Conveners
Parallel 2B: Flavour Physics II
- Session chair: Dr. Marcella Bona
Nazim Hussain
(University of Oxford (GB))
08/04/2014, 16:00
Flavour Physics and Beyond
contributed talk
Charged $B$ decays of the form $B^\pm \rightarrow DK^\pm$ (where $D$ represents either a $D^0$ or a $\bar{D^0}$) are powerful tools in the measurement of the $CP$-violating CKM angle $\gamma$. Channels where the $D$ decays to a final state involving a $\pi^0$, such as $D \rightarrow \pi^\pm K^\mp \pi^0$, $D \rightarrow \pi^\pm \pi^\mp \pi^0$ and $D \rightarrow K^\pm K^\mp \pi^0$ are promising...
Daniel Charles Craik
(University of Warwick (GB))
08/04/2014, 16:15
Flavour Physics and Beyond
contributed talk
Dalitz plot analyses of $B^0_{(s)}\rightarrow D^0K\pi$ are interesting for multiple reasons. The decay $B^0\rightarrow D^0K\pi$ can be used to make a measurement of the CKM angle $\gamma$. The $B^0_s$ decay is interesting both as a potential background to the $\gamma$ measurement but also to obtain branching fraction measurements for the various two body decays that contribute to...
Rafael Silva Coutinho
(University of Warwick (GB))
08/04/2014, 16:30
Flavour Physics and Beyond
contributed talk
The study of charmless three body decays with final states including a $K^{0}$ meson has an extensive number of application.
In this talk a review of the recent and ongoing analyses at LHCb will be reported. First, a search for previously unobserved decays of beauty baryons to the final states `$K^{0}_{\mathrm{S}}p\pi^{-}$` and `$K^{0}_{\mathrm{S}}pK^{-}$` is reported. The analysis is based...
John Beddow
(University of Glasgow (GB))
08/04/2014, 16:45
Flavour Physics and Beyond
contributed talk
Results from the recently published search for the rare decays $ {B^0}\to p\bar{p} $ and $ B_s^0\to p\bar{p} $ carried out using 0.92 fb$^{-1}$ of 7 TeV proton-proton collisions collected by the LHCb experiment in 2011 will be presented ([arXiv:1308.0961 [hep-ex]][1]). The talk covers the physics motivation for the analysis and the tensions between existing theoretical predictions of the...
Mark Elliot Smith
(University of Manchester (GB))
08/04/2014, 17:00
Flavour Physics and Beyond
contributed talk
The method for the measurement of two charm CP violating observables, $A_{\Gamma}$ and $y_{CP}$, is presented. The results for $A_{\Gamma}$ are shown to be the most precise to date.
Samuel Thomas Harnew
(University of Bristol (GB))
08/04/2014, 17:15
Flavour Physics and Beyond
contributed talk
Although mixing in neutral K and B systems has long been established, mixing in neutral D mesons has only recently been observed. In fact, in 2012 LHCb published the first single observation of D mixing in $D^{0}
\to K^{-}\pi^{+}$ decays.
LHCb has now collected enough data to study D mixing in multi-body D decays such as $D^{0} \to K^{+}\pi^{-}\pi^{0}$ and $D^{0} \to...
Daniele Mirarchi
(Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))
08/04/2014, 17:30
Detectors and Accelerators, Near and Far Future
contributed talk
One of the main challenges at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is to handle the unprecedented stored beam energies that are expected to be up to 360MJ with 7~TeV beams at 25~ns bunch spacing. This may increase to 500~MJ in the LHC High Luminosity upgrade project (HL-LHC). A complex collimation system, able to intercept and to absorb beam halo particles efficiently is used to minimize...
Mr
William Shields
(Royal Holloway, University of London)
08/04/2014, 17:45
Detectors and Accelerators, Near and Far Future
contributed talk
Diamond Light Source is a third generation synchrotron facility dedicated to producing radiation of outstanding brightness. Above a threshold current, the electron bunches are susceptible to a phenomenon known as the microbunching instability. The key feature of this instability is the emission of coherent radiation bursts, which have wavelengths of the order of the bunch length and smaller....
Scott Mandry
(University College London, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)
08/04/2014, 18:00
Sam Telfer
(The University of Sheffield)
08/04/2014, 18:15
