Heavy Flavour Physics at the LHC

Abstract

A summary of results in heavy flavour physics from Run 1 of the LHC is presented. Topics discussed include spectroscopy, mixing, CP violation and rare decays of charmed and beauty hadrons.

25 pages, 9 figures (total 17 subfigures). Invited review for Comptes Rendus de Physique de l'Academie des Sciences

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• Observation of a resonance-like structure in the pi^+- psi' mass distribution in exclusive B-->K pi^+- psi' decays
• Measurement of the Differential Branching Fraction and Forward-Backword Asymmetry for B->K(*)l+l-
• Observation of the resonant character of the $Z(4430{)}^{-}$ state
• Performance of the LHCb Vertex Locator
• Evidence for a Narrow Near-Threshold Structure in the $J/\psi \varphi$ Mass Spectrum in $B^{+}\to J/\psi \varphi K^{+}$ Decays
• The Exotic XYZ Charmonium-like Mesons
• Measurement of $\boldmath {B_s^0}$ mixing parameters from the flavor-tagged decay
• Strong constraints on the rare decays Bs -> mu+ mu- and B0 -> mu+ mu-
• Measurement of $CP$ asymmetry in $D^0\to K^{-}{K}^{+}$ and $D^0\to {\pi }^{-}{\pi }^{+}$ decays
• Measurement of the isospin asymmetry in $B\to K^{(\ast )}{\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$ decays
• Observation of a new Xi(b) baryon
• Analysis of the resonant components in B0->J/ψpi+pi-
• Measurement of the CP-violating phase ${\varphi }_s$ in ${\overline{B}}_s^0\to J/\psi {\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}$ decays
• Search for the decay Bs0 -> mu mu with the ATLAS detector
• Search for B_s to mu^+ mu^- and B^0 to mu^+ mu^- decays
• Opposite-side flavour tagging of B mesons at the LHCb experiment
• Measurement of the ratio of branching fractions BR(B0 -> K*0 gamma)/BR(Bs0 -> phi gamma) and the direct CP asymmetry in B0 -> K*0 gamma
• Precision measurement of the mass and lifetime of the ${\Xi }_b^0$ baryon
• First observation of the decay $B^{+}\to {\pi }^{+}{\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$
• Flavour tagged time dependent angular analysis of the $B_s\to J/\psi \varphi$ decay and extraction of $\Delta \Gamma$ and the weak phase ${\varphi }_s$ in ATLAS
• Measurement of the CP-violating phase ϕs in Bs->J/ψπ+π- decays
• A model-independent Dalitz plot analysis of $B^{\pm }\to D{K}^{\pm }$ with $D\to K_{\mathrm{S}}^0{h}^{+}{h}^{-}$ ($h=\pi ,K$) decays and constraints on the CKM angle $\gamma$
• Measurement of CP violation parameters in B0->D K*0 decays
• Measurement of the ratio of the production cross sections times branching fractions of Bc+/- to J/psi pi+/- and B+/- to J/psi K+/- and B(Bc+/- to J/psi pi+/- pi+/- pi-/+)/B(Bc+/- to J/psi pi+/-) in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
• Measurement of the time-dependent CP asymmetry in B0 -> J/ψ KS0 decays
• Measurement of the Bs effective lifetime in the J/psi f0(980) final state
• Measurement of the ${\Xi }_b^{-}$ and ${\Omega }_b^{-}$ baryon lifetimes
• Effective lifetime measurements in the $B_s^0\to K^{+}{K}^{-}$, $B^0\to K^{+}{\pi }^{-}$ and $B_s^0\to {\pi }^{+}{K}^{-}$ decays
• Measurement of CP violation in $B_s^0\to \varphi \varphi$ decays
• Evidence for the decay $B_c^{+}\to J/\psi 3{\pi }^{+}2{\pi }^{-}$

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