First measurement of the charge asymmetry in beauty-quark pair production

The difference in the angular distributions between beauty quarks and antiquarks, referred to as the charge asymmetry, is measured for the first time in bb pair production at a hadron collider. The data used correspond to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb(-1) collected at 7 TeV center-of-mass energ...

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Published in:Physical review letters 2014-08, Vol.113 (8), p.082003-082003, Article 082003
Main Authors: Aaij, R, Adeva, B, Adinolfi, M, Affolder, A, Ajaltouni, Z, Akar, S, Albrecht, J, Alessio, F, Alexander, M, Ali, S, Alkhazov, G, Alvarez Cartelle, P, Alves, Jr, A A, Amato, S, Amerio, S, Amhis, Y, An, L, Anderlini, L, Anderson, J, Andreassen, R, Andreotti, M, Andrews, J E, Appleby, R B, Aquines Gutierrez, O, Archilli, F, Artamonov, A, Artuso, M, Aslanides, E, Auriemma, G, Baalouch, M, Bachmann, S, Back, J J, Badalov, A, Balagura, V, Baldini, W, Barlow, R J, Barschel, C, Barsuk, S, Barter, W, Batozskaya, V, Battista, V, Bay, A, Beaucourt, L, Beddow, J, Bedeschi, F, Bediaga, I, Belogurov, S, Belous, K, Belyaev, I, Ben-Haim, E, Bencivenni, G, Benson, S, Benton, J, Berezhnoy, A, Bernet, R, Bettler, M-O, van Beuzekom, M, Bien, A, Bifani, S, Bird, T, Bizzeti, A, Bjørnstad, P M, Blake, T, Blanc, F, Blouw, J, Blusk, S, Bocci, V, Bondar, A, Bondar, N, Bonivento, W, Borghi, S, Borgia, A, Borsato, M, Bowcock, T J V, Bowen, E, Bozzi, C, Brambach, T, van den Brand, J, Bressieux, J, Brett, D, Britsch, M, Britton, T, Brodzicka, J, Brook, N H, Brown, H, Bursche, A, Busetto, G, Buytaert, J, Cadeddu, S, Calabrese, R, Calvi, M, Calvo Gomez, M, Camboni, A, Campana, P, Campora Perez, D, Carbone, A, Carboni, G, Cardinale, R, Cardini, A, Carranza-Mejia, H
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Language:English
Subjects:
Asymmetry
Charge
Experiments
Física de partícules
Hadrons
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Invariants
Jets
Large Hadron Collider
Pair production
Particle physics
Physics
Quarks
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Summary:The difference in the angular distributions between beauty quarks and antiquarks, referred to as the charge asymmetry, is measured for the first time in bb pair production at a hadron collider. The data used correspond to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb(-1) collected at 7 TeV center-of-mass energy in proton-proton collisions with the LHCb detector. The measurement is performed in three regions of the invariant mass of the bb system. The results obtained are A(C)(bb))(40 2.6 rad. These measurements are consistent with the predictions of the standard model.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/physrevlett.113.082003