R. Gao

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20092026

most citedPerformance of the LHCb RICH detector at the LHC

554 citations · 743 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

hep-ex2026

Angular analysis of the $B^{+} \to π^{+} μ^{+} μ^{-}$ decay

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, M. Abdelfatah +1112

This paper presents the first measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry, $A_{FB}$ , and the flat term, $F_{H}$ , that parameterise the angular distribution of the $B^+\toπ^+μ…

hep-ex2026

Search for the lepton-flavour violating decays $B^{+} \to π^{+} μ^{\pm} e^{\mp}$

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, M. Abdelfatah +1106

The first search for the lepton-flavour violating decays $B^{+} \to π^{+} μ^{\pm} e^{\mp}$ in proton-proton collisions is presented, using data collected by the LHCb experiment between…

hep-ex2025

The Timepix4 Beam Telescope

Kazu Akiba, Jerome Alozy, David Bacher +40

The spatial and temporal performance of a telescope system comprising planar silicon sensors bump-bonded to Timepix4-v2 ASICs are assessed at the CERN SPS using a $180$ ~GeV/ $c$ mix…

hep-ex2023★ 7 cited

Search for $C P$ violation in the phase space of $D^{0} \to π^{-} π^{+} π^{0}$ decays with the energy test

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1046

A search for $C P$ violation in $D^{0} \to π^{-} π^{+} π^{0}$ decays is reported, using $pp$ collision data collected by the LHCb experiment from 2015 to 2018 corresponding to an integrated l…

hep-ex2023★ 1 cited

Study of the Bose-Einstein correlations of same-sign pions in proton-lead collisions

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1045

Correlations of same-sign charged particles are analysed using proton-lead collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV, c…

hep-ex2023★ 67 cited

Test of lepton flavour universality using $B^{0} \to D^{*-} τ^{+} ν_{τ}$ decays with hadronic $τ$ channels

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1051

The branching fraction $B (B^{0} \to D^{*-} τ^{+} ν_{τ})$ is measured relative to that of the normalization mode $B^{0} \to D^{*-} π^{+} π^{-} π^{+}$ using hadronic $τ^+ \to π^+π^-π^+(π^0)\o…

hep-ex2023★ 10 cited

Precision measurement of $CP$ violation in the penguin-mediated decay $B_{s}^{0} \to ϕϕ$

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1044

A flavor-tagged time-dependent angular analysis of the decay $B_{s}^{0} \to ϕϕ$ is performed using $pp$ collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at $s = 13$ TeV, th…

hep-ex2023

Search for $D^{*} (2007)^{0} \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$ in $B^{-} \to π^{-} μ^{+} μ^{-}$ decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1047

The very rare $D^{*} (2007)^{0} \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$ decay is searched for by analysing $B^{-} \to π^{-} μ^{+} μ^{-}$ decays. The analysis uses a sample of beauty mesons produced in proton-proton collisions…

hep-ex2023★ 3 cited

Observation of the $B^{+} \to J / ψ η^{'} K^{+}$ decay

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1049

The $B^{+} \to J / ψ η^{'} K^{+}$ decay is observed for the first time using proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8,…

physics.ins-det2022★ 7 cited

Performance of a prototype TORCH time-of-flight detector

Srishti Bhasin, Thomas Blake, Nicholas Brook +19

TORCH is a novel time-of-flight detector, designed to provide charged particle identification of pions, kaons and protons in the momentum range 2-20 GeV/c over a 9.5 m flight path.…

physics.ins-det2022★ 16 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2022

Picosecond timing of charged particles using the TORCH detector

Maria Flavia Cicala, Srishti Bhasin, Thomas Blake +19

TORCH is a large-area, high-precision time-of-flight (ToF) detector designed to provide charged-particle identification in the 2-20 GeV $/ c$ momentum range. Prompt Cherenkov photons…

physics.ins-det2021

Test-beam demonstration of a TORCH prototype module

J. C. Smallwood, S. Bhasin, T. Blake +18

The TORCH time-of-flight detector is designed to provide a 15 ps timing resolution for charged particles, resulting in $π$ / $K$ particle identification up to 10 GeV/c momentum over…

physics.ins-det2020★ 1 cited

Status of the TORCH Project

N. Harnew, S. Bhasin, T. Blake +17

The TORCH time-of-flight detector will provide particle identification between 2-10 GeV/c momentum over a flight distance of 10 m, and is designed for large-area coverage, up to 30…

physics.ins-det2020★ 4 cited

Test-beam studies of a small-scale TORCH time-of-flight demonstrator

S. Bhasin, T. Blake, N. Brook +16

TORCH is a time-of-flight detector designed to perform particle identification over the momentum range 2 $-$ 10 GeV/c for a 10 m flight path. The detector exploits prompt Cherenkov l…

physics.ins-det2019★ 9 cited

Beam tests of a large-scale TORCH time-of-flight demonstrator

Thomas H. Hancock, Srishti Bhasin, Thomas Blake +16

The TORCH time-of-flight detector is designed to provide particle identification in the momentum range 2-10 GeV/c over large areas. The detector exploits prompt Cherenkov light pro…

physics.ins-det2018★ 1 cited

Status of the TORCH time-of-flight project

Neville Harnew, Srishti Bhasin, Thomas Blake +16

TORCH is a time-of-flight detector, designed to provide charged pi/K particle identification up to a momentum of 10 GeV/c for a 10 m flight path. To achieve this level of performan…

physics.ins-det2018★ 5 cited

TORCH: a large area time-of-flight detector for particle identification

Neville Harnew, Srishti Bhasin, Thomas Blake +16

TORCH is a time-of-flight detector that is being developed for the Upgrade II of the LHCb experiment, with the aim of providing charged particle identification over the momentum ra…

physics.ins-det2018★ 22 cited

Testbeam studies of a TORCH prototype detector

Nicholas Brook, Lucia Castillo García, Thomas Conneely +14

TORCH is a novel time-of-flight detector that has been developed to provide charged-particle identification between 2 and 10 GeV/c momentum. TORCH combines arrival times from multi…

physics.ins-det2012★ 554 cited

Performance of the LHCb RICH detector at the LHC

M. Adinolfi, G. Aglieri Rinella, E. Albrecht +94

The LHCb experiment has been taking data at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN since the end of 2009. One of its key detector components is the Ring-Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) s…

physics.ins-det2010

ISIS2: Pixel Sensor with Local Charge Storage for ILC Vertex Detector

Yiming Li, Chris Damerell, Rui Gao +8

ISIS (In-situ Storage Imaging Sensor) is a novel CMOS sensor with multiple charge storage capability developed for the ILC vertex detector by the Linear Collider Flavour Identifica…

physics.ins-det2009★ 1 cited

Comparison of Measurements of Charge Transfer Inefficiencies in a CCD with High-Speed Column Parallel Readout

Andre Sopczak, Salim Aoulmit, Khaled Bekhouche +16

Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) have been successfully used in several high energy physics experiments over the past two decades. Their high spatial resolution and thin sensitive lay…

physics.ins-det2009★ 35 cited

The LCFIVertex package: vertexing, flavour tagging and vertex charge reconstruction with an ILC vertex detector

LCFI Collaboration, David Bailey, Erik Devetak +58

The precision measurements envisaged at the International Linear Collider (ILC) depend on excellent instrumentation and reconstruction software. The correct identification of heavy…

Angular analysis of the B+→π+μ+μ− decay

Search for the lepton-flavour violating decays B+→π+μ±e∓