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- Title
Observation of a Λb0−Λ¯b0 production asymmetry in proton-proton collisions at s = 7 and 8 TeV.
- Authors
Aaij, R.; Abdelmotteleb, A. S. W.; Abellán Beteta, C.; Ackernley, T.; Adeva, B.; Adinolfi, M.; Afsharnia, H.; Aidala, C. A.; Aiola, S.; Ajaltouni, Z.; Akar, S.; Albrecht, J.; Alessio, F.; Alexander, M.; Alfonso Albero, A.; Aliouche, Z.; Alkhazov, G.; Alvarez Cartelle, P.; Amato, S.; Amey, J. L.
- Abstract
This article presents differential measurements of the asymmetry between Λ b 0 and Λ ¯ b 0 baryon production rates in proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of s = 7 and 8 TeV collected with the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb−1. The Λ b 0 baryons are reconstructed through the inclusive semileptonic decay Λ b 0 → Λ c + μ− ν ¯ μX. The production asymmetry is measured both in intervals of rapidity in the range 2.15 < y < 4.10 and transverse momentum in 2 < pT< 27 GeV/c. The results are found to be incompatible with symmetric production with a significance of 5.8 standard deviations for both s = 7 and 8 TeV data, assuming no CP violation in the decay. There is evidence for a trend as a function of rapidity with a significance of 4 standard deviations. Comparisons to predictions from hadronisation models in Pythia and heavy-quark recombination are provided. This result constitutes the first observation of a particle-antiparticle asymmetry in b-hadron production at LHC energies.
- Subjects
PROTON-proton interactions; CP violation; STANDARD deviations; BARYONS; HADRON-hadron scattering; LUMINOSITY
- Publication
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021, Vol 2021, Issue 10, p1
- ISSN
1126-6708
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/JHEP10(2021)060