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Exploring the potential of FCC-hh to search for particles from B mesons

The Future Circular Collider (FCC-hh) is a proposed successor of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). FCC-hh would push both the energy and intensity frontiers of searches for new physics particles. In particular, due to higher energy and luminosity than at th ...

Springer Nature2022

Precision measurement of the B-c(+) meson mass

Jian Wang, Mingkui Wang, Olivier Schneider, Zhirui Xu, Yiming Li, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Yi Wang, Aurelio Bay, Ho Ling Li, Guido Haefeli, Tatsuya Nakada, Christoph Frei, Mark Tobin, Frédéric Blanc, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Lesya Shchutska, François Fleuret, Mirco Dorigo, Liupan An, Renato Quagliani, Maxime Schubiger, Hang Yin, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Elena Graverini, Michel De Cian, Vladimir Macko, Federico Leo Redi, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Sebastian Schulte, Tommaso Colombo, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Tara Nanut, Minh Tâm Tran, Violaine Bellée, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Pavol Stefko, Pietro Marino, Maria Vieites Diaz, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Serhii Cholak, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Surapat Ek-In, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Guido Andreassi, Sara Celani, Preema Rennee Pais, Katharina Müller, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Carina Trippl, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Thi Dung Nguyen, Alison Maria Tully, Mâu Chung Nguyên, Simone Meloni, Xiaoqing Zhou, Elisabeth Maria Niel, Alexandre Brea Rodriguez, Marco Guarise

A precision measurement of the B-c(+) meson mass is performed using proton- proton collision data collected with the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8 and 13 TeV, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 9.0 fb(-1). The B-c(+) mes ...

Springer Nature2020

Measurement of vertical bar V-cb vertical bar with B-s(0) -> D-s(()*()-) mu(+)nu(mu) decays

Jian Wang, Mingkui Wang, Olivier Schneider, Zhirui Xu, Yiming Li, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Yi Wang, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Jessica Prisciandaro, Tatsuya Nakada, Christoph Frei, Mark Tobin, Frédéric Blanc, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, François Fleuret, Mirco Dorigo, Liupan An, Elena Graverini, Renato Quagliani, Hang Yin, Maria Vieites Diaz, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Michel De Cian, Vladimir Macko, Federico Leo Redi, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Sebastian Schulte, Tommaso Colombo, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Tara Nanut, Minh Tâm Tran, Violaine Bellée, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Pavol Stefko, Pietro Marino, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Guido Andreassi, Luca Pescatore, Preema Rennee Pais, Maxime Schubiger, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Thi Dung Nguyen, Olivier Göran Girard, Mâu Chung Nguyên, Axel Kuonen, Vincenzo Battista, Conor Thomas Fitzpatrick, Brice Emile Maurin

The element vertical bar V-cb vertical bar of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix is measured using semileptonic B-s(0) decays produced in proton-proton collision data collected with the LHCb detector at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, correspondi ...

American Physical Society2020

Measurement off f(s)/f(u) Variation with Proton-Proton Collision Energy and B-Meson Kinematics

Jian Wang, Mingkui Wang, Olivier Schneider, Zhirui Xu, Yiming Li, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Yi Wang, Aurelio Bay, Ho Ling Li, Guido Haefeli, Tatsuya Nakada, Christoph Frei, Mark Tobin, Frédéric Blanc, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, François Fleuret, Mirco Dorigo, Liupan An, Renato Quagliani, Maxime Schubiger, Hang Yin, Maria Vieites Diaz, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Elena Graverini, Michel De Cian, Vladimir Macko, Federico Leo Redi, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Sebastian Schulte, Tommaso Colombo, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Tara Nanut, Minh Tâm Tran, Violaine Bellée, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Pavol Stefko, Pietro Marino, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Surapat Ek-In, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Guido Andreassi, Luca Pescatore, Preema Rennee Pais, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Thi Dung Nguyen, Olivier Göran Girard, Mâu Chung Nguyên, Axel Kuonen, Vincenzo Battista, Brice Emile Maurin, Xiaoqing Zhou, Alexandre Brea Rodriguez

The ratio of the B-s(0) and B+ fragmentation fractions f(s) and f(u) is studied with B-s(0) -> J/psi phi and B+ -> J/psi K+ decays using data collected by the LHCb experiment in proton-proton collisions at 7, 8, and 13 TeV center-of-mass energies. The anal ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Measurement of the CP-violating phase phi(s) from B-s(0) -> J/psi pi(+)pi(-) decays in 13 TeV pp collisions

Jian Wang, Olivier Schneider, Zhirui Xu, Yiming Li, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Yi Wang, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Jessica Prisciandaro, Tatsuya Nakada, Christoph Frei, Mark Tobin, Frédéric Blanc, Minh Tâm Tran, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Pietro Marino, Luca Pescatore, François Fleuret, Mirco Dorigo, Jean Wicht, Liupan An, Elena Graverini, Federico Leo Redi, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Renato Quagliani, Maxime Schubiger, Hang Yin, Guido Andreassi, Violaine Bellée, Maria Vieites Diaz, Olivier Göran Girard, Axel Kuonen, Preema Rennee Pais, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Pavol Stefko, Tara Nanut, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Tommaso Colombo, Vladimir Macko, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Mingkui Wang, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Michael Thompson McCann, Juan Federico Esteban Müller, Achille Mauri, Mercedes Hannelore Rittmann-Frank

Decays of B-s(0) and (B) over bar (0)(s) mesons into J/psi pi(+)pi(-) final states are studied in a data sample corresponding to 1.9 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity collected with the LHCb detector in 13 TeV pp collisions. A time-dependent amplitude analys ...

2019

Sensitivity of the SHiP experiment to Heavy Neutral Leptons

Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Lesya Shchutska, Elena Graverini, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Sun Hee Kim, Federico Leo Redi, Florian Maria Wurm, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Alexey Boyarsky, Oleg Ruchayskiy, Adriano Pastore, Nathalie Sophie Adeline Serra, Inar Timiryasov, Nikolaos Charitonidis, Jean-Loup Tastet, Ekaterina Kuznetsova, Johannes Richard Cornelis Geerit Kruis, Sargis Hakobyan, Erica Manfredi, Eirini Koukovini Platia

Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) are hypothetical particles predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model. These particles can, among other things, explain the origin of neutrino masses, generate the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe an ...

Springer Nature2019

Measurement of the electron reconstruction efficiency at LHCb

Jian Wang, Mingkui Wang, Olivier Schneider, Zhirui Xu, Yiming Li, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Aurelio Bay, Yi Wang, Ho Ling Li, Guido Haefeli, Tatsuya Nakada, Christoph Frei, Mark Tobin, Frédéric Blanc, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Pietro Marino, François Fleuret, Mirco Dorigo, Liupan An, Renato Quagliani, Maxime Schubiger, Hang Yin, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Elena Graverini, Michel De Cian, Vladimir Macko, Federico Leo Redi, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Sebastian Schulte, Tommaso Colombo, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Tara Nanut, Minh Tâm Tran, Violaine Bellée, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Pavol Stefko, Maria Vieites Diaz, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Surapat Ek-In, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Guido Andreassi, Luca Pescatore, Preema Rennee Pais, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Olivier Göran Girard, Axel Kuonen, Xiaoqing Zhou, Elisabeth Maria Niel, Alexandre Brea Rodriguez, Juan Federico Esteban Müller, Simone Meloni

The single electron track-reconstruction efficiency is calibrated using a sample corresponding to 1.3 fb(-1) of pp collision data recorded with the LHCb detector in 2017. This measurement exploits B+ -> J/psi (e(+)e(-))K+ decays, where one of the electrons ...

2019

Measurement of the relative B- -> D-0 / D*(0) / D**(0)mu(-)(nu)over-bar(mu) branching fractions using B- mesons from (B)over-bar(S)(2)*(0) decays

Jian Wang, Mingkui Wang, Olivier Schneider, Zhirui Xu, Yiming Li, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Yi Wang, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Jessica Prisciandaro, Tatsuya Nakada, Mark Tobin, Frédéric Blanc, Minh Tâm Tran, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Luca Pescatore, Mirco Dorigo, Jean Wicht, Sebastiana Gianì, Liupan An, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Renato Quagliani, Maxime Schubiger, Hang Yin, Guido Andreassi, Olivier Göran Girard, Axel Kuonen, Preema Rennee Pais, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Elena Graverini, Michel De Cian, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Vladimir Macko, Federico Leo Redi, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Tommaso Colombo, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Violaine Bellée, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Pavol Stefko, Pietro Marino, Maria Vieites Diaz, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, François Fleuret, Christoph Frei

The decay of the narrow resonance (B) over bar (s2)*(0 )-> B(-)K(+)can be used to determine the B- momentum in partially reconstructed decays without any assumptions on the decay products of the r meson. This technique is employed for the first time to dis ...

American Physical Society2019

Observation of CP Violation in Charm Decays

Jian Wang, Mingkui Wang, Olivier Schneider, Zhirui Xu, Yiming Li, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Aurelio Bay, Yi Wang, Ho Ling Li, Guido Haefeli, Tatsuya Nakada, Mark Tobin, Frédéric Blanc, Minh Tâm Tran, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Luca Pescatore, François Fleuret, Liupan An, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Renato Quagliani, Maxime Schubiger, Hang Yin, Guido Andreassi, Olivier Göran Girard, Axel Kuonen, Preema Rennee Pais, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Elena Graverini, Michel De Cian, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Vladimir Macko, Federico Leo Redi, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Tommaso Colombo, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Tara Nanut, Violaine Bellée, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Pavol Stefko, Pietro Marino, Maria Vieites Diaz, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Albert Puig Navarro, Katharina Müller, Christoph Frei, Sebastian Schulte, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Mirco Dorigo, Vincenzo Battista, Valérie Jeanne Thérèse Renaudin-Schouler, Adriano Pastore

A search for charge-parity (CP) violation in D-0 -> K-K+ and D-0 -> pi(-)pi(+) decays is reported, using pp collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.9 fb(-1) collected at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the LHCb detector. The fl ...

2019

Multiple Light Coupling and Routing via a Microspherical Resonator Integrated in a T-Shaped Optical Fiber Configuration System

Georgia Konstantinou

We demonstrate a three-port, light guiding and routing T-shaped configuration based on the combination of whispering gallery modes (WGMs) and micro-structured optical fibers (MOFs). This system includes a single mode optical fiber taper (SOFT), a slightly ...

2018

Measurement of lifetimes for heavy flavour mesons using semileptonic B decays at LHCb

Brice Emile Maurin

This thesis work presents lifetime measurements of heavy-flavour mesons made with semileptonic

B^0

and

B^0_s

decays based on

3~{\rm fb}^{-1}

of data collected with the LHCb detector in proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 Te ...

EPFL2018

Measurement of time-dependent CP violation in B0->Dpi decays and optimisation of flavour tagging algorithms at LHCb

Vincenzo Battista

This thesis presents the results of a time-dependent analysis of

B^0\to D^{\mp}\pi^{\pm}

decays using

3~\rm fb^{-1}

of proton-proton collision data collected with the LHCb detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider during Run 1 with a centre-of-mass ener ...

EPFL2018

New algorithms for identifying the flavour of B-0 mesons using pions and protons

Jian Wang, Olivier Schneider, Yiming Li, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Jessica Prisciandaro, Tatsuya Nakada, Christoph Frei, Mark Tobin, Frédéric Blanc, Minh Tâm Tran, Michel De Cian, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Pietro Marino, Luca Pescatore, François Fleuret, Mirco Dorigo, Jean Wicht, Sebastiana Gianì, Liupan An, Elena Graverini, Federico Leo Redi, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Ilya Komarov, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Renato Quagliani, Maxime Schubiger, Guido Andreassi, Violaine Bellée, Olivier Göran Girard, Axel Kuonen, Preema Rennee Pais, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Pavol Stefko

Two new algorithms for use in the analysis of pp collision are developed to identify the flavour of B mesons at production using pions and protons from the hadronization process. The algorithms are optimized and calibrated on data, using B-0 -> D- pi(+) de ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2017

Updated branching fraction measurements of B-(s)(0) -> K(S)(0)h(+)h'(-) decays

Jian Wang, Olivier Schneider, Zhirui Xu, Yiming Li, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Jessica Prisciandaro, Tatsuya Nakada, Christoph Frei, Mark Tobin, Frédéric Blanc, Minh Tâm Tran, Michel De Cian, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Pietro Marino, Luca Pescatore, François Fleuret, Mirco Dorigo, Jean Wicht, Sebastiana Gianì, Liupan An, Elena Graverini, Federico Leo Redi, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Ilya Komarov, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Renato Quagliani, Maxime Schubiger, Hang Yin, Guido Andreassi, Violaine Bellée, Maria Vieites Diaz, Olivier Göran Girard, Axel Kuonen, Preema Rennee Pais, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Pavol Stefko, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin

The charmless three-body decays B-(s)(0) -> K(S)(0)h(+)h '(-) (where h((')) - pi, K) are analysed using a sample of pp collision data recorded by the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb(-1). The branching fractions are measur ...

Springer Nature2017

Observation of the Annihilation Decay Mode B-0 -> K+K-

Jian Wang, Olivier Schneider, Zhirui Xu, Yiming Li, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Jessica Prisciandaro, Tatsuya Nakada, Christoph Frei, Mark Tobin, Frédéric Blanc, Minh Tâm Tran, Michel De Cian, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Pietro Marino, Luca Pescatore, François Fleuret, Mirco Dorigo, Jean Wicht, Sebastiana Gianì, Liupan An, Elena Graverini, Federico Leo Redi, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Ilya Komarov, Renato Quagliani, Maxime Schubiger, Hang Yin, Guido Andreassi, Violaine Bellée, Olivier Göran Girard, Axel Kuonen, Preema Rennee Pais, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Pavol Stefko, Katharina Müller

A search for the B-0 -> K+K- decay is performed using pp-collision data collected by LHCb. The data set corresponds to integrated luminosities of 1.0 and 2.0 fb(-1) at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, respectively. This decay is observed for the fir ...

2017

Measurement of B-s(0) and D-s(-) Meson Lifetimes

Jian Wang, Olivier Schneider, Zhirui Xu, Yiming Li, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Jessica Prisciandaro, Tatsuya Nakada, Christoph Frei, Mark Tobin, Frédéric Blanc, Minh Tâm Tran, Michel De Cian, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Pietro Marino, Luca Pescatore, François Fleuret, Mirco Dorigo, Jean Wicht, Sebastiana Gianì, Liupan An, Elena Graverini, Federico Leo Redi, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Ilya Komarov, Renato Quagliani, Maxime Schubiger, Hang Yin, Guido Andreassi, Violaine Bellée, Olivier Göran Girard, Axel Kuonen, Preema Rennee Pais, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Pavol Stefko, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Katharina Müller

We report on a measurement of the flavor-specific B-s(0) lifetime and of the D-s(-) lifetime using proton-proton collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, collected by the LHCb experiment and corresponding to 3.0 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity ...

2017

First Observation of the Rare Purely Baryonic Decay &ITB&IT0 -> &ITp&IT$(&ITp&IT)over-bar-$

Olivier Schneider, Yiming Li, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Christoph Frei, Frédéric Blanc, Tatsuya Nakada, Michel De Cian, Luca Pescatore, François Fleuret, Elena Graverini, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Renato Quagliani, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Jian Wang, Zhirui Xu, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Jessica Prisciandaro, Mark Tobin, Minh Tâm Tran, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Pietro Marino, Mirco Dorigo, Jean Wicht, Sebastiana Gianì, Liupan An, Federico Leo Redi, Ilya Komarov, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Maxime Schubiger, Hang Yin, Guido Andreassi, Violaine Bellée, Maria Vieites Diaz, Olivier Göran Girard, Axel Kuonen, Preema Rennee Pais, Pavol Stefko, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Tommaso Colombo, Vladimir Macko

The first observation of the decay of a B0 meson to a purely baryonic final state, B-0 -> p

(p)over-bar-

, is reported. The proton-proton collision data sample used was collected with the LHCb experiment at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV and corre ...

2017

A precise measurement of the B-0 meson oscillation frequency

Jian Wang, Olivier Schneider, Zhirui Xu, Yiming Li, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Jessica Prisciandaro, Tatsuya Nakada, Christoph Frei, Mark Tobin, Frédéric Blanc, Minh Tâm Tran, Michel De Cian, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Pietro Marino, Luca Pescatore, Mirco Dorigo, Sebastiana Gianì, Liupan An, Elena Graverini, Federico Leo Redi, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Ilya Komarov, Renato Quagliani, Maxime Schubiger, Guido Andreassi, Bastien Luca Muster, Violaine Bellée, Maria Vieites Diaz, Frédéric Guillaume Dupertuis, Olivier Göran Girard, Axel Kuonen, Julien Rouvinet, Alessandro Mapelli, Katharina Müller

The oscillation frequency, Delta m(d), of B-0 mesons is measured using semileptonic decays with a D- or D*(-) meson in the final state. The data sample corresponds to 3.0 fb(-1) of pp collisions, collected by the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies ...

Springer2016

b-flavour tagging in pp collisions at LHCb

Measurements of CP violation and flavour oscillations of neutral B mesons require the knowledge of the meson flavour at the production time. Flavour-tagging algorithms in the LHCb experiment allow to perform such measurements with very high precision. Rece ...

Soc Italiana Fisica2016

Measurement of the (eta c)(1S) production cross-section in proton-proton collisions via the decay (eta c)(1S) -> p(p)over-bar

Jian Wang, Olivier Schneider, Zhirui Xu, Yiming Li, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Jessica Prisciandaro, Tatsuya Nakada, Christoph Frei, Mark Tobin, Frédéric Blanc, Minh Tâm Tran, Michel De Cian, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Pietro Marino, Luca Pescatore, Mirco Dorigo, Jean Wicht, Sebastiana Gianì, Liupan An, Federico Leo Redi, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Ilya Komarov, Bastien Luca Muster, Maria Vieites Diaz, Frédéric Guillaume Dupertuis, Julien Rouvinet, Pierre Jaton, Barinjaka Rakotomiaramanana, Joël Bressieux, Albert Puig Navarro, Alessandro Mapelli

The production of the eta(c)(1S) state in protonproton collisions is probed via its decay to the p (p) over bar final state with the LHCb detector, in the rapidity range 2.0 < y < 4.5 and in the meson transverse-momentum range p(T) > 6.5GeV/c. The cross-se ...

Springer2015