Paolo Gandini

Observation of CP Violation in B± ¿ DK± Decays

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Produktbeschreibung

CP violation is a well-established phenomenon in particle physics, but until 2001 it was only observed in kaons. In the last decade, several matter-antimatter asymmetries have been observed in neutral B mesons in line with the expectations of the Standard Model of the weak interaction. Direct CP violation is also expected in the decay rates of charged B+ mesons versus that of B- mesons, though the greatest effects are present in a decay that occurs just twice in 10 million decays. Such rarity requires huge samples to study and this is exactly what the LHC, and its dedicated B-physics experiment LHCb provide. This thesis presents an analysis of the first two years of LHCb data. The author describes the first observation of the rare decay, B- DK-, D pi-K+ and the first observation of direct CP violation in this B decay. The work constitutes essential information on the experiment's measurement of a fundamental parameter of the theory and stands as a benchmark against which subsequent analyses of this type will be compared.

Produktdetails

• Springer Theses
• Verlag: Springer / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 86276504, 978-3-319-01028-1
• 2014
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 397g
• ISBN-13: 9783319010281
• ISBN-10: 331901028X
• Artikelnr.: 38233465

Autorenporträt

Paolo Gandini is a particle physicist mainly interested in Flavour Physics. As a member of the LHCb collaboration at CERN, he completed a D.Phil in Particle Physics at the University of Oxford with a thesis on CP violation studies in charged B decays. He is currently based at CERN as a postdoctoral researcher for Syracuse University, NY.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.- CP violation in the SM and the CKM angle Gamma.- The LHCb experiment at the LHC.- Reconstruction and selection.- Background studies.- The simultaneous fit.- Results.- Conclusions.- Distributions of the BDT input variables.- Validation of the ApT variable.- Histograms of systematic errors.- Bibliography.