N. Skidmore

activity

20132026

most citedTest of lepton universality using

B^{+} \to K^{+} ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}

decays

952 citations · 2.3k across the 34 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

36 papers

hep-ex2026

Decorrelation of neural networks from particle lifetimes in the LHCb topological $b$ trigger

Johannes Albrecht, Alessandro Bertolin, James Connaughton +13

The LHCb topological beauty trigger is the primary set of algorithms for selecting collision events containing $b$ -hadrons in the fully software-based LHCb trigger. The algorithms…

hep-ex2025★ 8 cited

Physics Briefing Book: Input for the 2026 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics

Jorge de Blas, Monica Dunford, Emanuele Bagnaschi +127

The European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP) reflects the vision and presents concrete plans of the European particle physics community for advancing human knowledge in fundam…

hep-ex2025★ 20 cited

The LHCb Stripping Project: Sustainable Legacy Data Processing for High-Energy Physics

Nathan Grieser, Eduardo Rodrigues, Niladri Sahoo +3

The LHCb Stripping project is a pivotal component of the experiment's data processing framework, designed to refine vast volumes of collision data into manageable samples for offli…

hep-ex2025★ 6 cited

The LHCb Sprucing and Analysis Productions

Ahmed Abdelmotteleb, Alessandro Bertolin, Chris Burr +11

The LHCb detector underwent a comprehensive upgrade in preparation for the third data-taking run of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), known as LHCb Upgrade I. The increased data rat…

physics.ins-det2025

A Comprehensive Bandwidth Testing Framework for the LHCb Upgrade Trigger System

Luke Grazette, Ross Hunter, Ella Noomen +4

The LHCb experiment at CERN has undergone a comprehensive upgrade, including a complete re-design of the trigger system into a hybrid-architecture, software-only system that delive…

hep-ex2025

LHCb Stripping Project: Continuing to Fully and Efficiently Utilize Legacy Data

Nathan Grieser, Federico Leo Redi, Eduardo Rodrigues +5

The LHCb collaboration continues to heavily utilize the Run 1 and Run 2 legacy datasets well into Run 3. As the operational focus shifts from the legacy data to the live Run 3 samp…

hep-ex2024

Analysis Facilities White Paper

D. Ciangottini, A. Forti, L. Heinrich +63

This white paper presents the current status of the R&D for Analysis Facilities (AFs) and attempts to summarize the views on the future direction of these facilities. These views h…

hep-ph2024

Reappraisal of SU(3)-flavor breaking in $B \to D P$

Jonathan Davies, Stefan Schacht, Nicola Skidmore +1

In light of recently found deviations of the experimental data from predictions from QCD factorization for $B_{(s)} \to D_{(s)} P$ decays, where $P = {π, K}$ , we systematicall…

hep-ex2023

Training and Onboarding initiatives in High Energy Physics experiments

S. Hageboeck, A. Reinsvold Hall, N. Skidmore +16

In this paper we document the current analysis software training and onboarding activities in several High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments: ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, Belle II and DUNE. Fa…

hep-ex2022

Second Analysis Ecosystem Workshop Report

Mohamed Aly, Jackson Burzynski, Bryan Cardwell +66

The second workshop on the HEP Analysis Ecosystem took place 23-25 May 2022 at IJCLab in Orsay, to look at progress and continuing challenges in scaling up HEP analysis to meet the…

hep-ex2022★ 1 cited

Constraints on future analysis metadata systems in High Energy Physics

T. J. Khoo, A. Reinsvold Hall, N. Skidmore +22

In High Energy Physics (HEP), analysis metadata comes in many forms -- from theoretical cross-sections, to calibration corrections, to details about file processing. Correctly appl…

hep-ph2021★ 1 cited

Testing the Standard Model with CP-asymmetries in flavour-specific non-leptonic decays

Tim Gershon, Alexander Lenz, Aleksey V. Rusov +1

Motivated by recent indications that the rates of colour-allowed non-leptonic channels are not in agreement with their Standard Model expectations based on QCD factorisation, we in…

physics.ins-det2021★ 20 cited

A Comparison of CPU and GPU implementations for the LHCb Experiment Run 3 Trigger

R. Aaij, M. Adinolfi, S. Aiola +157

The LHCb experiment at CERN is undergoing an upgrade in preparation for the Run 3 data taking period of the LHC. As part of this upgrade the trigger is moving to a fully software i…

hep-ex2018

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-ex2017★ 48 cited

Measurement of the shape of the $Λ_{b}^{0} \to Λ_{c}^{+} μ^{-} ν$ differential decay rate

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +801

A measurement of the shape of the differential decay rate and the associated Isgur-Wise function for the decay $Λ_{b}^{0} \to Λ_{c}^{+} μ^{-} ν$ is reported, using data corresponding to…

hep-ex2017★ 38 cited

Amplitude Analyses of $D^{0} \to π^{+} π^{-} π^{+} π^{-}$ and $D^{0} \to K^{+} K^{-} π^{+} π^{-}$ Decays

Philippe d'Argent, Nicola Skidmore, Jack Benton +6

The resonant substructure of $D^{0} \to π^{+} π^{-} π^{+} π^{-}$ decays is studied using data collected by the CLEO-c detector. An amplitude analysis is performed in order to disentangle the va…

hep-ex2017★ 14 cited

Observation of the decay $B_{s}^{0} \to η_{c} ϕ$ and evidence for $B_{s}^{0} \to η_{c} π^{+} π^{-}$

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +762

A study of $B_{s}^{0} \to η_{c} ϕ$ and $B_{s}^{0} \to η_{c} π^{+} π^{-}$ decays is performed using $pp$ collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0$\,\rm fb^{-1}…

hep-ex2016

Amplitude analysis of $D^{0} \to π^{+} π^{-} π^{+} π^{-}$ decays using CLEO-c data

Philippe d'Argent, Jack Benton, Jeremy Dalseno +6

The resonant substructure of the decay $D^{0} \to π^{+} π^{-} π^{+} π^{-}$ is studied by performing a full five-dimensional amplitude analysis. Preliminary results based on…

hep-ex2016★ 13 cited

Measurement of the $B_{s}^{0} \to J / ψ η$ lifetime

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +753

Using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $3 f b^{- 1}$ , collected by the LHCb experiment in $pp$ collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, the effect…

hep-ex2016★ 11 cited

Observation of the $B_{s}^{0} \to J / ψ ϕϕ$ decay

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +721

The $B_{s}^{0} \to J / ψ ϕϕ$ decay is observed in $pp$ collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb $^{- 1}$ recorded by the LHCb detector at centre-of-mass ener…

hep-ex2015★ 9 cited

Search for the rare decays $B^{0} \to J / ψ γ$ and $B_{s}^{0} \to J / ψ γ$

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +725

A search for the rare decay of a $B^{0}$ or $B_{s}^{0}$ meson into the final state $J / ψ γ$ is performed, using data collected by the LHCb experiment in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=…

hep-ex2015★ 27 cited

Measurement of $C P$ violation parameters and polarisation fractions in $B_{s}^{0} \to J / ψ K^{* 0}$ decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +721

The first measurement of $C P$ asymmetries in the decay $B_{s}^{0} \to J / ψ K^{*} (892)^{0}$ and an updated measurement of its branching fraction and polarisation fractions…

hep-ex2015★ 25 cited

Measurement of the branching fraction ratio $B (B_{c}^{+} \to ψ (2 S) π^{+}) / B (B_{c}^{+} \to J / ψ π^{+})$

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +721

Using $pp$ collision data collected by LHCb at center-of-mass energies $s$ = 7 TeV and 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb $^{- 1}$ , the ratio of the bran…

hep-ex2015★ 313 cited

Angular analysis and differential branching fraction of the decay $B_{s}^{0} \to ϕ μ^{+} μ^{-}$

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +722

An angular analysis and a measurement of the differential branching fraction of the decay $B_{s}^{0} \to ϕ μ^{+} μ^{-}$ are presented, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $…

Decorrelation of neural networks from particle lifetimes in the LHCb topological b trigger

Physics Briefing Book: Input for the 2026 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics

The LHCb Stripping Project: Sustainable Legacy Data Processing for High-Energy Physics

The LHCb Sprucing and Analysis Productions

A Comprehensive Bandwidth Testing Framework for the LHCb Upgrade Trigger System

LHCb Stripping Project: Continuing to Fully and Efficiently Utilize Legacy Data

Analysis Facilities White Paper

Reappraisal of SU(3)-flavor breaking in B→DP

Training and Onboarding initiatives in High Energy Physics experiments

Second Analysis Ecosystem Workshop Report

Constraints on future analysis metadata systems in High Energy Physics

Testing the Standard Model with CP-asymmetries in flavour-specific non-leptonic decays

A Comparison of CPU and GPU implementations for the LHCb Experiment Run 3 Trigger

Physics case for an LHCb Upgrade II - Opportunities in flavour physics, and beyond, in the HL-LHC era

Measurement of the shape of the Λb0​→Λc+​μ−ν differential decay rate

Amplitude Analyses of D0→π+π−π+π− and D0→K+K−π+π− Decays

Observation of the decay Bs0​→ηc​ϕ and evidence for Bs0​→ηc​π+π−

Amplitude analysis of D0→π+π−π+π− decays using CLEO-c data

Measurement of the Bs0​→J/ψη lifetime

Observation of the Bs0​→J/ψϕϕ decay

Search for the rare decays B0→J/ψγ and Bs0​→J/ψγ

Measurement of CP violation parameters and polarisation fractions in Bs0​→J/ψK∗0 decays

Measurement of the branching fraction ratio B(Bc+​→ψ(2S)π+)/B(Bc+​→J/ψπ+)

Angular analysis and differential branching fraction of the decay Bs0​→ϕμ+μ−

Decorrelation of neural networks from particle lifetimes in the LHCb topological $b$ trigger

Reappraisal of SU(3)-flavor breaking in $B \to D P$

Measurement of the shape of the $Λ_{b}^{0} \to Λ_{c}^{+} μ^{-} ν$ differential decay rate

Amplitude Analyses of $D^{0} \to π^{+} π^{-} π^{+} π^{-}$ and $D^{0} \to K^{+} K^{-} π^{+} π^{-}$ Decays

Observation of the decay $B_{s}^{0} \to η_{c} ϕ$ and evidence for $B_{s}^{0} \to η_{c} π^{+} π^{-}$

Amplitude analysis of $D^{0} \to π^{+} π^{-} π^{+} π^{-}$ decays using CLEO-c data

Measurement of the $B_{s}^{0} \to J / ψ η$ lifetime

Observation of the $B_{s}^{0} \to J / ψ ϕϕ$ decay

Search for the rare decays $B^{0} \to J / ψ γ$ and $B_{s}^{0} \to J / ψ γ$

Measurement of $C P$ violation parameters and polarisation fractions in $B_{s}^{0} \to J / ψ K^{* 0}$ decays

Measurement of the branching fraction ratio $B (B_{c}^{+} \to ψ (2 S) π^{+}) / B (B_{c}^{+} \to J / ψ π^{+})$

Angular analysis and differential branching fraction of the decay $B_{s}^{0} \to ϕ μ^{+} μ^{-}$