Application of vertex and mass constraints in track-based alignment Amoraal, J.; Blouw, J.; Blusk, S. ...
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment,
06/2013, Volume:
712
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
The software alignment of planar tracking detectors using samples of charged particle trajectories may lead to global detector distortions that affect vertex and momentum resolution. We present an ...alignment procedure that constrains such distortions by making use of samples of decay vertices reconstructed from two or more trajectories and putting constraints on their invariant mass. We illustrate the method by using a sample of invariant-mass constrained vertices from D0→K−π+ decays to remove a curvature bias in the LHCb spectrometer.
The double-differential cross sections for J/Ψ production in the kinematic range of pT<14 GeV, 1.5<y<4.0 and −5.0<y<−2.5 in proton–lead collisions at a center-of-mass energy of sNN=5.02 TeV have been ...measured by the LHCb Collaboration. The results are subsequently used to determine the nuclear modification factor, and are found to be consistent with most theoretical models. The forward–backward asymmetry has also been determined from these data, and is found to be compatible with theoretical calculations as well.
Observations of exotic structures in the J/ψp channel, which we refer to as charmonium-pentaquark states, in Λ_{b}^{0}→J/ψK^{-}p decays are presented. The data sample corresponds to an integrated ...luminosity of 3 fb^{-1} acquired with the LHCb detector from 7 and 8 TeV pp collisions. An amplitude analysis of the three-body final state reproduces the two-body mass and angular distributions. To obtain a satisfactory fit of the structures seen in the J/ψp mass spectrum, it is necessary to include two Breit-Wigner amplitudes that each describe a resonant state. The significance of each of these resonances is more than 9 standard deviations. One has a mass of 4380±8±29 MeV and a width of 205±18±86 MeV, while the second is narrower, with a mass of 4449.8±1.7±2.5 MeV and a width of 39±5±19 MeV. The preferred J^{P} assignments are of opposite parity, with one state having spin 3/2 and the other 5/2.
The Physics of the B Factories Bevan, Adrian; Golob, Bostjan; Mannel, Thomas ...
European physical journal. C, Particles and fields,
March 2015, Volume:
74, Issue:
11
eBook, Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
This work is on the Physics of the B Factories. Part A of this book contains a brief description of the SLAC and KEK B Factories as well as their detectors, BaBar and Belle, and data taking related ...issues. Part B discusses tools and methods used by the experiments in order to obtain results. The results themselves can be found in Part C.
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.
A search for a long-lived scalar particle χ is performed, looking for the decay B+→K+χ with χ→μ+μ− in pp collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb−1, collected by the LHCb ...experiment at center-of-mass energies of s=7 and 8 TeV. This new scalar particle, predicted by hidden sector models, is assumed to have a narrow width. The signal would manifest itself as an excess in the dimuon invariant mass distribution over the Standard Model background. No significant excess is observed in the accessible ranges of mass 250<m(χ)<4700 MeV/c2 and lifetime 0.1<τ(χ)<1000 ps. Upper limits on the branching fraction B(B+→K+χ(μ+μ−)) at 95% confidence level are set as a function of m(χ) and τ(χ), varying between 2×10−10 and 10−7. These are the most stringent limits to date. The limits are interpreted in the context of a model with a light inflaton particle.
A
bstract
The isospin asymmetries of
B
→
Kμ
+
μ
−
and
B
→
K
*
μ
+
μ
−
decays and the partial branching fractions of the
B
0
→
K
0
μ
+
μ
−
,
B
+
→
K
+
μ
+
μ
−
and
B
+
→
K
*+
μ
+
μ
−
decays are ...measured as functions of the dimuon mass squared,
q
2
. The data used correspond to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb
−1
from proton-proton collisions collected with the LHCb detector at centre-of-mass energies of 7 TeV and 8 TeV in 2011 and 2012, respectively. The isospin asymmetries are both consistent with the Standard Model expectations. The three measured branching fractions favour lower values than their respective theoretical predictions, however they are all individually consistent with the Standard Model.
A
bstract
Production cross-sections of prompt charm mesons are measured with the first data from
pp
collisions at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data sample corresponds to an ...integrated luminosity of 4.98 ± 0.19 pb
−1
collected by the LHCb experiment. The production cross-sections of
D
0
,
D
+
,
D
s
+
, and
D
*+
mesons are measured in bins of charm meson transverse momentum,
p
T
, and rapidity,
y
, and cover the range 0 <
p
T
< 15GeV/c and 2.0 <
y
< 4.5. The inclusive cross-sections for the four mesons, including charge conjugation, within the range of 1 <
p
T
< 8 GeV/c are found to be
σ
pp
→
D
0
X
=
2460
±
3
±
130
μ
b
σ
pp
→
D
+
X
=
1000
±
3
±
110
μ
b
σ
pp
→
D
s
+
X
=
460
±
13
±
100
μ
b
σ
pp
→
D
∗
+
X
=
880
±
5
±
140
μ
b
where the uncertainties are due to statistical and systematic uncertainties, respectively.
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