli G, Haen C, Haines SC, Hamilton B, Han X, Hancock T, Hansmann-Menzemer S, Harnew N, Harnew ST, Harrison J, Hasse C, Hatch M, He J, Hecker M, Heinicke K, Heister A, Hennessy K, Henrard P, Henry L, van Herwijnen E, Heß M, Hicheur A, Hill D, Hombach C, Hopchev PH, Huard ZC, Hulsbergen W, Humair T, Hushchyn M, Hutchcroft D, Ibis P, Idzik M, Ilten P, Jacobsson R, Jalocha J, Jans E, Jawahery A, Jiang F, John M, Johnson D, Jones CR, Joram C, Jost B, Jurik N, Kandybei S, Karacson M, Kariuki JM, Karodia S, Kazeev N, Kecke M, Kelsey M, Kenzie M, Ketel T, Khairullin E, Khanji B, Khurewathanakul C, Kirn T, Klaver S, Klimaszewski K, Klimkovich T, Koliiev S, Kolpin M, Komarov I, Kopecna R, Koppenburg P, Kosmyntseva A, Kotriakhova S, Kozeiha M, Kreps M, Krokovny P, Kruse F, Krzemien W, Kucewicz W, Kucharczyk M, Kudryavtsev V, Kuonen AK, Kurek K, Kvaratskheliya T, Lacarrere D, Lafferty G, Lai A, Lanfranchi G, Langenbruch C, Latham T, Lazzeroni C, Le Gac R, van Leerdam J, Leflat A, Lefrançois J, Lefèvre R, Lemaitre F, Lemos Cid E, Leroy O, Lesiak T, Leverington B, Li PR, Li T, Li Y, Li Z, Likhomanenko T, Lindner R, Lionetto F, Lisovskyi V, Liu X, Loh D, Loi A, Longstaff I, Lopes JH, Lucchesi D, Lucio Martinez M, Luo H, Lupato A, Luppi E, Lupton O, Lusiani A, Lyu X, Machefert F, Maciuc F, Macko V, Mackowiak P, Maddock B, Maddrell-Mander S, Maev O, Maguire K, Maisuzenko D, Majewski MW, Malde S, Malinin A, Maltsev T, Manca G, Mancinelli G, Manning P, Marangotto D, Maratas J, Marchand JF, Marconi U, Marin Benito C, Marinangeli M, Marino P, Marks J, Martellotti G, Martin M, Martinelli M, Martinez Santos D, Martinez Vidal F, Martins Tostes D, Massacrier LM, Massafferri A, Matev R, Mathad A, Mathe Z, Matteuzzi C, Mauri A, Maurice E, Maurin B, Mazurov A, McCann M, McNab A, McNulty R, Mead JV, Meadows B, Meaux C, Meier F, Meinert N, Melnychuk D, Merk M, Merli A, Michielin E, Milanes DA, Millard E, Minard MN, Minzoni L, Mitzel DS, Mogini A, Molina Rodriguez J, Mombacher T, Monroy IA, Monteil S, Morandin M, Morello MJ, Morgunova O, Moron J, Morris AB, Mountain R, Muheim F, Mulder M, Müller D, Müller J, Müller K, Müller V, Naik P, Nakada T, Nandakumar R, Nandi A, Nasteva I, Needham M, Neri N, Neubert S, Neufeld N, Neuner M, Nguyen TD, Nguyen-Mau C, Nieswand S, Niet R, Nikitin N, Nikodem T, Nogay A, O'Hanlon DP, Oblakowska-Mucha A, Obraztsov V, Ogilvy S, Oldeman R, Onderwater CJG, Ossowska A, Otalora Goicochea JM, Owen P, Oyanguren A, Pais PR, Palano A, Palutan M, Papanestis A, Pappagallo M, Pappalardo LL, Pappenheimer C, Parker W, Parkes C, Passaleva G, Pastore A, Patel M, Patrignani C, Pearce A, Pellegrino A, Penso G, Pepe Altarelli M, Perazzini S, Perret P, Pescatore L, Petridis K, Petrolini A, Petrov A, Petruzzo M, Picatoste Olloqui E, Pietrzyk B, Pikies M, Pinci D, Pistone A, Piucci A, Placinta V, Playfer S, Plo Casasus M, Polci F, Poli Lener M, Poluektov A, Polyakov I, Polycarpo E, Pomery GJ, Ponce S, Popov A, Popov D, Poslavskii S, Potterat C, Price E, Prisciandaro J, Prouve C, Pugatch V, Puig Navarro A, Pullen H, Punzi G, Qian W, Quagliani R, Quintana B, Rachwal B, Rademacker JH, Rama M, Ramos Pernas M, Rangel MS, Raniuk I, Ratnikov F, Raven G, Ravonel Salzgeber M, Reboud M, Redi F, Reichert S, Dos Reis AC, Remon Alepuz C, Renaudin V, Ricciardi S, Richards S, Rihl M, Rinnert K, Rives Molina V, Robbe P, Robert A, Rodrigues AB, Rodrigues E, Rodriguez Lopez JA, Rodriguez Perez P, Rogozhnikov A, Roiser S, Rollings A, Romanovskiy V, Romero Vidal A, Ronayne JW, Rotondo M, Rudolph MS, Ruf T, Ruiz Valls P, Ruiz Vidal J, Saborido Silva JJ, Sadykhov E, Sagidova N, Saitta B, Salustino Guimaraes V, Sanchez Gonzalo D, Sanchez Mayordomo C, Sanmartin Sedes B, Santacesaria R, Santamarina Rios C, Santimaria M, Santovetti E, Sarpis G, Sarti A, Satriano C, Satta A, Saunders DM, Savrina D, Schael S, Schellenberg M, Schiller M, Schindler H, Schlupp M, Schmelling M, Schmelzer T, Schmidt B, Schneider O, Schopper A, Schreiner HF, Schubert K, Schubiger M, Schune MH, Schwemmer R, Sciascia B, Sciubba A, Semennikov A, Sergi A, Serra N, Serrano J, Sestini L, Seyfert P, Shapkin M, Shapoval I, Shcheglov Y, Shears T, Shekhtman L, Shevchenko V, Siddi BG, Silva Coutinho R, Silva de Oliveira L, Simi G, Simone S, Sirendi M, Skidmore N, Skwarnicki T, Smith E, Smith IT, Smith J, Smith M, Soares Lavra L, Sokoloff MD, Soler FJP, Souza De Paula B, Spaan B, Spradlin P, Sridharan S, Stagni F, Stahl M, Stahl S, Stefko P, Stefkova S, Steinkamp O, Stemmle S, Stenyakin O, Stepanova M, Stevens H, Stone S, Storaci B, Stracka S, Stramaglia ME, Straticiuc M, Straumann U, Sun L, Sutcliffe W, Swientek K, Syropoulos V, Szczekowski M, Szumlak T, Szymanski M, T'Jampens S, Tayduganov A, Tekampe T, Tellarini G, Teubert F, Thomas E, van Tilburg J, Tilley MJ, Tisserand V, Tobin M, Tolk S, Tomassetti L, Tonelli D, Toriello F, Tourinho Jadallah Aoude R, Tournefier E, Traill M, Tran MT, Tresch M, Trisovic A, Tsaregorodtsev A, Tsopelas P, Tully A, Tuning N, Ukleja A, Usachov A, Ustyuzhanin A, Uwer U, Vacca C, Vagner A, Vagnoni V, Valassi A, Valat S, Valenti G, Vazquez Gomez R, Vazquez Regueiro P, Vecchi S, van Veghel M, Velthuis JJ, Veltri M, Veneziano G, Venkateswaran A, Verlage TA, Vernet M, Vesterinen M, Viana Barbosa JV, Viaud B, Vieira D, Vieites Diaz M, Viemann H, Vilasis-Cardona X, Vitti M, Volkov V, Vollhardt A, Voneki B, Vorobyev A, Vorobyev V, Voß C, de Vries JA, Vázquez Sierra C, Waldi R, Wallace C, Wallace R, Walsh J, Wang J, Ward DR, Wark HM, Watson NK, Websdale D, Weiden A, Whitehead M, Wicht J, Wilkinson G, Wilkinson M, Williams M, Williams MP, Williams M, Williams T, Wilson FF, Wimberley J, Winn MA, Wishahi J, Wislicki W, Witek M, Wormser G, Wotton SA, Wraight K, Wyllie K, Xie Y, Xu Z, Yang Z, Yang Z, Yao Y, Yin H, Yu J, Yuan X, Yushchenko O, Zarebski KA, Zavertyaev M, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Zhelezov A, Zheng Y, Zhu X, Zhukov V, Zonneveld JB, Zucchelli S. Observation of the Doubly Charmed Baryon Ξ_{cc}^{++}. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 119:112001. [PMID: 28949228 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.112001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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A highly significant structure is observed in the Λ_{c}^{+}K^{-}π^{+}π^{+} mass spectrum, where the Λ_{c}^{+} baryon is reconstructed in the decay mode pK^{-}π^{+}. The structure is consistent with originating from a weakly decaying particle, identified as the doubly charmed baryon Ξ_{cc}^{++}. The difference between the masses of the Ξ_{cc}^{++} and Λ_{c}^{+} states is measured to be 1334.94±0.72(stat.)±0.27(syst.) MeV/c^{2}, and the Ξ_{cc}^{++} mass is then determined to be 3621.40±0.72(stat.)±0.27(syst.)±0.14(Λ_{c}^{+}) MeV/c^{2}, where the last uncertainty is due to the limited knowledge of the Λ_{c}^{+} mass. The state is observed in a sample of proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.7 fb^{-1}, and confirmed in an additional sample of data collected at 8 TeV.
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Aaij R, Adeva B, Adinolfi M, Ajaltouni Z, Akar S, Albrecht J, Alessio F, Alexander M, Ali S, Alkhazov G, Alvarez Cartelle P, Alves AA, Amato S, Amerio S, Amhis Y, An L, Anderlini L, Andreassi G, Andreotti M, Andrews JE, Appleby RB, Archilli F, d’Argent P, Arnau Romeu J, Artamonov A, Artuso M, Aslanides E, Auriemma G, Baalouch M, Babuschkin I, Bachmann S, Back JJ, Badalov A, Baesso C, Baker S, Balagura V, Baldini W, Baranov A, Barlow RJ, Barschel C, Barsuk S, Barter W, Baryshnikov F, Baszczyk M, Batozskaya V, Battista V, Bay A, Beaucourt L, Beddow J, Bedeschi F, Bediaga I, Beiter A, Bel LJ, Bellee V, Belloli N, Belous K, Belyaev I, Ben-Haim E, Bencivenni G, Benson S, Beranek S, Berezhnoy A, Bernet R, Bertolin A, Betancourt C, Betti F, Bettler MO, van Beuzekom M, Bezshyiko I, Bifani S, Billoir P, Birnkraut A, Bitadze A, Bizzeti A, Blake T, Blanc F, Blouw J, Blusk S, Bocci V, Boettcher T, Bondar A, Bondar N, Bonivento W, Bordyuzhin I, Borgheresi A, Borghi S, Borisyak M, Borsato M, Bossu F, Boubdir M, Bowcock TJV, Bowen E, Bozzi C, Braun S, Britton T, Brodzicka J, Buchanan E, Burr C, Bursche A, Buytaert J, Cadeddu S, Calabrese R, Calvi M, Calvo Gomez M, Camboni A, Campana P, Campora Perez DH, Capriotti L, Carbone A, Carboni G, Cardinale R, Cardini A, Carniti P, Carson L, Carvalho Akiba K, Casse G, Cassina L, Castillo Garcia L, Cattaneo M, Cavallero G, Cenci R, Chamont D, Charles M, Charpentier P, Chatzikonstantinidis G, Chefdeville M, Chen S, Cheung SF, Chobanova V, Chrzaszcz M, Chubykin A, Cid Vidal X, Ciezarek G, Clarke PEL, Clemencic M, Cliff HV, Closier J, Coco V, Cogan J, Cogneras E, Cogoni V, Cojocariu L, Collins P, Comerma-Montells A, Contu A, Cook A, Coombs G, Coquereau S, Corti G, Corvo M, Costa Sobral CM, Couturier B, Cowan GA, Craik DC, Crocombe A, Cruz Torres M, Currie R, D’Ambrosio C, Da Cunha Marinho F, Dall’Occo E, Dalseno J, Davis A, De Bruyn K, De Capua S, De Cian M, De Miranda JM, De Paula L, De Serio M, De Simone P, Dean CT, Decamp D, Deckenhoff M, Del Buono L, Dembinski HP, Demmer M, Dendek A, Derkach D, Deschamps O, Dettori F, Dey B, Di Canto A, Di Nezza P, Dijkstra H, Dordei F, Dorigo M, Dosil Suárez A, Dovbnya A, Dreimanis K, Dufour L, Dujany G, Dungs K, Durante P, Dzhelyadin R, Dziewiecki M, Dziurda A, Dzyuba A, Déléage N, Easo S, Ebert M, Egede U, Egorychev V, Eidelman S, Eisenhardt S, Eitschberger U, Ekelhof R, Eklund L, Ely S, Esen S, Evans HM, Evans T, Falabella A, Farley N, Farry S, Fay R, Fazzini D, Ferguson D, Fernandez G, Fernandez Prieto A, Ferrari F, Ferreira Rodrigues F, Ferro-Luzzi M, Filippov S, Fini RA, Fiore M, Fiorini M, Firlej M, Fitzpatrick C, Fiutowski T, Fleuret F, Fohl K, Fontana M, Fontanelli F, Forshaw DC, Forty R, Franco Lima V, Frank M, Frei C, Fu J, Funk W, Furfaro E, Färber C, Gallas Torreira A, Galli D, Gallorini S, Gambetta S, Gandelman M, Gandini P, Gao Y, Garcia Martin LM, García Pardiñas J, Garra Tico J, Garrido L, Garsed PJ, Gascon D, Gaspar C, Gavardi L, Gazzoni G, Gerick D, Gersabeck E, Gersabeck M, Gershon T, Ghez P, Gianì S, Gibson V, Girard OG, Giubega L, Gizdov K, Gligorov VV, Golubkov D, Golutvin A, Gomes A, Gorelov IV, Gotti C, Govorkova E, Graciani Diaz R, Granado Cardoso LA, Graugés E, Graverini E, Graziani G, Grecu A, Greim R, Griffith P, Grillo L, Gruberg Cazon BR, Grünberg O, Gushchin E, Guz Y, Gys T, Göbel C, Hadavizadeh T, Hadjivasiliou C, Haefeli G, Haen C, Haines SC, Hamilton B, Han X, Hansmann-Menzemer S, Harnew N, Harnew ST, Harrison J, Hatch M, He J, Head T, Heister A, Hennessy K, Henrard P, Henry L, van Herwijnen E, Heß M, Hicheur A, Hill D, Hombach C, Hopchev PH, Huard ZC, Hulsbergen W, Humair T, Hushchyn M, Hutchcroft D, Idzik M, Ilten P, Jacobsson R, Jalocha J, Jans E, Jawahery A, Jiang F, John M, Johnson D, Jones CR, Joram C, Jost B, Jurik N, Kandybei S, Karacson M, Kariuki JM, Karodia S, Kecke M, Kelsey M, Kenzie M, Ketel T, Khairullin E, Khanji B, Khurewathanakul C, Kirn T, Klaver S, Klimaszewski K, Klimkovich T, Koliiev S, Kolpin M, Komarov I, Kopecna R, Koppenburg P, Kosmyntseva A, Kotriakhova S, Kozeiha M, Kravchuk L, Kreps M, Krokovny P, Kruse F, Krzemien W, Kucewicz W, Kucharczyk M, Kudryavtsev V, Kuonen AK, Kurek K, Kvaratskheliya T, Lacarrere D, Lafferty G, Lai A, Lanfranchi G, Langenbruch C, Latham T, Lazzeroni C, Le Gac R, van Leerdam J, Leflat A, Lefrançois J, Lefèvre R, Lemaitre F, Lemos Cid E, Leroy O, Lesiak T, Leverington B, Li T, Li Y, Li Z, Likhomanenko T, Lindner R, Lionetto F, Liu X, Loh D, Longstaff I, Lopes JH, Lucchesi D, Lucio Martinez M, Luo H, Lupato A, Luppi E, Lupton O, Lusiani A, Lyu X, Machefert F, Maciuc F, Maev O, Maguire K, Malde S, Malinin A, Maltsev T, Manca G, Mancinelli G, Manning P, Maratas J, Marchand JF, Marconi U, Marin Benito C, Marinangeli M, Marino P, Marks J, Martellotti G, Martin M, Martinelli M, Martinez Santos D, Martinez Vidal F, Martins Tostes D, Massacrier LM, Massafferri A, Matev R, Mathad A, Mathe Z, Matteuzzi C, Mauri A, Maurice E, Maurin B, Mazurov A, McCann M, McNab A, McNulty R, Meadows B, Meier F, Melnychuk D, Merk M, Merli A, Michielin E, Milanes DA, Minard MN, Mitzel DS, Mogini A, Molina Rodriguez J, Monroy IA, Monteil S, Morandin M, Morello MJ, Morgunova O, Moron J, Morris AB, Mountain R, Muheim F, Mulder M, Mussini M, Müller D, Müller J, Müller K, Müller V, Naik P, Nakada T, Nandakumar R, Nandi A, Nasteva I, Needham M, Neri N, Neubert S, Neufeld N, Neuner M, Nguyen TD, Nguyen-Mau C, Nieswand S, Niet R, Nikitin N, Nikodem T, Nogay A, Novoselov A, O’Hanlon DP, Oblakowska-Mucha A, Obraztsov V, Ogilvy S, Oldeman R, Onderwater CJG, Ossowska A, Otalora Goicochea JM, Owen P, Oyanguren A, Pais PR, Palano A, Palutan M, Papanestis A, Pappagallo M, Pappalardo LL, Pappenheimer C, Parker W, Parkes C, Passaleva G, Pastore A, Patel M, Patrignani C, Pearce A, Pellegrino A, Penso G, Pepe Altarelli M, Perazzini S, Perret P, Pescatore L, Petridis K, Petrolini A, Petrov A, Petruzzo M, Picatoste Olloqui E, Pietrzyk B, Pikies M, Pinci D, Pistone A, Piucci A, Placinta V, Playfer S, Plo Casasus M, Poikela T, Polci F, Poli Lener M, Poluektov A, Polyakov I, Polycarpo E, Pomery GJ, Ponce S, Popov A, Popov D, Popovici B, Poslavskii S, Potterat C, Price E, Prisciandaro J, Prouve C, Pugatch V, Puig Navarro A, Punzi G, Qian W, Quagliani R, Rachwal B, Rademacker JH, Rama M, Ramos Pernas M, Rangel MS, Raniuk I, Ratnikov F, Raven G, Redi F, Reichert S, dos Reis AC, Remon Alepuz C, Renaudin V, Ricciardi S, Richards S, Rihl M, Rinnert K, Rives Molina V, Robbe P, Rodrigues AB, Rodrigues E, Rodriguez Lopez JA, Rodriguez Perez P, Rogozhnikov A, Roiser S, Rollings A, Romanovskiy V, Romero Vidal A, Ronayne JW, Rotondo M, Rudolph MS, Ruf T, Ruiz Valls P, Saborido Silva JJ, Sadykhov E, Sagidova N, Saitta B, Salustino Guimaraes V, Sanchez Gonzalo D, Sanchez Mayordomo C, Sanmartin Sedes B, Santacesaria R, Santamarina Rios C, Santimaria M, Santovetti E, Sarti A, Satriano C, Satta A, Saunders DM, Savrina D, Schael S, Schellenberg M, Schiller M, Schindler H, Schlupp M, Schmelling M, Schmelzer T, Schmidt B, Schneider O, Schopper A, Schreiner HF, Schubert K, Schubiger M, Schune MH, Schwemmer R, Sciascia B, Sciubba A, Semennikov A, Sergi A, Serra N, Serrano J, Sestini L, Seyfert P, Shapkin M, Shapoval I, Shcheglov Y, Shears T, Shekhtman L, Shevchenko V, Siddi BG, Silva Coutinho R, Silva de Oliveira L, Simi G, Simone S, Sirendi M, Skidmore N, Skwarnicki T, Smith E, Smith IT, Smith J, Smith M, Soares Lavra L, Sokoloff MD, Soler FJP, Souza De Paula B, Spaan B, Spradlin P, Sridharan S, Stagni F, Stahl M, Stahl S, Stefko P, Stefkova S, Steinkamp O, Stemmle S, Stenyakin O, Stevens H, Stoica S, Stone S, Storaci B, Stracka S, Stramaglia ME, Straticiuc M, Straumann U, Sun L, Sutcliffe W, Swientek K, Syropoulos V, Szczekowski M, Szumlak T, T’Jampens S, Tayduganov A, Tekampe T, Teklishyn M, Tellarini G, Teubert F, Thomas E, van Tilburg J, Tilley MJ, Tisserand V, Tobin M, Tolk S, Tomassetti L, Tonelli D, Topp-Joergensen S, Toriello F, Tourinho Jadallah Aoude R, Tournefier E, Tourneur S, Trabelsi K, Traill M, Tran MT, Tresch M, Trisovic A, Tsaregorodtsev A, Tsopelas P, Tully A, Tuning N, Ukleja A, Usachov A, Ustyuzhanin A, Uwer U, Vacca C, Vagnoni V, Valassi A, Valat S, Valenti G, Vazquez Gomez R, Vazquez Regueiro P, Vecchi S, van Veghel M, Velthuis JJ, Veltri M, Veneziano G, Venkateswaran A, Verlage TA, Vernet M, Vesterinen M, Viana Barbosa JV, Viaud B, Vieira D, Vieites Diaz M, Viemann H, Vilasis-Cardona X, Vitti M, Volkov V, Vollhardt A, Voneki B, Vorobyev A, Vorobyev V, Voß C, de Vries JA, Vázquez Sierra C, Waldi R, Wallace C, Wallace R, Walsh J, Wang J, Ward DR, Wark HM, Watson NK, Websdale D, Weiden A, Whitehead M, Wicht J, Wilkinson G, Wilkinson M, Williams M, Williams MP, Williams M, Williams T, Wilson FF, Wimberley J, Winn MA, Wishahi J, Wislicki W, Witek M, Wormser G, Wotton SA, Wraight K, Wyllie K, Xie Y, Xu Z, Yang Z, Yang Z, Yao Y, Yin H, Yu J, Yuan X, Yushchenko O, Zarebski KA, Zavertyaev M, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Zhelezov A, Zheng Y, Zhu X, Zhukov V, Zucchelli S. Study of charmonium production in b -hadron decays and first evidence for the decay B s 0 → ϕ ϕ ϕ. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS 2017; 77:609. [PMID: 31997939 PMCID: PMC6956955 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5151-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2017] [Accepted: 08/20/2017] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
Using decays to ϕ -meson pairs, the inclusive production of charmonium states in b -hadron decays is studied with pp collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb - 1 , collected by the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. Denoting by B C ≡ B ( b → C X ) × B ( C → ϕ ϕ ) the inclusive branching fraction of a b hadron to a charmonium state C that decays into a pair of ϕ mesons, ratios R C 2 C 1 ≡ B C 1 / B C 2 are determined as R η c ( 1 S ) χ c 0 = 0.147 ± 0.023 ± 0.011 , R η c ( 1 S ) χ c 1 = 0.073 ± 0.016 ± 0.006 , R η c ( 1 S ) χ c 2 = 0.081 ± 0.013 ± 0.005 , R χ c 0 χ c 1 = 0.50 ± 0.11 ± 0.01 , R χ c 0 χ c 2 = 0.56 ± 0.10 ± 0.01 and R η c ( 1 S ) η c ( 2 S ) = 0.040 ± 0.011 ± 0.004 . Here and below the first uncertainties are statistical and the second systematic. Upper limits at 90% confidence level for the inclusive production of X(3872), X(3915) and χ c 2 ( 2 P ) states are obtained as R χ c 1 X ( 3872 ) < 0.34 , R χ c 0 X ( 3915 ) < 0.12 and R χ c 2 χ c 2 ( 2 P ) < 0.16 . Differential cross-sections as a function of transverse momentum are measured for the η c ( 1 S ) and χ c states. The branching fraction of the decay B s 0 → ϕ ϕ ϕ is measured for the first time, B ( B s 0 → ϕ ϕ ϕ ) = ( 2.15 ± 0.54 ± 0.28 ± 0 . 21 B ) × 10 - 6 . Here the third uncertainty is due to the branching fraction of the decay B s 0 → ϕ ϕ , which is used for normalization. No evidence for intermediate resonances is seen. A preferentially transverse ϕ polarization is observed. The measurements allow the determination of the ratio of the branching fractions for the η c ( 1 S ) decays to ϕ ϕ and p p ¯ as B ( η c ( 1 S ) → ϕ ϕ ) / B ( η c ( 1 S ) → p p ¯ ) = 1.79 ± 0.14 ± 0.32 .
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Aaij R, Adeva B, Adinolfi M, Ajaltouni Z, Akar S, Albrecht J, Alessio F, Alexander M, Ali S, Alkhazov G, Alvarez Cartelle P, Alves AA, Amato S, Amerio S, Amhis Y, An L, Anderlini L, Andreassi G, Andreotti M, Andrews JE, Appleby RB, Archilli F, d'Argent P, Arnau Romeu J, Artamonov A, Artuso M, Aslanides E, Auriemma G, Baalouch M, Babuschkin I, Bachmann S, Back JJ, Badalov A, Baesso C, Baker S, Balagura V, Baldini W, Baranov A, Barlow RJ, Barschel C, Barsuk S, Barter W, Baryshnikov F, Baszczyk M, Batozskaya V, Batsukh B, Battista V, Bay A, Beaucourt L, Beddow J, Bedeschi F, Bediaga I, Beiter A, Bel LJ, Bellee V, Belloli N, Belous K, Belyaev I, Ben-Haim E, Bencivenni G, Benson S, Beranek S, Berezhnoy A, Bernet R, Bertolin A, Betancourt C, Betti F, Bettler MO, van Beuzekom M, Bezshyiko I, Bifani S, Billoir P, Birnkraut A, Bitadze A, Bizzeti A, Blake T, Blanc F, Blouw J, Blusk S, Bocci V, Boettcher T, Bondar A, Bondar N, Bonivento W, Bordyuzhin I, Borgheresi A, Borghi S, Borisyak M, Borsato M, Bossu F, Boubdir M, Bowcock TJV, Bowen E, Bozzi C, Braun S, Britton T, Brodzicka J, Buchanan E, Burr C, Bursche A, Buytaert J, Cadeddu S, Calabrese R, Calvi M, Calvo Gomez M, Camboni A, Campana P, Campora Perez DH, Capriotti L, Carbone A, Carboni G, Cardinale R, Cardini A, Carniti P, Carson L, Carvalho Akiba K, Casse G, Cassina L, Castillo Garcia L, Cattaneo M, Cavallero G, Cenci R, Chamont D, Charles M, Charpentier P, Chatzikonstantinidis G, Chefdeville M, Chen S, Cheung SF, Chobanova V, Chrzaszcz M, Chubykin A, Cid Vidal X, Ciezarek G, Clarke PEL, Clemencic M, Cliff HV, Closier J, Coco V, Cogan J, Cogneras E, Cogoni V, Cojocariu L, Collins P, Comerma-Montells A, Contu A, Cook A, Coombs G, Coquereau S, Corti G, Corvo M, Costa Sobral CM, Couturier B, Cowan GA, Craik DC, Crocombe A, Cruz Torres M, Cunliffe S, Currie R, D'Ambrosio C, Da Cunha Marinho F, Dall'Occo E, Dalseno J, David PNY, Davis A, De Bruyn K, De Capua S, De Cian M, De Miranda JM, De Paula L, De Serio M, De Simone P, Dean CT, Decamp D, Deckenhoff M, Del Buono L, Dembinski HP, Demmer M, Dendek A, Derkach D, Deschamps O, Dettori F, Dey B, Di Canto A, Di Nezza P, Dijkstra H, Dordei F, Dorigo M, Dosil Suárez A, Dovbnya A, Dreimanis K, Dufour L, Dujany G, Dungs K, Durante P, Dzhelyadin R, Dziewiecki M, Dziurda A, Dzyuba A, Déléage N, Easo S, Ebert M, Egede U, Egorychev V, Eidelman S, Eisenhardt S, Eitschberger U, Ekelhof R, Eklund L, Ely S, Esen S, Evans HM, Evans T, Falabella A, Farley N, Farry S, Fay R, Fazzini D, Ferguson D, Fernandez G, Fernandez Prieto A, Ferrari F, Ferreira Rodrigues F, Ferro-Luzzi M, Filippov S, Fini RA, Fiore M, Fiorini M, Firlej M, Fitzpatrick C, Fiutowski T, Fleuret F, Fohl K, Fontana M, Fontanelli F, Forshaw DC, Forty R, Franco Lima V, Frank M, Frei C, Fu J, Funk W, Furfaro E, Färber C, Gallas Torreira A, Galli D, Gallorini S, Gambetta S, Gandelman M, Gandini P, Gao Y, Garcia Martin LM, García Pardiñas J, Garra Tico J, Garrido L, Garsed PJ, Gascon D, Gaspar C, Gavardi L, 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Zhang L, Zhang Y, Zhelezov A, Zheng Y, Zhu X, Zhukov V, Zucchelli S. Measurement of B_{s}^{0} and D_{s}^{-} Meson Lifetimes. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 119:101801. [PMID: 28949189 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.101801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We report on a measurement of the flavor-specific B_{s}^{0} lifetime and of the D_{s}^{-} lifetime using proton-proton collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, collected by the LHCb experiment and corresponding to 3.0 fb^{-1} of integrated luminosity. Approximately 407 000 B_{s}^{0}→D_{s}^{(*)-}μ^{+}ν_{μ} decays are partially reconstructed in the K^{+}K^{-}π^{-}μ^{+} final state. The B_{s}^{0} and D_{s}^{-} natural widths are determined using, as a reference, kinematically similar B^{0}→D^{(*)-}μ^{+}ν_{μ} decays reconstructed in the same final state. The resulting differences between widths of B_{s}^{0} and B^{0} mesons and of D_{s}^{-} and D^{-} mesons are Δ_{Γ}(B)=-0.0115±0.0053(stat)±0.0041(syst) ps^{-1} and Δ_{Γ}(D)=1.0131±0.0117(stat)±0.0065(syst) ps^{-1}, respectively. Combined with the known B^{0} and D^{-} lifetimes, these yield the flavor-specific B_{s}^{0} lifetime, τ_{B_{s}^{0}}^{fs}=1.547±0.013(stat)±0.010(syst)±0.004(τ_{B}) ps and the D_{s}^{-} lifetime, τ_{D_{s}^{-}}=0.5064±0.0030(stat)±0.0017(syst)±0.0017(τ_{D}) ps. The last uncertainties originate from the limited knowledge of the B^{0} and D^{-} lifetimes. The results improve upon current determinations.
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Moñux G, Zamorano-León JJ, Marqués P, Sopeña B, García-García JM, Laich de Koller G, Calvo-Rico B, García-Fernandez MA, Serrano J, López-Farré A. FXa inhibition by rivaroxaban modifies mechanisms associated with the pathogenesis of human abdominal aortic aneurysms. Br J Clin Pharmacol 2017; 83:2661-2670. [PMID: 28735510 DOI: 10.1111/bcp.13383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2016] [Revised: 06/12/2017] [Accepted: 07/09/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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AIMS To evaluate if rivaroxaban, an oral factor Xa (FXa) inhibitor, could modify the expression in vitro of inflammatory and oxidative stress biomarkers in abdominal aortic aneurysmal (AAA) sites showing intraluminal thrombus. METHODS AAA sites with intraluminal mural thrombus were obtained from six patients undergoing elective AAA repair. In addition, control abdominal aortic samples were obtained from six organ donors. AAA sites were incubated in the presence and absence of 50 nmol l-1 rivaroxaban. RESULTS AAA sites showing thrombus demonstrated higher content of FXa than control. Interleukin-6 levels released from AAA [Control: median: 23.45 (interquartile range: 16.17-37.15) vs. AAA: median: 153.07 (interquartile range: 100.80-210.69) pg ml-1 mg tissue-1 , P < 0.05] and the expression levels of nitric oxide synthase 2 were significantly higher in AAA than in control. The protein expression level of NADPH oxidase subunits gp67-and gp91-phox, but did not gp47-phox, were also significantly higher in the AAA sites than in control. Addition of rivaroxaban to AAA sites explants significantly reduced the release of interleukin-6 [median: 51.61 (interquartile range: 30.87-74.03) pg ml-1 mg tissue-1 , P < 0.05 with respect to AAA alone] and the content of nitric oxide synthase 2, gp67 and gp91-phox NADPH subunits. The content of matrix metallopeptidase 9 was significantly higher in the AAA sites as compared to control. Rivaroxaban also reduced matrix metallopeptidase 9 content in AAA sites to similar levels to control. CONCLUSIONS FXa inhibition by rivaroxaban exerted anti-inflammatory and antioxidative stress properties in human AAA sites, suggesting a role of FXa in these mechanisms associated with the pathogenesis of AAA.
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Satriano C, Satta A, Saunders DM, Savrina D, Schael S, Schellenberg M, Schiller M, Schindler H, Schlupp M, Schmelling M, Schmelzer T, Schmidt B, Schneider O, Schopper A, Schreiner HF, Schubert K, Schubiger M, Schune MH, Schwemmer R, Sciascia B, Sciubba A, Semennikov A, Sergi A, Serra N, Serrano J, Sestini L, Seyfert P, Shapkin M, Shapoval I, Shcheglov Y, Shears T, Shekhtman L, Shevchenko V, Siddi BG, Silva Coutinho R, Silva de Oliveira L, Simi G, Simone S, Sirendi M, Skidmore N, Skwarnicki T, Smith E, Smith IT, Smith J, Smith M, Soares Lavra L, Sokoloff MD, Soler FJP, Souza De Paula B, Spaan B, Spradlin P, Sridharan S, Stagni F, Stahl M, Stahl S, Stefko P, Stefkova S, Steinkamp O, Stemmle S, Stenyakin O, Stevens H, Stoica S, Stone S, Storaci B, Stracka S, Stramaglia ME, Straticiuc M, Straumann U, Sun L, Sutcliffe W, Swientek K, Syropoulos V, Szczekowski M, Szumlak T, T'Jampens S, Tayduganov A, Tekampe T, Tellarini G, Teubert F, Thomas E, van Tilburg J, Tilley MJ, Tisserand V, Tobin M, Tolk S, Tomassetti L, Tonelli D, Topp-Joergensen S, Toriello F, Tourinho Jadallah Aoude R, Tournefier E, Tourneur S, Trabelsi K, Traill M, Tran MT, Tresch M, Trisovic A, Tsaregorodtsev A, Tsopelas P, Tully A, Tuning N, Ukleja A, Ustyuzhanin A, Uwer U, Vacca C, Vagnoni V, Valassi A, Valat S, Valenti G, Vazquez Gomez R, Vazquez Regueiro P, Vecchi S, van Veghel M, Velthuis JJ, Veltri M, Veneziano G, Venkateswaran A, Verlage TA, Vernet M, Vesterinen M, Viana Barbosa JV, Viaud B, Vieira D, Vieites Diaz M, Viemann H, Vilasis-Cardona X, Vitti M, Volkov V, Vollhardt A, Voneki B, Vorobyev A, Vorobyev V, Voß C, de Vries JA, Vázquez Sierra C, Waldi R, Wallace C, Wallace R, Walsh J, Wang J, Ward DR, Wark HM, Watson NK, Websdale D, Weiden A, Whitehead M, Wicht J, Wilkinson G, Wilkinson M, Williams M, Williams MP, Williams M, Williams T, Wilson FF, Wimberley J, Winn MA, Wishahi J, Wislicki W, Witek M, Wormser G, Wotton SA, Wraight K, Wyllie K, Xie Y, Xu Z, Yang Z, Yang Z, Yao Y, Yin H, Yu J, Yuan X, Yushchenko O, Zarebski KA, Zavertyaev M, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Zhelezov A, Zheng Y, Zhu X, Zhukov V, Zonneveld JB, Zucchelli S. Observation of the Decays Λ_{b}^{0}→χ_{c1}pK^{-} and Λ_{b}^{0}→χ_{c2}pK^{-}. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 119:062001. [PMID: 28949591 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.062001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The first observation of the decays Λ_{b}^{0}→χ_{c1}pK^{-} and Λ_{b}^{0}→χ_{c2}pK^{-} is reported using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb^{-1}, collected by the LHCb experiment in pp collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. The following ratios of branching fractions are measured: B(Λ_{b}^{0}→χ_{c1}pK^{-})/B(Λ_{b}^{0}→J/ψpK^{-})=0.242±0.014±0.013±0.009,B(Λ_{b}^{0}→χ_{c2}pK^{-})/B(Λ_{b}^{0}→J/ψpK^{-})=0.248±0.020±0.014±0.009,B(Λ_{b}^{0}→χ_{c2}pK^{-})/B(Λ_{b}^{0}→χ_{c1}pK^{-})=1.02±0.10±0.02±0.05,where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second systematic, and the third due to the uncertainty on the branching fractions of the χ_{c1}→J/ψγ and χ_{c2}→J/ψγ decays. Using both decay modes, the mass of the Λ_{b}^{0} baryon is also measured to be m_{Λ_{b}^{0}}=5619.44±0.28±0.26 MeV/c^{2}, where the first and second uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively.
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Ferrera Duran C, Vilacosta I, Gomez-Polo J, Villanueva-Medina S, Canadas V, Carnero M, Cabezas B, Cobiella J, Ferreiros J, Bustos A, Vivas D, Viana-Tejedor A, Serrano J, Macaya C, Maroto-Castellanos L. P5169Evolution and prognosis of aortic intramural hematoma. Insights from a midterm cohort study. Eur Heart J 2017. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehx493.p5169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Aaij R, Adeva B, Adinolfi M, Ajaltouni Z, Akar S, Albrecht J, Alessio F, Alexander M, Ali S, Alkhazov G, Alvarez Cartelle P, Alves AA, Amato S, Amerio S, Amhis Y, An L, Anderlini L, Andreassi G, Andreotti M, Andrews JE, Appleby RB, Archilli F, d'Argent P, Arnau Romeu J, Artamonov A, Artuso M, Aslanides E, Auriemma G, Baalouch M, Babuschkin I, Bachmann S, Back JJ, Badalov A, Baesso C, Baker S, Balagura V, Baldini W, Baranov A, Barlow RJ, Barschel C, Barsuk S, Barter W, Baryshnikov F, Baszczyk M, Batozskaya V, Battista V, Bay A, Beaucourt L, Beddow J, Bedeschi F, Bediaga I, Beiter A, Bel LJ, Bellee V, Belloli N, Belous K, Belyaev I, Ben-Haim E, Bencivenni G, Benson S, Beranek S, Berezhnoy A, Bernet R, Bertolin A, Betancourt C, Betti F, Bettler MO, van Beuzekom M, Bezshyiko I, Bifani S, Billoir P, Birnkraut A, Bitadze A, Bizzeti A, Blake T, Blanc F, Blouw J, Blusk S, Bocci V, Boettcher T, Bondar A, Bondar N, Bonivento W, Bordyuzhin I, Borgheresi A, Borghi S, Borisyak M, Borsato M, Bossu F, Boubdir M, Bowcock TJV, Bowen E, Bozzi C, Braun S, Britton T, Brodzicka J, Buchanan E, Burr C, Bursche A, Buytaert J, Cadeddu S, Calabrese R, Calvi M, Calvo Gomez M, Camboni A, Campana P, Campora Perez DH, Capriotti L, Carbone A, Carboni G, Cardinale R, Cardini A, Carniti P, Carson L, Carvalho Akiba K, Casse G, Cassina L, Castillo Garcia L, Cattaneo M, Cavallero G, Cenci R, Chamont D, Charles M, Charpentier P, Chatzikonstantinidis G, Chefdeville M, Chen S, Cheung SF, Chobanova V, Chrzaszcz M, Chubykin A, Cid Vidal X, Ciezarek G, Clarke PEL, Clemencic M, Cliff HV, Closier J, Coco V, Cogan J, Cogneras E, Cogoni V, Cojocariu L, Collins P, Comerma-Montells A, Contu A, Cook A, Coombs G, Coquereau S, Corti G, Corvo M, Costa Sobral CM, Couturier B, Cowan GA, Craik DC, Crocombe A, Cruz Torres M, Cunliffe S, Currie R, D'Ambrosio C, Da Cunha Marinho F, Dall'Occo E, Dalseno J, Davis A, De Aguiar Francisco O, De Bruyn K, De Capua S, De Cian M, De Miranda JM, De Paula L, De Serio M, De Simone P, Dean CT, Decamp D, Deckenhoff M, Del Buono L, Dembinski HP, Demmer M, Dendek A, Derkach D, Deschamps O, Dettori F, Dey B, Di Canto A, Di Nezza P, Dijkstra H, Dordei F, Dorigo M, Dosil Suárez A, Dovbnya A, Dreimanis K, Dufour L, Dujany G, Dungs K, Durante P, Dzhelyadin R, Dziewiecki M, Dziurda A, Dzyuba A, Déléage N, Easo S, Ebert M, Egede U, Egorychev V, Eidelman S, Eisenhardt S, Eitschberger U, Ekelhof R, Eklund L, Ely S, Esen S, Evans HM, Evans T, Falabella A, Farley N, Farry S, Fay R, Fazzini D, Ferguson D, Fernandez G, Fernandez Prieto A, Ferrari F, Ferreira Rodrigues F, Ferro-Luzzi M, Filippov S, Fini RA, Fiore M, Fiorini M, Firlej M, Fitzpatrick C, Fiutowski T, Fleuret F, Fohl K, Fontana M, Fontanelli F, Forshaw DC, Forty R, Franco Lima V, Frank M, Frei C, Fu J, Funk W, Furfaro E, Färber C, Gabriel E, Gallas Torreira A, Galli D, Gallorini S, Gambetta S, Gandelman M, Gandini P, Gao Y, Garcia Martin LM, García Pardiñas J, Garra Tico J, Garrido L, Garsed PJ, Gascon D, Gaspar C, Gavardi L, Gazzoni G, Gerick D, Gersabeck E, Gersabeck M, Gershon T, Ghez P, Gianì S, Gibson V, Girard OG, Giubega L, Gizdov K, Gligorov VV, Golubkov D, Golutvin A, Gomes A, Gorelov IV, Gotti C, Govorkova E, Graciani Diaz R, Granado Cardoso LA, Graugés E, Graverini E, Graziani G, Grecu A, Greim R, Griffith P, Grillo L, Gruber L, Gruberg Cazon BR, Grünberg O, Gushchin E, Guz Y, Gys T, Göbel C, Hadavizadeh T, Hadjivasiliou C, Haefeli G, Haen C, Haines SC, Hamilton B, Han X, Hansmann-Menzemer S, Harnew N, Harnew ST, Harrison J, Hatch M, He J, Head T, Heister A, Hennessy K, Henrard P, Henry L, van Herwijnen E, Heß M, Hicheur A, Hill D, Hombach C, Hopchev PH, Huard ZC, Hulsbergen W, Humair T, Hushchyn M, Hutchcroft D, Idzik M, Ilten P, Jacobsson R, Jalocha J, Jans E, Jawahery A, Jiang F, John M, Johnson D, Jones CR, Joram C, Jost B, Jurik N, Kandybei S, Karacson M, Kariuki JM, Karodia S, Kecke M, Kelsey M, Kenzie M, Ketel T, Khairullin E, Khanji B, Khurewathanakul C, Kirn T, Klaver S, Klimaszewski K, Klimkovich T, Koliiev S, Kolpin M, Komarov I, Kopecna R, Koppenburg P, Kosmyntseva A, Kotriakhova S, Kozeiha M, Kravchuk L, Kreps M, Krokovny P, Kruse F, Krzemien W, Kucewicz W, Kucharczyk M, Kudryavtsev V, Kuonen AK, Kurek K, Kvaratskheliya T, Lacarrere D, Lafferty G, Lai A, Lanfranchi G, Langenbruch C, Latham T, Lazzeroni C, Le Gac R, van Leerdam J, Leflat A, Lefrançois J, Lefèvre R, Lemaitre F, Lemos Cid E, Leroy O, Lesiak T, Leverington B, Li T, Li Y, Li Z, Likhomanenko T, Lindner R, Lionetto F, Liu X, Loh D, Longstaff I, Lopes JH, Lucchesi D, Lucio Martinez M, Luo H, Lupato A, Luppi E, Lupton O, Lusiani A, Lyu X, Machefert F, Maciuc F, Maddock B, Maev O, Maguire K, Malde S, Malinin A, Maltsev T, Manca G, Mancinelli G, Manning P, Maratas J, Marchand JF, Marconi U, Marin Benito C, Marinangeli M, Marino P, Marks J, Martellotti G, Martin M, Martinelli M, Martinez Santos D, Martinez Vidal F, Martins Tostes D, Massacrier LM, Massafferri A, Matev R, Mathad A, Mathe Z, Matteuzzi C, Mauri A, Maurice E, Maurin B, Mazurov A, McCann M, McNab A, McNulty R, Meadows B, Meier F, Melnychuk D, Merk M, Merli A, Michielin E, Milanes DA, Minard MN, Mitzel DS, Mogini A, Molina Rodriguez J, Monroy IA, Monteil S, Morandin M, Morello MJ, Morgunova O, Moron J, Morris AB, Mountain R, Muheim F, Mulder M, Mussini M, Müller D, Müller J, Müller K, Müller V, Naik P, Nakada T, Nandakumar R, Nandi A, Nasteva I, Needham M, Neri N, Neubert S, Neufeld N, Neuner M, Nguyen TD, Nguyen-Mau C, Nieswand S, Niet R, Nikitin N, Nikodem T, Nogay A, O'Hanlon DP, Oblakowska-Mucha A, Obraztsov V, Ogilvy S, Oldeman R, Onderwater CJG, Ossowska A, Otalora Goicochea JM, Owen P, Oyanguren A, Pais PR, Palano A, Palutan M, Papanestis A, Pappagallo M, Pappalardo LL, Pappenheimer C, Parker W, Parkes C, Passaleva G, Pastore A, Patel M, Patrignani C, Pearce A, Pellegrino A, Penso G, Pepe Altarelli M, Perazzini S, Perret P, Pescatore L, Petridis K, Petrolini A, Petrov A, Petruzzo M, Picatoste Olloqui E, Pietrzyk B, Pikies M, Pinci D, Pistone A, Piucci A, Placinta V, Playfer S, Plo Casasus M, Poikela T, Polci F, Poli Lener M, Poluektov A, Polyakov I, Polycarpo E, Pomery GJ, Ponce S, Popov A, Popov D, Popovici B, Poslavskii S, Potterat C, Price E, Prisciandaro J, Prouve C, Pugatch V, Puig Navarro A, Punzi G, Qian C, Qian W, Quagliani R, Rachwal B, Rademacker JH, Rama M, Ramos Pernas M, Rangel MS, Raniuk I, Ratnikov F, Raven G, Ravonel Salzgeber M, Reboud M, Redi F, Reichert S, Dos Reis AC, Remon Alepuz C, Renaudin V, Ricciardi S, Richards S, Rihl M, Rinnert K, Rives Molina V, Robbe P, Rodrigues AB, Rodrigues E, Rodriguez Lopez JA, Rodriguez Perez P, Rogozhnikov A, Roiser S, Rollings A, Romanovskiy V, Romero Vidal A, Ronayne JW, Rotondo M, Rudolph MS, Ruf T, Ruiz Valls P, Saborido Silva JJ, Sadykhov E, Sagidova N, Saitta B, Salustino Guimaraes V, Sanchez Gonzalo D, Sanchez Mayordomo C, Sanmartin Sedes B, Santacesaria R, Santamarina Rios C, Santimaria M, Santovetti E, Sarti A, Satriano C, Satta A, Saunders DM, Savrina D, Schael S, Schellenberg M, Schiller M, Schindler H, Schlupp M, Schmelling M, Schmelzer T, Schmidt B, Schneider O, Schopper A, Schreiner HF, Schubert K, Schubiger M, Schune MH, Schwemmer R, Sciascia B, Sciubba A, Semennikov A, Sergi A, Serra N, Serrano J, Sestini L, Seyfert P, Shapkin M, Shapoval I, Shcheglov Y, Shears T, Shekhtman L, Shevchenko V, Siddi BG, Silva Coutinho R, Silva de Oliveira L, Simi G, Simone S, Sirendi M, Skidmore N, Skwarnicki T, Smith E, Smith IT, Smith J, Smith M, Soares Lavra L, Sokoloff MD, Soler FJP, Souza De Paula B, Spaan B, Spradlin P, Sridharan S, Stagni F, Stahl M, Stahl S, Stefko P, Stefkova S, Steinkamp O, Stemmle S, Stenyakin O, Stevens H, Stoica S, Stone S, Storaci B, Stracka S, Stramaglia ME, Straticiuc M, Straumann U, Sun L, Sutcliffe W, Swientek K, Syropoulos V, Szczekowski M, Szumlak T, T'Jampens S, Tayduganov A, Tekampe T, Tellarini G, Teubert F, Thomas E, van Tilburg J, Tilley MJ, Tisserand V, Tobin M, Tolk S, Tomassetti L, Tonelli D, Topp-Joergensen S, Toriello F, Tourinho Jadallah Aoude R, Tournefier E, Tourneur S, Trabelsi K, Traill M, Tran MT, Tresch M, Trisovic A, Tsaregorodtsev A, Tsopelas P, Tully A, Tuning N, Ukleja A, Ustyuzhanin A, Uwer U, Vacca C, Vagner A, Vagnoni V, Valassi A, Valat S, Valenti G, Vazquez Gomez R, Vazquez Regueiro P, Vecchi S, van Veghel M, Velthuis JJ, Veltri M, Veneziano G, Venkateswaran A, Verlage TA, Vernet M, Vesterinen M, Viana Barbosa JV, Viaud B, Vieira D, Vieites Diaz M, Viemann H, Vilasis-Cardona X, Vitti M, Volkov V, Vollhardt A, Voneki B, Vorobyev A, Vorobyev V, Voß C, de Vries JA, Vázquez Sierra C, Waldi R, Wallace C, Wallace R, Walsh J, Wang J, Ward DR, Wark HM, Watson NK, Websdale D, Weiden A, Whitehead M, Wicht J, Wilkinson G, Wilkinson M, Williams M, Williams MP, Williams M, Williams T, Wilson FF, Wimberley J, Winn MA, Wishahi J, Wislicki W, Witek M, Wormser G, Wotton SA, Wraight K, Wyllie K, Xie Y, Xu Z, Yang Z, Yang Z, Yao Y, Yin H, Yu J, Yuan X, Yushchenko O, Zarebski KA, Zavertyaev M, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Zhelezov A, Zheng Y, Zhu X, Zhukov V, Zonneveld JB, Zucchelli S. First Observation of a Baryonic B_{s}^{0} Decay. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 119:041802. [PMID: 29341762 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.041802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We report the first observation of a baryonic B_{s}^{0} decay, B_{s}^{0}→pΛ[over ¯]K^{-}, using proton-proton collision data recorded by the LHCb experiment at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb^{-1}. The branching fraction is measured to be B(B_{s}^{0}→pΛ[over ¯]K^{-})+B(B_{s}^{0}→p[over ¯]ΛK^{+})=[5.46±0.61±0.57±0.50(B)±0.32(f_{s}/f_{d})]×10^{-6}, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic, the third uncertainty accounts for the experimental uncertainty on the branching fraction of the B^{0}→pΛ[over ¯]π^{-} decay used for normalization, and the fourth uncertainty relates to the knowledge of the ratio of b-quark hadronization probabilities f_{s}/f_{d}.
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Aaij R, Adeva B, Adinolfi M, Ajaltouni Z, Akar S, Albrecht J, Alessio F, Alexander M, Ali S, Alkhazov G, Alvarez Cartelle P, Alves AA, Amato S, Amerio S, Amhis Y, An L, Anderlini L, Andreassi G, Andreotti M, Andrews JE, Appleby RB, Archilli F, d'Argent P, Arnau Romeu J, Artamonov A, Artuso M, Aslanides E, Auriemma G, Baalouch M, Babuschkin I, Bachmann S, Back JJ, Badalov A, Baesso C, Baker S, Balagura V, Baldini W, Barlow RJ, Barschel C, Barsuk S, Barter W, Baryshnikov F, Baszczyk M, Batozskaya V, Batsukh B, Battista V, Bay A, Beaucourt L, Beddow J, Bedeschi F, Bediaga I, Beiter A, Bel LJ, Bellee V, Belloli N, Belous K, Belyaev I, Ben-Haim E, Bencivenni G, Benson S, Beranek S, Berezhnoy A, Bernet R, Bertolin A, Betancourt C, Betti F, Bettler MO, van Beuzekom M, Bezshyiko I, Bifani S, Billoir P, Bird T, Birnkraut A, Bitadze A, Bizzeti A, Blake T, Blanc F, Blouw J, Blusk S, Bocci V, Boettcher T, Bondar A, Bondar N, Bonivento W, Bordyuzhin I, Borgheresi A, Borghi S, Borisyak M, Borsato M, Bossu F, Boubdir M, Bowcock TJV, Bowen E, Bozzi C, Braun S, Britsch M, Britton T, Brodzicka J, Buchanan E, Burr C, Bursche A, Buytaert J, Cadeddu S, Calabrese R, Calvi M, Calvo Gomez M, Camboni A, Campana P, Campora Perez DH, Capriotti L, Carbone A, Carboni G, Cardinale R, Cardini A, Carniti P, Carson L, Carvalho Akiba K, Casse G, Cassina L, Castillo Garcia L, Cattaneo M, Cavallero G, Cenci R, Chamont D, Charles M, Charpentier P, Chatzikonstantinidis G, Chefdeville M, Chen S, Cheung SF, Chobanova V, Chrzaszcz M, Cid Vidal X, Ciezarek G, Clarke PEL, Clemencic M, Cliff HV, Closier J, Coco V, Cogan J, Cogneras E, Cogoni V, Cojocariu L, Collins P, Comerma-Montells A, Contu A, Cook A, Coombs G, Coquereau S, Corti G, Corvo M, Costa Sobral CM, Couturier B, Cowan GA, Craik DC, Crocombe A, Cruz Torres M, Cunliffe S, Currie R, D'Ambrosio C, Da Cunha Marinho F, Dall'Occo E, Dalseno J, David PNY, Davis A, De Bruyn K, De Capua S, De Cian M, De Miranda JM, De Paula L, De Serio M, De Simone P, Dean CT, Decamp D, Deckenhoff M, Del Buono L, Demmer M, Dendek A, Derkach D, Deschamps O, Dettori F, Dey B, Di Canto A, Dijkstra H, Dordei F, Dorigo M, Dosil Suárez A, Dovbnya A, Dreimanis K, Dufour L, Dujany G, Dungs K, Durante P, Dzhelyadin R, Dziurda A, Dzyuba A, Déléage N, Easo S, Ebert M, Egede U, Egorychev V, Eidelman S, Eisenhardt S, Eitschberger U, Ekelhof R, Eklund L, Ely S, Esen S, Evans HM, Evans T, Falabella A, Farley N, Farry S, Fay R, Fazzini D, Ferguson D, Fernandez Prieto A, Ferrari F, Ferreira Rodrigues F, Ferro-Luzzi M, Filippov S, Fini RA, Fiore M, Fiorini M, Firlej M, Fitzpatrick C, Fiutowski T, Fleuret F, Fohl K, Fontana M, Fontanelli F, Forshaw DC, Forty R, Franco Lima V, Frank M, Frei C, Fu J, Funk W, Furfaro E, Färber C, Gallas Torreira A, Galli D, Gallorini S, Gambetta S, Gandelman M, Gandini P, Gao Y, Garcia Martin LM, García Pardiñas J, Garra Tico J, Garrido L, Garsed PJ, Gascon D, Gaspar C, Gavardi L, Gazzoni G, Gerick D, Gersabeck E, Gersabeck M, Gershon T, Ghez P, Gianì S, Gibson V, Girard OG, Giubega L, Gizdov K, Gligorov VV, Golubkov D, Golutvin A, Gomes A, Gorelov IV, Gotti C, Govorkova E, Graciani Diaz R, Granado Cardoso LA, Graugés E, Graverini E, Graziani G, Grecu A, Greim R, Griffith P, Grillo L, Gruberg Cazon BR, Grünberg O, Gushchin E, Guz Y, Gys T, Göbel C, Hadavizadeh T, Hadjivasiliou C, Haefeli G, Haen C, Haines SC, Hamilton B, Han X, Hansmann-Menzemer S, Harnew N, Harnew ST, Harrison J, Hatch M, He J, Head T, Heister A, Hennessy K, Henrard P, Henry L, van Herwijnen E, Heß M, Hicheur A, Hill D, Hombach C, Hopchev H, Hulsbergen W, Humair T, Hushchyn M, Hutchcroft D, Idzik M, Ilten P, Jacobsson R, Jaeger A, Jalocha J, Jans E, Jawahery A, Jiang F, John M, Johnson D, Jones CR, Joram C, Jost B, Jurik N, Kandybei S, Karacson M, Kariuki JM, Karodia S, Kecke M, Kelsey M, Kenzie M, Ketel T, Khairullin E, Khanji B, Khurewathanakul C, Kirn T, Klaver S, Klimaszewski K, Klimkovich T, Koliiev S, Kolpin M, Komarov I, Koopman RF, Koppenburg P, Kosmyntseva A, Kozachuk A, Kozeiha M, Kravchuk L, Kreplin K, Kreps M, Krokovny P, Kruse F, Krzemien W, Kucewicz W, Kucharczyk M, Kudryavtsev V, Kuonen AK, Kurek K, Kvaratskheliya T, Lacarrere D, Lafferty G, Lai A, Lanfranchi G, Langenbruch C, Latham T, Lazzeroni C, Le Gac R, van Leerdam J, Leflat A, Lefrançois J, Lefèvre R, Lemaitre F, Lemos Cid E, Leroy O, Lesiak T, Leverington B, Li T, Li Y, Likhomanenko T, Lindner R, Linn C, Lionetto F, Liu X, Loh D, Longstaff I, Lopes JH, Lucchesi D, Lucio Martinez M, Luo H, Lupato A, Luppi E, Lupton O, Lusiani A, Lyu X, Machefert F, Maciuc F, Maev O, Maguire K, Malde S, Malinin A, Maltsev T, Manca G, Mancinelli G, Manning P, Maratas J, Marchand JF, Marconi U, Marin Benito C, Marinangeli M, Marino P, Marks J, Martellotti G, Martin M, Martinelli M, Martinez Santos D, Martinez Vidal F, Martins Tostes D, Massacrier LM, Massafferri A, Matev R, Mathad A, Mathe Z, Matteuzzi C, Mauri A, Maurice E, Maurin B, Mazurov A, McCann M, McNab A, McNulty R, Meadows B, Meier F, Meissner M, Melnychuk D, Merk M, Merli A, Michielin E, Milanes DA, Minard MN, Mitzel DS, Mogini A, Molina Rodriguez J, Monroy IA, Monteil S, Morandin M, Morawski P, Mordà A, Morello MJ, Morgunova O, Moron J, Morris AB, Mountain R, Muheim F, Mulder M, Mussini M, Müller D, Müller J, Müller K, Müller V, Naik P, Nakada T, Nandakumar R, Nandi A, Nasteva I, Needham M, Neri N, Neubert S, Neufeld N, Neuner M, Nguyen TD, Nguyen-Mau C, Nieswand S, Niet R, Nikitin N, Nikodem T, Nogay A, Novoselov A, O'Hanlon DP, Oblakowska-Mucha A, Obraztsov V, Ogilvy S, Oldeman R, Onderwater CJG, Otalora Goicochea JM, Otto A, Owen P, Oyanguren A, Pais PR, Palano A, Palutan M, Papanestis A, Pappagallo M, Pappalardo LL, Parker W, Parkes C, Passaleva G, Pastore A, Patel GD, Patel M, Patrignani C, Pearce A, Pellegrino A, Penso G, Pepe Altarelli M, Perazzini S, Perret P, Pescatore L, Petridis K, Petrolini A, Petrov A, Petruzzo M, Picatoste Olloqui E, Pietrzyk B, Pikies M, Pinci D, Pistone A, Piucci A, Placinta V, Playfer S, Plo Casasus M, Poikela T, Polci F, Poluektov A, Polyakov I, Polycarpo E, Pomery GJ, Popov A, Popov D, Popovici B, Poslavskii S, Potterat C, Price E, Price JD, Prisciandaro J, Pritchard A, Prouve C, Pugatch V, Puig Navarro A, Punzi G, Qian W, Quagliani R, Rachwal B, Rademacker JH, Rama M, Ramos Pernas M, Rangel MS, Raniuk I, Ratnikov F, Raven G, Redi F, Reichert S, Dos Reis AC, Remon Alepuz C, Renaudin V, Ricciardi S, Richards S, Rihl M, Rinnert K, Rives Molina V, Robbe P, Rodrigues AB, Rodrigues E, Rodriguez Lopez JA, Rodriguez Perez P, Rogozhnikov A, Roiser S, Rollings A, Romanovskiy V, Romero Vidal A, Ronayne JW, Rotondo M, Rudolph MS, Ruf T, Ruiz Valls P, Saborido Silva JJ, Sadykhov E, Sagidova N, Saitta B, Salustino Guimaraes V, Sanchez Mayordomo C, Sanmartin Sedes B, Santacesaria R, Santamarina Rios C, Santimaria M, Santovetti E, Sarti A, Satriano C, Satta A, Saunders DM, Savrina D, Schael S, Schellenberg M, Schiller M, Schindler H, Schlupp M, Schmelling M, Schmelzer T, Schmidt B, Schneider O, Schopper A, Schreiner HF, Schubert K, Schubiger M, Schune MH, Schwemmer R, Sciascia B, Sciubba A, Semennikov A, Sergi A, Serra N, Serrano J, Sestini L, Seyfert P, Shapkin M, Shapoval I, Shcheglov Y, Shears T, Shekhtman L, Shevchenko V, Siddi BG, Silva Coutinho R, Silva de Oliveira L, Simi G, Simone S, Sirendi M, Skidmore N, Skwarnicki T, Smith E, Smith IT, Smith J, Smith M, Snoek H, Soares Lavra L, Sokoloff MD, Soler FJP, Souza De Paula B, Spaan B, Spradlin P, Sridharan S, Stagni F, Stahl M, Stahl S, Stefko P, Stefkova S, Steinkamp O, Stemmle S, Stenyakin O, Stevens H, Stevenson S, Stoica S, Stone S, Storaci B, Stracka S, Stramaglia ME, Straticiuc M, Straumann U, Sun L, Sutcliffe W, Swientek K, Syropoulos V, Szczekowski M, Szumlak T, T'Jampens S, Tayduganov A, Tekampe T, Tellarini G, Teubert F, Thomas E, van Tilburg J, Tilley MJ, Tisserand V, Tobin M, Tolk S, Tomassetti L, Tonelli D, Topp-Joergensen S, Toriello F, Tournefier E, Tourneur S, Trabelsi K, Traill M, Tran MT, Tresch M, Trisovic A, Tsaregorodtsev A, Tsopelas P, Tully A, Tuning N, Ukleja A, Ustyuzhanin A, Uwer U, Vacca C, Vagnoni V, Valassi A, Valat S, Valenti G, Vazquez Gomez R, Vazquez Regueiro P, Vecchi S, van Veghel M, Velthuis JJ, Veltri M, Veneziano G, Venkateswaran A, Vernet M, Vesterinen M, Viana Barbosa JV, Viaud B, Vieira D, Vieites Diaz M, Viemann H, Vilasis-Cardona X, Vitti M, Volkov V, Vollhardt A, Voneki B, Vorobyev A, Vorobyev V, Voß C, de Vries JA, Vázquez Sierra C, Waldi R, Wallace C, Wallace R, Walsh J, Wang J, Ward DR, Wark HM, Watson NK, Websdale D, Weiden A, Whitehead M, Wicht J, Wilkinson G, Wilkinson M, Williams M, Williams MP, Williams M, Williams T, Wilson FF, Wimberley J, Wishahi J, Wislicki W, Witek M, Wormser G, Wotton SA, Wraight K, Wyllie K, Xie Y, Xing Z, Xu Z, Yang Z, Yao Y, Yin H, Yu J, Yuan X, Yushchenko O, Zarebski KA, Zavertyaev M, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Zhelezov A, Zheng Y, Zhu X, Zhukov V, Zucchelli S. Measurement of the CP Violation Parameter A_{Γ} in D^{0}→K^{+}K^{-} and D^{0}→π^{+}π^{-} Decays. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 118:261803. [PMID: 28707946 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.118.261803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Asymmetries in the time-dependent rates of D^{0}→K^{+}K^{-} and D^{0}→π^{+}π^{-} decays are measured in a pp collision data sample collected with the LHCb detector during LHC Run 1, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb^{-1}. The asymmetries in effective decay widths between D^{0} and D[over ¯]^{0} decays, sensitive to indirect CP violation, are measured to be A_{Γ}(K^{+}K^{-})=(-0.30±0.32±0.10)×10^{-3} and A_{Γ}(π^{+}π^{-})=(0.46±0.58±0.12)×10^{-3}, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. These measurements show no evidence for CP violation and improve on the precision of the previous best measurements by nearly a factor of two.
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Aaij R, Adeva B, Adinolfi M, Ajaltouni Z, Akar S, Albrecht J, Alessio F, Alexander M, Ali S, Alkhazov G, Alvarez Cartelle P, Alves AA, Amato S, Amerio S, Amhis Y, An L, Anderlini L, Andreassi G, Andreotti M, Andrews JE, Appleby RB, Archilli F, d'Argent P, Arnau Romeu J, Artamonov A, Artuso M, Aslanides E, Auriemma G, Baalouch M, Babuschkin I, Bachmann S, Back JJ, Badalov A, Baesso C, Baker S, Balagura V, Baldini W, Baranov A, Barlow RJ, Barschel C, Barsuk S, Barter W, Baryshnikov F, Baszczyk M, Batozskaya V, Batsukh B, Battista V, Bay A, Beaucourt L, Beddow J, Bedeschi F, Bediaga I, Beiter A, Bel LJ, Bellee V, Belloli N, Belous K, Belyaev I, Ben-Haim E, Bencivenni G, Benson S, Beranek S, Berezhnoy A, Bernet R, Bertolin A, Betancourt C, Betti F, Bettler MO, van Beuzekom M, Bezshyiko I, Bifani S, Billoir P, Birnkraut A, Bitadze A, Bizzeti A, Blake T, Blanc F, Blouw J, Blusk S, Bocci V, Boettcher T, Bondar A, Bondar N, Bonivento W, Bordyuzhin I, Borgheresi A, Borghi S, Borisyak M, Borsato M, Bossu F, Boubdir M, Bowcock TJV, Bowen E, Bozzi C, Braun S, Britton T, Brodzicka J, Buchanan E, Burr C, Bursche A, Buytaert J, Cadeddu S, Calabrese R, Calvi M, Calvo Gomez M, Camboni A, Campana P, Campora Perez DH, Capriotti L, Carbone A, Carboni G, Cardinale R, Cardini A, Carniti P, Carson L, Carvalho Akiba K, Casse G, Cassina L, Castillo Garcia L, Cattaneo M, Cavallero G, Cenci R, Chamont D, Charles M, Charpentier P, Chatzikonstantinidis G, Chefdeville M, Chen S, Cheung SF, Chobanova V, Chrzaszcz M, Chubykin A, Cid Vidal X, Ciezarek G, Clarke PEL, Clemencic M, Cliff HV, Closier J, Coco V, Cogan J, Cogneras E, Cogoni V, Cojocariu L, Collins P, Comerma-Montells A, Contu A, Cook A, Coombs G, Coquereau S, Corti G, Corvo M, Costa Sobral CM, Couturier B, Cowan GA, Craik DC, Crocombe A, Cruz Torres M, Cunliffe S, Currie R, D'Ambrosio C, Da Cunha Marinho F, Dall'Occo E, Dalseno J, David PNY, Davis A, De Bruyn K, De Capua S, De Cian M, De Miranda JM, De Paula L, De Serio M, De Simone P, Dean CT, Decamp D, Deckenhoff M, Del Buono L, Dembinski HP, Demmer M, Dendek A, Derkach D, Deschamps O, Dettori F, Dey B, Di Canto A, Di Nezza P, Dijkstra H, Dordei F, Dorigo M, Dosil Suárez A, Dovbnya A, Dreimanis K, Dufour L, Dujany G, Dungs K, Durante P, Dzhelyadin R, Dziewiecki M, Dziurda A, Dzyuba A, Déléage N, Easo S, Ebert M, Egede U, Egorychev V, Eidelman S, Eisenhardt S, Eitschberger U, Ekelhof R, Eklund L, Ely S, Esen S, Evans HM, Evans T, Falabella A, Farley N, Farry S, Fay R, Fazzini D, Ferguson D, Fernandez G, Fernandez Prieto A, Ferrari F, Ferreira Rodrigues F, Ferro-Luzzi M, Filippov S, Fini RA, Fiore M, Fiorini M, Firlej M, Fitzpatrick C, Fiutowski T, Fleuret F, Fohl K, Fontana M, Fontanelli F, Forshaw DC, Forty R, Franco Lima V, Frank M, Frei C, Fu J, Funk W, Furfaro E, Färber C, Gallas Torreira A, Galli D, Gallorini S, Gambetta S, Gandelman M, Gandini P, Gao Y, Garcia Martin LM, García Pardiñas J, Garra Tico J, Garrido L, Garsed PJ, Gascon D, Gaspar C, Gavardi L, Gazzoni G, Gerick D, Gersabeck E, Gersabeck M, Gershon T, Ghez P, Gianì S, Gibson V, Girard OG, Giubega L, Gizdov K, Gligorov VV, Golubkov D, Golutvin A, Gomes A, Gorelov IV, Gotti C, Govorkova E, Graciani Diaz R, Granado Cardoso LA, Graugés E, Graverini E, Graziani G, Grecu A, Greim R, Griffith P, Grillo L, Gruberg Cazon BR, Grünberg O, Gushchin E, Guz Y, Gys T, Göbel C, Hadavizadeh T, Hadjivasiliou C, Haefeli G, Haen C, Haines SC, Hamilton B, Han X, Hansmann-Menzemer S, Harnew N, Harnew ST, Harrison J, Hatch M, He J, Head T, Heister A, Hennessy K, Henrard P, Henry L, van Herwijnen E, Heß M, Hicheur A, Hill D, Hombach C, Hopchev H, Huard ZC, Hulsbergen W, Humair T, Hushchyn M, Hutchcroft D, Idzik M, Ilten P, Jacobsson R, Jalocha J, Jans E, Jawahery A, Jiang F, John M, Johnson D, Jones CR, Joram C, Jost B, Jurik N, Kandybei S, Karacson M, Kariuki JM, Karodia S, Kecke M, Kelsey M, Kenzie M, Ketel T, Khairullin E, Khanji B, Khurewathanakul C, Kirn T, Klaver S, Klimaszewski K, Klimkovich T, Koliiev S, Kolpin M, Komarov I, Kopecna R, Koppenburg P, Kosmyntseva A, Kotriakhova S, Kozachuk A, Kozeiha M, Kravchuk L, Kreps M, Krokovny P, Kruse F, Krzemien W, Kucewicz W, Kucharczyk M, Kudryavtsev V, Kuonen AK, Kurek K, Kvaratskheliya T, Lacarrere D, Lafferty G, Lai A, Lanfranchi G, Langenbruch C, Latham T, Lazzeroni C, Le Gac R, van Leerdam J, Leflat A, Lefrançois J, Lefèvre R, Lemaitre F, Lemos Cid E, Leroy O, Lesiak T, Leverington B, Li T, Li Y, Li Z, Likhomanenko T, Lindner R, Lionetto F, Liu X, Loh D, Longstaff I, Lopes JH, Lucchesi D, Lucio Martinez M, Luo H, Lupato A, Luppi E, Lupton O, Lusiani A, Lyu X, Machefert F, Maciuc F, Maev O, Maguire K, Malde S, Malinin A, Maltsev T, Manca G, Mancinelli G, Manning P, Maratas J, Marchand JF, Marconi U, Marin Benito C, Marinangeli M, Marino P, Marks J, Martellotti G, Martin M, Martinelli M, Martinez Santos D, Martinez Vidal F, Martins Tostes D, Massacrier LM, Massafferri A, Matev R, Mathad A, Mathe Z, Matteuzzi C, Mauri A, Maurice E, Maurin B, Mazurov A, McCann M, McNab A, McNulty R, Meadows B, Meier F, Melnychuk D, Merk M, Merli A, Michielin E, Milanes DA, Minard MN, Mitzel DS, Mogini A, Molina Rodriguez J, Monroy IA, Monteil S, Morandin M, Mordà A, Morello MJ, Morgunova O, Moron J, Morris AB, Mountain R, Muheim F, Mulder M, Mussini M, Müller D, Müller J, Müller K, Müller V, Naik P, Nakada T, Nandakumar R, Nandi A, Nasteva I, Needham M, Neri N, Neubert S, Neufeld N, Neuner M, Nguyen TD, Nguyen-Mau C, Nieswand S, Niet R, Nikitin N, Nikodem T, Nogay A, Novoselov A, O'Hanlon DP, Oblakowska-Mucha A, Obraztsov V, Ogilvy S, Oldeman R, Onderwater CJG, Ossowska A, Otalora Goicochea JM, Owen P, Oyanguren A, Pais PR, Palano A, Palutan M, Papanestis A, Pappagallo M, Pappalardo LL, Pappenheimer C, Parker W, Parkes C, Passaleva G, Pastore A, Patel M, Patrignani C, Pearce A, Pellegrino A, Penso G, Pepe Altarelli M, Perazzini S, Perret P, Pescatore L, Petridis K, Petrolini A, Petrov A, Petruzzo M, Picatoste Olloqui E, Pietrzyk B, Pikies M, Pinci D, Pistone A, Piucci A, Placinta V, Playfer S, Plo Casasus M, Poikela T, Polci F, Poli Lener M, Poluektov A, Polyakov I, Polycarpo E, Pomery GJ, Ponce S, Popov A, Popov D, Popovici B, Poslavskii S, Potterat C, Price E, Prisciandaro J, Prouve C, Pugatch V, Puig Navarro A, Punzi G, Qian C, Qian W, Quagliani R, Rachwal B, Rademacker JH, Rama M, Ramos Pernas M, Rangel MS, Raniuk I, Ratnikov F, Raven G, Redi F, Reichert S, Dos Reis AC, Remon Alepuz C, Renaudin V, Ricciardi S, Richards S, Rihl M, Rinnert K, Rives Molina V, Robbe P, Rodrigues AB, Rodrigues E, Rodriguez Lopez JA, Rodriguez Perez P, Rogozhnikov A, Roiser S, Rollings A, Romanovskiy V, Romero Vidal A, Ronayne JW, Rotondo M, Rudolph MS, Ruf T, Ruiz Valls P, Saborido Silva JJ, Sadykhov E, Sagidova N, Saitta B, Salustino Guimaraes V, Sanchez Gonzalo D, Sanchez Mayordomo C, Sanmartin Sedes B, Santacesaria R, Santamarina Rios C, Santimaria M, Santovetti E, Sarti A, Satriano C, Satta A, Saunders DM, Savrina D, Schael S, Schellenberg M, Schiller M, Schindler H, Schlupp M, Schmelling M, Schmelzer T, Schmidt B, Schneider O, Schopper A, Schreiner HF, Schubert K, Schubiger M, Schune MH, Schwemmer R, Sciascia B, Sciubba A, Semennikov A, Sergi A, Serra N, Serrano J, Sestini L, Seyfert P, Shapkin M, Shapoval I, Shcheglov Y, Shears T, Shekhtman L, Shevchenko V, Siddi BG, Silva Coutinho R, Silva de Oliveira L, Simi G, Simone S, Sirendi M, Skidmore N, Skwarnicki T, Smith E, Smith IT, Smith J, Smith M, Soares Lavra L, Sokoloff MD, Soler FJP, Souza De Paula B, Spaan B, Spradlin P, Sridharan S, Stagni F, Stahl M, Stahl S, Stefko P, Stefkova S, Steinkamp O, Stemmle S, Stenyakin O, Stevens H, Stoica S, Stone S, Storaci B, Stracka S, Stramaglia ME, Straticiuc M, Straumann U, Sun L, Sutcliffe W, Swientek K, Syropoulos V, Szczekowski M, Szumlak T, T'Jampens S, Tayduganov A, Tekampe T, Tellarini G, Teubert F, Thomas E, van Tilburg J, Tilley MJ, Tisserand V, Tobin M, Tolk S, Tomassetti L, Tonelli D, Topp-Joergensen S, Toriello F, Tourinho Jadallah Aoude R, Tournefier E, Tourneur S, Trabelsi K, Traill M, Tran MT, Tresch M, Trisovic A, Tsaregorodtsev A, Tsopelas P, Tully A, Tuning N, Ukleja A, Ustyuzhanin A, Uwer U, Vacca C, Vagnoni V, Valassi A, Valat S, Valenti G, Vazquez Gomez R, Vazquez Regueiro P, Vecchi S, van Veghel M, Velthuis JJ, Veltri M, Veneziano G, Venkateswaran A, Verlage TA, Vernet M, Vesterinen M, Viana Barbosa JV, Viaud B, Vieira D, Vieites Diaz M, Viemann H, Vilasis-Cardona X, Vitti M, Volkov V, Vollhardt A, Voneki B, Vorobyev A, Vorobyev V, Voß C, de Vries JA, Vázquez Sierra C, Waldi R, Wallace C, Wallace R, Walsh J, Wang J, Ward DR, Wark HM, Watson NK, Websdale D, Weiden A, Whitehead M, Wicht J, Wilkinson G, Wilkinson M, Williams M, Williams MP, Williams M, Williams T, Wilson FF, Wimberley J, Winn MA, Wishahi J, Wislicki W, Witek M, Wormser G, Wotton SA, Wraight K, Wyllie K, Xie Y, Xing Z, Xu Z, Yang Z, Yang Z, Yao Y, Yin H, Yu J, Yuan X, Yushchenko O, Zarebski KA, Zavertyaev M, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Zhelezov A, Zheng Y, Zhu X, Zhukov V, Zucchelli S. Search for the Decays B_{s}^{0}→τ^{+}τ^{-} and B^{0}→τ^{+}τ^{-}. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 118:251802. [PMID: 28696756 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.118.251802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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A search for the rare decays B_{s}^{0}→τ^{+}τ^{-} and B^{0}→τ^{+}τ^{-} is performed using proton-proton collision data collected with the LHCb detector. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb^{-1} collected in 2011 and 2012. The τ leptons are reconstructed through the decay τ^{-}→π^{-}π^{+}π^{-}ν_{τ}. Assuming no contribution from B^{0}→τ^{+}τ^{-} decays, an upper limit is set on the branching fraction B(B_{s}^{0}→τ^{+}τ^{-})<6.8×10^{-3} at the 95% confidence level. If instead no contribution from B_{s}^{0}→τ^{+}τ^{-} decays is assumed, the limit is B(B^{0}→τ^{+}τ^{-})<2.1×10^{-3} at the 95% confidence level. These results correspond to the first direct limit on B(B_{s}^{0}→τ^{+}τ^{-}) and the world's best limit on B(B^{0}→τ^{+}τ^{-}).
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Aaij R, Adeva B, Adinolfi M, Ajaltouni Z, Akar S, Albrecht J, Alessio F, Alexander M, Ali S, Alkhazov G, Alvarez Cartelle P, Alves AA, Amato S, Amerio S, Amhis Y, An L, Anderlini L, Andreassi G, Andreotti M, Andrews JE, Appleby RB, Archilli F, d'Argent P, Arnau Romeu J, Artamonov A, Artuso M, Aslanides E, Auriemma G, Baalouch M, Babuschkin I, Bachmann S, Back JJ, Badalov A, Baesso C, Baker S, Balagura V, Baldini W, Baranov A, Barlow RJ, Barschel C, Barsuk S, Barter W, Baryshnikov F, Baszczyk M, Batozskaya V, Batsukh B, Battista V, Bay A, Beaucourt L, Beddow J, Bedeschi F, Bediaga I, Beiter A, Bel LJ, Bellee V, Belloli N, Belous K, Belyaev I, Ben-Haim E, Bencivenni G, Benson S, Beranek S, Berezhnoy A, Bernet R, Bertolin A, Betancourt C, Betti F, Bettler MO, van Beuzekom M, Bezshyiko I, Bifani S, Billoir P, Bird T, Birnkraut A, Bitadze A, Bizzeti A, Blake T, Blanc F, Blouw J, Blusk S, Bocci V, Boettcher T, Bondar A, Bondar N, Bonivento W, Bordyuzhin I, Borgheresi A, Borghi S, Borisyak M, Borsato M, Bossu F, Boubdir M, Bowcock TJV, Bowen E, Bozzi C, Braun S, Britsch M, Britton T, Brodzicka J, Buchanan E, Burr C, Bursche A, Buytaert J, Cadeddu S, Calabrese R, Calvi M, Calvo Gomez M, Camboni A, Campana P, Campora Perez DH, Capriotti L, Carbone A, Carboni G, Cardinale R, Cardini A, Carniti P, Carson L, Carvalho Akiba K, Casse G, Cassina L, Castillo Garcia L, Cattaneo M, Cavallero G, Cenci R, Chamont D, Charles M, Charpentier P, Chatzikonstantinidis G, Chefdeville M, Chen S, Cheung SF, Chobanova V, Chrzaszcz M, Cid Vidal X, Ciezarek G, Clarke PEL, Clemencic M, Cliff HV, Closier J, Coco V, Cogan J, Cogneras E, Cogoni V, Cojocariu L, Collazuol G, Collins P, Comerma-Montells A, Contu A, Cook A, Coombs G, Coquereau S, Corti G, Corvo M, Costa Sobral CM, Couturier B, Cowan GA, Craik DC, Crocombe A, Cruz Torres M, Cunliffe S, Currie R, D'Ambrosio C, Da Cunha Marinho F, Dall'Occo E, Dalseno J, David PNY, Davis A, De Bruyn K, De Capua S, De Cian M, De Miranda JM, De Paula L, De Serio M, De Simone P, Dean CT, Decamp D, Deckenhoff M, Del Buono L, Demmer M, Dendek A, Derkach D, Deschamps O, Dettori F, Dey B, Di Canto A, Dijkstra H, Dordei F, Dorigo M, Dosil Suárez A, Dovbnya A, Dreimanis K, Dufour L, Dujany G, Dungs K, Durante P, Dzhelyadin R, Dziurda A, Dzyuba A, Déléage N, Easo S, Ebert M, Egede U, Egorychev V, Eidelman S, Eisenhardt S, Eitschberger U, Ekelhof R, Eklund L, Ely S, Esen S, Evans HM, Evans T, Falabella A, Farley N, Farry S, Fay R, Fazzini D, Ferguson D, Fernandez G, Fernandez Prieto A, Ferrari F, Ferreira Rodrigues F, Ferro-Luzzi M, Filippov S, Fini RA, Fiore M, Fiorini M, Firlej M, Fitzpatrick C, Fiutowski T, Fleuret F, Fohl K, Fontana M, Fontanelli F, Forshaw DC, Forty R, Franco Lima V, Frank M, Frei C, Fu J, Funk W, Furfaro E, Färber C, Gallas Torreira A, Galli D, Gallorini S, Gambetta S, Gandelman M, Gandini P, Gao Y, Garcia Martin LM, García Pardiñas J, Garra Tico J, Garrido L, Garsed PJ, Gascon D, Gaspar C, Gavardi L, Gazzoni G, Gerick D, Gersabeck E, Gersabeck M, Gershon T, Ghez P, Gianì S, Gibson V, Girard OG, Giubega L, Gizdov K, Gligorov VV, Golubkov D, Golutvin A, Gomes A, Gorelov IV, Gotti C, Govorkova E, Graciani Diaz R, Granado Cardoso LA, Graugés E, Graverini E, Graziani G, Grecu A, Greim R, Griffith P, Grillo L, Gruberg Cazon BR, Grünberg O, Gushchin E, Guz Y, Gys T, Göbel C, Hadavizadeh T, Hadjivasiliou C, Haefeli G, Haen C, Haines SC, Hamilton B, Han X, Hansmann-Menzemer S, Harnew N, Harnew ST, Harrison J, Hatch M, He J, Head T, Heister A, Hennessy K, Henrard P, Henry L, van Herwijnen E, Heß M, Hicheur A, Hill D, Hombach C, Hopchev H, Hulsbergen W, Humair T, Hushchyn M, Hutchcroft D, Idzik M, Ilten P, Jacobsson R, Jaeger A, Jalocha J, Jans E, Jawahery A, Jiang F, John M, Johnson D, Jones CR, Joram C, Jost B, Jurik N, Kandybei S, Karacson M, Kariuki JM, Karodia S, Kecke M, Kelsey M, Kenzie M, Ketel T, Khairullin E, Khanji B, Khurewathanakul C, Kirn T, Klaver S, Klimaszewski K, Klimkovich T, Koliiev S, Kolpin M, Komarov I, Koppenburg P, Kosmyntseva A, Kozachuk A, Kozeiha M, Kravchuk L, Kreplin K, Kreps M, Krokovny P, Kruse F, Krzemien W, Kucewicz W, Kucharczyk M, Kudryavtsev V, Kuonen AK, Kurek K, Kvaratskheliya T, Lacarrere D, Lafferty G, Lai A, Lanfranchi G, Langenbruch C, Latham T, Lazzeroni C, Le Gac R, van Leerdam J, Leflat A, Lefrançois J, Lefèvre R, Lemaitre F, Lemos Cid E, Leroy O, Lesiak T, Leverington B, Li T, Li Y, Likhomanenko T, Lindner R, Linn C, Lionetto F, Liu X, Loh D, Longstaff I, Lopes JH, Lucchesi D, Lucio Martinez M, Luo H, Lupato A, Luppi E, Lupton O, Lusiani A, Lyu X, Machefert F, Maciuc F, Maev O, Maguire K, Malde S, Malinin A, Maltsev T, Manca G, Mancinelli G, Manning P, Maratas J, Marchand JF, Marconi U, Marin Benito C, Marinangeli M, Marino P, Marks J, Martellotti G, Martin M, Martinelli M, Martinez Santos D, Martinez Vidal F, Martins Tostes D, Massacrier LM, Massafferri A, Matev R, Mathad A, Mathe Z, Matteuzzi C, Mauri A, Maurice E, Maurin B, Mazurov A, McCann M, McNab A, McNulty R, Meadows B, Meier F, Meissner M, Melnychuk D, Merk M, Merli A, Michielin E, Milanes DA, Minard MN, Mitzel DS, Mogini A, Molina Rodriguez J, Monroy IA, Monteil S, Morandin M, Morawski P, Mordà A, Morello MJ, Morgunova O, Moron J, Morris AB, Mountain R, Muheim F, Mulder M, Mussini M, Müller D, Müller J, Müller K, Müller V, Naik P, Nakada T, Nandakumar R, Nandi A, Nasteva I, Needham M, Neri N, Neubert S, Neufeld N, Neuner M, Nguyen TD, Nguyen-Mau C, Nieswand S, Niet R, Nikitin N, Nikodem T, Nogay A, Novoselov A, O'Hanlon DP, Oblakowska-Mucha A, Obraztsov V, Ogilvy S, Okhrimenko O, Oldeman R, Onderwater CJG, Otalora Goicochea JM, Otto A, Owen P, Oyanguren A, Pais PR, Palano A, Palutan M, Papanestis A, Pappagallo M, Pappalardo LL, Parker W, Parkes C, Passaleva G, Pastore A, Patel GD, Patel M, Patrignani C, Pearce A, Pellegrino A, Penso G, Pepe Altarelli M, Perazzini S, Perret P, Pescatore L, Petridis K, Petrolini A, Petrov A, Petruzzo M, Picatoste Olloqui E, Pietrzyk B, Pikies M, Pinci D, Pistone A, Piucci A, Placinta V, Playfer S, Plo Casasus M, Poikela T, Polci F, Poluektov A, Polyakov I, Polycarpo E, Pomery GJ, Ponce S, Popov A, Popov D, Popovici B, Poslavskii S, Potterat C, Price E, Price JD, Prisciandaro J, Pritchard A, Prouve C, Pugatch V, Puig Navarro A, Punzi G, Qian W, Quagliani R, Rachwal B, Rademacker JH, Rama M, Ramos Pernas M, Rangel MS, Raniuk I, Ratnikov F, Raven G, Redi F, Reichert S, Dos Reis AC, Remon Alepuz C, Renaudin V, Ricciardi S, Richards S, Rihl M, Rinnert K, Rives Molina V, Robbe P, Rodrigues AB, Rodrigues E, Rodriguez Lopez JA, Rodriguez Perez P, Rogozhnikov A, Roiser S, Rollings A, Romanovskiy V, Romero Vidal A, Ronayne JW, Rotondo M, Rudolph MS, Ruf T, Ruiz Valls P, Saborido Silva JJ, Sadykhov E, Sagidova N, Saitta B, Salustino Guimaraes V, Sanchez Gonzalo D, Sanchez Mayordomo C, Sanmartin Sedes B, Santacesaria R, Santamarina Rios C, Santimaria M, Santovetti E, Sarti A, Satriano C, Satta A, Saunders DM, Savrina D, Schael S, Schellenberg M, Schiller M, Schindler H, Schlupp M, Schmelling M, Schmelzer T, Schmidt B, Schneider O, Schopper A, Schreiner HF, Schubert K, Schubiger M, Schune MH, Schwemmer R, Sciascia B, Sciubba A, Semennikov A, Sergi A, Serra N, Serrano J, Sestini L, Seyfert P, Shapkin M, Shapoval I, Shcheglov Y, Shears T, Shekhtman L, Shevchenko V, Siddi BG, Silva Coutinho R, Silva de Oliveira L, Simi G, Simone S, Sirendi M, Skidmore N, Skwarnicki T, Smith E, Smith IT, Smith J, Smith M, Soares Lavra L, Sokoloff MD, Soler FJP, Souza De Paula B, Spaan B, Spradlin P, Sridharan S, Stagni F, Stahl M, Stahl S, Stefko P, Stefkova S, Steinkamp O, Stemmle S, Stenyakin O, Stevens H, Stevenson S, Stoica S, Stone S, Storaci B, Stracka S, Stramaglia ME, Straticiuc M, Straumann U, Sun L, Sutcliffe W, Swientek K, Syropoulos V, Szczekowski M, Szumlak T, T'Jampens S, Tayduganov A, Tekampe T, Tellarini G, Teubert F, Thomas E, van Tilburg J, Tilley MJ, Tisserand V, Tobin M, Tolk S, Tomassetti L, Tonelli D, Topp-Joergensen S, Toriello F, Tournefier E, Tourneur S, Trabelsi K, Traill M, Tran MT, Tresch M, Trisovic A, Tsaregorodtsev A, Tsopelas P, Tully A, Tuning N, Ukleja A, Ustyuzhanin A, Uwer U, Vacca C, Vagnoni V, Valassi A, Valat S, Valenti G, Vazquez Gomez R, Vazquez Regueiro P, Vecchi S, van Veghel M, Velthuis JJ, Veltri M, Veneziano G, Venkateswaran A, Vernet M, Vesterinen M, Viana Barbosa JV, Viaud B, Vieira D, Vieites Diaz M, Viemann H, Vilasis-Cardona X, Vitti M, Volkov V, Vollhardt A, Voneki B, Vorobyev A, Vorobyev V, Voß C, de Vries JA, Vázquez Sierra C, Waldi R, Wallace C, Wallace R, Walsh J, Wang J, Ward DR, Wark HM, Watson NK, Websdale D, Weiden A, Whitehead M, Wicht J, Wilkinson G, Wilkinson M, Williams M, Williams MP, Williams M, Williams T, Wilson FF, Wimberley J, Wishahi J, Wislicki W, Witek M, Wormser G, Wotton SA, Wraight K, Wyllie K, Xie Y, Xing Z, Xu Z, Yang Z, Yao Y, Yin H, Yu J, Yuan X, Yushchenko O, Zarebski KA, Zavertyaev M, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Zhang Y, Zhelezov A, Zheng Y, Zhu X, Zhukov V, Zucchelli S. Study of J/ψ Production in Jets. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 118:192001. [PMID: 28548519 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.118.192001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The production of J/ψ mesons in jets is studied in the forward region of proton-proton collisions using data collected with the LHCb detector at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The fraction of the jet transverse momentum carried by the J/ψ meson, z(J/ψ)≡p_{T}(J/ψ)/p_{T}(jet), is measured using jets with p_{T}(jet)>20 GeV in the pseudorapidity range 2.5<η(jet)<4.0. The observed z(J/ψ) distribution for J/ψ mesons produced in b-hadron decays is consistent with expectations. However, the results for prompt J/ψ production do not agree with predictions based on fixed-order nonrelativistic QCD. This is the first measurement of the p_{T} fraction carried by prompt J/ψ mesons in jets at any experiment.
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Aaij R, Adeva B, Adinolfi M, Ajaltouni Z, Akar S, Albrecht J, Alessio F, Alexander M, Ali S, Alkhazov G, Alvarez Cartelle P, Alves AA, Amato S, Amerio S, Amhis Y, An L, Anderlini L, Andreassi G, Andreotti M, Andrews JE, Appleby RB, Archilli F, d'Argent P, Arnau Romeu J, Artamonov A, Artuso M, Aslanides E, Auriemma G, Baalouch M, Babuschkin I, Bachmann S, Back JJ, Badalov A, Baesso C, Baker S, Balagura V, Baldini W, Baranov A, Barlow RJ, Barschel C, Barsuk S, Barter W, Baryshnikov F, Baszczyk M, Batozskaya V, Batsukh B, Battista V, Bay A, Beaucourt L, Beddow J, Bedeschi F, Bediaga I, Beiter A, Bel LJ, Bellee V, Belloli N, Belous K, Belyaev I, Ben-Haim E, Bencivenni G, Benson S, Beranek S, Berezhnoy A, Bernet R, Bertolin A, Betancourt C, Betti F, Bettler MO, van Beuzekom M, Bezshyiko I, Bifani S, Billoir P, Birnkraut A, Bitadze A, Bizzeti A, Blake T, Blanc F, Blouw J, Blusk S, Bocci V, Boettcher T, Bondar A, Bondar N, Bonivento W, Bordyuzhin I, Borgheresi A, Borghi S, Borisyak M, Borsato M, Bossu F, Boubdir M, Bowcock TJV, Bowen E, Bozzi C, Braun S, Britton T, Brodzicka J, Buchanan E, Burr C, Bursche A, Buytaert J, Cadeddu S, Calabrese R, Calvi M, Calvo Gomez M, Camboni A, Campana P, Campora Perez DH, Capriotti L, Carbone A, Carboni G, Cardinale R, Cardini A, Carniti P, Carson L, Carvalho Akiba K, Casse G, Cassina L, Castillo Garcia L, Cattaneo M, Cavallero G, Cenci R, Chamont D, Charles M, Charpentier P, Chatzikonstantinidis G, Chefdeville M, Chen S, Cheung SF, Chobanova V, Chrzaszcz M, Chubykin A, Cid Vidal X, Ciezarek G, Clarke PEL, Clemencic M, Cliff HV, Closier J, Coco V, Cogan J, Cogneras E, Cogoni V, Cojocariu L, Collins P, Comerma-Montells A, Contu A, Cook A, Coombs G, Coquereau S, Corti G, Corvo M, Costa Sobral CM, Couturier B, Cowan GA, Craik DC, Crocombe A, Cruz Torres M, Cunliffe S, Currie R, D'Ambrosio C, Da Cunha Marinho F, Dall'Occo E, Dalseno J, David PNY, Davis A, De Bruyn K, De Capua S, De Cian M, De Miranda JM, De Paula L, De Serio M, De Simone P, Dean CT, Decamp D, Deckenhoff M, Del Buono L, Demmer M, Dendek A, Derkach D, Deschamps O, Dettori F, Dey B, Di Canto A, Dijkstra H, Dordei F, Dorigo M, Dosil Suárez A, Dovbnya A, Dreimanis K, Dufour L, Dujany G, Dungs K, Durante P, Dzhelyadin R, Dziurda A, Dzyuba A, Déléage N, Easo S, Ebert M, Egede U, Egorychev V, Eidelman S, Eisenhardt S, Eitschberger U, Ekelhof R, Eklund L, Ely S, Esen S, Evans HM, Evans T, Falabella A, Farley N, Farry S, Fay R, Fazzini D, Ferguson D, Fernandez G, Fernandez Prieto A, Ferrari F, Ferreira Rodrigues F, Ferro-Luzzi M, Filippov S, Fini RA, Fiore M, Fiorini M, Firlej M, Fitzpatrick C, Fiutowski T, Fleuret F, Fohl K, Fontana M, Fontanelli F, Forshaw DC, Forty R, Franco Lima V, Frank M, Frei C, Fu J, Funk W, Furfaro E, Färber C, Gallas Torreira A, Galli D, Gallorini S, Gambetta S, Gandelman M, Gandini P, Gao Y, Garcia Martin LM, García Pardiñas J, Garra Tico J, Garrido L, Garsed PJ, Gascon D, Gaspar C, Gavardi L, Gazzoni G, Gerick D, Gersabeck E, Gersabeck M, Gershon T, Ghez P, Gianì S, Gibson V, Girard OG, Giubega L, Gizdov K, Gligorov VV, Golubkov D, Golutvin A, Gomes A, Gorelov IV, Gotti C, Govorkova E, Graciani Diaz R, Granado Cardoso LA, Graugés E, Graverini E, Graziani G, Grecu A, Greim R, Griffith P, Grillo L, Gruberg Cazon BR, Grünberg O, Gushchin E, Guz Y, Gys T, Göbel C, Hadavizadeh T, Hadjivasiliou C, Haefeli G, Haen C, Haines SC, Hamilton B, Han X, Hansmann-Menzemer S, Harnew N, Harnew ST, Harrison J, Hatch M, He J, Head T, Heister A, Hennessy K, Henrard P, Henry L, van Herwijnen E, Heß M, Hicheur A, Hill D, Hombach C, Hopchev PH, Huard ZC, Hulsbergen W, Humair T, Hushchyn M, Hutchcroft D, Idzik M, Ilten P, Jacobsson R, Jalocha J, Jans E, Jawahery A, Jiang F, John M, Johnson D, Jones CR, Joram C, Jost B, Jurik N, Kandybei S, Karacson M, Kariuki JM, Karodia S, Kecke M, Kelsey M, Kenzie M, Ketel T, Khairullin E, Khanji B, Khurewathanakul C, Kirn T, Klaver S, Klimaszewski K, Klimkovich T, Koliiev S, Kolpin M, Komarov I, Koppenburg P, Kosmyntseva A, Kotriakhova S, Kozeiha M, Kravchuk L, Kreplin K, Kreps M, Krokovny P, Kruse F, Krzemien W, Kucewicz W, Kucharczyk M, Kudryavtsev V, Kuonen AK, Kurek K, Kvaratskheliya T, Lacarrere D, Lafferty G, Lai A, Lanfranchi G, Langenbruch C, Latham T, Lazzeroni C, Le Gac R, van Leerdam J, Leflat A, Lefrançois J, Lefèvre R, Lemaitre F, Lemos Cid E, Leroy O, Lesiak T, Leverington B, Li T, Li Y, Li Z, Likhomanenko T, Lindner R, Lionetto F, Liu X, Loh D, Longstaff I, Lopes JH, Lucchesi D, Lucio Martinez M, Luo H, Lupato A, Luppi E, Lupton O, Lusiani A, Lyu X, Machefert F, Maciuc F, Maev O, Maguire K, Malde S, Malinin A, Maltsev T, Manca G, Mancinelli G, Manning P, Maratas J, Marchand JF, Marconi U, Marin Benito C, Marinangeli M, Marino P, Marks J, Martellotti G, Martin M, Martinelli M, Martinez Santos D, Martinez Vidal F, Martins Tostes D, Massacrier LM, Massafferri A, Matev R, Mathad A, Mathe Z, Matteuzzi C, Mauri A, Maurice E, Maurin B, Mazurov A, McCann M, McNab A, McNulty R, Meadows B, Meier F, Melnychuk D, Merk M, Merli A, Michielin E, Milanes DA, Minard MN, Mitzel DS, Mogini A, Molina Rodriguez J, Monroy IA, Monteil S, Morandin M, Morawski P, Morello MJ, Morgunova O, Moron J, Morris AB, Mountain R, Muheim F, Mulder M, Mussini M, Müller D, Müller J, Müller K, Müller V, Naik P, Nakada T, Nandakumar R, Nandi A, Nasteva I, Needham M, Neri N, Neubert S, Neufeld N, Neuner M, Nguyen TD, Nguyen-Mau C, Nieswand S, Niet R, Nikitin N, Nikodem T, Nogay A, Novoselov A, O'Hanlon DP, Oblakowska-Mucha A, Obraztsov V, Ogilvy S, Oldeman R, Onderwater CJG, Otalora Goicochea JM, Otto A, Owen P, Oyanguren A, Pais PR, Palano A, Palutan M, Papanestis A, Pappagallo M, Pappalardo LL, Pappenheimer C, Parker W, Parkes C, Passaleva G, Pastore A, Patel M, Patrignani C, Pearce A, Pellegrino A, Penso G, Pepe Altarelli M, Perazzini S, Perret P, Perrin-Terrin M, Pescatore L, Petridis K, Petrolini A, Petrov A, Petruzzo M, Picatoste Olloqui E, Pietrzyk B, Pikies M, Pinci D, Pistone A, Piucci A, Placinta V, Playfer S, Plo Casasus M, Poikela T, Polci F, Poli Lener M, Poluektov A, Polyakov I, Polycarpo E, Pomery GJ, Ponce S, Popov A, Popov D, Popovici B, Poslavskii S, Potterat C, Price E, Prisciandaro J, Prouve C, Pugatch V, Puig Navarro A, Punzi G, Qian C, Qian W, Quagliani R, Rachwal B, Rademacker JH, Rama M, Ramos Pernas M, Rangel MS, Raniuk I, Ratnikov F, Raven G, Redi F, Reichert S, Dos Reis AC, Remon Alepuz C, Renaudin V, Ricciardi S, Richards S, Rihl M, Rinnert K, Rives Molina V, Robbe P, Rodrigues AB, Rodrigues E, Rodriguez Lopez JA, Rodriguez Perez P, Rogozhnikov A, Roiser S, Rollings A, Romanovskiy V, Romero Vidal A, Ronayne JW, Rotondo M, Rudolph MS, Ruf T, Ruiz Valls P, Saborido Silva JJ, Sadykhov E, Sagidova N, Saitta B, Salustino Guimaraes V, Sanchez Gonzalo D, Sanchez Mayordomo C, Sanmartin Sedes B, Santacesaria R, Santamarina Rios C, Santimaria M, Santovetti E, Sarti A, Satriano C, Satta A, Saunders DM, Savrina D, Schael S, Schellenberg M, Schiller M, Schindler H, Schlupp M, Schmelling M, Schmelzer T, Schmidt B, Schneider O, Schopper A, Schreiner HF, Schubert K, Schubiger M, Schune MH, Schwemmer R, Sciascia B, Sciubba A, Semennikov A, Sergi A, Serra N, Serrano J, Sestini L, Seyfert P, Shapkin M, Shapoval I, Shcheglov Y, Shears T, Shekhtman L, Shevchenko V, Siddi BG, Silva Coutinho R, Silva de Oliveira L, Simi G, Simone S, Sirendi M, Skidmore N, Skwarnicki T, Smith E, Smith IT, Smith J, Smith M, Soares Lavra L, Sokoloff MD, Soler FJP, Souza De Paula B, Spaan B, Spradlin P, Sridharan S, Stagni F, Stahl M, Stahl S, Stefko P, Stefkova S, Steinkamp O, Stemmle S, Stenyakin O, Stevens H, Stoica S, Stone S, Storaci B, Stracka S, Stramaglia ME, Straticiuc M, Straumann U, Sun L, Sutcliffe W, Swientek K, Syropoulos V, Szczekowski M, Szumlak T, T'Jampens S, Tayduganov A, Tekampe T, Tellarini G, Teubert F, Thomas E, van Tilburg J, Tilley MJ, Tisserand V, Tobin M, Tolk S, Tomassetti L, Tonelli D, Topp-Joergensen S, Toriello F, Tourinho Jadallah Aoude R, Tournefier E, Tourneur S, Trabelsi K, Traill M, Tran MT, Tresch M, Trisovic A, Tsaregorodtsev A, Tsopelas P, Tully A, Tuning N, Ukleja A, Ustyuzhanin A, Uwer U, Vacca C, Vagnoni V, Valassi A, Valat S, Valenti G, Vazquez Gomez R, Vazquez Regueiro P, Vecchi S, van Veghel M, Velthuis JJ, Veltri M, Veneziano G, Venkateswaran A, Verlage TA, Vernet M, Vesterinen M, Viana Barbosa JV, Viaud B, Vieira D, Vieites Diaz M, Viemann H, Vilasis-Cardona X, Vitti M, Volkov V, Vollhardt A, Voneki B, Vorobyev A, Vorobyev V, Voß C, de Vries JA, Vázquez Sierra C, Waldi R, Wallace C, Wallace R, Walsh J, Wang J, Ward DR, Wark HM, Watson NK, Websdale D, Weiden A, Whitehead M, Wicht J, Wilkinson G, Wilkinson M, Williams M, Williams MP, Williams M, Williams T, Wilson FF, Wimberley J, Winn MA, Wishahi J, Wislicki W, Witek M, Wormser G, Wotton SA, Wraight K, Wyllie K, Xie Y, Xing Z, Xu Z, Yang Z, Yang Z, Yao Y, Yin H, Yu J, Yuan X, Yushchenko O, Zarebski KA, Zavertyaev M, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Zhelezov A, Zheng Y, Zhu X, Zhukov V, Zucchelli S. Measurement of the B_{s}^{0}→μ^{+}μ^{-} Branching Fraction and Effective Lifetime and Search for B^{0}→μ^{+}μ^{-} Decays. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 118:191801. [PMID: 28548525 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.118.191801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
Abstract
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 luminosity of 4.4 fb^{-1}. An excess of B_{s}^{0}→μ^{+}μ^{-} decays is observed with a significance of 7.8 standard deviations, representing the first observation of this decay in a single experiment. The branching fraction is measured to be B(B_{s}^{0}→μ^{+}μ^{-})=(3.0±0.6_{-0.2}^{+0.3})×10^{-9}, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. The first measurement of the B_{s}^{0}→μ^{+}μ^{-} effective lifetime, τ(B_{s}^{0}→μ^{+}μ^{-})=2.04±0.44±0.05 ps, is reported. No significant excess of B^{0}→μ^{+}μ^{-} decays is found, and a 95% confidence level upper limit, B(B^{0}→μ^{+}μ^{-})<3.4×10^{-10}, is determined. All results are in agreement with the standard model expectations.
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Aaij R, Adeva B, Adinolfi M, Ajaltouni Z, Akar S, Albrecht J, Alessio F, Alexander M, Ali S, Alkhazov G, Alvarez Cartelle P, Alves AA, Amato S, Amerio S, Amhis Y, An L, Anderlini L, Andreassi G, Andreotti M, Andrews JE, Appleby RB, Archilli F, d'Argent P, Arnau Romeu J, Artamonov A, Artuso M, Aslanides E, Auriemma G, Baalouch M, Babuschkin I, Bachmann S, Back JJ, Badalov A, Baesso C, Baker S, Balagura V, Baldini W, Baranov A, Barlow RJ, Barschel C, Barsuk S, Barter W, Baryshnikov F, Baszczyk M, Batozskaya V, Batsukh B, Battista V, Bay A, Beaucourt L, Beddow J, Bedeschi F, Bediaga I, Beiter A, Bel LJ, Bellee V, Belloli N, Belous K, Belyaev I, Ben-Haim E, Bencivenni G, Benson S, Beranek S, Berezhnoy A, Bernet R, Bertolin A, Betancourt C, Betti F, Bettler MO, van Beuzekom M, Bezshyiko I, Bifani S, Billoir P, Birnkraut A, Bitadze A, Bizzeti A, Blake T, Blanc F, Blouw J, Blusk S, Bocci V, Boettcher T, Bondar A, Bondar N, Bonivento W, Bordyuzhin I, Borgheresi A, Borghi S, Borisyak M, Borsato M, Bossu F, Boubdir M, Bowcock TJV, Bowen E, Bozzi C, Braun S, Britton T, Brodzicka J, Buchanan E, Burr C, Bursche A, Buytaert J, Cadeddu S, Calabrese R, Calvi M, Calvo Gomez M, Camboni A, Campana P, Campora Perez DH, Capriotti L, Carbone A, Carboni G, Cardinale R, Cardini A, Carniti P, Carson L, Carvalho Akiba K, Casse G, Cassina L, Castillo Garcia L, Cattaneo M, Cavallero G, Cenci R, Chamont D, Charles M, Charpentier P, Chatzikonstantinidis G, Chefdeville M, Chen S, Cheung SF, Chobanova V, Chrzaszcz M, Chubykin A, Cid Vidal X, Ciezarek G, Clarke PEL, Clemencic M, Cliff HV, Closier J, Coco V, Cogan J, Cogneras E, Cogoni V, Cojocariu L, Collins P, Comerma-Montells A, Contu A, Cook A, Coombs G, Coquereau S, Corti G, Corvo M, Costa Sobral CM, Couturier B, Cowan GA, Craik DC, Crocombe A, Cruz Torres M, Cunliffe S, Currie R, D'Ambrosio C, Da Cunha Marinho F, Dall'Occo E, Dalseno J, David PNY, Davis A, De Bruyn K, De Capua S, De Cian M, De Miranda JM, De Paula L, De Serio M, De Simone P, Dean CT, Decamp D, Deckenhoff M, Del Buono L, Dembinski HP, Demmer M, Dendek A, Derkach D, Deschamps O, Dettori F, Dey B, Di Canto A, Di Nezza P, Dijkstra H, Dordei F, Dorigo M, Dosil Suárez A, Dovbnya A, Dreimanis K, Dufour L, Dujany G, Dungs K, Durante P, Dzhelyadin R, Dziewiecki M, Dziurda A, Dzyuba A, Déléage N, Easo S, Ebert M, Egede U, Egorychev V, Eidelman S, Eisenhardt S, Eitschberger U, Ekelhof R, Eklund L, Ely S, Esen S, Evans HM, Evans T, Falabella A, Farley N, Farry S, Fay R, Fazzini D, Ferguson D, Fernandez G, Fernandez Prieto A, Ferrari F, Ferreira Rodrigues F, Ferro-Luzzi M, Filippov S, Fini RA, Fiore M, Fiorini M, Firlej M, Fitzpatrick C, Fiutowski T, Fleuret F, Fohl K, Fontana M, Fontanelli F, Forshaw DC, Forty R, Franco Lima V, Frank M, Frei C, Fu J, Funk W, Furfaro E, Färber C, Gallas Torreira A, Galli D, Gallorini S, Gambetta S, Gandelman M, Gandini P, Gao Y, Garcia Martin LM, García Pardiñas J, Garra Tico J, Garrido L, Garsed PJ, Gascon D, Gaspar C, Gavardi L, Gazzoni G, Gerick D, Gersabeck E, Gersabeck M, Gershon T, Ghez P, Gianì S, Gibson V, Girard OG, Giubega L, Gizdov K, Gligorov VV, Golubkov D, Golutvin A, Gomes A, Gorelov IV, Gotti C, Govorkova E, Graciani Diaz R, Granado Cardoso LA, Graugés E, Graverini E, Graziani G, Grecu A, Greim R, Griffith P, Grillo L, Gruberg Cazon BR, Grünberg O, Gushchin E, Guz Y, Gys T, Göbel C, Hadavizadeh T, Hadjivasiliou C, Haefeli G, Haen C, Haines SC, Hamilton B, Han X, Hansmann-Menzemer S, Harnew N, Harnew ST, Harrison J, Hatch M, He J, Head T, Heister A, Hennessy K, Henrard P, Henry L, van Herwijnen E, Heß M, Hicheur A, Hill D, Hombach C, Hopchev PH, Huard ZC, Hulsbergen W, Humair T, Hushchyn M, Hutchcroft D, Idzik M, Ilten P, Jacobsson R, Jalocha J, Jans E, Jawahery A, Jiang F, John M, Johnson D, Jones CR, Joram C, Jost B, Jurik N, Kandybei S, Karacson M, Kariuki JM, Karodia S, Kecke M, Kelsey M, Kenzie M, Ketel T, Khairullin E, Khanji B, Khurewathanakul C, Kirn T, Klaver S, Klimaszewski K, Klimkovich T, Koliiev S, Kolpin M, Komarov I, Kopecna R, Koppenburg P, Kosmyntseva A, Kotriakhova S, Kozachuk A, Kozeiha M, Kravchuk L, Kreps M, Krokovny P, Kruse F, Krzemien W, Kucewicz W, Kucharczyk M, Kudryavtsev V, Kuonen AK, Kurek K, Kvaratskheliya T, Lacarrere D, Lafferty G, Lai A, Lanfranchi G, Langenbruch C, Latham T, Lazzeroni C, Le Gac R, van Leerdam J, Leflat A, Lefrançois J, Lefèvre R, Lemaitre F, Lemos Cid E, Leroy O, Lesiak T, Leverington B, Li T, Li Y, Li Z, Likhomanenko T, Lindner R, Lionetto F, Liu X, Loh D, Longstaff I, Lopes JH, Lucchesi D, Lucio Martinez M, Luo H, Lupato A, Luppi E, Lupton O, Lusiani A, Lyu X, Machefert F, Maciuc F, Maev O, Maguire K, Malde S, Malinin A, Maltsev T, Manca G, Mancinelli G, Manning P, Maratas J, Marchand JF, Marconi U, Marin Benito C, Marinangeli M, Marino P, Marks J, Martellotti G, Martin M, Martinelli M, Martinez Santos D, Martinez Vidal F, Martins Tostes D, Massacrier LM, Massafferri A, Matev R, Mathad A, Mathe Z, Matteuzzi C, Mauri A, Maurice E, Maurin B, Mazurov A, McCann M, McNab A, McNulty R, Meadows B, Meier F, Melnychuk D, Merk M, Merli A, Michielin E, Milanes DA, Minard MN, Mitzel DS, Mogini A, Molina Rodriguez J, Monroy IA, Monteil S, Morandin M, Morello MJ, Morgunova O, Moron J, Morris AB, Mountain R, Muheim F, Mulder M, Mussini M, Müller D, Müller J, Müller K, Müller V, Naik P, Nakada T, Nandakumar R, Nandi A, Nasteva I, Needham M, Neri N, Neubert S, Neufeld N, Neuner M, Nguyen TD, Nguyen-Mau C, Nieswand S, Niet R, Nikitin N, Nikodem T, Nogay A, Novoselov A, O'Hanlon DP, Oblakowska-Mucha A, Obraztsov V, Ogilvy S, Oldeman R, Onderwater CJG, Otalora Goicochea JM, Owen P, Oyanguren A, Pais PR, Palano A, Palutan M, Papanestis A, Pappagallo M, Pappalardo LL, Pappenheimer C, Parker W, Parkes C, Passaleva G, Pastore A, Patel M, Patrignani C, Pearce A, Pellegrino A, Penso G, Pepe Altarelli M, Perazzini S, Perret P, Pescatore L, Petridis K, Petrolini A, Petrov A, Petruzzo M, Picatoste Olloqui E, Pietrzyk B, Pikies M, Pinci D, Pistone A, Piucci A, Placinta V, Playfer S, Plo Casasus M, Poikela T, Polci F, Poli Lener M, Poluektov A, Polyakov I, Polycarpo E, Pomery GJ, Ponce S, Popov A, Popov D, Popovici B, Poslavskii S, Potterat C, Price E, Prisciandaro J, Prouve C, Pugatch V, Puig Navarro A, Punzi G, Qian C, Qian W, Quagliani R, Rachwal B, Rademacker JH, Rama M, Ramos Pernas M, Rangel MS, Raniuk I, Ratnikov F, Raven G, Redi F, Reichert S, Dos Reis AC, Remon Alepuz C, Renaudin V, Ricciardi S, Richards S, Rihl M, Rinnert K, Rives Molina V, Robbe P, Rodrigues AB, Rodrigues E, Rodriguez Lopez JA, Rodriguez Perez P, Rogozhnikov A, Roiser S, Rollings A, Romanovskiy V, Romero Vidal A, Ronayne JW, Rotondo M, Rudolph MS, Ruf T, Ruiz Valls P, Saborido Silva JJ, Sadykhov E, Sagidova N, Saitta B, Salustino Guimaraes V, Sanchez Gonzalo D, Sanchez Mayordomo C, Sanmartin Sedes B, Santacesaria R, Santamarina Rios C, Santimaria M, Santovetti E, Sarti A, Satriano C, Satta A, Saunders DM, Savrina D, Schael S, Schellenberg M, Schiller M, Schindler H, Schlupp M, Schmelling M, Schmelzer T, Schmidt B, Schneider O, Schopper A, Schreiner HF, Schubert K, Schubiger M, Schune MH, Schwemmer R, Sciascia B, Sciubba A, Semennikov A, Sergi A, Serra N, Serrano J, Sestini L, Seyfert P, Shapkin M, Shapoval I, Shcheglov Y, Shears T, Shekhtman L, Shevchenko V, Siddi BG, Silva Coutinho R, Silva de Oliveira L, Simi G, Simone S, Sirendi M, Skidmore N, Skwarnicki T, Smith E, Smith IT, Smith J, Smith M, Soares Lavra L, Sokoloff MD, Soler FJP, Souza De Paula B, Spaan B, Spradlin P, Sridharan S, Stagni F, Stahl M, Stahl S, Stefko P, Stefkova S, Steinkamp O, Stemmle S, Stenyakin O, Stevens H, Stoica S, Stone S, Storaci B, Stracka S, Stramaglia ME, Straticiuc M, Straumann U, Sun L, Sutcliffe W, Swientek K, Syropoulos V, Szczekowski M, Szumlak T, T'Jampens S, Tayduganov A, Tekampe T, Tellarini G, Teubert F, Thomas E, van Tilburg J, Tilley MJ, Tisserand V, Tobin M, Tolk S, Tomassetti L, Tonelli D, Topp-Joergensen S, Toriello F, Tourinho Jadallah Aoude R, Tournefier E, Tourneur S, Trabelsi K, Traill M, Tran MT, Tresch M, Trisovic A, Tsaregorodtsev A, Tsopelas P, Tully A, Tuning N, Ukleja A, Ustyuzhanin A, Uwer U, Vacca C, Vagnoni V, Valassi A, Valat S, Valenti G, Vazquez Gomez R, Vazquez Regueiro P, Vecchi S, van Veghel M, Velthuis JJ, Veltri M, Veneziano G, Venkateswaran A, Verlage TA, Vernet M, Vesterinen M, Viana Barbosa JV, Viaud B, Vieira D, Vieites Diaz M, Viemann H, Vilasis-Cardona X, Vitti M, Volkov V, Vollhardt A, Voneki B, Vorobyev A, Vorobyev V, Voß C, de Vries JA, Vázquez Sierra C, Waldi R, Wallace C, Wallace R, Walsh J, Wang J, Ward DR, Wark HM, Watson NK, Websdale D, Weiden A, Whitehead M, Wicht J, Wilkinson G, Wilkinson M, Williams M, Williams MP, Williams M, Williams T, Wilson FF, Wimberley J, Winn MA, Wishahi J, Wislicki W, Witek M, Wormser G, Wotton SA, Wraight K, Wyllie K, Xie Y, Xing Z, Xu Z, Yang Z, Yang Z, Yao Y, Yin H, Yu J, Yuan X, Yushchenko O, Zarebski KA, Zavertyaev M, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Zhelezov A, Zheng Y, Zhu X, Zhukov V, Zucchelli S. Observation of Five New Narrow Ω_{c}^{0} States Decaying to Ξ_{c}^{+}K^{-}. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 118:182001. [PMID: 28524669 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.118.182001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
Abstract
The Ξ_{c}^{+}K^{-} mass spectrum is studied with a sample of pp collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.3 fb^{-1}, collected by the LHCb experiment. The Ξ_{c}^{+} is reconstructed in the decay mode pK^{-}π^{+}. Five new, narrow excited Ω_{c}^{0} states are observed: the Ω_{c}(3000)^{0}, Ω_{c}(3050)^{0}, Ω_{c}(3066)^{0}, Ω_{c}(3090)^{0}, and Ω_{c}(3119)^{0}. Measurements of their masses and widths are reported.
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Aaij R, Adeva B, Adinolfi M, Ajaltouni Z, Akar S, Albrecht J, Alessio F, Alexander M, Ali S, Alkhazov G, Alvarez Cartelle P, Alves AA, Amato S, Amerio S, Amhis Y, An L, Anderlini L, Andreassi G, Andreotti M, Andrews JE, Appleby RB, Archilli F, d’Argent P, Arnau Romeu J, Artamonov A, Artuso M, Aslanides E, Auriemma G, Baalouch M, Babuschkin I, Bachmann S, Back JJ, Badalov A, Baesso C, Baker S, Baldini W, Barlow RJ, Barschel C, Barsuk S, Barter W, Baszczyk M, Batozskaya V, Batsukh B, Battista V, Bay A, Beaucourt L, Beddow J, Bedeschi F, Bediaga I, Bel LJ, Bellee V, Belloli N, Belous K, Belyaev I, Ben-Haim E, Bencivenni G, Benson S, Benton J, Berezhnoy A, Bernet R, Bertolin A, Betancourt C, Betti F, Bettler MO, van Beuzekom M, Bezshyiko I, Bifani S, Billoir P, Bird T, Birnkraut A, Bitadze A, Bizzeti A, Blake T, Blanc F, Blouw J, Blusk S, Bocci V, Boettcher T, Bondar A, Bondar N, Bonivento W, Bordyuzhin I, Borgheresi A, Borghi S, Borisyak M, Borsato M, Bossu F, Boubdir M, Bowcock TJV, Bowen E, Bozzi C, Braun S, Britsch M, Britton T, Brodzicka J, Buchanan E, Burr C, Bursche A, Buytaert J, Cadeddu S, Calabrese R, Calvi M, Calvo Gomez M, Camboni A, Campana P, Campora Perez DH, Capriotti L, Carbone A, Carboni G, Cardinale R, Cardini A, Carniti P, Carson L, Carvalho Akiba K, Casse G, Cassina L, Castillo Garcia L, Cattaneo M, Cauet C, Cavallero G, Cenci R, Chamont D, Charles M, Charpentier P, Chatzikonstantinidis G, Chefdeville M, Chen S, Cheung SF, Chobanova V, Chrzaszcz M, Cid Vidal X, Ciezarek G, Clarke PEL, Clemencic M, Cliff HV, Closier J, Coco V, Cogan J, Cogneras E, Cogoni V, Cojocariu L, Collazuol G, Collins P, Comerma-Montells A, Contu A, Cook A, Coombs G, Coquereau S, Corti G, Corvo M, Costa Sobral CM, Couturier B, Cowan GA, Craik DC, Crocombe A, Cruz Torres M, Cunliffe S, Currie R, D’Ambrosio C, Da Cunha Marinho F, Dall’Occo E, Dalseno J, David PNY, Davis A, De Aguiar Francisco O, De Bruyn K, De Capua S, De Cian M, De Miranda JM, De Paula L, De Serio M, De Simone P, Dean CT, Decamp D, Deckenhoff M, Del Buono L, Demmer M, Dendek A, Derkach D, Deschamps O, Dettori F, Dey B, Di Canto A, Dijkstra H, Dordei F, Dorigo M, Dosil Suárez A, Dovbnya A, Dreimanis K, Dufour L, Dujany G, Dungs K, Durante P, Dzhelyadin R, Dziurda A, Dzyuba A, Déléage N, Easo S, Ebert M, Egede U, Egorychev V, Eidelman S, Eisenhardt S, Eitschberger U, Ekelhof R, Eklund L, Ely S, Esen S, Evans HM, Evans T, Falabella A, Farley N, Farry S, Fay R, Fazzini D, Ferguson D, Fernandez Prieto A, Ferrari F, Ferreira Rodrigues F, Ferro-Luzzi M, Filippov S, Fini RA, Fiore M, Fiorini M, Firlej M, Fitzpatrick C, Fiutowski T, Fleuret F, Fohl K, Fontana M, Fontanelli F, Forshaw DC, Forty R, Franco Lima V, Frank M, Frei C, Fu J, Funk W, Furfaro E, Färber C, Gallas Torreira A, Galli D, Gallorini S, Gambetta S, Gandelman M, Gandini P, Gao Y, Garcia Martin LM, García Pardiñas J, Garra Tico J, Garrido L, Garsed PJ, Gascon D, Gaspar C, Gavardi L, Gazzoni G, Gerick D, Gersabeck E, Gersabeck M, Gershon T, Ghez P, Gianì S, Gibson V, Girard OG, Giubega L, Gizdov K, Gligorov VV, Golubkov D, Golutvin A, Gomes A, Gorelov IV, Gotti C, Gándara MG, Graciani Diaz R, Granado Cardoso LA, Graugés E, Graverini E, Graziani G, Grecu A, Griffith P, Grillo L, Gruberg Cazon BR, Grünberg O, Gushchin E, Guz Y, Gys T, Göbel C, Hadavizadeh T, Hadjivasiliou C, Haefeli G, Haen C, Haines SC, Hall S, Hamilton B, Han X, Hansmann-Menzemer S, Harnew N, Harnew ST, Harrison J, Hatch M, He J, Head T, Heister A, Hennessy K, Henrard P, Henry L, van Herwijnen E, Heß M, Hicheur A, Hill D, Hombach C, Hopchev H, Hulsbergen W, Humair T, Hushchyn M, Hussain N, Hutchcroft D, Idzik M, Ilten P, Jacobsson R, Jaeger A, Jalocha J, Jans E, Jawahery A, Jiang F, John M, Johnson D, Jones CR, Joram C, Jost B, Jurik N, Kandybei S, Kanso W, Karacson M, Kariuki JM, Karodia S, Kecke M, Kelsey M, Kenzie M, Ketel T, Khairullin E, Khanji B, Khurewathanakul C, Kirn T, Klaver S, Klimaszewski K, Koliiev S, Kolpin M, Komarov I, Koopman RF, Koppenburg P, Kosmyntseva A, Kozachuk A, Kozeiha M, Kravchuk L, Kreplin K, Kreps M, Krokovny P, Kruse F, Krzemien W, Kucewicz W, Kucharczyk M, Kudryavtsev V, Kuonen AK, Kurek K, Kvaratskheliya T, Lacarrere D, Lafferty G, Lai A, Lanfranchi G, Langenbruch C, Latham T, Lazzeroni C, Le Gac R, van Leerdam J, Leflat A, Lefrançois J, Lefèvre R, Lemaitre F, Lemos Cid E, Leroy O, Lesiak T, Leverington B, Li T, Li Y, Likhomanenko T, Lindner R, Linn C, Lionetto F, Liu X, Loh D, Longstaff I, Lopes JH, Lucchesi D, Lucio Martinez M, Luo H, Lupato A, Luppi E, Lupton O, Lusiani A, Lyu X, Machefert F, Maciuc F, Maev O, Maguire K, Malde S, Malinin A, Maltsev T, Manca G, Mancinelli G, Manning P, Maratas J, Marchand JF, Marconi U, Marin Benito C, Marino P, Marks J, Martellotti G, Martin M, Martinelli M, Martinez Santos D, Martinez Vidal F, Martins Tostes D, Massacrier LM, Massafferri A, Matev R, Mathad A, Mathe Z, Matteuzzi C, Mauri A, Maurin B, Mazurov A, McCann M, McCarthy J, McNab A, McNulty R, Meadows B, Meier F, Meissner M, Melnychuk D, Merk M, Merli A, Michielin E, Milanes DA, Minard MN, Mitzel DS, Mogini A, Molina Rodriguez J, Monroy IA, Monteil S, Morandin M, Morawski P, Mordà A, Morello MJ, Moron J, Morris AB, Mountain R, Muheim F, Mulder M, Mussini M, Muster B, Müller D, Müller J, Müller K, Müller V, Naik P, Nakada T, Nandakumar R, Nandi A, Nasteva I, Needham M, Neri N, Neubert S, Neufeld N, Neuner M, Nguyen TD, Nguyen-Mau C, Nieswand S, Niet R, Nikitin N, Nikodem T, Novoselov A, O’Hanlon DP, Oblakowska-Mucha A, Obraztsov V, Ogilvy S, Oldeman R, Onderwater CJG, Otalora Goicochea JM, Otto A, Owen P, Oyanguren A, Pais PR, Palano A, Palombo F, Palutan M, Panman J, Papanestis A, Pappagallo M, Pappalardo LL, Parker W, Parkes C, Passaleva G, Pastore A, Patel GD, Patel M, Patrignani C, Pearce A, Pellegrino A, Penso G, Pepe Altarelli M, Perazzini S, Perret P, Pescatore L, Petridis K, Petrolini A, Petrov A, Petruzzo M, Picatoste Olloqui E, Pietrzyk B, Pikies M, Pinci D, Pistone A, Piucci A, Playfer S, Plo Casasus M, Poikela T, Polci F, Poluektov A, Polyakov I, Polycarpo E, Pomery GJ, Popov A, Popov D, Popovici B, Poslavskii S, Potterat C, Price E, Price JD, Prisciandaro J, Pritchard A, Prouve C, Pugatch V, Puig Navarro A, Punzi G, Qian W, Quagliani R, Rachwal B, Rademacker JH, Rama M, Ramos Pernas M, Rangel MS, Raniuk I, Ratnikov F, Raven G, Redi F, Reichert S, dos Reis AC, Remon Alepuz C, Renaudin V, Ricciardi S, Richards S, Rihl M, Rinnert K, Rives Molina V, Robbe P, Rodrigues AB, Rodrigues E, Rodriguez Lopez JA, Rodriguez Perez P, Rogozhnikov A, Roiser S, Rollings A, Romanovskiy V, Romero Vidal A, Ronayne JW, Rotondo M, Rudolph MS, Ruf T, Ruiz Valls P, Saborido Silva JJ, Sadykhov E, Sagidova N, Saitta B, Salustino Guimaraes V, Sanchez Mayordomo C, Sanmartin Sedes B, Santacesaria R, Santamarina Rios C, Santimaria M, Santovetti E, Sarti A, Satriano C, Satta A, Saunders DM, Savrina D, Schael S, Schellenberg M, Schiller M, Schindler H, Schlupp M, Schmelling M, Schmelzer T, Schmidt B, Schneider O, Schopper A, Schubert K, Schubiger M, Schune MH, Schwemmer R, Sciascia B, Sciubba A, Semennikov A, Sergi A, Serra N, Serrano J, Sestini L, Seyfert P, Shapkin M, Shapoval I, Shcheglov Y, Shears T, Shekhtman L, Shevchenko V, Siddi BG, Silva Coutinho R, Silva de Oliveira L, Simi G, Simone S, Sirendi M, Skidmore N, Skwarnicki T, Smith E, Smith IT, Smith J, Smith M, Snoek H, Soares Lavra L, Sokoloff MD, Soler FJP, Souza De Paula B, Spaan B, Spradlin P, Sridharan S, Stagni F, Stahl M, Stahl S, Stefko P, Stefkova S, Steinkamp O, Stemmle S, Stenyakin O, Stevenson S, Stoica S, Stone S, Storaci B, Stracka S, Straticiuc M, Straumann U, Sun L, Sutcliffe W, Swientek K, Syropoulos V, Szczekowski M, Szumlak T, T’Jampens S, Tayduganov A, Tekampe T, Teklishyn M, Tellarini G, Teubert F, Thomas E, van Tilburg J, Tilley MJ, Tisserand V, Tobin M, Tolk S, Tomassetti L, Tonelli D, Topp-Joergensen S, Toriello F, Tournefier E, Tourneur S, Trabelsi K, Traill M, Tran MT, Tresch M, Trisovic A, Tsaregorodtsev A, Tsopelas P, Tully A, Tuning N, Ukleja A, Ustyuzhanin A, Uwer U, Vacca C, Vagnoni V, Valassi A, Valat S, Valenti G, Vallier A, Vazquez Gomez R, Vazquez Regueiro P, Vecchi S, van Veghel M, Velthuis JJ, Veltri M, Veneziano G, Venkateswaran A, Vernet M, Vesterinen M, Viaud B, Vieira D, Vieites Diaz M, Viemann H, Vilasis-Cardona X, Vitti M, Volkov V, Vollhardt A, Voneki B, Vorobyev A, Vorobyev V, Voß C, de Vries JA, Vázquez Sierra C, Waldi R, Wallace C, Wallace R, Walsh J, Wang J, Ward DR, Wark HM, Watson NK, Websdale D, Weiden A, Whitehead M, Wicht J, Wilkinson G, Wilkinson M, Williams M, Williams MP, Williams M, Williams T, Wilson FF, Wimberley J, Wishahi J, Wislicki W, Witek M, Wormser G, Wotton SA, Wraight K, Wyllie K, Xie Y, Xing Z, Xu Z, Yang Z, Yao Y, Yin H, Yu J, Yuan X, Yushchenko O, Zarebski KA, Zavertyaev M, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Zhang Y, Zhelezov A, Zheng Y, Zhu X, Zhukov V, Zucchelli S. Search for massive long-lived particles decaying semileptonically in the LHCb detector. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS 2017; 77:224. [PMID: 28515664 PMCID: PMC5408995 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4744-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2016] [Accepted: 03/07/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
Abstract
A search is presented for massive long-lived particles decaying into a muon and two quarks. The dataset consists of proton-proton interactions at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 1 and 2[Formula: see text], respectively. The analysis is performed assuming a set of production mechanisms with simple topologies, including the production of a Higgs-like particle decaying into two long-lived particles. The mass range from 20 to 80 [Formula: see text] and lifetimes from 5 to 100[Formula: see text] are explored. Results are also interpreted in terms of neutralino production in different R-Parity violating supersymmetric models, with masses in the 23-198 GeV/[Formula: see text] range. No excess above the background expectation is observed and upper limits are set on the production cross-section for various points in the parameter space of theoretical models.
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