A search is performed for a spin-0 boson, phi, produced in proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, using prompt phi -> mu(+)mu(-) decays and a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of approximately 3.0 fb(-1) col ...

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Angular moments of the decay Lambda(0)(b) -> Lambda mu(+)mu(-) at low hadronic recoil

Jian Wang, Mingkui Wang, Olivier Schneider, Zhirui Xu, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Aurelio Bay, Yi Wang, Guido Haefeli, Tatsuya Nakada, Frédéric Blanc, Minh Tâm Tran, Maurizio Martinelli, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Jean Wicht, Liupan An, Elena Graverini, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Renato Quagliani, Hang Yin, Maria Vieites Diaz, Olivier Göran Girard, Axel Kuonen, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Michel De Cian, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Vladimir Macko, Federico Leo Redi, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Tara Nanut, Alessio Ferrari, Violaine Bellée, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Pavol Stefko, Pietro Marino, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, François Fleuret, Vladislav Balagura, Guido Andreassi, Luca Pescatore, Preema Rennee Pais, Maxime Schubiger, Christoph Frei, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Greig Alan Cowan, Mark Tobin, Jessica Prisciandaro, Mirco Dorigo, Sebastiana Gianì, Vincenzo Battista, Conor Thomas Fitzpatrick, Tommaso Colombo, Brice Emile Maurin, Ian William Marison, Arnaud Merlin Gauthey, Daniel Gallichan, Marilisa Neri, Michael Thompson McCann, Mai Tu Xuan, Matteo Fontana, Simon Van Mulders, Valérie Jeanne Thérèse Renaudin-Schouler, Severin Stähly, Craig Matthew Smith, Alexandra Bondarenko, Léonard Yannick Maurice Eymann, Adriano Pastore, Nathalie Sophie Adeline Serra, Xiao Yuan, Laia Castilla Amorós, Luc Henry, Juan Federico Esteban Müller, Giovanni Veneziano, Basile Schäli, Nandita Aggarwal, Benedikt Sebastian Braun, Sattar Akbari Nakhjavani, Thomas Jean Julien Fussinger, Gang Yu

An analysis of the angular distribution of the decay Λ b 0 → Λμ+μ− is presented, using data collected with the LHCb detector between 2011 and 2016 and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of approximately 5 fb−1. Angular observables are determined us ...

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Search for CP violation in Lambda(0)(b)-> pK(- )and Lambda(0)(b) -> p pi(-) decays

Jian Wang, Mingkui Wang, Olivier Schneider, Zhirui Xu, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Aurelio Bay, Yi Wang, Guido Haefeli, Tatsuya Nakada, Frédéric Blanc, Minh Tâm Tran, Maurizio Martinelli, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Jean Wicht, Liupan An, Elena Graverini, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Renato Quagliani, Hang Yin, Maria Vieites Diaz, Olivier Göran Girard, Axel Kuonen, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Michel De Cian, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Vladimir Macko, Federico Leo Redi, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Tara Nanut, Alessio Ferrari, Violaine Bellée, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Pavol Stefko, Pietro Marino, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, François Fleuret, Vladislav Balagura, Guido Andreassi, Luca Pescatore, Preema Rennee Pais, Maxime Schubiger, Christoph Frei, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Greig Alan Cowan, Mark Tobin, Jessica Prisciandaro, Mirco Dorigo, Sebastiana Gianì, Vincenzo Battista, Conor Thomas Fitzpatrick, Tommaso Colombo, Brice Emile Maurin, Ian William Marison, Arnaud Merlin Gauthey, Daniel Gallichan, Marilisa Neri, Michael Thompson McCann, Mai Tu Xuan, Matteo Fontana, Simon Van Mulders, Valérie Jeanne Thérèse Renaudin-Schouler, Severin Stähly, Craig Matthew Smith, Alexandra Bondarenko, Léonard Yannick Maurice Eymann, Adriano Pastore, Nathalie Sophie Adeline Serra, Xiao Yuan, Laia Castilla Amorós, Luc Henry, Juan Federico Esteban Müller, Giovanni Veneziano, Basile Schäli, Nandita Aggarwal, Benedikt Sebastian Braun, Sattar Akbari Nakhjavani, Thomas Jean Julien Fussinger, Gang Yu

A search for CP violation in Lambda(0)(b)-> pK(- )and Lambda(0)(b) -> p pi(-) decays is presented using a sample of pp collisions collected with the LHCb detector and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0fb(-1). The CP-violating asymmetries are ...

2018

Evidence for an nc(1S)ff- resonance in B0 yc(1S)K+ decays

Jian Wang, Mingkui Wang, Olivier Schneider, Zhirui Xu, Yiming Li, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Aurelio Bay, Yi Wang, Guido Haefeli, Tatsuya Nakada, Frédéric Blanc, Minh Tâm Tran, Maurizio Martinelli, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Jean Wicht, Liupan An, Elena Graverini, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Renato Quagliani, Hang Yin, Maria Vieites Diaz, Olivier Göran Girard, Axel Kuonen, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Michel De Cian, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Vladimir Macko, Federico Leo Redi, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Tara Nanut, Alessio Ferrari, Violaine Bellée, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Pavol Stefko, Pietro Marino, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, François Fleuret, Vladislav Balagura, Guido Andreassi, Luca Pescatore, Preema Rennee Pais, Maxime Schubiger, Christoph Frei, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Greig Alan Cowan, Mark Tobin, Jessica Prisciandaro, Mirco Dorigo, Sebastiana Gianì, Vincenzo Battista, Conor Thomas Fitzpatrick, Tommaso Colombo, Brice Emile Maurin, Ian William Marison, Arnaud Merlin Gauthey, Daniel Gallichan, Marilisa Neri, Michael Thompson McCann, Mai Tu Xuan, Matteo Fontana, Albert Puig Navarro, Simon Van Mulders, Valérie Jeanne Thérèse Renaudin-Schouler, Severin Stähly, Craig Matthew Smith, Alexandra Bondarenko, Léonard Yannick Maurice Eymann, Adriano Pastore, Nathalie Sophie Adeline Serra, Xiao Yuan, Laia Castilla Amorós, Luc Henry, Juan Federico Esteban Müller, Giovanni Veneziano, Basile Schäli, Nandita Aggarwal, Benedikt Sebastian Braun, Sattar Akbari Nakhjavani, Thomas Jean Julien Fussinger, Gang Yu, Frederico Alves Lima

A Dalitz plot analysis of /30 ric(1S)K+7decays is performed using data samples of pp collisions collected with the LHCb detector at centre -of -mass energies of./7 = 7, 8 and 13 TeV, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb-1. A satisfactor ...

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Measurement of the Lifetime of the Doubly Charmed Baryon Xi(++)(cc)

Jian Wang, Mingkui Wang, Olivier Schneider, Zhirui Xu, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Aurelio Bay, Yi Wang, Guido Haefeli, Tatsuya Nakada, Frédéric Blanc, Minh Tâm Tran, Maurizio Martinelli, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Jean Wicht, Liupan An, Elena Graverini, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Renato Quagliani, Hang Yin, Maria Vieites Diaz, Olivier Göran Girard, Axel Kuonen, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Michel De Cian, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Vladimir Macko, Federico Leo Redi, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Tara Nanut, Alessio Ferrari, Violaine Bellée, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Pavol Stefko, Pietro Marino, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, François Fleuret, Vladislav Balagura, Guido Andreassi, Luca Pescatore, Preema Rennee Pais, Maxime Schubiger, Katharina Müller, Christoph Frei, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Greig Alan Cowan, Jessica Prisciandaro, Mirco Dorigo, Sebastiana Gianì, Vincenzo Battista, Conor Thomas Fitzpatrick, Tommaso Colombo, Brice Emile Maurin, Ian William Marison, Arnaud Merlin Gauthey, Daniel Gallichan, Marilisa Neri, Michael Thompson McCann, Mai Tu Xuan, Matteo Fontana, Simon Van Mulders, Valérie Jeanne Thérèse Renaudin-Schouler, Severin Stähly, Craig Matthew Smith, Alexandra Bondarenko, Léonard Yannick Maurice Eymann, Adriano Pastore, Nathalie Sophie Adeline Serra, Xiao Yuan, Laia Castilla Amorós, Luc Henry, Juan Federico Esteban Müller, Giovanni Veneziano, Basile Schäli, Nandita Aggarwal, Benedikt Sebastian Braun, Sattar Akbari Nakhjavani, Thomas Jean Julien Fussinger, Gang Yu, Kévin Müller, Jordy Daniel Müller

The first measurement of the lifetime of the doubly charmed baryon Xi(++)(cc) is presented, with the signal reconstructed in the final state Lambda K-+(c)-pi(+)pi(+). The data sample used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 1.7 fb(-1), collected by ...

2018

Stress changes in H2-loaded SMF optical fibers induced by cw-Ar+ 244 nm irradiation

Hans Georg Limberger, Nandita Aggarwal, Georgios Violakis

Bragg gratings were inscribed in H2-loaded SMF-28e optical fibers and measured for axial stress changes for various exposure doses. Mean refractive index changes as high as 7.5 × 10-3 were observed under cw-244 nm irradiation of 143 W/cm2. Bragg grating re ...

Optical Soc Amer2012

Search for lepton-flavour-violating decays of Higgs-like bosons

Jian Wang, Mingkui Wang, Olivier Schneider, Zhirui Xu, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Aurelio Bay, Yi Wang, Guido Haefeli, Tatsuya Nakada, Frédéric Blanc, Minh Tâm Tran, Maurizio Martinelli, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Jean Wicht, Liupan An, Elena Graverini, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Renato Quagliani, Hang Yin, Maria Vieites Diaz, Olivier Göran Girard, Axel Kuonen, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Michel De Cian, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Vladimir Macko, Federico Leo Redi, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Tara Nanut, Alessio Ferrari, Violaine Bellée, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Pavol Stefko, Pietro Marino, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, François Fleuret, Vladislav Balagura, Guido Andreassi, Luca Pescatore, Preema Rennee Pais, Maxime Schubiger, Christoph Frei, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Greig Alan Cowan, Mark Tobin, Jessica Prisciandaro, Mirco Dorigo, Sebastiana Gianì, Vincenzo Battista, Conor Thomas Fitzpatrick, Tommaso Colombo, Brice Emile Maurin, Ian William Marison, Arnaud Merlin Gauthey, Daniel Gallichan, Marilisa Neri, Michael Thompson McCann, Mai Tu Xuan, Matteo Fontana, Albert Puig Navarro, Simon Van Mulders, Valérie Jeanne Thérèse Renaudin-Schouler, Severin Stähly, Craig Matthew Smith, Alexandra Bondarenko, Léonard Yannick Maurice Eymann, Adriano Pastore, Nathalie Sophie Adeline Serra, Xiao Yuan, Laia Castilla Amorós, Luc Henry, Juan Federico Esteban Müller, Giovanni Veneziano, Basile Schäli, Nandita Aggarwal, Benedikt Sebastian Braun, Sattar Akbari Nakhjavani, Thomas Jean Julien Fussinger, Gang Yu

A search is presented for a Higgs-like boson with mass in the range 45 to 195 GeV/c(2) decaying into a muon and a tau lepton. The dataset consists of proton-proton interactions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, collected by the LHCb experiment, correspo ...

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Search for beautiful tetraquarks in the ?(1S)(+-) invariant-mass spectrum

Jian Wang, Mingkui Wang, Olivier Schneider, Zhirui Xu, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Aurelio Bay, Yi Wang, Guido Haefeli, Tatsuya Nakada, Frédéric Blanc, Minh Tâm Tran, Maurizio Martinelli, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Jean Wicht, Liupan An, Elena Graverini, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Renato Quagliani, Hang Yin, Maria Vieites Diaz, Olivier Göran Girard, Axel Kuonen, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Michel De Cian, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Vladimir Macko, Federico Leo Redi, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Tara Nanut, Alessio Ferrari, Violaine Bellée, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Pavol Stefko, Pietro Marino, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, François Fleuret, Vladislav Balagura, Guido Andreassi, Luca Pescatore, Preema Rennee Pais, Maxime Schubiger, Christoph Frei, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Greig Alan Cowan, Mark Tobin, Jessica Prisciandaro, Mirco Dorigo, Sebastiana Gianì, Vincenzo Battista, Conor Thomas Fitzpatrick, Tommaso Colombo, Brice Emile Maurin, Ian William Marison, Arnaud Merlin Gauthey, Daniel Gallichan, Marilisa Neri, Michael Thompson McCann, Mai Tu Xuan, Matteo Fontana, Simon Van Mulders, Valérie Jeanne Thérèse Renaudin-Schouler, Severin Stähly, Craig Matthew Smith, Alexandra Bondarenko, Léonard Yannick Maurice Eymann, Adriano Pastore, Nathalie Sophie Adeline Serra, Xiao Yuan, Laia Castilla Amorós, Luc Henry, Juan Federico Esteban Müller, Giovanni Veneziano, Basile Schäli, Nandita Aggarwal, Benedikt Sebastian Braun, Sattar Akbari Nakhjavani, Thomas Jean Julien Fussinger, Gang Yu

The (1 S) invariant-mass distribution is investigated for a possible exotic meson state composed of two b quarks and two b quarks, X bbbb. The analysis is based on a data sample of pp collisions recorded with the LHCb detector at centre-of-mass energies s ...

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