V. Franco Lima

activity

20102026

most citedObservation of a narrow pentaquark state,

P_{c} (4312)^{+}

, and of two-peak structure of the

P_{c} (4450)^{+}

738 citations · 2k across the 38 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

38 papers

hep-ex2026★ 1 cited

First measurement of time-dependent $C P$ violation in the flavor-changing neutral-current decay $B^{0} \to K_{S}^{0} μ^{+} μ^{-}$

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1165

A flavor-tagged time-dependent analysis of $B^{0} \to K_{S}^{0} μ^{+} μ^{-}$ decays is performed across the full dimuon mass range excluding the $J / ψ$ and $ψ (2 S)$ resonance re…

hep-ex2025★ 1 cited

Measurement of $C P$ asymmetry in $D^{0} \to K_{S}^{0} K_{S}^{0}$ decays with Run 3 data

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1189

A measurement of $C P$ asymmetry in $D^{0} \to K_{S}^{0} K_{S}^{0}$ decays is reported, based on a data sample of proton-proton collisions collected with the LHCb detector in 20…

hep-ex2025★ 1 cited

Improved measurement of $η / η^{'}$ mixing in $B_{(s)}^{0} \to J / ψ η^{(')}$ decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1182

Branching fraction ratios between the decays $B_{(s)}^{0} \to J / ψ η^{(')}$ are measured using proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at centre-of…

hep-ex2025★ 6 cited

Observation of the doubly-charmed-baryon decay $Ξ_{cc}^{++} \to Ξ_{c}^{0} π^{+} π^{+}$

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1134

A search for the doubly-charmed-baryon decay $Ξ_{cc}^{++} \to Ξ_{c}^{0} π^{+} π^{+}$ is performed using proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at a c…

hep-ex2023★ 20 cited

Observation of new baryons in the $Ξ_{b}^{-} π^{+} π^{-}$ and $Ξ_{b}^{0} π^{+} π^{-}$ systems

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +1052

The first observation and study of two new baryonic structures in the final state $Ξ_{b}^{0} π^{+} π^{-}$ and the confirmation of the $Ξ_{b} (6100)^{-}$ state in the $Ξ_{b}^{-} π^{+} π^{-}$ decay mode are…

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,…

hep-ex2023★ 4 cited

Search for $CP$ violation in $D_{(s)}^{+} \to K^{-} K^{+} K^{+}$ decays

LHCb collaboration

A search for direct $CP$ violation in the Cabibbo-suppressed decay $D_{s}^{+} \to K^{-} K^{+} K^{+}$ and in the doubly Cabibbo-suppressed decay $D^{+}\rightarrow K^{-}K^{…

hep-ex2023★ 2 cited

Observation of the $B_{s}^{0} \to χ_{c 1} (3872) π^{+} π^{-}$ decay

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

The first observation of the $B_{s}^{0} \to (χ_{c 1} (3872) \to J / ψ π^{+} π^{-}) π^{+} π^{-}$ decay is reported using proton-proton collision data, corresponding to int…

hep-ex2023★ 32 cited

Observation of new $Ω_{c}^{0}$ states decaying to the $Ξ_{c}^{+} K^{-}$ final state

LHCb collaboration

Two new excited states, $Ω_{c} (3185)^{0}$ and $Ω_{c} (3327)^{0}$ , are observed in the $Ξ_{c}^{+} K^{-}$ invariant-mass spectrum using proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experim…

hep-ex2023★ 72 cited

Measurement of the ratios of branching fractions $R (D^{*})$ and $R (D^{0})$

LHCb Collaboration

The ratios of branching fractions $R (D^{*}) \equiv B (B ˉ \to D^{*} τ^{-} ν ˉ_{τ}) / B (B ˉ \to D^{*} μ^{-} ν ˉ_{μ})$ and $\mathcal{R}(D^{0})\equiv\mathca…

hep-ex2023★ 5 cited

$Λ_{c}^{+}$ polarimetry using the dominant hadronic mode

LHCb collaboration

The polarimeter vector field for multibody decays of a spin-half baryon is introduced as a generalisation of the baryon asymmetry parameters. Using a recent amplitude analysis of t…

hep-ex2023★ 11 cited

Evidence of a $J / ψ K_{S}^{0}$ structure in $B^{0} \to J / ψ ϕ K_{S}^{0}$ decays

LHCb collaboration

An amplitude analysis of $B^{0} \to J / ψ ϕ K_{S}^{0}$ decays is performed using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 $fb^{- 1}$ , collected with t…

hep-ex2022★ 12 cited

Search for rare decays of $D^{0}$ mesons into two muons

LHCb collaboration

A search for the very rare $D^{0} \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$ decay is performed using data collected by the LHCb experiment in proton-proton collisions at $s = 7$ , 8 and $13 TeV$ , corre…

hep-ex2022★ 112 cited

Measurement of lepton universality parameters in $B^{+} \to K^{+} ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ and $B^{0} \to K^{* 0} ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ decays

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

A simultaneous analysis of the $B^{+} \to K^{+} ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ and $B^{0} \to K^{* 0} ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ decays is performed to test muon-electron universality in two ranges of the square of the di…

hep-ex2022★ 126 cited

Test of lepton universality in $b \to s ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ decays

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

The first simultaneous test of muon-electron universality using $B^{+} \to K^{+} ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ and $B^{0} \to K^{* 0} ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ decays is performed, in two r…

hep-ex2022★ 11 cited

Study of charmonium and charmonium-like contributions in $B^{+} \to J / ψ η K^{+}$ decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb +995

A study of $B^{+} \to J / ψ η K^{+}$ decays, followed by $J / ψ \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$ and $η \to γ γ$ , is performed using a dataset collected with the LHCb detector in proton-pro…

hep-ex2021★ 15 cited

Search for the doubly charmed baryon $Ω_{cc}^{+}$

R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta, T. Ackernley +955

A search for the doubly charmed baryon $Ω_{cc}^{+}$ with the decay mode $Ω_{cc}^{+} \to Ξ_{c}^{+} K^{-} π^{+}$ is performed using proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mas…

hep-ex2021★ 11 cited

Search for $C P$ violation in $D_{(s)}^{+} \to h^{+} π^{0}$ and $D_{(s)}^{+} \to h^{+} η$ decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +957

Searches for $C P$ violation in the two-body decays $D_{(s)}^{+} \to h^{+} π^{0}$ and $D_{(s)}^{+} \to h^{+} η$ (where $h^{+}$ denotes a $π^{+}$ or $K^{+}$ meson) are p…

hep-ex2019★ 17 cited

Isospin amplitudes in $Λ_{b}^{0} \to J / ψ Λ (Σ^{0})$ and $Ξ_{b}^{0} \to J / ψ Ξ^{0} (Λ)$ decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +902

Ratios of isospin amplitudes in hadron decays are a useful probe of the interplay between weak and strong interactions, and allow searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. We…

hep-ex2019★ 738 cited

Observation of a narrow pentaquark state, $P_{c} (4312)^{+}$ , and of two-peak structure of the $P_{c} (4450)^{+}$

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +866

A narrow pentaquark state, $P_{c} (4312)^{+}$ , decaying to $J / ψ p$ is discovered with a statistical significance of $7.3 σ$ in a data sample of $Λ_{b}^{0} \to J / ψ p K^{-}$ decays which is an or…

hep-ex2019★ 15 cited

Amplitude analysis of the $B_{(s)} \to K^{* 0} K^{* 0}$ decays and measurement of the branching fraction of the $B \to K^{* 0} K^{* 0}$ decay

LHCb Collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +844

The $B^{0} \to K^{* 0} K^{* 0}$ and $B_{s}^{0} \to K^{* 0} K^{* 0}$ decays are studied using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3…

hep-ex2019★ 32 cited

First observation of the radiative decay $Λ_{b}^{0} \to Λ γ$

LHCb Collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +848

The radiative decay $Λ_{b}^{0} \to Λ γ$ is observed for the first time using a data sample of proton-proton collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $1.7 f b^{- 1}$ co…

hep-ex2019★ 55 cited

Near-threshold $D D ˉ$ spectroscopy and observation of a new charmonium state

LHCb Collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +846

Using proton-proton collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 $f b^{- 1}$ , collected with the~LHCb detector between 2011 and 2018, a new narrow charmonium state,…

hep-ex2019★ 68 cited

Measurement of the mass difference between neutral charm-meson eigenstates

LHCb Collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +842

We report a measurement of the mass difference between neutral charm-meson eigenstates using a novel approach that enhances sensitivity to this parameter. We use $2.3 \times 1 0^{6}$ $…

First measurement of time-dependent CP violation in the flavor-changing neutral-current decay B0→KS0​μ+μ−

Measurement of CP asymmetry in D0→KS0​KS0​ decays with Run 3 data

Improved measurement of η/η′ mixing in B(s)0​→J/ψη(′) decays

Observation of the doubly-charmed-baryon decay Ξcc++​→Ξc0​π+π+

Observation of new baryons in the Ξb−​π+π− and Ξb0​π+π− systems

Observation of the B+→J/ψη′K+ decay

Search for CP violation in D(s)+​→K−K+K+ decays

Observation of the Bs0​→χc1​(3872)π+π− decay

Observation of new Ωc0​ states decaying to the Ξc+​K− final state

Measurement of the ratios of branching fractions R(D∗) and R(D0)

Λc+​ polarimetry using the dominant hadronic mode

Evidence of a J/ψKS0​ structure in B0→J/ψϕKS0​ decays

Search for rare decays of D0 mesons into two muons

Measurement of lepton universality parameters in B+→K+ℓ+ℓ− and B0→K∗0ℓ+ℓ− decays

Test of lepton universality in b→sℓ+ℓ− decays

Study of charmonium and charmonium-like contributions in B+→J/ψηK+ decays

Search for the doubly charmed baryon Ωcc+​

Search for CP violation in D(s)+​→h+π0 and D(s)+​→h+η decays

Isospin amplitudes in Λb0​→J/ψΛ(Σ0) and Ξb0​→J/ψΞ0(Λ) decays

Observation of a narrow pentaquark state, Pc​(4312)+, and of two-peak structure of the Pc​(4450)+

Amplitude analysis of the B(s)​→K∗0K∗0 decays and measurement of the branching fraction of the B→K∗0K∗0 decay

First observation of the radiative decay Λb0​→Λγ

Near-threshold DDˉ spectroscopy and observation of a new charmonium state

Measurement of the mass difference between neutral charm-meson eigenstates

First measurement of time-dependent $C P$ violation in the flavor-changing neutral-current decay $B^{0} \to K_{S}^{0} μ^{+} μ^{-}$

Measurement of $C P$ asymmetry in $D^{0} \to K_{S}^{0} K_{S}^{0}$ decays with Run 3 data

Improved measurement of $η / η^{'}$ mixing in $B_{(s)}^{0} \to J / ψ η^{(')}$ decays

Observation of the doubly-charmed-baryon decay $Ξ_{cc}^{++} \to Ξ_{c}^{0} π^{+} π^{+}$

Observation of new baryons in the $Ξ_{b}^{-} π^{+} π^{-}$ and $Ξ_{b}^{0} π^{+} π^{-}$ systems

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

Search for $CP$ violation in $D_{(s)}^{+} \to K^{-} K^{+} K^{+}$ decays

Observation of the $B_{s}^{0} \to χ_{c 1} (3872) π^{+} π^{-}$ decay

Observation of new $Ω_{c}^{0}$ states decaying to the $Ξ_{c}^{+} K^{-}$ final state

Measurement of the ratios of branching fractions $R (D^{*})$ and $R (D^{0})$

$Λ_{c}^{+}$ polarimetry using the dominant hadronic mode

Evidence of a $J / ψ K_{S}^{0}$ structure in $B^{0} \to J / ψ ϕ K_{S}^{0}$ decays

Search for rare decays of $D^{0}$ mesons into two muons

Measurement of lepton universality parameters in $B^{+} \to K^{+} ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ and $B^{0} \to K^{* 0} ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ decays

Test of lepton universality in $b \to s ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ decays

Study of charmonium and charmonium-like contributions in $B^{+} \to J / ψ η K^{+}$ decays

Search for the doubly charmed baryon $Ω_{cc}^{+}$

Search for $C P$ violation in $D_{(s)}^{+} \to h^{+} π^{0}$ and $D_{(s)}^{+} \to h^{+} η$ decays

Isospin amplitudes in $Λ_{b}^{0} \to J / ψ Λ (Σ^{0})$ and $Ξ_{b}^{0} \to J / ψ Ξ^{0} (Λ)$ decays

Observation of a narrow pentaquark state, $P_{c} (4312)^{+}$ , and of two-peak structure of the $P_{c} (4450)^{+}$

Amplitude analysis of the $B_{(s)} \to K^{* 0} K^{* 0}$ decays and measurement of the branching fraction of the $B \to K^{* 0} K^{* 0}$ decay

First observation of the radiative decay $Λ_{b}^{0} \to Λ γ$

Near-threshold $D D ˉ$ spectroscopy and observation of a new charmonium state