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Publications (38)

hep-ex2014

Search for new -like particles produced in association with a -lepton pair

The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, others

We report on a search in annihilations for new -like particles produced in association with a -lepton pair. These objects, with a similar mass and similar decay…

cs.CV2025

NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Video Quality Enhancement for Video Conferencing: Datasets, Methods and Results

Varun Jain, Zongwei Wu, Quan Zou +5

This paper presents a comprehensive review of the 1st Challenge on Video Quality Enhancement for Video Conferencing held at the NTIRE workshop at CVPR 2025, and highlights the prob…

hep-ex2015

Dalitz plot analyses of and decays

The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, others

We present Dalitz plot analyses for the decays of mesons to and . We report the observation of the resonance in these…

hep-ex2013

Search for CP violation in the Decays , , and

The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, others

We report a search for CP violation in the decay modes , , and $D_s^{\pm}\to K^0_{\scr…

hep-ex2013

Study of the invariant-mass dependence of CP asymmetry in decays

The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, others

As a followup to the latest BABAR amplitude analysis of the decay , we investigate the invariant-mass dependence of the CP asymmetry and comp…

hep-ex2012

Search for resonances decaying to eta_c pi+ pi- in two-photon interactions

The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, others

We report a study of the process gamma gamma -> X -> eta_c pi+ pi-, where X stands for one of the resonances chi_{c2}(1P), eta_c(2S), X(3872), X(3915), or chi_{c2}(2P). The analysi…

hep-ex2013

Time-Integrated Luminosity Recorded by the BABAR Detector at the PEP-II e+e- Collider

The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, others

We describe a measurement of the time-integrated luminosity of the data collected by the BABAR experiment at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e- collider at the Upsilon(4S), Upsilon(…

hep-ex2012

Measurement of D0-D0bar Mixing and CP Violation in Two-Body D0 Decays

J. P. Lees, others

We present a measurement of D0-D0bar mixing and CP violation using the ratio of lifetimes simultaneously extracted from a sample of D0 mesons produced through the flavor-tagged pro…

hep-ex2013

Search for Supersymmetry with Like-Sign Lepton-Tau Events at CDF

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, others

We present a search for chargino-neutralino associated production using like electric charge dilepton events collected by the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron in proton-ant…

physics.plasm-ph2013

Pre-conceptual Design Assessment of DEMO Remote Maintenance

A. Loving, O. Crofts, N. Sykes +9

EDFA, as part of the Power Plant Physics and Technology programme, has been working on the pre-conceptual design of a Demonstration Power Plant (DEMO). As part of this programme, a…

hep-ex2013

Observation of direct CP violation in the measurement of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa angle gamma with B+- --> D(*)K(*)+- decays

The BABAR Collaboration, J. -P. Lees, others

We report the determination of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa CP-violating angle gamma through the combination of various measurements involving B^{+-} --> D K^{+-}, B^{+-} --> D^{*…

hep-ex2014

Measurement of the B->Xsl+l- branching fraction and search for direct CP violation from a sum of exclusive final states

The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, others

We present a measurement of the total branching fraction of the flavor-changing neutral-current process B->Xsl+l-, along with partial branching fractions in bins of dilepton and ha…

eess.IV2020

NTIRE 2020 Challenge on Spectral Reconstruction from an RGB Image

Boaz Arad, Radu Timofte, Ohad Ben-Shahar +4

This paper reviews the second challenge on spectral reconstruction from RGB images, i.e., the recovery of whole-scene hyperspectral (HS) information from a 3-channel RGB image. As…

cs.NI2019

Computation Resource Leasing for Priority Aggregation Local Computing Network

Chao Ren, Haijun Zhang, Jingze Hou +1

In large scale smart edge networks, computation resource is generally underutilized due to the uneven distribution of computation resource in time and space domain. This may corres…

hep-ex2015

Search for Long-Lived Particles in Collisions

J. P. Lees, others

We present a search for a neutral, long-lived particle that is produced in collisions and decays at a significant distance from the interaction point into var…

astro-ph.SR2014

Verification of Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution with Big-Bang Nucleosyntheis theory

S. Q. Hou, J. J. He, others

The current Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) model has been constructed based on a nuclear reaction network operating with thermal reactivities of Maxwell-Boltzmann (MB) distribution…

hep-ex2013

Combination of searches for the Higgs boson using the full CDF data set

CDF Collaboration, T. Aaltonen, others

We present a combination of searches for the standard model Higgs boson using the full CDF Run II data set, which corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 9.45--10.0 fb co…

hep-ex2014

Study of CP asymmetry in B0-B0bar mixing with inclusive dilepton events

The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, others

We present a measurement of the asymmetry between same-sign inclusive dilepton samples and () from semileptonic B decays in Y(…

hep-ex2014

Evidence for the baryonic decay B0bar --> D0 Lambda Lambdabar

The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, others

Evidence is presented for the baryonic meson decay based on a data sample of pairs collected with the {\it BABAR}…

hep-ex2016

Collins asymmetries in inclusive charged and pairs produced in annihilation

B. Aubert, others

We present measurements of Collins asymmetries in the inclusive process , , at the center-of-mass energy of 10.6 GeV, using…

hep-ex2013

Search for lepton-number violating B+ -> X- l+ l'+ decays

J. P. Lees, others, The BABAR Collaboration

We report on a search for eleven lepton-number violating processes B+ -> X- l+ l'+ with X- = K-, pi-, rho-, K*- or D- and l+/l'+ = e+ or mu+, using a sample of 471+/-3 million BBba…

hep-ex2013

Precision Measurement of the e+e- --> K+K-(gamma) Cross Section with the Initial-State Radiation Method at BaBar

The BaBar Collaboration, J. P. Lees, others

A precise measurement of the cross section for the process e+e- --> K+K-(gamma) from threshold to an energy of 5 GeV is obtained with the initial-state radiation (ISR) method using…

hep-ex2013

Production of charged pions, kaons and protons in e+e- annihilations into hadrons at sqrt{s} = 10.54 GeV

The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, others

Inclusive production cross sections of , and per hadronic annihilation event in are measured at a center-of-mass energy of 10.54 GeV, u…

hep-ex2013

Measurement of an Excess of B -> D(*) Tau Nu Decays and Implications for Charged Higgs Bosons

The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, others

Based on the full BaBar data sample, we report improved measurements of the ratios R(D(*)) = B(B -> D(*) Tau Nu)/B(B -> D(*) l Nu), where l is either e or mu. These ratios are sens…

hep-ex2013

Measurement of the e+e- --> p anti-p cross section in the energy range from 3.0 to 6.5 GeV

The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, others

The e+ e- --> p anti-p cross section and the proton magnetic form factor have been measured in the center-of-mass energy range from 3.0 to 6.5 GeV using the initial-state-radiation…

hep-ex2011

Observation and study of the baryonic B-meson decays B to D(*) p pbar (pi) (pi)

The BABAR Collaboration, del Amo Sanchez, others

We present results for B-meson decay modes involving a charm meson, protons, and pions using 455 x 10^6 BBbar pairs recorded by the BaBar detector at the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric-ene…

hep-ex2015

Time-dependent analysis of decays and studies of the system in decays

P. del Amo Sanchez, others

We measure the time-dependent asymmetry in the radiative-penguin decay , using a sample of million $Î¥(4S) \to B{\kern 0.18em\overline{\k…

hep-ex2012

Search for a Low-Mass Scalar Higgs Boson Decaying to a Tau Pair in Single-Photon Decays of Upsilon(1S)

J. P. Lees, others

We search for a low-mass scalar CP-odd Higgs boson, A0, produced in the radiative decay of the Upsilon resonance and decaying into a tau+tau- pair: Upsilon(1S)->gamma A0. The produ…

hep-ex2013

Search for a light Higgs boson decaying to two gluons or ss-bar in the radiative decays of Y(1S)

The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, others

We search for the decay Y(1S) -> gamma A0, A0 -> gg or ss-bar, where A0 is the pseudoscalar light Higgs boson predicted by the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model. We use…

hep-ex2012

Search for the Decay D0 -> gamma gamma and Measurement of the Branching Fraction for D0 -> pi0 pi0

The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, others

We search for the rare decay of the meson to two photons, , and present a measurement of the branching fraction for a meson decaying to two neut…

hep-ex2013

Measurement of the B+ --> omega l+ nu branching fraction with semileptonically tagged B mesons

The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, others

We report a measurement of the branching fraction of the exclusive charmless semileptonic decay B+ --> omega l+ nu, where l is either an electron or a muon. We use samples of B+ me…

astro-ph.HE2016

Search for transient gravitational waves in coincidence with short duration radio transients during 2007-2013

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, others +999

We present an archival search for transient gravitational-wave bursts in coincidence with 27 single pulse triggers from Green Bank Telescope pulsar surveys, using the LIGO, Virgo a…

math.RA2021

Characterization of Jordan centralizers and Jordan two-sided centralizers on triangular rings without assuming unity

Amin Hosseini, others

The main purpose of this paper is to show that every Jordan centralizer and every Jordan two-sided centralizer is a centralizer on triangular rings without assuming unity. As an ap…

hep-ex2016

Measurement of the I=1/2 -wave amplitude from Dalitz plot analyses of in two-photon interactions

The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, others

We study the processes and using a data sample of 519~ recorded with the BaBar detector operating at the SLAC PEP-II…

hep-ex2013

A Search for the Rare Decays B --> pi l+l- and B0 --> eta l+l-

The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, others

We present the results of a search for the rare flavor-changing neutral-current decays B --> pi l+l- (pi=pi+/-, pi0 and l = e,mu) and B0 --> eta l+l- using a sample of e+e- --> Y(4…

hep-ex2011

Study of Upsilon(3S,2S) -> eta Upsilon(1S) and Upsilon(3S,2S) -> pi+pi- Upsilon(1S) hadronic trasitions

The BABAR Collaboration, J. P. Lees, others

We study the Upsilon(3S,2S)->eta Upsilon(1S) and Upsilon(3S,2S)->pi+pi- Upsilon(1S) transitions with 122 million Upsilon(3S) and 100 million Upsilon(2S) mesons collected by the BaB…

hep-ex2019

Observation of the decay

BaBar Collaboration, J. P. Lees, others

We report the observation of the rare charm decay , based on fb of annihilation data collected at or close to the center-of-mass…

astro-ph.IM2016

Gaia Data Release 1, Pre-processing and source list creation

C. Fabricius, U. Bastian, J. Portell +1

The first data release from the Gaia mission contains accurate positions and magnitudes for more than a billion sources, and proper motions and parallaxes for the majority of the 2…