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Search for the lepton flavour violating decays B0→e±μ∓ and B0s→e±μ∓ with LHCb Run 2 data

A large variety of new physics models suggest that the rates for lepton flavour violating

b

-hadron decays may be much higher than predicted in the Standard Model, which leads to a high interest in the search for such decays. This thesis presents the se ...

EPFL2024

Development of microlens-enhanced SiPMs for a radiation-hard scintillating fibre tracker at LHCb

Carina Trippl

he LHCb experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is currently taking data with a newly developed Scintillating Fibre (SciFi) Tracker read out with multichannel silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs). The innermost fibre modules, exposed to the highest ra ...

EPFL2023

Measurement of the B+ -> rho0 mu+ nu differential branching fraction

Veronica Sølund Kirsebom

The tension between different determinations of the CKM matrix element Vub using measurements of either exclusive or inclusive semileptonic decays represents a long-standing puzzle in flavour physics. To resolve this, measurements of new exclusive channels ...

EPFL2023

Search for Heavy Neutral Leptons with LHCb

Serhii Cholak

This thesis presents a search for a beyond the Standard Model (SM) heavy neutral lepton (HNL), which does not interact via any of the SM interactions. This hypothetical particle has been proposed by multiple theories as an extension to the SM, and it could ...

EPFL2023

Testing lepton flavour universality in $B^+\to K^+\pi^+\pi^-\ell^+\ell^-$ decays with LHCb

Sara Celani

This PhD thesis aims at testing one of the fundamental properties of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics: the lepton flavour universality (LFU), which states that

W

and

Z

bosons are equally coupled to the three lepton generations. In this work, ...

EPFL2023

Measurement of lepton universality parameters in B+→K+ℓ+ℓ− and B0→K*0ℓ+ℓ− decays

A simultaneous analysis of the

B^+\to K^+\ell^+\ell^-

and

B^0\to K^{*0}\ell^+\ell^-

decays is performed to test muon-electron universality in two ranges of the square of the dilepton invariant mass,

q^2

. The measurement uses a sample of beauty meson ...

2023

Test of Lepton Universality in b→sℓ+ℓ− Decays

The first simultaneous test of muon-electron universality using

B^{+}\rightarrow K^{+}\ell^{+}\ell^{-}

and

B^{0}\rightarrow K^{*0}\ell^{+}\ell^{-}

decays is performed, in two ranges of the dilepton invariant-mass squared,

q^{2}

. The analysis uses bea ...

2023

Precision measurement of neutral charm meson mixing parameters

Guillaume Max Pietrzyk

This thesis presents a measurement of the neutral charm meson mixing parameters

y_{C\!P}^{KK} - y_{C\!P}^{K\pi}

and

y_{C\!P}^{\pi\pi} - y_{C\!P}^{K\pi}

using

D^0 \rightarrow K^-K^+

D^0 \rightarrow \pi^-\pi^+

and

D^0 \rightarrow K^-\pi^+

decays. ...

EPFL2022

Model-independent measurement of charm mixing parameters in D0 -> K0S pi+ pi- decays

Surapat Ek-In

This thesis presents a measurement of charm mixing and CP-violation parameters using D0 -> K0S pi+ pi- decays. These mixing parameters include the mass and decay-width differences of the mass eigenstates of the D0-D0bar system. A search for Charge-Parity v ...

EPFL2022

A parametrized Kalman filter for fast track fitting at LHCb

Michel De Cian

We present an alternative implementation of the Kalman filter employed for track fitting within the LHCb experiment. It uses simple parametrizations for the extrapolation of particle trajectories in the field of the LHCb dipole magnet and for the effects o ...

2021

Evidence of a J/psi Lambda structure and observation of excited Xi(-) states in the Xi(-)(b) -> J/psi Lambda K- decay

Lesya Shchutska, Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Yiming Li, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Christoph Frei, Tatsuya Nakada, Michel De Cian, Elena Graverini, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, François Fleuret, Ettore Zaffaroni, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Renato Quagliani, Federico Betti, Minh Tâm Tran, Donal Patrick Hill, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Pietro Marino, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Federico Leo Redi, Katharina Müller, Violaine Bellée, Maria Vieites Diaz, Elisabeth Maria Niel, Pavol Stefko, Tara Nanut, Jian Wang, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Mingkui Wang, Vladimir Macko, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Zhirui Xu, Chao Wang, Sebastian Schulte, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Yi Zhang, Surapat Ek-In, Lei Zhang, Carina Trippl, Ho Ling Li, Sara Celani, Mark Tobin, Serhii Cholak, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Niko Neufeld, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Matthew Needham, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Liang Sun, Xiaoxue Han, Liupan An, Maxime Schubiger, Hang Yin, Preema Rennee Pais, Yao Zhou, Tommaso Colombo, Evgenii Shmanin, Maxim Karpov, Simone Meloni, Xiaoqing Zhou, Marco Guarise, Dipanwita Dutta, Zheng Wang, Yong Yang, Yi Wang, Hao Liu, Hans Dijkstra, Gerhard Raven, Peter Clarke, Frédéric Teubert, Giovanni Carboni, Victor Coco, Shuai Liu, Adam Davis, Paolo Durante, Yu Zheng, Anton Petrov, Maxim Borisyak, Feng Jiang, Alexey Boldyrev, Almagul Kondybayeva, Hossein Afsharnia

First evidence of a structure in the J/psi Lambda invariant mass distribution is obtained from an amplitude analysis of Xi(-)(b) -> J/psi Lambda K- decays. The observed structure is consistent with being due to a charmonium pentaquark with strangeness with ...

2021

Branching Fraction Measurements of the Rare B-s(0) -> phi mu(+)mu(-) and B-s(0)-> f(2)' (1525)mu(+)mu(-) Decays

Lesya Shchutska, Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Yiming Li, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Christoph Frei, Tatsuya Nakada, Michel De Cian, Elena Graverini, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, François Fleuret, Ettore Zaffaroni, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Renato Quagliani, Federico Betti, Minh Tâm Tran, Donal Patrick Hill, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Federico Leo Redi, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Violaine Bellée, Maria Vieites Diaz, Elisabeth Maria Niel, Pavol Stefko, Tara Nanut, Jian Wang, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Mingkui Wang, Vladimir Macko, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Zhirui Xu, Chao Wang, Sebastian Schulte, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Yi Zhang, Surapat Ek-In, Lei Zhang, Carina Trippl, Ho Ling Li, Sara Celani, Mark Tobin, Serhii Cholak, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Niko Neufeld, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Matthew Needham, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Liang Sun, Xiaoxue Han, Liupan An, Maxime Schubiger, Hang Yin, Preema Rennee Pais, Yao Zhou, Tommaso Colombo, Evgenii Shmanin, Maxim Karpov, Simone Meloni, Xiaoqing Zhou, Marco Guarise, Dipanwita Dutta, Zheng Wang, Yong Yang, Yi Wang, Hao Liu, Hans Dijkstra, Gerhard Raven, Peter Clarke, Frédéric Teubert, Giovanni Carboni, Victor Coco, Shuai Liu, Adam Davis, Paolo Durante, Yu Zheng, Anton Petrov, Maxim Borisyak, Feng Jiang, Alexey Boldyrev, Almagul Kondybayeva, Hossein Afsharnia

The branching fraction of the rare B-s(0) -> phi mu(+)mu(-) decay is measured using data collected by the LHCb experiment at center-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13 TeV, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 1, 2, and 6 fb(-1), respectively. The bran ...

2021

Observation of New Resonances Decaying to J=Psi K plus and J=Psi phi

Lesya Shchutska, Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Yiming Li, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Christoph Frei, Tatsuya Nakada, Michel De Cian, Elena Graverini, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, François Fleuret, Ettore Zaffaroni, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Renato Quagliani, Federico Betti, Minh Tâm Tran, Donal Patrick Hill, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Pietro Marino, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Federico Leo Redi, Violaine Bellée, Elisabeth Maria Niel, Pavol Stefko, Tara Nanut, Jian Wang, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Mingkui Wang, Vladimir Macko, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Zhirui Xu, Chao Wang, Sebastian Schulte, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Yi Zhang, Surapat Ek-In, Lei Zhang, Carina Trippl, Ho Ling Li, Sara Celani, Mark Tobin, Serhii Cholak, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Niko Neufeld, Matthew Needham, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Liang Sun, Xiaoxue Han, Liupan An, Maxime Schubiger, Hang Yin, Preema Rennee Pais, Yao Zhou, Tommaso Colombo, Evgenii Shmanin, Maxim Karpov, Simone Meloni, Xiaoqing Zhou, Marco Guarise, Dipanwita Dutta, Zheng Wang, Yong Yang, Yi Wang, Hao Liu, Hans Dijkstra, Gerhard Raven, Peter Clarke, Frédéric Teubert, Giovanni Carboni, Victor Coco, Shuai Liu, Adam Davis, Paolo Durante, Yu Zheng, Anton Petrov, Maxim Borisyak, Feng Jiang, Alexey Boldyrev, Almagul Kondybayeva, Hossein Afsharnia

The first observation of exotic states with a new quark content ccus decaying to the J/Psi K+ final state is reported with high significance from an amplitude analysis of the B+-> J/ Psi phi K+ decay. The analysis is carried out using proton-proton collisi ...

2021

Angular analysis of B0->D-Ds+ with Ds+-> Ds+gamma decays

Lesya Shchutska, Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Yiming Li, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Christoph Frei, Tatsuya Nakada, Michel De Cian, Elena Graverini, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, François Fleuret, Ettore Zaffaroni, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Renato Quagliani, Federico Betti, Minh Tâm Tran, Donal Patrick Hill, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Federico Leo Redi, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Violaine Bellée, Maria Vieites Diaz, Elisabeth Maria Niel, Pavol Stefko, Tara Nanut, Jian Wang, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Mingkui Wang, Vladimir Macko, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Zhirui Xu, Chao Wang, Sebastian Schulte, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Yi Zhang, Surapat Ek-In, Lei Zhang, Carina Trippl, Ho Ling Li, Sara Celani, Mark Tobin, Serhii Cholak, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Niko Neufeld, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Valérie Jeanne Thérèse Renaudin-Schouler, Matthew Needham, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Liang Sun, Xiaoxue Han, Liupan An, Maxime Schubiger, Hang Yin, Preema Rennee Pais, Yao Zhou, Tommaso Colombo, Evgenii Shmanin, Maxim Karpov, Simone Meloni, Xiaoqing Zhou, Marco Guarise, Dipanwita Dutta, Zheng Wang, Yong Yang, Yi Wang, Hao Liu, Hans Dijkstra, Gerhard Raven, Peter Clarke, Frédéric Teubert, Giovanni Carboni, Victor Coco, Shuai Liu, Adam Davis, Paolo Durante, Yu Zheng, Anton Petrov, Maxim Borisyak, Feng Jiang, Alexey Boldyrev, Almagul Kondybayeva, Hossein Afsharnia

The first full angular analysis of the B0 -> D-Ds+ decay is performed using 6 fb(-1) of pp collision data collected with the LHCb experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The Ds+-> Ds+gamma and D*- -> D0- vector meson decays ar ...

Springer Nature2021

Measurement of the prompt-production cross-section ratio sigma(chi(c2))/sigma(chi(c1)) in pPb collisions at root s(NN)=8.16 TeV

Lesya Shchutska, Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Yiming Li, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Christoph Frei, Tatsuya Nakada, Michel De Cian, Elena Graverini, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, François Fleuret, Ettore Zaffaroni, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Renato Quagliani, Federico Betti, Minh Tâm Tran, Donal Patrick Hill, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Pietro Marino, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Federico Leo Redi, Violaine Bellée, Elisabeth Maria Niel, Maria Vieites Diaz, Pavol Stefko, Jian Wang, Tara Nanut, Mingkui Wang, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Zhirui Xu, Vladimir Macko, Chao Wang, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Yi Zhang, Sebastian Schulte, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Lei Zhang, Surapat Ek-In, Ho Ling Li, Carina Trippl, Mark Tobin, Sara Celani, Marco Guarise, Niko Neufeld, Serhii Cholak, Matthew Needham, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Maurizio Martinelli, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Vladislav Balagura, Liang Sun, Xiaoxue Han, Liupan An, Maxime Schubiger, Hang Yin, Preema Rennee Pais, Yao Zhou, Tommaso Colombo, Evgenii Shmanin, Maxim Karpov, Simone Meloni, Xiaoqing Zhou, Dipanwita Dutta, Zheng Wang, Yong Yang, Yi Wang, Hao Liu, Hans Dijkstra, Gerhard Raven, Peter Clarke, Frédéric Teubert, Giovanni Carboni, Victor Coco, Shuai Liu, Adam Davis, Paolo Durante, Yu Zheng, Anton Petrov, Maxim Borisyak, Feng Jiang, Alexey Boldyrev, Almagul Kondybayeva, Hossein Afsharnia

This article reports the first measurement of prompt chi(c1) and chi(c2) charmonium production in nuclear collisions at Large Hadron Collider energies. The cross-section ratio sigma(chi(c2))/sigma(chi(c1)) is measured in pPb collisions at root s(NN) = 8.16 ...

2021

First indication of the Lambda-b baryon decay to a charmless baryonic final state

Vladimir Macko

The Standard Model of particle physics provides predictions of many fundamental processes. One of them is the existence of charmless processes involving only baryons, namely charmless purely baryonic decays of baryons. Yet none of these decay modes has bee ...

EPFL2021

Measurement of Xi(++)(cc) production in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV

Lesya Shchutska, Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Yiming Li, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Christoph Frei, Tatsuya Nakada, Michel De Cian, Luca Pescatore, Elena Graverini, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, François Fleuret, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Minh Tâm Tran, Pietro Marino, Renato Quagliani, Federico Leo Redi, Federico Betti, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Maxime Schubiger, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Violaine Bellée, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Maria Vieites Diaz, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Olivier Göran Girard, Preema Rennee Pais, Elisabeth Maria Niel, Pavol Stefko, Jian Wang, Tara Nanut, Mingkui Wang, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Zhirui Xu, Vladimir Macko, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Sebastian Schulte, Surapat Ek-In, Ho Ling Li, Carina Trippl, Mark Tobin, Sara Celani, Serhii Cholak, Niko Neufeld, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Matthew Needham, Marc-Olivier Bettler, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Mirco Dorigo, Xiaoxue Han, Liupan An, Thibaud Humair, Hang Yin, Guido Andreassi, Yao Zhou, Tommaso Colombo, Evgenii Shmanin, Simone Meloni, Xiaoqing Zhou, Dipanwita Dutta, Zheng Wang, Yi Wang, Hans Dijkstra, Gerhard Raven, Peter Clarke, Frédéric Teubert, Giovanni Carboni, Victor Coco, Adam Davis, Paolo Durante, Wenyu Zhang, Yu Zheng, Anton Petrov, Maxim Borisyak, Feng Jiang, Zhipeng Tang, Xuan Li, Alexey Boldyrev, Almagul Kondybayeva, Hossein Afsharnia

The production of Xi(++)(cc) baryons in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of root s = 13 Tev is measured in the transverse-momentum range 4 < p(T) < 15 GeV/c and the rapidity range 2.0 < y < 4.5. The data used in this measurement correspo ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2020

Search for CP violation in Xi(+)(c) -> pK(-) pi(+) decays using model-independent techniques

Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Yiming Li, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Christoph Frei, Tatsuya Nakada, Michel De Cian, Luca Pescatore, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, François Fleuret, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Minh Tâm Tran, Elena Graverini, Pietro Marino, Federico Leo Redi, Renato Quagliani, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Federico Betti, Maxime Schubiger, Guido Andreassi, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Violaine Bellée, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Olivier Göran Girard, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Axel Kuonen, Jian Wang, Preema Rennee Pais, Mingkui Wang, Pavol Stefko, Zhirui Xu, Tara Nanut, Yi Zhang, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Lei Zhang, Vladimir Macko, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Jessica Prisciandaro, Sebastian Schulte, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Mark Tobin, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Niko Neufeld, Brice Emile Maurin, Matthew Needham, Vincenzo Battista, Marc-Olivier Bettler, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Mirco Dorigo, Xiaoxue Han, Liupan An, Thibaud Humair, Hang Yin, Maria Vieites Diaz, Tommaso Colombo, Evgenii Shmanin, Dipanwita Dutta, Zheng Wang, Yi Wang, Hans Dijkstra, Gerhard Raven, Peter Clarke, Frédéric Teubert, Giovanni Carboni, Victor Coco, Adam Davis, Paolo Durante, Wenyu Zhang, Yu Zheng, Anton Petrov, Maxim Borisyak, Feng Jiang, Zhipeng Tang

A first search for CP violation in the Cabibbo-suppressed Xi(+)(c) -> pK(-) pi(+) decay is performed using both a binned and an unbinned model-independent technique in the Dalitz plot. The studies are based on a sample of protonproton collision data, corre ...

SPRINGER2020

Measurement of the branching fraction of the decay B-s(0) -> (KSKS0)-K-0

Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Yiming Li, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Christoph Frei, Tatsuya Nakada, Michel De Cian, Luca Pescatore, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Minh Tâm Tran, François Fleuret, Pietro Marino, Elena Graverini, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Federico Leo Redi, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Renato Quagliani, Maxime Schubiger, Federico Betti, Guido Andreassi, Violaine Bellée, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Olivier Göran Girard, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Axel Kuonen, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Preema Rennee Pais, Jian Wang, Pavol Stefko, Mingkui Wang, Tara Nanut, Zhirui Xu, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Yi Zhang, Vladimir Macko, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Lei Zhang, Sebastian Schulte, Jessica Prisciandaro, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Mark Tobin, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Brice Emile Maurin, Niko Neufeld, Vincenzo Battista, Matthew Needham, Marc-Olivier Bettler, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Mirco Dorigo, Xiaoxue Han, Liupan An, Thibaud Humair, Hang Yin, Maria Vieites Diaz, Tommaso Colombo, Evgenii Shmanin, Dipanwita Dutta, Zheng Wang, Yi Wang, Hans Dijkstra, Gerhard Raven, Peter Clarke, Frédéric Teubert, Giovanni Carboni, Victor Coco, Adam Davis, Paolo Durante, Wenyu Zhang, Yu Zheng, Anton Petrov, Maxim Borisyak, Feng Jiang, Zhipeng Tang

A measurement of the branching fraction of the decay B-s(0) -> (KSKS0)-K-0 is performed using proton- proton - collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5 fb(-1) collected by the LHCb experiment between 2011 and 2016. The branching fracti ...

American Physical Society2020