Publications by Mercedes Hannelore Rittmann-Frank

Measurement of the Z boson production cross-section in proton-lead collisions at root(NN)-N-s=8.16 TeV

Lesya Shchutska, Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Tatsuya Nakada, François Fleuret, John Martin Kolinski, Mingkui Wang, Chao Wang

This article presents the first measurement of the differential Z-boson production cross-section in the forward region using proton-lead collisions with the LHCb detector. The dataset was collected at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy of root(NN)-N-s ...

Springer Nature2023

Amplitude analysis of the D+-> pi(-)pi(+)pi(+) decay and measurement of the pi(-)pi(+) S-wave amplitude

Lesya Shchutska, Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Tatsuya Nakada, François Fleuret, John Martin Kolinski, Mingkui Wang, Chao Wang

An amplitude analysis of the D+-> (-)pi(+)pi(+) decay is performed with a sample corresponding to 1.5 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity of pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy root s = 8 TeV collected by the LHCb detector in 2012. The sample contains app ...

Springer Nature2023

First branching fraction measurement of the suppressed decay Xi(0)(c) -> pi(-) Lambda(+)(c)

Lesya Shchutska, Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Yiming Li, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Christoph Frei, Tatsuya Nakada, François Fleuret, John Martin Kolinski

The Xi(0)(c) baryon is unstable and usually decays into charmless final states by the c -> sud transition. It can, however, also disintegrate into a pi(-) meson and a Lambda(+)(c) baryon via s quark decay or via cs -> dc weak scattering. The interplay betw ...

American Physical Society2020

Search for the rare decay B+ -> mu(+) mu(-) mu(+)nu(mu)

Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Yiming Li, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Christoph Frei, Tatsuya Nakada, François Fleuret, John Martin Kolinski, Luca Pescatore

A search for the rare leptonic decay B +. mu + mu - mu +.mu is performed using proton- proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb - 1 collected by the LHCb experiment. The search is carried out in the region where the lowest ...

2019

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

Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Yiming Li, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Christoph Frei, Tatsuya Nakada, Mingkui Wang, Mercedes Hannelore Rittmann-Frank, Michael Thompson McCann

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

Time-resolved Element-selective Probing of Charge Carriers in Solar Materials

Majed Chergui, Thomas Charles Henry Rossi, Mercedes Hannelore Rittmann-Frank, Jochen Rittmann, Dominik Kinschel, Fabio Giacomo Santomauro, James Michael Budarz

We review our recent results on the implementation of picosecond (ps) X-ray absorption spectroscopy to probe the electronic and geometric structure of centres formed by photoexcitation of solar materials such as TiO2 polymorphs and inorganic Cs-based perov ...

2017

NO binding kinetics in myoglobin investigated by picosecond Fe K-edge absorption spectroscopy

Majed Chergui, Marco Eli Reinhard, Thomas James Penfold, Camelia Borca, Frederico Alves Lima, Mercedes Hannelore Rittmann-Frank, Jochen Rittmann, Mahsa Silatani

Diatomic ligands in hemoproteins and the way they bind to the active center are central to the protein's function. Using picosecond Fe K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy, we probe the NO-heme recombination kinetics with direct sensitivity to the Fe-NO bi ...

National Academy of Sciences2015

Mapping of the Photoinduced Electron Traps in TiO2 by Picosecond X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy

Majed Chergui, Marco Eli Reinhard, Thomas James Penfold, Mercedes Hannelore Rittmann-Frank, Jochen Rittmann

Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is the most popular material for applications in solar-energy conversion and photocatalysis, both of which rely on the creation, transport, and trapping of charges (holes and electrons). The nature and lifetime of electron traps at ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

X-ray Spectroscopic Study of Solvent Effects on the Ferrous and Ferric Hexacyanide Anions

Majed Chergui, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Thomas James Penfold, Marco Eli Reinhard, Mercedes Hannelore Rittmann-Frank

We present an Fe K alpha resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) and X-ray emission (XES) study of ferrous and ferric hexacyanide dissolved in water and ethylene glycol. We observe that transitions below the absorption edge show that the solvent has a d ...

2014

Characterizing the Structure and Defect Concentration of ZnO Nanoparticles in a Colloidal Solution

Majed Chergui, Marco Eli Reinhard, Thomas James Penfold, Camelia Borca, Thomas Charles Henry Rossi, Mercedes Hannelore Rittmann-Frank, Jochen Rittmann

The structure and defect concentration of colloidal solutions of ZnO nanoparticles, synthesized by a sol gel procedure (SG-NP), as well as commercially available ZnO nanoparticles (SA-NP) are investigated by UV-vis absorption spectroscopy, transmission ele ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014