Publications by François Bianchi

Test beam performance of a CBC3-based mini-module for the Phase-2 CMS Outer Tracker before and after neutron irradiation

Simone Scarfì, Varun Sharma, Konstantin Androsov, Xin Chen, Rakesh Chawla, Werner Lustermann, Andromachi Tsirou, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Andrea Rizzi, Thomas Muller

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will undergo major upgrades to increase the instantaneous luminosity up to 5-7.5 x 1034 cm-2s-1. This High Luminosity upgrade of the LHC (HL-LHC) will deliver a total of 3000-4000 fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at ...

2023

Observed coupling between air mass history, secondary growth of nucleation mode particles and aerosol pollution levels in Beijing

Lubna Dada, Yu Fu, François Bianchi, Jingjing Jiang

Atmospheric aerosols have significant effects on the climate and on human health. New particle formation (NPF) is globally an important source of aerosols but its relevance especially towards aerosol mass loadings in highly polluted regions is still contro ...

2022

Beam test performance of a prototype module with Short Strip ASICs for the CMS HL-LHC tracker upgrade

Simone Scarfì, Qian Wang, Varun Sharma, Konstantin Androsov, Xin Chen, Rakesh Chawla, Tian Cheng, Werner Lustermann, Andromachi Tsirou, Andrea Rizzi

The Short Strip ASIC (SSA) is one of the four front-end chips designed for the upgrade of the CMS Outer Tracker for the High Luminosity LHC. Together with the Macro-Pixel ASIC (MPA) it will instrument modules containing a strip and a macro-pixel sensor sta ...

2022

The CMS Phase-1 pixel detector upgrade

Simone Scarfì, Qian Wang, Varun Sharma, Konstantin Androsov, Xin Chen, Rakesh Chawla, Tian Cheng, Werner Lustermann, Andromachi Tsirou, Andrea Rizzi

The CMS detector at the CERN LHC features a silicon pixel detector as its innermost subdetector. The original CMS pixel detector has been replaced with an upgraded pixel system (CMS Phase-1 pixel detector) in the extended year-end technical stop of the LHC ...

2021

Beam test performance of prototype silicon detectors for the Outer Tracker for the Phase-2 Upgrade of CMS

Qian Wang, Simone Scarfì, Varun Sharma, Konstantin Androsov, Xin Chen, Tian Cheng, Werner Lustermann, Andromachi Tsirou, Andrea Rizzi, David Vannerom

A new CMS tracker detector will be installed for operation at the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). This detector comprises modules with two closely spaced parallel sensor plates and front-end ASICs capable of transmitting tracking information to the CMS Level ...

2020

The DAQ and control system for the CMS Phase-1 pixel detector upgrade

Qian Wang, Simone Scarfì, Varun Sharma, Chia-Chun Chen, Konstantin Androsov, Xin Chen, Tian Cheng, Werner Lustermann, Andromachi Tsirou, Andrea Rizzi

In 2017 a new pixel detector was installed in the CMS detector. This so-called Phase-1 pixel detector features four barrel layers in the central region and three disks per end in the forward regions. The upgraded pixel detector requires an upgraded data ac ...

2019

Measurement of cos 2 beta in B-0 -> D((*))h(0) with D -> K-S(0)pi(+) pi(-) decays by a combined time-dependent Dalitz plot analysis of BABAR and Belle data

Olivier Schneider, Roberto Gargiani, Yiming Li, Mingkui Wang, Mithilesh Nayak, Chao Wang, Gaétan Charles Antoine Giriat, Tagir Aushev, Greig Alan Cowan, Sun Hee Kim

We report measurements of sin 2 beta and cos 2 beta using a time-dependent Dalitz plot analysis of B-0 -> D((*))h(0) with D -> K-S(0)pi(+)pi(-) decays, where the light unflavored and neutral hadron h(0) is a pi(0),eta, or omega meson. The analysis uses a c ...

American Physical Society2018

First Evidence for cos 2 beta > 0 and Resolution of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Quark-Mixing Unitarity Triangle Ambiguity

Olivier Schneider, Roberto Gargiani, Yiming Li, Mingkui Wang, Mithilesh Nayak, Gaétan Charles Antoine Giriat, Chao Wang, Tagir Aushev, Greig Alan Cowan, Sun Hee Kim

We present first evidence that the cosine of the CP-violating weak phase 2 beta is positive, and hence exclude trigonometric multifold solutions of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) Unitarity Triangle using a time-dependent Dalitz plot analysis of B-0 -> ...

2018

Study of chi(cJ) decaying into phi K*(892)(K)over-bar

Qian Wang, Xin Chen, Jiannong Fang, Mingkui Wang, Zhirui Xu, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Yixing Chen, Hua Zhang, Siyuan Wang

Using a data sample of 106 million psi(3686) events collected with the BESIII detector operated at the BEPCII storage ring, we study for the first time the decays chi(cJ) -> phi(KSK +/-)-K-0 pi(-/+) and chi(cJ) -> phi K+K-pi(0) in the E1 radiative transiti ...

American Physical Society2015

First Observation of CP Violation in (B)over-bar(0) -> D(CP)((*))h(0) Decays by a Combined Time-Dependent Analysis of BABAR and Belle Data

Olivier Schneider, Mingkui Wang, Greig Alan Cowan, Chao Wang, Tagir Aushev, Liang Sun, Sun Hee Kim, Tara Nanut, Songmei Wu, Jun Yong Kim

We report a measurement of the time-dependent CP asymmetry of (B) over bar (0) -> D(CP)((*))h(0) decays, where the light neutral hadron h(0) is a pi(0), eta , or omega meson, and the neutral D meson is reconstructed in the CP eigenstates K+K-, K-S(0)pi(0) ...

Amer Physical Soc2015