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Publications (286)

hep-ex2014

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…

hep-ex2014

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…

hep-ex2016

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…

hep-ex2014

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…

hep-ex2014

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…

hep-ex2015

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…

hep-ex2014

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…

hep-ex2018

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…

hep-ex2015

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…

hep-ex2016

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…

hep-ex2014

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/ψK*0, B0 -> D- pi+ and Bs -> Ds- pi+ decays, usi…

hep-ex2016

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…

hep-ex2017

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…

hep-ex2018

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…

hep-ex2016

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…

hep-ex2018

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…

hep-ex2015

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…

hep-ex2018

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}/…

hep-ex2017

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$…

hep-ex2016

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…

hep-ex2018

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…

hep-ex2015

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…

hep-ex2018

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…

hep-ex2017

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…

hep-ex2017

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…

hep-ex2015

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…

hep-ex2015

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…

hep-ex2015

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…

hep-ex2014

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…

hep-ex2015

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…

hep-ex2017

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…

hep-ex2015

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 <…

hep-ex2014

Observation of the decay

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +696

Decays of the form () are searched for in proton-proton collision data corresponding…

hep-ex2018

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…

hep-ex2015

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…

hep-ex2015

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

hep-ex2015

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…

hep-ex2014

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…

hep-ex2015

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…

hep-ex2014

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…

hep-ex2017

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…

hep-ex2015

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…

hep-ex2019

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…

hep-ex2016

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…

hep-ex2015

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…

hep-ex2019

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…

hep-ex2018

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…

hep-ex2017

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…

hep-ex2016

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…

hep-ex2017

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…

hep-ex2016

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…

hep-ex2016

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…

hep-ex2018

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…

hep-ex2017

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…

hep-ex2019

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…

hep-ex2017

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…

hep-ex2014

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

hep-ex2014

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…

hep-ex2017

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…

hep-ex2018

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…

hep-ex2014

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…

hep-ex2017

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$^{…

hep-ex2017

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…

hep-ex2017

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…

hep-ex2015

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…

hep-ex2014

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…

hep-ex2015

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…

hep-ex2016

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^+ π^-)<1530~MeV/c…

hep-ex2017

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…

nucl-ex2016

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…

hep-ex2014

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…

hep-ex2017

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…

hep-ex2017

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…

hep-ex2014

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…

hep-ex2015

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…

hep-ex2014

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…

hep-ex2014

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 $Ξ_b^0…

hep-ex2014

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…

hep-ex2018

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…

hep-ex2018

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-…

hep-ex2015

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…

hep-ex2017

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…

hep-ex2018

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…

nucl-ex2016

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…

hep-ex2017

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…

hep-ex2017

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…

hep-ex2018

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…

hep-ex2017

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 $Ξ…

hep-ex2016

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…

hep-ex2016

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…

hep-ex2017

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…

hep-ex2018

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…

hep-ex2014

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…

hep-ex2017

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…

hep-ex2018

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…

hep-ex2015

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…

hep-ex2018

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…

hep-ex2014

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…

hep-ex2017

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…

hep-ex2017

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…