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Measuring Semileptonic Asymmetries in LHCb

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2019-08-13 v2

Abstract

The C ⁣PC\!P-violating flavour-specific asymmetry in neutral bb mesons provides a method for testing the Standard Model. The measurements from the D0 experiment yield values of this asymmetry that disagree with the Standard Model at a level of 3.6 σ\sigma. This contribution discusses the latest LHCb measurements in this sector both from B0B^0 mesons (aslda_{\mathrm{sl}}^d) and Bs0B^0_s mesons (aslsa_{\mathrm{sl}}^s). Using their 2011 dataset, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb1\mathrm{fb}^{-1} obtained in 2011, LHCb measured a value of asls=(0.06±0.50stat±0.36syst)%a_{\mathrm{sl}}^s = (-0.06 \pm 0.50_{\text{stat}} \pm 0.36_{\text{syst}}) \%. Combining the 2011 and 2012 datasets, with an integrated luminosity of 3 fb1\mathrm{fb}^{-1}, LHCb measured asld=(0.02±0.19stat±0.30syst)%a_{\mathrm{sl}}^d = (-0.02 \pm 0.19_{\text{stat}} \pm 0.30_{\text{syst}}) \%. These are the most precise measurements of the parameters aslsa_{\mathrm{sl}}^s and aslda_{\mathrm{sl}}^d to date. Plans for an updated result for aslsa_{\mathrm{sl}}^s using the full 3 fb1\mathrm{fb}^{-1} dataset are discussed. This will include new methods to determine detection asymmetries which are the dominating systematic uncertainty of the 2011 measurement.

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@article{arxiv.1502.06413,
  title  = {Measuring Semileptonic Asymmetries in LHCb},
  author = {Suzanne Klaver},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.06413},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Proceedings of the workshop "Flavorful Ways to New Physics", 28-31 October 2014, Freudenstadt, Germany