Publications (228)
Constraints on the branching fraction
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +901
A search for the decay is performed using proton-proton collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of …
Test of lepton universality with decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +904
The ratio of branching fractions of the decays and , , is measured for the first time using proton-p…
Observation of excited baryons in decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +959
The first observation of the decay is reported using collision data at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8 and 13\, collected by the LHC…
Search for decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +905
Searches are performed for both prompt-like and long-lived dark photons, , produced in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. These searches look for $A…
Model-independent study of structure in decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +963
The only anticipated resonant contributions to decays are charmonium states in the channel. A model-independent analysis, using LHCb proton-proton colli…
Search for the lepton flavour violating decay using decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +904
A search is presented for the lepton flavour violating decay using a sample of proton--proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13…
Observation of structure in the -pair mass spectrum
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +964
Using proton-proton collision data at centre-of-mass energies of , and recorded by the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, correspond…
Angular analysis of and decays and search for violation
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1003
The first full angular analysis and an updated measurement of the decay-rate asymmetry of the and decays are reported. The…
Measurement of differential - and -dijet cross-sections in the forward region of collisions at
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +975
The inclusive - and -dijet production cross-sections in the forward region of collisions are measured using a data sample collected with the LHCb detecto…
Measurement of -averaged observables in the decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +902
An angular analysis of the decay is presented using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb of…
Observation of a new baryon state in the mass spectrum
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +905
A new baryon state is observed in the mass spectrum with high significance using a data sample of collisions, collected with the LHCb detector at centre-of-ma…
Observation of several sources of violation in decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +868
Observations are reported of different sources of violation from an amplitude analysis of decays, based on a data sample corresponding to an integrate…
Study of the and states in decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +956
The decays are studied using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9fb collected with the LHCb detector in proton-proton…
Study of bosons produced in association with charm in the forward region
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +994
Events containing a boson and a charm jet are studied for the first time in the forward region of proton-proton collisions. The data sample used corresponds to an integrated lu…
Searches for rare and decays into four muons
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +997
Searches for rare and decays into four muons are performed using proton-proton collision data recorded by the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosi…
Observation of the decay in the mass region
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +828
The decay mode is observed and its branching fraction relative to the corresponding decay mode, in a $\pm 15 \textrm{MeV}/…
A search for rare decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1046
A search for rare decays is performed using proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of…
Search for the doubly heavy baryon via decays to
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +987
A search for the doubly heavy baryon using its decay to the final state is performed using proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of…
Observation of the decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +945
The Cabibbo-suppressed decay is observed for the first time using data from proton-proton collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 6f…
Measurement of the baryon lifetime
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +834
We report a measurement of the lifetime of the baryon using proton-proton collision data at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8~TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosi…
Discovery of a T dwarf + white dwarf binary system
A. C. Day-Jones, D. J. Pinfield, M. T. Ruiz +11
We present the discovery of the first T dwarf + white dwarf binary system LSPM 1459+0857AB, confirmed through common proper motion and spectroscopy. The white dwarf is a high prope…
Observation of a new excited meson in decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +961
Using collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of collected with the LHCb detector at a center-of-mass energy of , the $B^0…
First observation of a doubly charged tetraquark and its neutral partner
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1055
A combined amplitude analysis is performed for the decays and , which are related by isospin symmetry. The…
Analysis of neutral -meson decays into two muons
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +953
Branching fraction and effective lifetime measurements of the rare decay and searches for the decays and are reported using…
Precise determination of the B0s-B0sbar oscillation frequency
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +946
Mesons comprising a beauty quark and a strange quark can oscillate between particle (B0s) and antiparticle (B0s) flavour eigenstates, with a frequency given by the mass difference…
Determination of quantum numbers for several excited charmed mesons observed in decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +907
A four-body amplitude analysis of the decay is performed, where fractions and relative phases of the various resonances contributing to the decay are mea…
Measurement of lepton universality parameters in and decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1047
A simultaneous analysis of the and decays is performed to test muon-electron universality in two ranges of the square of the di…
Observation of the decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1045
The first observation of the decay is reported using proton-proton collision data, corresponding…
The Upgrade I of LHCb VELO -- towards an intelligent monitoring platform
P. Kopciewicz, T. Szumlak, M. Majewski +63
The Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) detector is designed to detect decays of b- and c- hadrons for the study of CP violation and rare decays. At the end of the LHC Run 2, many…
Study of decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +958
The decays are studied using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9fb, collected with the LHCb detector in proton…
Measurement of production in collisions at TeV
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +900
The production of baryons in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of TeV is measured in the transverse-momentum range $4<p_\mathr…
First branching fraction measurement of the suppressed decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +963
The baryon is unstable and usually decays into charmless final states by the transition. It can, however, also disintegrate into a meson and…
Observation of the decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +903
Using proton-proton collision data, collected with the LHCb detector and corresponding to 1.0, 2.0 and 1.9fb of integrated luminosity at the centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8,…
Measurement of the lifetime of the doubly charmed baryon
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +832
The first measurement of the lifetime of the doubly charmed baryon is presented, with the signal reconstructed in the final state . The data sa…
First measurement of the angular coefficients in the forward region of collisions at TeV
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +999
The first study of the angular distribution of pairs produced in the forward rapidity region via the Drell-Yan reaction $pp \rightarrow γ^{*}/Z +X \rightarrow l^+ l^-…
Measurement of the photon polarization in decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +994
The photon polarization in transitions is measured for the first time in radiative b-baryon decays exploiting the unique spin structure of decays. A da…
Search for the decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +988
A search for the decay is performed using proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13 TeV collected by the LHCb experiment and correspond…
Measurement of CP violation in the decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +960
A measurement of direct CP violation in the decay is reported using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.4 $\textrm{fb}^{-1…
Amplitude analysis of the decay and baryon polarization measurement in semileptonic beauty hadron decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +999
An amplitude analysis of decays together with a measurement of the polarization vector in semileptonic beauty hadron decays is presented. A sample of…
First observation of the radiative decay
LHCb Collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +848
The radiative decay is observed for the first time using a data sample of proton-proton collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of …
Precision measurement of forward boson production in proton-proton collisions at TeV
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +998
A precision measurement of the boson production cross-section at TeV in the forward region is presented, using collision data collected by the LHCb detecto…
Search for violation in decays using model-independent techniques
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +950
A first search for violation in the Cabibbo-suppressed decay is performed using both a binned and an unbinned model-independent technique in the D…
Measurement of the electron reconstruction efficiency at LHCb
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +910
The single electron track-reconstruction efficiency is calibrated using a sample corresponding to of collision data recorded with the LHCb detector in 20…
Study of the decay with an amplitude analysis of decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +840
An amplitude analysis of decays is performed in the two-body invariant mass regions MeV/, accounting for the ,…
Observation of a narrow pentaquark state, , and of two-peak structure of the
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +866
A narrow pentaquark state, , decaying to is discovered with a statistical significance of in a data sample of decays which is a…
Constraints on the CKM angle from decays using final states
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +994
A data sample collected with the LHCb detector corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 fb is used to measure eleven violation observables in de…
Measurement of the mass difference between neutral charm-meson eigenstates
LHCb Collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +842
We report a measurement of the mass difference between neutral charm-meson eigenstates using a novel approach that enhances sensitivity to this parameter. We use $…
Amplitude analysis of the decays and measurement of the branching fraction of the decay
LHCb Collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +844
The and decays are studied using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3…
Observation of the decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1059
The first observation of the decay and the measurement of its branching ratio relative to the decay are presented. The data sample…
Amplitude analysis of the decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +868
The results of an amplitude analysis of the charmless three-body decay , in which -violation effects are taken into account, are reported. The a…
Model-independent observation of exotic contributions to decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +841
An angular analysis of decays is performed, using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3~ collected with th…
Simultaneous determination of CKM angle and charm mixing parameters
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +994
A combination of measurements sensitive to the violation angle of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa unitarity triangle and to the charm mixing parameters that describe oscill…
First measurement of charm production in fixed-target configuration at the LHC
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +834
The first measurement of heavy-flavour production by the LHCb experiment in its fixed-target mode is presented. The production of and mesons is studied with beams of p…
Search for the rare decays and
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +902
A search for the decays and is performed using data collected with the LHCb experiment in proton-proton collisions at center-of-mass energies of $…
Search for the doubly heavy baryon decaying to
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +999
A first search for the decay is performed by the LHCb experiment with a data sample of proton-proton collisions, corresponding to an integr…
Search for the doubly charmed baryon in the final state
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +992
A search for the doubly charmed baryon is performed in the invariant-mass spectrum, where the baryon is reconstructed…
First observation of excited states
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +901
We report four narrow peaks in the mass spectrum obtained using collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7, 8 and 13 TeV, corresponding to a total integrated lumin…
First observation of the decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1048
The decay is observed for the first time using proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb detector at centre-of-mass energies of , …
Observation of an exotic narrow doubly charmed tetraquark
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +994
Conventional hadronic matter consists of baryons and mesons made of three quarks and quark-antiquark pairs, respectively. The observation of a new type of hadronic state, a doubly…
Search for violation in decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +956
A search for violation in charmless three-body decays is performed using collision data recorded with the LHCb detector, corresponding to integrate…
Evidence of a structure and observation of excited states in the decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +959
First evidence of a structure in the invariant mass distribution is obtained from an amplitude analysis of decays. The observed…
Search for massive long-lived particles decaying semileptonically at sqrt(s)=13 TeV
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +996
A search is performed for massive long-lived particles (LLP) decaying semileptonically into a muon and two quarks. Two kinds of LLP production processes were considered. In the fir…
Physics case for an LHCb Upgrade II - Opportunities in flavour physics, and beyond, in the HL-LHC era
LHCb collaboration, I. Bediaga, M. Cruz Torres +828
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 LHC…
Measurement of CP violation in the decay and search for the decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +868
A measurement of the time-dependent CP-violating asymmetry in decays is presented. Using a sample of proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integra…
Observation of two resonances in the systems and precise measurement of and properties
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +837
The first observation of two structures consistent with resonances in the final states and is reported using samples of collision data collected by…
Observation of new baryons in the and systems
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1052
The first observation and study of two new baryonic structures in the final state and the confirmation of the state in the decay mo…
Measurement of production in proton-proton collisions at and TeV
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +997
The production cross-section of the state relative to the meson is measured using proton-proton collision data collected with the LHCb experiment at centre…
Angular analysis of the rare decay
LHCb Collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +992
An angular analysis of the rare decay is presented, using proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of $…
Study of meson decays to charmonia plus multihadron final states
LHCb Collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1058
Four decay modes of the meson into a meson and multiple charged kaons or pions are studied using proton-proton collision data, collected with the~LHCb detector at ce…
Search for time-dependent violation in and decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +953
A search for time-dependent violation of the charge-parity symmetry in and decays is performed at the LHCb experiment using proton-proton coll…
Observation of the decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +963
A search for the decay is performed using proton-proton collision data at centre-of-mass energies of , and collected by…
A search for decays
LHCb Collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +848
A search for the baryon through the decay is performed with a data sample corresponding to an integrated lumino…
Test of lepton universality in decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1047
The first simultaneous test of muon-electron universality using and decays is performed, in two r…
Measurements of asymmetries in charmless four-body and decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +841
A search for violation in charmless four-body decays of and baryons with a proton and three charged mesons in the final state is performed. To cancel out produ…
First observation of the decay and a measurement of
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +961
The first observation of the suppressed semileptonic decay is reported. Using a data sample recorded in {\it pp} collisions in 2012 with the LHCb detector,…
Search for violation through an amplitude analysis of decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +845
A search for violation in the Cabibbo-suppressed decay mode is performed using an amplitude analysis. The measurement uses a sample of …
Measurement of production in proton-proton collisions at TeV
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +821
A measurement of production cross-section is presented using data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2 fb, from collisions at $\sqrt{s…
Measurement of asymmetry in decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +955
A measurement of the asymmetry in decays is reported, based on a data sample of proton-proton collisions collected by the LHCb experiment from 2015 to 20…
Observation of an excited state
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +848
Using collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of recorded by the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of , and…
Search for violation in the phase space of decays with the energy test
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1046
A search for violation in decays is reported, using collision data collected by the LHCb experiment from 2015 to 2018 corresponding to an integrate…
Observation of the doubly charmed baryon decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +995
The decay is observed using proton-proton collisions collected by the LHCb experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of $13\mathrm{\,Te\kern -0…
Search for the doubly charmed baryon
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abelán Beteta +905
A search for the doubly charmed baryon is performed through its decay to the final state, using proton-proton collision data collected with the LHCb…
Measurement of the branching fraction and asymmetry in decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +844
The branching fraction and direct asymmetry of the decay are measured using proton-proton collision data collected with the LHCb detector at ce…
Observation of a new state
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +957
Using a proton-proton collision data sample collected by the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 8.5 fb, the observation of a new excited …
Amplitude analysis of decays
LHCb Collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +843
The first untagged decay-time-integrated amplitude analysis of decays is performed using a sample corresponding to $3.0\,…
Measurements of asymmetries and branching fraction ratios of decays to two charm mesons
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1053
The asymmetries of seven decays to two charm mesons are measured using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of of proton-proton collisions c…
First observation of the doubly charmed baryon decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +834
The doubly charmed baryon decay is observed for the first time, with a statistical significance of , confirming a recent observa…
Measurement of the CKM angle in and decays with
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +975
A measurement of -violating observables is performed using the decays and , where the meson is reconstructed in one of the self-conjug…
Measurement of antiproton production in collisions at GeV
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +839
The cross-section for prompt antiproton production in collisions of protons with an energy of TeV incident on helium nuclei at rest is measured with the LHCb experiment from…
Branching fraction measurements of the rare and decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +959
The branching fraction of the rare decay is measured using data collected by the LHCb experiment at center-of-mass energies of , and $13\,\rm{Te…
Measurement of violation in decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +901
The decay-time-dependent asymmetry in decays is measured using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of fb recorded by the L…
Observation of the decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +992
The first observation of the semileptonic -baryon decay , with a significance of , is reported using a data sample corres…
Identification of charm jets at LHCb
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +994
The identification of charm jets is achieved at LHCb for data collected in 2015-2018 using a method based on the properties of displaced vertices reconstructed and matched with jet…
Measurement of charged hadron production in -tagged jets in proton-proton collisions at TeV
LHCb Collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +851
The production of charged hadrons within jets recoiling against a boson is measured in proton-proton collision data at TeV recorded by the LHCb experiment. The cha…
Measurement of -violating and mixing-induced observables in decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +859
A time-dependent analysis of the decay rate is performed to determine the -violating observables and , and the mixing-induced observable $…
Search for the lepton-flavour violating decays and
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1003
A search for the lepton-flavour violating decays and is presented, using proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb…
Search for the rare decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +962
A search for the rare decay is performed using collision data collected with the LHCb detector at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8 and 13 TeV, correspo…
Measurement of variation with proton-proton collision energy and -meson kinematics
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +903
The ratio of the and fragmentation fractions and is studied with and $B^+\to\mathrm…
Precision measurement of the , and baryon lifetimes
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +847
We report measurements of the lifetimes of the , and charm baryons using proton-proton collision data at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8\tev, correspon…
Precision measurement of violation in the penguin-mediated decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1044
A flavor-tagged time-dependent angular analysis of the decay is performed using collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at TeV,…