Heavy quarkonium: progress, puzzles, and opportunities

N Brambilla, S Eidelman, BK Heltsley, R Vogt… - The European Physical …, 2011 - Springer
A golden age for heavy-quarkonium physics dawned a decade ago, initiated by the
confluence of exciting advances in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and an explosion of …

Lifetime of Mesons Constrains Explanations for Anomalies in

R Alonso, B Grinstein, J Martin Camalich - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
We investigate a new constraint on new-physics interpretations of the anomalies observed
in B→ D (*) τ ν decays making use of the lifetime of the B c-meson. A constraint is obtained …

Observation of Resonances Consistent with Pentaquark States in Decays

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

Revisiting the one leptoquark solution to the R (D (∗)) anomalies and its phenomenological implications

XQ Li, YD Yang, X Zhang - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016 - Springer
A bstract It has been shown recently that the anomalies observed in\(\overline {B}\to {D}^{\left
(*\right)}\tau {\overline {\nu}} _ {\tau}\) and\(\overline {B}\to\overline {K}{\ell}^{+}{\ell}^{-}\) …

CMS physics technical design report, volume II: physics performance

CMS collaboration - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
CMS is a general purpose experiment, designed to study the physics of pp collisions at 14
TeV at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It currently involves more than 2000 physicists from …

Implications of LHCb measurements and future prospects

LHCb Collaboration TJ Gershon@ warwick. ac … - The European Physical …, 2013 - Springer
During 2011 the LHCb experiment at CERN collected 1.0 fb− 1 of s=7~TeV pp collisions.
Due to the large heavy quark production cross-sections, these data provide unprecedented …

Measurement of the meson production fraction and asymmetry in 7 and 13 TeV collisions

R Aaij, C Abellán Beteta, T Ackernley, B Adeva… - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
The production fraction of the B c-meson with respect to the sum of B-and B¯ 0 mesons is
measured in both 7 and 13 TeV center-of-mass (cm) energy pp collisions produced by the …

Observation of an Excited State

R Aaij, C Abellán Beteta, B Adeva, M Adinolfi… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Using pp collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 8.5 fb-1 recorded by the
LHCb experiment at center-of-mass energies of s= 7, 8, and 13 TeV, the observation of an …

Precise predictions of charmed-bottom hadrons from lattice QCD

N Mathur, M Padmanath, S Mondal - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
We report the ground state masses of hadrons containing at least one charm and one
bottom quark using lattice quantum chromodynamics. These include mesons with spin (J) …

Weak decays of the meson to charmonium and D mesons in the relativistic quark model

D Ebert, RN Faustov, VO Galkin - Physical Review D, 2003 - APS
Semileptonic and nonleptonic decays of the B c meson to charmonium and D mesons are
studied in the framework of the relativistic quark model. The decay form factors are explicitly …