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Application of vertex and mass constraints in track-based alignment

Olivier Schneider, Christophe Salzmann, Vincent Fave, Matthew Needham, Maurizio Martinelli, Frédéric Guillaume Dupertuis, Géraldine Conti, Louis Nicolas, Gerhard Raven

The software alignment of planar tracking detectors using samples of charged particle trajectories may lead to global detector distortions that affect vertex and momentum resolution. We present an alignment procedure that constrains such distortions by mak ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Science and technology research and development in support to ITER and the Broader Approach at CEA

Yiming Li, Alexis Berne, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Joan Decker, Yi Zhang, Jonathan Bryan Lister, Javier García Hernández, Daniel Keller, Fang Liu, Vincent Martin

In parallel to the direct contribution to the procurement phase of ITER and Broader Approach, CEA has initiated research & development programmes, accompanied by experiments together with a significant modelling effort, aimed at ensuring robust operation, ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2013

LHCb Silicon Tracker DAQ and ECS Online Systems

Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Tatsuya Nakada, Minh Tâm Tran, Christophe Salzmann, Mark Tobin, Raluca Anca Muresan, Johan Luisier

The LHCb experiment at CERN is designed to perform precision measurements of b quark decays. The Silicon Tracker plays a crucial role in reconstructing particle trajectories and consists of two silicon micro-strip detectors, the Tracker Turicensis and the ...

2010

Measurement of sigma (pp -> b bbar X) at sqrt(s)=7 TeV in the forward region

Olivier Schneider, Yiming Li, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Christoph Frei, Tatsuya Nakada, Julien Rouvinet, Barinjaka Rakotomiaramanana, Raluca Anca Muresan

Decays of b hadrons into final states containing a D-0 meson and a muon are used to measure the b (b) over bar; production cross-section in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV at the LHC. In the pseudorapidity interval 2 < eta < 6 ...

2010

Prompt K-S(0) production in pp collisions at root s=0.9 TeV

Olivier Schneider, Yiming Li, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Christoph Frei, Tatsuya Nakada, Julien Rouvinet, Barinjaka Rakotomiaramanana, Raluca Anca Muresan

The production of K-S(0) mesons in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 0.9 TeV is studied with the LHCb detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The luminosity of the analysed sample is determined using a novel technique, involving measurements of th ...

2010

Alignment of the LHCb tracking stations and selection of X(3872) and Z(4430)± in pp collisions at 14 TeV

Louis Nicolas

The LHCb experiment is one of the four large experiments located at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, close to Geneva, Switzerland. The LHCb detector is a single-arm forward spectrometer which is dedicated to precision measurements of CP violation, ...

EPFL2009

Tracking stations alignment with Kalman tracks at LHCb

Matthew Needham, Louis Nicolas, Gerhard Raven

The LHCb detector, operating at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, is a single arm spectrometer optimized for the detection of the forward b anti-b production for b physics studies. The reconstruction of vertices and tracks is done by silicon micro-strips ...

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The LHCb Detector at the LHC

Lesya Shchutska, Olivier Schneider, Yiming Li, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Christoph Frei, Tatsuya Nakada, Minh Tâm Tran, Barinjaka Rakotomiaramanana

2008