Publications (286)
First observation of a baryonic decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +699
A baryonic decay of the meson, , is observed for the first time, with a significance of standard deviations, in collision data co…
First measurement of the charge asymmetry in beauty-quark pair production at a hadron collider
R. Aaij, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi +700
The difference in the angular distributions between beauty quarks and antiquarks, referred to as the charge asymmetry, is measured for the first time in pair production…
A model-independent confirmation of the state
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +723
The decay is analyzed using of collision data collected with the LHCb detector. A model-independent description of the mass…
Measurement of the CP-violating phase in decays and limits on penguin effects
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +697
Time-dependent CP violation is measured in the channel for each resonant final state using data collected with an integrated luminosity of…
Measurement of CP asymmetry in decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +698
We report on measurements of the time-dependent CP violating observables in decays using a dataset corresponding to 1.0 fb of pp collisi…
Angular analysis of the decay in the low- region
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +703
An angular analysis of the decay is performed using a data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 ${\mbox{fb}^{-1}}$, collected b…
Evidence for the decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +686
Evidence is presented for the decay using proton-proton collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3fb, collected with the…
Evidence for the decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +788
A search for the decay is presented using data sets corresponding to 1.0, 2.0 and 1.6 of integrated luminosity co…
Measurement of violation in decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +704
Measurements are presented of the violation observables and in the decays of and mesons to the final state. The data sample corres…
Amplitude analysis of decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +763
The Dalitz plot analysis technique is used to study the resonant substructures of decays in a data sample corresponding to 3.0 of $p…
Measurement of the B0bar-B0 and Bsbar-Bs production asymmetries in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +700
The B0bar-B0 and Bsbar-Bs production asymmetries, AP(B0) and AP(Bs), are measured by means of a time-dependent analysis of B0 -> J/ÏK*0, B0 -> D- pi+ and Bs -> Ds- pi+ decays, usi…
Model-independent measurement of the CKM angle using decays with and
R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta, B. Adeva +727
A binned Dalitz plot analysis of the decays , with and , is performed to measure the observables $x_\pm…
Measurement of forward , and production in collisions at TeV
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +767
The production of , and is studied in the forward region of proton-proton collisions collected at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 Te…
Observation of the decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +730
The decay is observed using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0fb recorded by the LHCb experiment. The decay proceeds at leading order via…
Model-independent measurement of mixing parameters in decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +724
The first model-independent measurement of the charm mixing parameters in the decay is reported, using a sample of collision data recorded by the LHCb…
Measurement of forward top pair production in the dilepton channel in collisions at TeV
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +791
Forward top quark pair production is studied in collisions in the final state using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.93 fb collected…
Study of the rare and decays into the final state
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +699
A search for the rare decays and is performed in a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb colle…
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 $\pm 15 \textrm{MeV}/…
Observation of the decays and
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +776
The first observation of the decays and is reported using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of fb$…
Measurement of forward production in collisions at TeV
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +763
A measurement of the cross-section for production in collisions is presented using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of fb collected by th…
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…
Measurement of indirect asymmetries in and decays using semileptonic decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +707
Time-dependent asymmetries in the decay rates of the singly Cabibbo-suppressed decays and are measured in collision data…
Search for the rare decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +792
A search for the flavor-changing neutral-current decay is reported using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of collect…
Measurement of the polarizations in collisions at =7 and 8TeV
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +801
The polarization of the , and mesons, produced in collisions at centre-of-mass energies =7 and 8TeV, is measured using data samples collect…
Measurement of the production cross-section in pp collisions at 7 and 13 TeV
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +796
The production of mesons is studied in collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 13 TeV, using decays and data samples correspo…
Angular analysis and differential branching fraction of the decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +722
An angular analysis and a measurement of the differential branching fraction of the decay are presented, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity o…
Measurement of the exclusive production cross-section in collisions at 7 TeV and 8 TeV
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +705
A study is presented of central exclusive production of states, where the resonances decay to the final state, using collision data recorded by th…
Study of boson production in association with beauty and charm
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +722
The associated production of a boson with a jet originating from either a light parton or heavy-flavor quark is studied in the forward region using proton-proton collisions. Th…
First observations of the rare decays and
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +697
First observations of the rare decays and are presented using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of…
Observation of resonances consistent with pentaquark states in decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +720
Observations of exotic structures in the channel, that we refer to as pentaquark-charmonium states, in decays are presented. The data sample correspon…
Measurements of prompt charm production cross-sections in collisions at
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +724
Production cross-sections of prompt charm mesons are measured with the first data from collisions at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of . The data sample…
Measurement of the production cross-section in proton-proton collisions via the decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +705
The production of the state in proton-proton collisions is probed via its decay to the final state with the LHCb detector, in the rapidity range $2.0 < y <…
Observation of the decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +696
Decays of the form () are searched for in proton-proton collision data corresponding…
Search for decays to two charm mesons
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +791
A search for decays of mesons to two charm mesons is performed for the first time using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb, collected by the LH…
Search for the decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +705
A search for decays is performed using of collision data recorded by the LHCb experiment during 2011 and 2012. Th…
First observation and measurement of the branching fraction for the decay
LHCb Collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +697
The first observation of the decay is reported using 3.0 of proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment. The …
Measurement of the time-integrated asymmetry in decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +722
The time-integrated asymmetry in the decay is measured using of proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at centre-of-ma…
Measurement of the CP-violating phase in decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +697
The mixing-induced CP-violating phase in and decays is measured using the final state in data, taken from 3\,fb of integra…
Forward production of mesons in collisions at and 8TeV
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +720
The production of mesons in collisions at and is studied with the LHCb detector using data samples corresponding to an integrated luminosity o…
Test of lepton universality using decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +697
A measurement of the ratio of the branching fractions of the and decays is presented using proton-proton col…
Measurement of the pair production cross-section in collisions at
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +763
The production cross-section of pairs is measured using a data sample of collisions collected by the LHCb experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} = 13 \,{\ma…
Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry in $Z/γ^{\ast} \rightarrow μ^{+}μ^{-}$ decays and determination of the effective weak mixing angle
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +722
The forward-backward charge asymmetry for the process $q\bar{q} \rightarrow Z/γ^{\ast} \rightarrow μ^{+}μ^{-}$ is measured as a function of the invariant mass of the dimuon syst…
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…
First observation of the decay in the - region of the dimuon mass spectrum
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +730
A study of the decay is performed using data collected by the LHCb detector in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 T…
Observation of the decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +703
The first observation of the decay is reported. The study is based on a sample of proton-proton collisions corresponding to of integrated lum…
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 the inelastic cross-section at a centre-of-mass energy of 13\,TeV
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +782
The cross-section for inelastic proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13\,TeV is measured with the LHCb detector. The fiducial cross-section for inelastic interact…
Search for the decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +763
A search for the charmless decay is performed using collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of and TeV…
Evidence for exotic hadron contributions to decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +739
A full amplitude analysis of decays is performed with a data sample acquired with the LHCb detector from 7 and 8 TeV collisions, corresponding to an in…
Measurement of the branching fraction and effective lifetime and search for decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +771
A search for the rare decays and is performed at the LHCb experiment using data collected in collisions corresponding to a total integrated…
First observation of the decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +713
A search for decays is performed using collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of , collected…
Study of the production of and hadrons in collisions and first measurement of the branching fraction
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +722
The product of the () differential production cross-section and the branching fraction of the decay ($\overline{B}^0\rightarro…
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…
Study of correlations in high energy proton-proton collisions
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +802
Kinematic correlations for pairs of beauty hadrons, produced in high energy proton-proton collisions, are studied. The data sample used was collected with the LHCb experiment at ce…
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…
Search for structure in the invariant mass spectrum
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +761
The invariant mass distribution is investigated in order to search for possible exotic meson states. The analysis is based on a data sample recorded with the LHCb det…
Observation of and evidence for decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +700
Measurements of the branching fractions of and decays are performed using a data sample corresponding to …
Measurement of the inelastic cross-section at a centre-of-mass energy of TeV
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +699
The cross-section for inelastic proton-proton collisions, with at least one prompt long-lived charged particle of transverse momentum GeV/ in the pseudorapidity…
Search for decays of neutral beauty mesons into four muons
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +768
A search for the non-resonant decays and is presented. The measurement is performed using th…
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…
Measurement of the mass and of the relative rate of and production
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +696
The production of mesons in proton-proton collisions is studied using a data sample collected by the LHCb detector, at centre-of-mass energies of and TeV an…
Improved limit on the branching fraction of the rare decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +767
A search for the decay is performed, based on a data sample of proton-proton collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb$^{…
Measurement of the ratio of branching fractions
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +755
The ratio of branching fractions is measured with collision data collected by the…
Observation of decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +764
A search for the decays and is performed with data collected at the LHCb experiment corresponding to an integrated lumi…
Measurement of the forward boson production cross-section in collisions at = 7 TeV
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +705
A measurement of the production cross-section for bosons that decay to muons is presented. The data were recorded by the LHCb detector during collisions at a centre-of-mas…
Precision measurement of violation in decays
R. Aaij, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi +696
The time-dependent asymmetry in decays is measured using collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of fb, collected wit…
Search for long-lived particles decaying to jet pairs
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +699
A search is presented for long-lived particles with a mass between 25 and 50 GeV and a lifetime between 1 and 200 ps in a sample of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-ma…
Differential branching fraction and angular moments analysis of the decay in the region
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +762
Measurements of the differential branching fraction and angular moments of the decay in the invariant mass range $1330<m(K^+ Ï^-)<1530~MeV/c…
First experimental study of photon polarization in radiative decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +765
The polarization of photons produced in radiative decays is studied for the first time. The data are recorded by the LHCb experiment in collisions corresponding to…
Study of production and cold nuclear matter effects in pPb collisions at
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +732
The production of mesons is studied in dimuon final states using proton-lead collision data collected by the LHCb detector. The data sample corresponds to an integrated lu…
Study of beauty hadron decays into pairs of charm hadrons
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. Abba +694
First observations of the decays are reported using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of collected at 7 and 8 TeV cent…
Observation of the suppressed decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +768
The suppressed decay , excluding the and resonances, is observed for the first time with a signif…
Measurement of the violation parameter in and decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +769
Asymmetries in the time-dependent rates of and decays are measured in a collision data sample collected with the LHCb detector during LHC R…
Measurement of violation and constraints on the CKM angle in with decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +695
A model-dependent amplitude analysis of with decays is performed using proton-proton collision data, corresponding t…
Amplitude analysis of decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +716
The Dalitz plot distribution of decays is studied using a data sample corresponding to of collision data recorded by the…
Angular analysis of charged and neutral decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +691
The angular distributions of the rare decays and are studied with data corresponding to 3fb of integ…
Precision measurement of the mass and lifetime of the baryon
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +701
Using a proton-proton collision data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb collected by LHCb at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, about 3800 $Î_b^0…
Precision luminosity measurements at LHCb
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +701
Measuring cross-sections at the LHC requires the luminosity to be determined accurately at each centre-of-mass energy . In this paper results are reported from the lumino…
Measurement of the -quark production cross-section in 7 and 13 TeV collisions
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +766
Measurements of the cross-section for producing \bquark quarks in the reaction are reported in 7 and 13 TeV collisions at the LHC as a function of the pseudorapi…
First observation of forward production in collisions at TeV
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +804
The decay is reconstructed in collision data, corresponding to 2 fb of integrated luminosity, collected by the LHCb experiment at a centre-of-…
Search for the rare decays and
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +725
A search for the rare decay of a or meson into the final state is performed, using data collected by the LHCb experiment in collisions at $\sqrt{s…
Search for the suppressed decays and
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +761
A search is made for the highly-suppressed B meson decays and using a data sample corresponding to an integ…
Search for beautiful tetraquarks in the invariant-mass spectrum
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +836
The invariant-mass distribution is investigated for a possible exotic meson state composed of two quarks and two quarks, $X_{b\overline{b}b\over…
Measurements of long-range near-side angular correlations in TeV proton-lead collisions in the forward region
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +732
Two-particle angular correlations are studied in proton-lead collisions at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy of TeV, collected with the LHCb detector…
Study of production in jets
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +774
The production of mesons in jets is studied in the forward region of proton-proton collisions using data collected with the LHCb detector at a center-of-mass energy of 13 Te…
Observation of the decay and evidence for
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +762
A study of and decays is performed using collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0$\,\rm fb…
Search for violation in and decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +834
A search for violation in and decays is presented using a sample of collisions collected with the LHCb detector and corresponding…
Observation of five new narrow states decaying to
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +772
The mass spectrum is studied with a sample of collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.3 fb, collected by the LHCb experiment. The $Î…
Observation of and search for decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +750
The first observation of the decay is reported using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of recorde…
A new algorithm for identifying the flavour of mesons at LHCb
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +732
A new algorithm for the determination of the initial flavour of mesons is presented. The algorithm is based on two neural networks and exploits the hadron production me…
Measurement of the ratio of branching fractions and difference in asymmetries of the decays and
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +764
The ratio of branching fractions and the difference in asymmetries of the decays and are measured using a data sample of collisions col…
Observation of the decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +787
The decay is observed using collision data collected with the LHCb detector at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, corr…
Study of mixing from measurement of ~decay rates
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +701
A study of ~and meson decays into ~and final states is performed using a data set of proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7…
Observation of structures consistent with exotic states from amplitude analysis of decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +751
The first full amplitude analysis of with , decays is performed with a data sample of 3 fb of collision data collecte…
Observation of the decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +834
The Cabibbo-suppressed decay is observed for the first time using a data sample collected by the LHCb experiment in proton-proton collisions correspo…
Evidence for the strangeness-changing weak decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +724
Using a collision data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0~fb, collected by the LHCb detector, we present the first search for the strangeness-chang…
Measurement of the asymmetry in and decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +787
The asymmetry in and decays is measured using LHCb data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb, collected in collisi…
Measurement of asymmetries in the decays and
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +698
The direct asymmetries of the decays and are measured using collision data corresponding to an inte…
Updated search for long-lived particles decaying to jet pairs
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +766
A search is presented for long-lived particles with a mass between 25 and 50 GeV/ and a lifetime between 2 and 500 ps, using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an i…
Measurement of forward production cross-sections in collisions at TeV
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +722
The production of mesons in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of TeV is studied with the \lhcb detector. Cross-section measurements are perfo…