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Publications (263)

hep-ex2020

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…

astro-ph.GA2022

Gaia Data Release 3: G_RVS photometry from the RVS spectra

P. Sartoretti, O. Marchal, C. Babusiaux +38

Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) contains the first release of magnitudes estimated from the integration of Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) spectra for a sample of about 32.2 million s…

hep-ex2020

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…

hep-ex2020

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…

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-ex2021

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…

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-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-ex2020

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…

hep-ex2020

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…

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-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$…

physics.ins-det2022

Performance of the LHCb RICH detectors during LHC Run 2

R. Calabrese, M. Fiorini, E. Luppi +79

The performance of the ring-imaging Cherenkov detectors at the LHCb experiment is determined during the LHC Run 2 period between 2015 and 2018. The stability of the Cherenkov angle…

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-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-ex2019

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,…

hep-ex2021

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…

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…

astro-ph.GA2018

Gaia Data Release 2: Processing the spectroscopic data

P. Sartoretti, D. Katz, M. Cropper +50

The Gaia Data Release 2 contains the 1st release of radial velocities complementing the kinematic data of a sample of about 7 million relatively bright, late-type stars. Aims: This…

hep-ex2019

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…

physics.acc-ph1999

Beam extraction studies at 900 GeV using a channeling crystal

R. A. Carrigan, D. Chen, G. Jackson +23

Luminosity-driven channeling extraction has been observed for the first time in a 900 GeV study at the Fermilab Tevatron. This experiment, Fermilab E853, demonstrated that useful T…

hep-ex2019

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 $…

hep-ex2019

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…

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-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-ex2021

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…

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-ex2020

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…

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-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-ex2019

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…

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-ex2019

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…

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

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…

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-ex2019

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\,…

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-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-ex2020

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…

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-ex2019

Measurement of observables in the process with two- and four-body decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +876

Measurements of observables in decays are presented, where represents a superposition of and states. The meson is reconstructed i…

hep-ex2019

Near-threshold spectroscopy and observation of a new charmonium state

LHCb Collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +846

Using proton-proton collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9, collected with the~LHCb detector between 2011 and 2018, a new narrow charmonium state,…

hep-ex2020

Measurement of the relative branching fractions of decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +957

The relative branching fractions of decays, where is a pion or kaon, are measured. The analysis is performed with a data sample…

hep-ex2021

Search for long-lived particles decaying to

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +975

Long-lived particles decaying to , with masses between 7 and GeV/c and lifetimes between 2 and ps, are searched for by looking at displaced vertices…

hep-ex2020

Observation of enhanced double parton scattering in proton-lead collisions at TeV

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +992

A study of prompt charm-hadron pair production in proton-lead collisions at TeV is performed using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of ab…

hep-ex2020

Measurement of the angular distribution and the polarisation in collisions

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +912

This paper presents an analysis of the angular distribution and the transverse production polarisation of baryons in proton-proton collisions at…

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…

hep-ex2019

Observation of decays and precision measurements of the masses

LHCb Collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +843

The first observation of the decays is reported, using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $5.2{\text{\,fb}…

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-ex2020

Precision measurement of the meson mass

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +905

A precision measurement of the meson mass is performed using proton-proton collision data collected with the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of and $1…

hep-ex2019

Search for violation in , and decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +848

A search for charge-parity () violation in Cabibbo-suppressed , and decays is reported using proton-proton collision dat…

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-ex2020

Measurement of the production cross-section in collisions at TeV

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +913

Using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of , collected by the LHCb experiment, the production of the state in proton-proton collision…

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-ex2021

Observation of new excited states

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +972

A structure is observed in the mass spectrum in a sample of proton--proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13 TeV, collected with the LHCb detector and…

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…

hep-ex2021

Study of the lineshape of the state

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +965

A study of the lineshape of the state is made using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of fb collected in collisions at centre…

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-ex2020

Observation of new baryons decaying to

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +906

The mass spectrum is studied with a data sample of collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.6 fb colle…

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…

astro-ph.SR2022

Gaia Data Release 3: Hot-star radial velocities

R. Blomme, Y. Fremat, P. Sartoretti +38

The second Gaia data release, DR2, contained radial velocities of stars with effective temperatures up to Teff = 6900 K. The third data release, Gaia DR3, extends this up to Teff =…

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-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-ex2019

Observation of violation in charm decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +848

A search for charge-parity () violation in and decays is reported, using collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity o…

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-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-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-ex2016

Search for decays to the final state

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +730

A search for the decays of the meson to is performed for the first time using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 $\mathrm{fb}^{-1}…

hep-th1995

Integrable Quartic Potentials and Coupled KdV Equations

S. Baker, V. Z. Enolskii, A. P. Fordy

We show a surprising connection between known integrable Hamiltonian systems with quartic potential and the stationary flows of some coupled KdV systems related to fourth order Lax…

hep-ex2019

Search for the rare decay

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +844

A search for the rare leptonic decay is performed using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $4.7…

hep-ex2017

Measurement of asymmetries in and decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +770

A search for violation in and decays is performed using proton-proton collision data, c…

hep-ex2019

Prompt production in collisions at TeV

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +832

The production of baryons produced directly at the interacting point is studied in proton-lead collisions collected with the LHCb detector at the LHC. The data sample corr…

hep-ex2018

First observation of decays and a search for decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +797

A search for decays is performed using collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.8 fb, collected at centre-of-mass ene…

astro-ph.IM2018

Gaia Data Release 2. Calibration and mitigation of electronic offset effects in the data

N. C. Hambly, M. Cropper, S. Boudreault +30

The European Space Agency Gaia satellite was launched into orbit around L2 in December 2013. This ambitious mission has strict requirements on residual systematic errors resulting…

hep-ex2018

Search for excited states

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +792

A search is performed in the invariant mass spectrum of the system for the excited states and using a data s…

hep-ex2017

Prompt and nonprompt J/ production and nuclear modification in Pb collisions at TeV

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +806

The production of J/ mesons is studied in proton-lead collisions at the centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair TeV with the LHCb detector at the LHC…

hep-ex2021

Measurement of the prompt-production cross-section ratio in Pb collisions at = 8.16 TeV

R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta, T. Ackernley +954

This Letter reports the first measurement of prompt and charmonium production in nuclear collisions at Large Hadron Collider energies. The cross-section ratio $…

hep-ex2020

Updated measurement of time-dependent -violating observables in decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +910

The decay-time-dependent asymmetry in decays is measured using proton-proton collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $1.9\,…

hep-ex2018

Search for massive long-lived particles decaying semileptonically in the LHCb detector

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +767

A search is presented for massive long-lived particles decaying into a muon and two quarks. The dataset consists of proton-proton interactions at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8…

hep-ex2020

Measurement of observables in and with decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +904

Measurements of observables in and decays are presented, where represents a superposition of and states. The

hep-ex2018

Measurements of the branching fractions of , , and

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +804

The ratios of the branching fractions of the decays , , and wi…

hep-ex2019

Search for lepton-universality violation in decays

LHCb Collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +846

A measurement of the ratio of branching fractions of the decays and is presented. The proton-proton collision data used correspond to an int…

hep-ex2016

Model-independent evidence for contributions to decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +731

The data sample of decays acquired with the LHCb detector from 7 and 8~TeV collisions, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb, is inspe…

hep-ex2017

First observation of a baryonic decay

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +776

We report the first observation of a baryonic decay, , using proton-proton collision data recorded by the LHCb experim…

hep-ex2021

Observation of new resonances decaying to and

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +953

The first observation of exotic states with a new quark content decaying to the final state is reported with high significance from an amplitude ana…

hep-ex2019

Measurement of the branching fractions of the decays , and

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +841

The branching fractions of the doubly Cabibbo-suppressed decays , and are measured using the dec…

hep-ex2021

Measurement of the shape of the differential decay rate

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +906

The shape of the differential decay rate is obtained as a function of the hadron recoil using proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass…

hep-ex2021

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