N. A. Smith

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20112015

most citedMeasurement of form-factor independent observables in the decay

B^{0} \to K^{* 0} μ^{+} μ^{-}

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hep-ex2014★ 4 cited

Determination of the branching fractions of $B_{s}^{0} \to D_{s}^{\mp} K^{\pm}$ and $B^{0} \to D_{s}^{-} K^{+}$

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +701

Measurements are presented of the branching fractions of the decays $B_{s}^{0} \to D_{s}^{\mp} K^{\pm}$ and $B^{0} \to D_{s}^{-} K^{+}$ relative to the decays $B_{s}^{0} \to D_{s}^…

hep-ex2014★ 25 cited

Measurement of the inelastic $pp$ cross-section at a centre-of-mass energy of $s = 7$ TeV

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +699

The cross-section for inelastic proton-proton collisions, with at least one prompt long-lived charged particle of transverse momentum $p_{T} > 0.2$ GeV/ $c$ in the pseudorapidity…

hep-ex2014★ 52 cited

Search for long-lived particles decaying to jet pairs

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +699

A search is presented for long-lived particles with a mass between 25 and 50 GeV $/ c^{2}$ and a lifetime between 1 and 200 ps in a sample of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-ma…

hep-ex2014★ 75 cited

Observation of two new $Ξ_{b}^{-}$ baryon resonances

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +699

Two structures are observed close to the kinematic threshold in the $Ξ_{b}^{0} π^{-}$ mass spectrum in a sample of proton-proton collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity…

hep-ex2014★ 81 cited

Measurement of $B_{c}^{+}$ production in proton-proton collisions at $s = 8$ TeV

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +702

Production of $B_{c}^{+}$ mesons in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV is studied with data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $2.0 fb^{- 1}$ r…

hep-ex2014★ 21 cited

Measurement of the Z+b-jet cross-section in pp collisions at $s = 7 Te V$ in the forward region

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +699

The associated production of a Z boson or an off-shell photon $γ^{*}$ with a bottom quark in the forward region is studied using proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy o…

hep-ex2014★ 36 cited

Measurement of the $χ_{b} (3 P)$ mass and of the relative rate of $χ_{b 1} (1 P)$ and $χ_{b 2} (1 P)$ production

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +696

The production of $χ_{b}$ mesons in proton-proton collisions is studied using a data sample collected by the LHCb detector, at centre-of-mass energies of $s = 7$ and $8$ TeV and…

hep-ex2014★ 40 cited

Search for CP violation in $D^{0} \to π^{-} π^{+} π^{0}$ decays with the energy test

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +703

A search for time-integrated CP violation in the Cabibbo-suppressed decay $D^{0} \to π^{-} π^{+} π^{0}$ is performed using for the first time an unbinned model-independent technique known as t…

hep-ex2014★ 115 cited

Measurements of $C P$ violation in the three-body phase space of charmless $B^{\pm}$ decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +701

The charmless three-body decay modes $B^{\pm} \to K^{\pm} π^{+} π^{-}$ , $B^{\pm} \to K^{\pm} K^{+} K^{-}$ , $B^{\pm} \to π^{\pm} K^{+} K^{-}$ and $B^{\pm} \r…

hep-ex2014★ 27 cited

Search for $C P$ violation using $T$ -odd correlations in $D^{0} \to K^{+} K^{-} π^{+} π^{-}$ decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +702

A search for $C P$ violation using $T$ -odd correlations is performed using the four-body $D^{0} \to K^{+} K^{-} π^{+} π^{-}$ decay, selected from semileptonic $B$ decays. The data sample corresp…

hep-ex2014★ 50 cited

Observation of the $Λ_{b}^{0} \to J / ψ p π^{-}$ decay

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +702

The first observation of the Cabibbo-suppressed decay $Λ_{b}^{0} \to J / ψ p π^{-}$ is reported using a data sample of proton-proton collisions at 7 and 8 TeV, corresponding to an in…

hep-ex2014★ 19 cited

Measurement of the $B_{s}^{0}$ meson lifetime in $D_{s}^{+} π^{-}$ decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +698

We present a measurement of the ratio of the Bs meson lifetime, in the flavor-specific decay to $D_{s}^{+} π^{-}$ , to that of the B0 meson. The pp collision data used correspond to an int…

hep-ex2014★ 39 cited

Measurement of the ratio of $B_{c}^{+}$ branching fractions to $J / ψ π^{+}$ and $J / ψ μ^{+} ν_{μ}$

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +698

The first measurement that relates semileptonic and hadronic decay rates of the $B_{c}^{+}$ meson is performed using proton-proton collision data corresponding to 1.0 fb $^{- 1}$ of inte…

hep-ex2014★ 36 cited

Measurement of CP violation parameters in B0->D K*0 decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +698

An analysis of B0->D K*0 decays is presented, where D represents an admixture of D0 and D0b mesons reconstructed in four separate final states: K-pi+, pi-K+, K+K- and pi+pi-. The d…

hep-ex2014★ 24 cited

Observation of charmonium pairs produced exclusively in $pp$ collisions

R. Aaij, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi +700

A search is performed for the central exclusive production of pairs of charmonia produced in proton-proton collisions. Using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $3{\r…

hep-ex2014★ 21 cited

Effective lifetime measurements in the $B_{s}^{0} \to K^{+} K^{-}$ , $B^{0} \to K^{+} π^{-}$ and $B_{s}^{0} \to π^{+} K^{-}$ decays

R. Aaij, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi +689

Measurements of the effective lifetimes in the $B_{s}^{0} \to K^{+} K^{-}$ , $B^{0} \to K^{+} π^{-}$ and $B_{s}^{0} \to π^{+} K^{-}$ decays are presented using…

hep-ex2014★ 86 cited

Measurement of the CP-violating phase $ϕ_{s}$ in $B_{s}^{0} \to J / ψ π^{+} π^{-}$ decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +697

The mixing-induced CP-violating phase $ϕ_{s}$ in $B_{s}^{0}$ and $B_{s}^{0}$ decays is measured using the $J / ψ π^{+} π^{-}$ final state in data, taken from 3\,fb $^{- 1}$ of integrated…

hep-ex2014★ 110 cited

Measurement of $C P$ asymmetry in $D^{0} \to K^{-} K^{+}$ and $D^{0} \to π^{-} π^{+}$ decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +697

Time-integrated $C P$ asymmetries in $D^{0}$ decays to the final states $K^{-} K^{+}$ and $π^{-} π^{+}$ are measured using proton-proton collisions corresponding to $3 fb^{- 1}$ of i…

hep-ex2014★ 92 cited

Measurement of the resonant and CP components in $B^{0} \to J / ψ π^{+} π^{-}$ decays

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +693

The resonant structure of the reaction $B^{0} \to J / ψ π^{+} π^{-}$ is studied using data from 3 fb $^{- 1}$ of integrated luminosity collected by the LHCb experiment, one-t…

hep-ex2014★ 165 cited

Evidence for the decay $X (3872) \to ψ (2 S) γ$

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +692

Evidence for the decay mode $X (3872) \to ψ (2 S) γ$ in $B^{+} \to X (3872) K^{+}$ decays is found with a significance of 4.4 standard deviations. The analysis is based on a dat…

hep-ex2014★ 51 cited

Measurements of the $B^{+}$ , $B^{0}$ , $B_{s}^{0}$ meson and $Λ_{b}^{0}$ baryon lifetimes

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +674

Measurements of $b$ -hadron lifetimes are reported using $pp$ collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0fb $^{- 1}$ , collected by the LHCb detector at a centre-o…

hep-ex2014★ 49 cited

Study of beauty hadron decays into pairs of charm hadrons

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, A. Abba +694

First observations of the decays $Λ_{b}^{0} \to Λ_{c}^{+} D_{(s)}^{-}$ are reported using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $3 fb^{- 1}$ collected at 7 and 8 TeV center…

hep-ex2014★ 71 cited

Measurement of $ψ (2 S)$ polarisation in $pp$ collisions at $s = 7$ TeV

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +693

The polarisation of prompt $ψ (2 S)$ mesons is measured by performing an angular analysis of $ψ (2 S) \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$ decays using proton-proton collision data, corresponding t…

hep-ex2014★ 68 cited

Precision measurement of the ratio of the $Λ_{b}^{0}$ to $B^{0}$ lifetimes

LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +680

The LHCb measurement of the lifetime ratio of the $Λ_{b}^{0}$ to the $B^{0}$ meson is updated using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb $^{- 1}$ collected u…

Determination of the branching fractions of Bs0​→Ds∓​K± and B0→Ds−​K+

Measurement of the inelastic pp cross-section at a centre-of-mass energy of s​=7 TeV

Search for long-lived particles decaying to jet pairs

Observation of two new Ξb−​ baryon resonances

Measurement of Bc+​ production in proton-proton collisions at s​=8 TeV

Measurement of the Z+b-jet cross-section in pp collisions at s​=7TeV in the forward region

Measurement of the χb​(3P) mass and of the relative rate of χb1​(1P) and χb2​(1P) production

Search for CP violation in D0→π−π+π0 decays with the energy test

Measurements of CP violation in the three-body phase space of charmless B± decays

Search for CP violation using T-odd correlations in D0→K+K−π+π− decays

Observation of the Λb0​→J/ψpπ− decay

Measurement of the Bs0​ meson lifetime in Ds+​π− decays

Measurement of the ratio of Bc+​ branching fractions to J/ψπ+ and J/ψμ+νμ​

Measurement of CP violation parameters in B0->D K*0 decays

Observation of charmonium pairs produced exclusively in pp collisions

Effective lifetime measurements in the Bs0​→K+K−, B0→K+π− and Bs0​→π+K− decays

Measurement of the CP-violating phase ϕs​ in Bs0​→J/ψπ+π− decays

Measurement of CP asymmetry in D0→K−K+ and D0→π−π+ decays

Measurement of the resonant and CP components in B0→J/ψπ+π− decays

Evidence for the decay X(3872)→ψ(2S)γ

Measurements of the B+, B0, Bs0​ meson and Λb0​ baryon lifetimes

Study of beauty hadron decays into pairs of charm hadrons

Measurement of ψ(2S) polarisation in pp collisions at s​=7 TeV

Precision measurement of the ratio of the Λb0​ to B0 lifetimes

Determination of the branching fractions of $B_{s}^{0} \to D_{s}^{\mp} K^{\pm}$ and $B^{0} \to D_{s}^{-} K^{+}$

Measurement of the inelastic $pp$ cross-section at a centre-of-mass energy of $s = 7$ TeV

Observation of two new $Ξ_{b}^{-}$ baryon resonances

Measurement of $B_{c}^{+}$ production in proton-proton collisions at $s = 8$ TeV

Measurement of the Z+b-jet cross-section in pp collisions at $s = 7 Te V$ in the forward region

Measurement of the $χ_{b} (3 P)$ mass and of the relative rate of $χ_{b 1} (1 P)$ and $χ_{b 2} (1 P)$ production

Search for CP violation in $D^{0} \to π^{-} π^{+} π^{0}$ decays with the energy test

Measurements of $C P$ violation in the three-body phase space of charmless $B^{\pm}$ decays

Search for $C P$ violation using $T$ -odd correlations in $D^{0} \to K^{+} K^{-} π^{+} π^{-}$ decays

Observation of the $Λ_{b}^{0} \to J / ψ p π^{-}$ decay

Measurement of the $B_{s}^{0}$ meson lifetime in $D_{s}^{+} π^{-}$ decays

Measurement of the ratio of $B_{c}^{+}$ branching fractions to $J / ψ π^{+}$ and $J / ψ μ^{+} ν_{μ}$

Observation of charmonium pairs produced exclusively in $pp$ collisions

Effective lifetime measurements in the $B_{s}^{0} \to K^{+} K^{-}$ , $B^{0} \to K^{+} π^{-}$ and $B_{s}^{0} \to π^{+} K^{-}$ decays

Measurement of the CP-violating phase $ϕ_{s}$ in $B_{s}^{0} \to J / ψ π^{+} π^{-}$ decays

Measurement of $C P$ asymmetry in $D^{0} \to K^{-} K^{+}$ and $D^{0} \to π^{-} π^{+}$ decays

Measurement of the resonant and CP components in $B^{0} \to J / ψ π^{+} π^{-}$ decays

Evidence for the decay $X (3872) \to ψ (2 S) γ$

Measurements of the $B^{+}$ , $B^{0}$ , $B_{s}^{0}$ meson and $Λ_{b}^{0}$ baryon lifetimes

Measurement of $ψ (2 S)$ polarisation in $pp$ collisions at $s = 7$ TeV

Precision measurement of the ratio of the $Λ_{b}^{0}$ to $B^{0}$ lifetimes