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

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

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

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

Precise measurement of the ratio of fragmentation fractions and of decay branching fractions

R Aaij, CA Beteta, T Ackernley, B Adeva, M Adinolfi… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
The ratio of the B s 0 and B 0 fragmentation fractions, fs/fd, in proton-proton collisions at the
LHC, is obtained as a function of B-meson transverse momentum and collision center-of …

Measurement of the decay properties and search for the and decays

R Aaij, C Abellán Beteta, T Ackernley, B Adeva… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
An improved measurement of the decay B s 0→ μ+ μ-and searches for the decays B 0→ μ+
μ-and B s 0→ μ+ μ-γ are performed at the LHCb experiment using data collected in proton …

Evidence of a structure and observation of excited states in the decay

R Aaij, CA Beteta, T Ackernley, B Adeva… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
First evidence of a structure in the $ J/\psi\varLambda $ invariant mass distribution is
obtained from an amplitude analysis of $\varXi_b^-\to J/\psi\varLambda K^-$ decays. The …

Searching for long-lived particles beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider

J Alimena, J Beacham, M Borsato… - Journal of Physics G …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Particles beyond the Standard Model (SM) can generically have lifetimes that are
long compared to SM particles at the weak scale. When produced at experiments such as …

Physics case for an LHCb Upgrade II-Opportunities in flavour physics, and beyond, in the HL-LHC era

I Bediaga, MC Torres, JM De Miranda, A Gomes… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
The LHCb Upgrade II will fully exploit the flavour-physics opportunities of the HL-LHC, and
study additional physics topics that take advantage of the forward acceptance of the LHCb …

Measurement of hadron fractions in 13 TeV collisions

R Aaij, C Abellán Beteta, B Adeva, M Adinolfi… - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
The production fractions of B¯ s 0 and Λ b 0 hadrons, normalized to the sum of B-and B¯ 0
fractions, are measured in 13 TeV pp collisions using data collected by the LHCb …

Observation of Decays and Precision Measurements of the Masses

R Aaij, C Abellán Beteta, B Adeva, M Adinolfi… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
The first observation of the decays B (s) 0→ J/ψ pp¯ is reported, using proton-proton
collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.2 fb-1, collected with the LHCb …

Measurement of the Branching Fraction and Effective Lifetime and Search for Decays

R Aaij, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, Z Ajaltouni, S Akar… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
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 …