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Leakage current evolution in LHCb VELO sensors during Run 1-2 LHC data taking period
M. Pycior, T. Szumlak, A. Oblakowska-Mucha +33
Silicon detectors operating in the harsh mixed-hadron radiation environment of modern high-energy physics experiments suffer progressive bulk damage, manifesting macroscopically as…
Experimental determination of the Dalitz plot for positronium decay using the J-PET detection system
Magdalena Skurzok, Steven D. Bass, Kamila Kasperska +37
We present the first measurements of the Dalitz plot for ortho-positronium annihilation to three photons. Our measurements, accurate to about 3% statistical and 2-3% systematic unc…
First-in-human quantum entanglement imaging
Pawel Moskal, Deepak Kumar, Sushil Sharma +37
Annihilation photons are quantum-entangled in polarization, a phenomenon that has not been exploited in medical diagnostics so far. We present the first in vivo imaging of the degr…
First ex-vivo positronium imaging of tissues with modular J-PET scanner using Sc radionuclide
Karol Kubat, Manish Das, Sushil Sharma +41
This study presents the first ex-vivo positronium imaging of human tissues using the modular J-PET scanner with the Sc radionuclide. The Sc isotope was produced via t…
Feasibility study of the positronium lifetime imaging with the Biograph Vision Quadra and J-PET tomographs
Szymon Parzych, Szymon Niedźwiecki, Ermias Yitayew Beyene +39
Background: After its first ex-vivo and in-vivo demonstration, Positronium Lifetime Imaging (PLI) has received considerable interest as a potential new diagnostic biomarker. High s…
First Positronium Lifetime Imaging using Mn and Co with a plastic-based PET scanner
Manish Das, Sushil Sharma, Ermias Yitayew Beyene +45
Positronium Lifetime Imaging (PLI) extends positron emission tomography by using the lifetime of positronium atoms as a probe of tissue molecular architecture. In this work, we rep…
Studies of CPT symmetry in positronium decays with 192 plastic strip J-PET detector
N. Chug, S. D. Bass, E. Y. Beyene +40
A direct test of the CPT symmetry is performed for the electromagnetic decays of ortho-positronium using the J-PET tomograph. We present the precise measurement of the CPT-sensitiv…
First positronium imaging using Sc with the J-PET scanner: a case study on the NEMA-Image Quality phantom
Manish Das, Sushil Sharma, Aleksander Bilewicz +41
Positronium Lifetime Imaging (PLI), an emerging extension of conventional positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, offers a novel window for probing the submolecular properties…
Polish national input to the 2026 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics
K. Adamczyk, B. Badełek, T. Banaszkiewicz +59
The Polish high energy physics (HEP) community fully recognizes the urgent need to host at CERN a flagship project implementing a broad, long-term, and comprehensive vision of part…
The LHCb VELO Upgrade Module Construction
K. Akiba, M. Alexander, C. Bertella +84
The LHCb detector has undergone a major upgrade for LHC Run 3. This Upgrade I detector facilitates operation at higher luminosity and utilises full-detector information at the LHC…
Measurement of thermal properties of the LHCb VELO detector using track-based software alignment
The LHCb VELO group
The thermal properties of the LHCb Vertex Locator (VELO) are studied using the real-time detector alignment procedure. The variation of the position and orientation of the detector…
Spatial resolution and efficiency of prototype sensors for the LHCb VELO Upgrade
E. Buchanan, K. Akiba, M. van Beuzekom +15
A comprehensive study of the spatial resolution and detection efficiency of sensor prototypes developed for the LHCb VELO upgrade is presented. Data samples were collected at the C…
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…
Charge collection properties of prototype sensors for the LHCb VELO upgrade
R. Geertsema, K. Akiba, M. van Beuzekom +20
An extensive sensor testing campaign is presented, dedicated to measuring the charge collection properties of prototype candidates for the Vertex Locator (VELO) detector for the up…
First branching fraction measurement of the suppressed decay
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +963
The baryon is unstable and usually decays into charmless final states by the transition. It can, however, also disintegrate into a meson and a…
The Upgrade I of LHCb VELO -- towards an intelligent monitoring platform
P. Kopciewicz, T. Szumlak, M. Majewski +63
The Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) detector is designed to detect decays of b- and c- hadrons for the study of CP violation and rare decays. At the end of the LHC Run 2, many…
Study of the and states in decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +956
The decays are studied using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9fb collected with the LHCb detector in proton-proton co…
Comparison of general-purpose events generators for particle fluence simulation in LHC environment
Agnieszka Oblakowska-Mucha, Tomasz Szumlak
At the LHC era, the detector systems are operating at the harsh hadronic environment with the unprecedentedly high particle flux. Position sensitive silicon devices are usually pos…
Search for violation and observation of violation in decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +902
A search for violation in the decay is performed using LHCb data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 6.6 collected in coll…
Observation of two resonances in the systems and precise measurement of and properties
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +837
The first observation of two structures consistent with resonances in the final states and is reported using samples of collision data collected by the…
Study of production in Pb collisions at TeV
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta +840
The production of mesons () in Pb and Pb collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair TeV is measured by the LHCb experiment,…
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…
Mapping the material in the LHCb vertex locator using secondary hadronic interactions
M. Alexander, W. Barter, A. Bay +63
Precise knowledge of the location of the material in the LHCb vertex locator (VELO) is essential to reducing background in searches for long-lived exotic particles, and in identify…
Studies of the resonance structure in decays
LHCb collaboration, R. Aaij, B. Adeva +791
Amplitude models are constructed to describe the resonance structure of and decays using collision data co…