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Hints of flavor violation at both charged and neutral current decays of mesons have been observed in experiments such as LHCb, Belle, and BaBar. The anomalies in the result can be addressed in the effective field theory (EFT) framework. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-26 Nilanjana Kumar

Recent experimental results obtained in STAR experiment at the Relativistic heavy-ion collider (RHIC) with ion beams will be discussed. Investigations of different nuclear collisions in some recent years focus on two main tasks, namely,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-10-30 V. A. Okorokov

With high-statistics data coming from both RHIC and LHC, the experimentally available selection of hard tomographic probes for the medium created in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion (A-A) collisions is rapidly expanding. Jet-hadron (jet-h)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-14 Thorsten Renk

The task of identifying B meson flavor at the primary interaction point in the LHCb detector is crucial for measurements of mixing and time-dependent CP violation. Flavour tagging is usually done with a small number of expert systems that…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-04-25 Claire Prouve , Niklas Nolte , Christoph Hasse

We propose a new experiment Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider forward (RHICf) for the precise measurements of very forward particle production at RHIC. The proposal is to install the LHCf Arm2 detector in the North side of the ZDC…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-09-18 Y. Itow , H. Menjo , T. Sako , N. Sakurai , K. Kasahara , T. Suzuki , S. Torii , O. Adriani , L. Bonechi , R. D'Alessandro , G. Mitsuka , A. Tricomi , Y. Goto , K. Tanida

Heavy-flavour measurements give an important contribution to the understanding of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) produced in heavy-ion collisions. Heavy quarks are effective probes for the QGP and understanding their interaction with the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-07-03 Martin Völkl

The ratio of nuclear modification factors of high-$p_T$ heavy-flavored mesons tolight-flavored hadrons (heavy-to-light ratio) is shown to be a sensitive tool to test medium-induced energy loss at RHIC and LHC energies. Heavy-to-light ratios…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 N. Armesto , M. Cacciari , A. Dainese , C. A. Salgado , U. A. Wiedemann

The Large Hadron Collider will be a unique place to find new physics in the next decade. A huge production of b and c quarks will allow a rich programme of Heavy Flavour Physics to be carried out either by the multipurpose experiments ATLAS…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-09-23 Pascal Perret

The extensive and ambitious physics program planned at the Future Circular Collider for electrons and positrons (FCC-ee) imposes strict constraints on detector performance. This work investigates how different detector properties impact jet…

We review the experimental and theoretical status of open heavy-flavor (HF) production in high-energy nuclear collisions at RHIC and LHC. We first overview the theoretical concepts and pertinent calculations of HF transport in QCD matter,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-08-24 Francesco Prino , Ralf Rapp

Measurements of $b\to c\tau^-\bar\nu_\tau$ transitions at colliders are highly motivated for testing lepton flavor universality (LFU), a cornerstone hypothesis of the Standard Model (SM). Potential observations of LFU violation could…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-23 Yongjie Deng , Xu-Hui Jiang , Tianbo Liu , Bin Yan

In the last years, the \lhcb experiment established itself as an important contributor to heavy ion physics by exploiting some of its specific features. Production of particles, notably heavy flavour states, can be studied in p-p, p-Pb and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-10-02 Giacomo Graziani

Heavy-flavour hadrons, containing open or hidden charm and beauty flavours, are considered as hard probes of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), which is a hot and dense phase state of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) matter. Production of heavy…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-10-26 Chun-Lu Huang

The STAR-RICH detector extends the particle identification capapbilities of the STAR experiment for charged hadrons at mid-rapidity. This detector represents the first use of a proximity-focusing CsI-based RICH detector in a collider…

Charm and bottom transport coefficients in a medium constituted of light mesons, such as is formed in the hadronic phase of Heavy Ion Collisions, are obtained within an effective field theory approach implementing heavy quark symmetry and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Daniel Cabrera , Luciano M. Abreu , Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada , Juan M. Torres-Rincon

We study the intersection of flavour and collider physics for Two-Higgs-Doublet models of Type I and II. Drawing from the flavour precision-LHC exotics search complementarity, we also provide a projection of the future sensitivity that can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-14 Oliver Atkinson , Matthew Black , Christoph Englert , Alexander Lenz , Aleksey Rusov , James Wynne

An algorithm is described for tagging the flavour content at production of neutral $B$ mesons in the LHCb experiment. The algorithm exploits the correlation of the flavour of a $B$ meson with the charge of a reconstructed secondary charm…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-08-10 LHCb collaboration , R. Aaij , B. Adeva , M. Adinolfi , A. Affolder , Z. Ajaltouni , S. Akar , J. Albrecht , F. Alessio , M. Alexander , S. Ali , G. Alkhazov , P. Alvarez Cartelle , A. A. Alves , S. Amato , S. Amerio , Y. Amhis , L. An , L. Anderlini , J. Anderson , G. Andreassi , M. Andreotti , J. E. Andrews , R. B. Appleby , O. Aquines Gutierrez , F. Archilli , P. d'Argent , A. Artamonov , M. Artuso , E. Aslanides , G. Auriemma , M. Baalouch , S. Bachmann , J. J. Back , A. Badalov , C. Baesso , W. Baldini , R. J. Barlow , C. Barschel , S. Barsuk , W. Barter , V. Batozskaya , V. Battista , A. Bay , L. Beaucourt , J. Beddow , F. Bedeschi , I. Bediaga , L. J. Bel , V. Bellee , N. Belloli , I. Belyaev , E. Ben-Haim , G. Bencivenni , S. Benson , J. Benton , A. Berezhnoy , R. Bernet , A. Bertolin , M. -O. Bettler , M. van Beuzekom , A. Bien , S. Bifani , P. Billoir , T. Bird , A. Birnkraut , A. Bizzeti , T. Blake , F. Blanc , J. Blouw , S. Blusk , V. Bocci , A. Bondar , N. Bondar , W. Bonivento , S. Borghi , M. Borsato , T. J. V. Bowcock , E. Bowen , C. Bozzi , S. Braun , M. Britsch , T. Britton , J. Brodzicka , N. H. Brook , E. Buchanan , A. Bursche , J. Buytaert , S. Cadeddu , R. Calabrese , M. Calvi , M. Calvo Gomez , P. Campana , D. Campora Perez , L. Capriotti , A. Carbone , G. Carboni , R. Cardinale , A. Cardini , P. Carniti , L. Carson , K. Carvalho Akiba , G. Casse , L. Cassina , L. Castillo Garcia , M. Cattaneo , Ch. Cauet , G. Cavallero , R. Cenci , M. Charles , Ph. Charpentier , M. Chefdeville , S. Chen , S. -F. Cheung , N. Chiapolini , M. Chrzaszcz , X. Cid Vidal , G. Ciezarek , P. E. L. Clarke , M. Clemencic , H. V. Cliff , J. Closier , V. Coco , J. Cogan , E. Cogneras , V. Cogoni , L. Cojocariu , G. Collazuol , P. Collins , A. Comerma-Montells , A. Contu , A. Cook , M. Coombes , S. Coquereau , G. Corti , M. Corvo , B. Couturier , G. A. Cowan , D. C. Craik , A. Crocombe , M. Cruz Torres , S. 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Wyllie , Y. Xie , Z. Xu , Z. Yang , J. Yu , X. Yuan , O. Yushchenko , M. Zangoli , M. Zavertyaev , L. Zhang , Y. Zhang , A. Zhelezov , A. Zhokhov , L. Zhong , S. Zucchelli

It has been five years since the data sample from the LHCb detector, the first experiment optimized for heavy-flavor physics studies at a hadronic collider, was completed. These data led to many major discoveries in exotic hadron…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-03-08 Daniel Johnson , Ivan Polyakov , Tomasz Skwarnicki , Mengzhen Wang

Via the study of strange particle production within the STAR experiment, we try to address the surprising amount of baryon transport at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). We report here preliminary results showing that, at…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 B. Hippolyte

Employing nonperturbative transport coefficients for heavy-flavor (HF) diffusion through quark-gluon plasma (QGP), hadronization and hadronic matter, we compute $D$- and $B$-meson observables in Pb+Pb ($\sqrt{s}$=2.76\,TeV) collisions at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Min He , Rainer J. Fries , Ralf Rapp