Review of Physics Results from the Tevatron: Heavy Flavor Physics

Abstract

We present a review of heavy flavor physics results from the CDF and D0 Collaborations operating at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. A summary of results from Run 1 is included, but we concentrate on legacy results of charm and $b$ physics from Run 2, including results up to Summer 2014.

References added; text tweaked. Article submitted to the International Journal of Modern Physics A (IJMPA) as one of the seven chapters of the special issue on the "Review of Physics at the Tevatron", editor G. Bernardi. This article contains the chapter on the heavy flavor physics part of the review. 53 pages, 32 figures, 276 references

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• Heavy quarkonium: progress, puzzles, and opportunities
• Measurement of the Differential Branching Fraction and Forward-Backword Asymmetry for B->K(*)l+l-
• Evidence for a Narrow Near-Threshold Structure in the $J/\psi \varphi$ Mass Spectrum in $B^{+}\to J/\psi \varphi K^{+}$ Decays
• New Physics and CP Violation in Singly Cabibbo Suppressed D Decays
• Is the X(3872) Production Cross Section at Tevatron Compatible with a Hadron Molecule Interpretation?
• Direct Limits on the Bs Oscillation Frequency
• Measurement of $\boldmath {B_s^0}$ mixing parameters from the flavor-tagged decay
• On the mechanisms of heavy-quarkonium hadroproduction
• Direct observation of the strange b baryon Xi_b^{-}
• Cornering New Physics in b --> s Transitions
• Measurement of the Bc meson mass in the exclusive decay Bc --> Jpsi Pi
• Measurement of the difference of CP-violating asymmetries in D0 -> K+K- and D0 ->pi+pi- decays at CDF
• Observation of the doubly strange b baryon Omega_b-
• Measurement of the lifetime of the B_c meson in the semileptonic decay channel
• Measurement of the polarization of the ${\rm Y}(1S)$ and ${\rm Y}(2S)$ states in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$1.96 TeV
• Measurements of Direct CP Violating Asymmetries in Charmless Decays of Strange Bottom Mesons and Bottom Baryons
• Measurements of the properties of Lambda_c(2595), Lambda_c(2625), Sigma_c(2455), and Sigma_c(2520) baryons
• Lifetime Difference and CP-Violating Phase in the B_s^0 System
• Observation and Properties of L=1 B_1 and B_2* Mesons
• Production of psi(2S) Mesons in ppbar Collisions at 1.96 TeV
• The D0 Silicon Microstrip Tracker
• Measurements of Direct CP-Violating Asymmetries in Charmless Decays of Bottom Baryons
• Measurement of the CP-violation parameter of B^0 mixing and decay with pp(bar) -> mu mu X data
• Search for the Decays $B_{(s)}^0\to e^{+}{\mu }^{-}$ and $B_{(s)}^0\to e^{+}{e}^{-}$ in CDF Run II
• Mass and lifetime measurements of bottom and charm baryons in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}= 1.96 TeV
• Measurement of b hadron lifetimes in exclusive decays containing a J/psi in p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96TeV
• Combined D0 Measurements Constraining the CP-violating Phase and Width Difference in the $B_s^0$ System
• Measurement of Bd mixing using opposite-side flavor tagging
• Search for Bs --> mu+ mu- at D0
• Measurement of the B0_s semileptonic branching ratio to an orbitally excited D_s** state, Br(B0_s -> Ds1(2536) mu nu)
• Measurement of the Lambda_b lifetime using semileptonic decays
• Measurement of the $B_s^0$ Lifetime Using Semileptonic Decays
• Measurement of the Lambda_b^0 lifetime in the exclusive decay Lambda_b^0 -> J/psi Lambda^0 in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV
• Measurement of the Lambda_b lifetime in the exclusive decay Lambda_b to J/psi Lambda
• Search for $B_s\to {\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$ and $B_d\to {\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$ decays with the full CDF Run II data set
• Measurement of CP-violation asymmetries in D0 to Ks pi+ pi-
• Measurement of the $B_c^{-}$ meson lifetime in the decay $B_c^{-}\to J/\psi {\pi }^{-}$
• Study of direct CP violation in $B^{\pm }\to J/\psi K^{\pm }({\pi }^{\pm })$ decays
• Measurement of the angular and lifetime parameters of the decays $B_d^0\to J/\psi K^{\ast 0}$ and $B_s^0\to J/\psi \varphi$
• Measurement of Bs0 --> Ds(*)+ Ds(*)- Branching Ratios
• Search for the rare decay Bs->mumu
• Search for the Rare Decay B0_s -> phi mu^+ mu- with the D0 Detector
• Evidence for the decay B_s^0 --> D_s^(*)D_s^(*) and a measurement of Delta_Gamma_s^CP/Gamma_s
• Upsilonium polarization as a touchstone in understanding the proton dynamics in QCD
• Measurement of the branching fraction Br(Bs -> Ds(*) Ds(*))
• Measurement of the $B^{-}$ lifetime using a simulation free approach for trigger bias correction
• Updated Search for the Flavor-Changing Neutral-Current Decay D^0 \to μ + μ-
• Relative rates of B meson decays into psi(2S) and J/psi mesons
• Search for narrow resonances lighter than ${\rm Y}$ mesons
• Measurement of the direct CP-violating parameter A_CP in the decay D+ -> K- pi+ pi+