Z. Aliouche

First evidence of $C P$ violation in beauty baryon to charmonium decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1178

A study of the difference in the $C P$ asymmetries between $Λ_{b}^{0} \to J / ψ p π^{-}$ and $Λ_{b}^{0} \to J / ψ p K^{-}$ decays, $Δ A_{C P}$ , is performed using proton-prot…

A model-independent measurement of the CKM angle $γ$ in the decays $B^{\pm} \to [K^{+} K^{-} π^{+} π^{-}]_{D} h^{\pm}$ and $B^{\pm} \to [π^{+} π^{-} π^{+} π^{-}]_{D} h^{\pm}$ ( $h = K, π$ )

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1164

A model-independent determination of the CKM angle $γ$ is presented, using the $B^{\pm} \to [K^{+} K^{-} π^{+} π^{-}]_{D} h^{\pm}$ and $B^{\pm} \to [π^{+} π^{-} π^{+} π^{-}]_{D} h^{\pm}$ decays, with $h = K, π$ . This meas…

nucl-ex2025★ 3 cited

Measurement of transverse $Λ$ and $Λ ˉ$ hyperon polarization in $p$ Pb collisions at $s_{N N} = 5.02$ TeV

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1131

The transverse polarization of $Λ$ and $Λ ˉ$ hyperons is measured in $p$ Pb collisions collected by the LHCb experiment at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of $5.02$ TeV. T…

Amplitude analysis of the $Ξ_{c}^{+} \to p K^{-} π^{+}$ decay and $Ξ_{c}^{+}$ baryon polarization measurement in semileptonic beauty-hadron decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1128

An amplitude analysis of the $Ξ_{c}^{+} \to p K^{-} π^{+}$ decay together with a measurement of the $Ξ_{c}^{+}$ polarization vector in semileptonic beauty-hadron decays is presented. The analysis…

Search for resonances decaying to photon pairs with masses between 4.9 and 19.4 GeV

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1144

A search is presented for axion-like particles (ALPs) with masses between 4.9 and 19.4 GeV decaying to a pair of photons, using proton-proton collisions collected with the LHCb det…

Search for the decay $B^{0} \to ϕϕ$

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1160

A search for the decay $B^{0} \to ϕϕ$ is made using $pp$ collision data collected with the LHCb detector at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8 and 13 TeV, corresponding to an in…

Measurement of the $B^{0} \to ρ (770)^{0} γ$ branching fraction

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1160

The ratio between the branching fractions of the $B^{0} \to ρ (770)^{0} γ$ and $B^{0} \to K^{*} (892)^{0} γ$ decays is measured with proton-proton collision data collected…

First observation of the $Λ_{b}^{0} \to Λ_{c}^{+} D_{s}^{-} K^{+} K^{-}$ decay and search for pentaquarks in the $Λ_{c}^{+} D_{s}^{-}$ system

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1176

The $Λ_{b}^{0} \to Λ_{c}^{+} D_{s}^{-} K^{+} K^{-}$ decay is observed for the first time using the data sample from proton-proton collisions recorded at a center-o…

hep-ex2025★ 4 cited

Observation of orbitally excited $B_{c}^{+}$ states

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1155

The observation of a wide peaking structure in the $B_{c}^{+} γ$ mass spectrum is reported using proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb detector at center-of-mass energ…

Study of $B_{c} (1 P)^{+}$ states in the $B_{c}^{+} γ$ mass spectrum

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1155

The study of a wide peaking structure in the $B_{c}^{+} γ$ mass spectrum is reported using a data sample of proton-proton collisions collected by the LHCb detector at center-of-mas…

Updated measurement of $C P$ violation and polarisation in $B_{s}^{0} \to J / ψ K^{*} (892)^{0}$ decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1169

A time-integrated angular analysis of the decay $B_{s}^{0} \to J / ψ K^{*} (892)^{0}$ , with $J / ψ \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$ and $\overline{K}{}^{*}\kern-1pt(892)…

Search for the lepton-flavour-violating decays $B^{0} \to K^{* 0} τ^{\pm} e^{\mp}$

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1131

A first search for the lepton-flavour-violating decays $B^{0} \to K^{* 0} τ^{\pm} e^{\mp}$ is presented. The analysis is performed using a sample of proton-proton collision data, collected…

Measurement of the $Ω_{c}^{0}$ and $Ξ_{c}^{0}$ baryon lifetimes using hadronic $b$ -baryon decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1143

The lifetimes of the $Ω_{c}^{0}$ and $Ξ_{c}^{0}$ baryons are measured using a $pp$ collision dataset collected by the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $9~\rm{f…

nucl-ex2025★ 1 cited

Measurement of $ψ (2 S)$ to $J / ψ$ cross-section ratio as function of multiplicity in $p$ Pb collisions at $s_{N N} = 8.16$ TeV

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1139

The production ratio of $ψ (2 S)$ to $J / ψ$ charmonium states is presented as a function of multiplicity in proton-lead collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $s_{N N} = 8.16$ T…

nucl-ex2025

Coherent photoproduction of $ρ^{0}, ω$ and excited vector mesons in ultraperipheral PbPb collisions

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1132

The invariant-mass distribution for the coherent photoproduction of dipions in ultraperipheral PbPb collisions is measured using data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of…

Three-pion Bose-Einstein correlations measured in proton-proton collisions

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1128

A study on the Bose-Einstein correlations for triplets of same-sign pions is presented. The analysis is performed using proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqr…

hep-ex2025★ 3 cited

Measurement of the Lund plane for light- and beauty-quark jets

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1136

The substructure of jets in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) has garnered significant attention with the advent of infrared- and collinear-safe clustering algorithms and observables. A…

Measurements of charmed meson and antimeson production asymmetries at $s = 13.6$ TeV

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1130

This article presents doubly differential measurements of the asymmetries in production rates between mesons containing a charm quark and those containing an anticharm quark in pro…

First measurement of $b$ -jet mass with and without grooming

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1138

The LHCb collaboration presents a novel suite of heavy-flavour jet substructure measurements at forward rapidity in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}…

nucl-ex2025★ 1 cited

Rapidity and multiplicity dependence of charged-particle flow in $p$ Pb collisions at $s_{N N} = 8.16$ TeV

R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb, C. Abellan Beteta +1129

The elliptic and triangular flow of charged particles are measured using two-particle angular correlations in $p$ Pb collisions in the pseudorapidity range \cal{2.0 $< ∣ η ∣ <$ 4.8}.…

hep-ex2025★ 6 cited

Measurement of the branching fraction ratio $R_{K}$ at large dilepton invariant mass

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1138

A test of lepton universality between muons and electrons is performed using $B^{+} \to K^{+} ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ decays (where $ℓ$ = $e$ , $μ$ ), in the dilepton invariant-mass-squared regio…