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Discriminating between lepton number violating scalars using events with four and three charged leptons at the LHC
2013
Many Standard Model extensions predict doubly-charged scalars; in particular, all models with resonances in charged lepton-pair channels with non-vanishing lepton number; if these are pair produced at the LHC, the observation of their decay into l(-/+)l(-/+)W(-/+)W(-/+) will be necessary in order to establish their lepton-number violating character, which is generally not straightforward. Nonetheless, the analysis of events containing four charged leptons (including scalar decays into one or two taus as well as into W bosons) makes it possible to determine whether the doubly-charged excitation belongs to a multiplet with weak isospin T = 0,1/2,1,3/2 or 2 (assuming there are no excitations w…
Measurement of the centrality dependence of J/ψ yields and observation of Z production in lead–lead collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
2011
Using the ATLAS detector, a centrality-dependent suppression has been observed in the yield of J/psi mesons produced in the collisions of lead ions at the Large Hadron Collider. In a sample of minimum-bias lead-lead collisions at a nucleon-nucleon centre of mass energy root s(NN) = 2.76 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 6.7 mu b(-1), J/psi mesons are reconstructed via their decays to mu(+)mu(-) pairs. The measured J/psi yield, normalized to the number of binary nucleon-nucleon collisions, is found to significantly decrease from peripheral to central collisions. The centrality dependence is found to be qualitatively similar to the trends observed at previous, lower ener…
Hidden charm pentaquark and Λ(1405) in the Λb0→ηcK−p(πΣ) reaction
2018
Abstract We have performed a study of the Λ b 0 → η c K − p and Λ b 0 → η c π Σ reactions based on the dominant Cabibbo favored weak decay mechanism. We show that the K − p produced only couples to Λ ⁎ states, not Σ ⁎ and that the πΣ state is only generated from final state interaction of K ¯ N and ηΛ channels which are produced in a primary stage. This guarantees that the πΣ state is generated in isospin I = 0 and we see that the invariant mass produces a clean signal for the Λ ( 1405 ) of higher mass at 1420 MeV. We also study the η c p final state interaction, which is driven by the excitation of a hidden charm resonance predicted before. We relate the strength of the different invariant…
Study of heavy meson production in p–Pb collisions atS=5.02TeV in the general-mass variable-flavour-number scheme
2017
Abstract We study inclusive charm and bottom production, for both D and B mesons, in p–Pb collisions at the LHC. Numerical results for p T -differential production cross sections are obtained at next-to-leading-order in the general-mass variable-flavour-number scheme. We compare our results with recent data from ALICE, LHCb and CMS at a centre-of-mass energy of 5 TeV and find good agreement. A comparison with p–p cross sections does not reveal the presence of nuclear initial-state interaction effects that could be expected to become visible as deviations of the ratio of p–Pb and p–p cross sections from one.
Too many Xʼs, Yʼs and Zʼs?
2012
Abstract A large number of new states have been reported during the last few years in charmonium spectroscopy above the charmed meson production threshold. They have been called X ʼs, Y ʼs, and Z ʼs. We reflect on the influence of thresholds on heavy meson spectroscopy comparing different flavor sectors and quantum numbers. The validity of a quark-model picture above open-flavor thresholds would severely restrict the number of channels that may lodge meson–meson molecules.
Radiative open charm decay of the Y(3940), Z(3930), X(4160) resonances
2009
We determine the radiative decay amplitudes for the decay into D* and (D) over bar gamma, or (D) over bar gamma(s)* and s. of some of the charmonium- like states classified as X, Y, Z resonances, plus some other hidden charm states which are dynamically generated from the interaction of vector mesons with charm. The mass distributions as a function of the (D) over bar gamma or (D) over bar (s)gamma. invariant mass show a peculiar behavior as a consequence of the D* (D) over bar gamma* nature of these states. The experimental search of these magnitudes can shed light on the nature of these states.
Y(3940),Z(3930), and theX(4160)as dynamically generated resonances from the vector-vector interaction
2009
We apply a unitary approach together with a set of hidden‐gauge Lagrangians to study the vector‐vector interaction. Concretely, we focus on the sector with quantum numbers charm C = 0 and strangeness S = 0 in the region around 4000 MeV. We get five poles, three of which could be identified with the Y(3940), Z(3930) and X(4160). These poles appear with quantum numbers I = 0 and JPC = 0++,2++ and 2++, respectively, and can be considered as hadronic molecules made of D*D*, Ds*Ds*, decaying to a pair of light vectors, light‐heavy vector or pseudoscalar‐pseudoscalar.
New interpretation for theDs2*(2573)and the prediction of novel exotic charmed mesons
2010
In this manuscript we study the vector-vector interaction within the hidden-gauge formalism in a coupled channel unitary approach. In the sector $C=1$, $S=1$, $J=2$ we get a pole in the $T$ matrix around 2572 MeV that we identify with the ${D}_{s2}^{*}(2573)$, coupling strongly to the ${D}^{*}{K}^{*}({D}_{s}^{*}\ensuremath{\phi}(\ensuremath{\omega}))$ channels. In addition we obtain resonances in other exotic sectors which have not been studied before such as $C=1$, $S=\ensuremath{-}1$, $C=2$, $S=0$ and $C=2$, $S=1$. These ``flavor-exotic'' states are interpreted as ${D}^{*}{\overline{K}}^{*}$, ${D}^{*}{D}^{*}$, and ${D}_{s}^{*}{D}^{*}$ molecular states but have not been observed yet. In to…
Measurement of the directCP-violating parameterACPin the decayD+→K−π+π+
2014
We measure the direct CP-violating parameter A_CP for the decay of the charged charm meson, D+ -> K-pi+pi+ (and charge conjugate), using the full 10.4 fb-1 sample of ppbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV collected by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. We extract the raw reconstructed charge asymmetry by fitting the invariant mass distributions for the sum and difference of charge-specific samples. This quantity is then corrected for detector-related asymmetries using data-driven methods and for possible physics asymmetries (from B -> D processes) using input from Monte Carlo simulation. We measure A_CP = [-0.16 +- 0.15 (stat.) +- 0.09 (syst.)]%, which is consistent with zer…
Angular distributions in exclusive semi-leptonic bottom meson decays
1990
Abstract I present and discuss the full angular decay distribution for the exclusive semileptonic decays B → Dl ν l and B → D ☆ (→ D π) l ν ) l .