During the data taking process in the LHC at CERN, millions of collisions are recorded every second by the LHCb Detector. The LHCb Online computing farm, counting around 15000 cores, is dedicated to ...the reconstruction of the events in real-time, in order to filter those with interesting Physics. The ones kept are later analysed Offline in a more precise fashion on the Grid. This imposes very stringent requirements on the reconstruction software, which has to be as efficient as possible. Modern CPUs support so-called vector-extensions, which extend their Instruction Sets, allowing for concurrent execution across functional units. Several libraries expose the Single Instruction Multiple Data programming paradigm to issue these instructions. The use of vectorisation in our codebase can provide performance boosts, leading ultimately to Physics reconstruction enhancements. In this paper, we present vectorisation studies of significant reconstruction algorithms. A variety of vectorisation libraries are analysed and compared in terms of design, maintainability and performance. We also present the steps taken to systematically measure the performance of the released software, to ensure the consistency of the run-time of the vectorised software.
Study of the D^sup 0^p amplitude decays Adeva, B; Ajaltouni, Z; Amhis, Y ...
The journal of high energy physics,
05/2017, Letnik:
2017, Številka:
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An amplitude analysis of the decay Lambda ^sub b ^ ^sup 0^ right arrowD ^sup 0^ ppi ^sup -^ is performed in the part of the phase space containing resonances in the D ^sup 0^ p channel. The study is ...based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb^sup -1^ of pp collisions recorded by the LHCb experiment. The spectrum of excited Lambda ^sub c ^ ^sup +^ states that decay into D ^sup 0^ p is studied. The masses, widths and quantum numbers of the Lambda^sub c^(2880)^sup +^ and Lambda^sub c^(2940)^sup +^ resonances are measured. The constraints on the spin and parity for the Lambda^sub c^(2940)^sup +^ state are obtained for the first time. A near-threshold enhancement in the D ^sup 0^ p amplitude is investigated and found to be consistent with a new resonance, denoted the Lambda^sub c^(2860)^sup +^, of spin 3/2 and positive parity. Figure not available: see fulltext.
(ProQuest: ... denotes formulae and/or non-USASCII text omitted; see image) The production cross-section of J/ψ pairs is measured using a data sample of pp collisions collected by the LHCb experiment ...at a centre-of-mass energy of ... TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 279 ±11 pb−1. The measurement is performed for J/ψ mesons with a transverse momentum of less than 10 GeV/c in the rapidity range 2.0 < y < 4.5. The production cross-section is measured to be 15.2 ± 1.0 ± 0.9 nb. The first uncertainty is statistical, and the second is systematic. The differential cross-sections as functions of several kinematic variables of the J/ψ pair are measured and compared to theoretical predictions. Figure not available: see fulltext.
Search for the charmless decay Adeva, B; Ajaltouni, Z; Amhis, Y ...
The journal of high energy physics,
05/2017, Letnik:
2017, Številka:
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A search for the charmless Figure not available: see fulltext.
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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