This article presents differential measurements of the asymmetry between Λb0 and anti-Λb0 baryon production rates in proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of √s = 7 and 8 TeV collected with the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb^−1. The Λb0 baryons are reconstructed through the inclusive semileptonic decay Λb0 → Λc+ μ− anti-ν_μ X. The production asymmetry is measured both in intervals of rapidity in the range 2.15 < y < 4.10 and transverse momentum in 2 < p_T < 27 GeV/c. The results are found to be incompatible with symmetric production with a significance of 5.8 standard deviations for both √s = 7 and 8 TeV data, assuming no CP violation in the decay. There is evidence for a trend as a function of rapidity with a significance of 4 standard deviations. Comparisons to predictions from hadronisation models in PYTHIA and heavy-quark recombination are provided. This result constitutes the first observation of a particle-antiparticle asymmetry in b-hadron production at LHC energies.
Observation of a Λb0−antiΛb0 Production Asymmetry in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 7 and 8 TeV
Capriotti, L.;
2021
Abstract
This article presents differential measurements of the asymmetry between Λb0 and anti-Λb0 baryon production rates in proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of √s = 7 and 8 TeV collected with the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb^−1. The Λb0 baryons are reconstructed through the inclusive semileptonic decay Λb0 → Λc+ μ− anti-ν_μ X. The production asymmetry is measured both in intervals of rapidity in the range 2.15 < y < 4.10 and transverse momentum in 2 < p_T < 27 GeV/c. The results are found to be incompatible with symmetric production with a significance of 5.8 standard deviations for both √s = 7 and 8 TeV data, assuming no CP violation in the decay. There is evidence for a trend as a function of rapidity with a significance of 4 standard deviations. Comparisons to predictions from hadronisation models in PYTHIA and heavy-quark recombination are provided. This result constitutes the first observation of a particle-antiparticle asymmetry in b-hadron production at LHC energies.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2021-AR-34-Obs_of_a_Lambdab0_antiLambdab0_Prod_Asymm-JHEP.pdf
accesso aperto
Tipologia:
Published (Publisher's Version of Record)
Licenza:
Creative commons
Dimensione
1.14 MB
Formato
Adobe PDF
|
1.14 MB | Adobe PDF | Visualizza/Apri |
Pubblicazioni consigliate
I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.




