We highlight the progress, current status, and open challenges of QCD-driven physics, in
theory and in experiment. We discuss how the strong interaction is intimately connected to a …

The standard model (SM) of particle physics is the mathematical description of the
fundamental constituents and interactions of matter. Its last missing particle, the Higgs …

A search for charge-parity (CP) violation in D 0→ K-K+ and D 0→ π-π+ decays is reported,
using pp collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.9 fb-1 collected at a …

The LHCb experiment has been taking data at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN
since the end of 2009. One of its key detector components is the Ring-Imaging Cherenkov …

The inspiration for this book came from François le Diberder. During his term as
spokesperson for B 八 B 八 R he laid down a vision for the two B Factory detector …

Direct CP violation in the hadronic charm decays provides a good testing ground for the
Kobayashi-Maskawa mechanism in the Standard Model. Any significant deviations from the …

In a sample of 471× 10 6 BB¯ events collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e+ e-
collider we study the rare decays B→ K (*) ℓ+ ℓ-, where ℓ+ ℓ-is either e+ e-or μ+ μ-. We …

The time-dependent CP asymmetry in B s 0→ J/ψ K+ K-decays is measured using pp
collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb-1, collected with the LHCb …

A bstract Time-integrated CP asymmetries in D 0 decays to the final states K− K+ and π− π+
are measured using proton-proton collisions corresponding to 3fb− 1 of integrated …

Using pp collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb-1 and collected
by LHCb in 2011 at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, we report the measurement of direct …