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Lifetime measurements in $b$-hadron decays at LHCb

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2014-11-18 v1

Abstract

Precision lifetime measurements of bb-flavoured hadrons are an important test of the validity of the theoretical tool used to determine bb-hadrons observables, the Heavy Quark Expansion. Recent measurements of the B+B^+, Λb0\Lambda^0_b, Ξb\Xi^-_b, Ξb0\Xi^0_b and Ωb\Omega^-_b hadrons lifetimes are reported. Moreover, several B0B^0 and Bs0B^0_s effective lifetime measurements are discussed, as well as a measurement of the decay width difference in the B0B^0 system, ΔΓd\Delta \Gamma_d. All the measurements have been performed using pppp collision data collected with the LHCb detector.

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@article{arxiv.1411.4247,
  title  = {Lifetime measurements in $b$-hadron decays at LHCb},
  author = {Francesca Dordei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.4247},
  year   = {2014}
}

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Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle (CKM 2014), Vienna, Austria, September 8-12, 2014