This article presents differential measurements of the asymmetry between Λ0b and Λ-0b 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 Λ0b baryons are reconstructed through the inclusive semileptonic decay Λ0b → Λ+cμ−ν-μX. The production asymmetry is measured both in intervals of rapidity in the range 2.15 < y < 4.10 and transverse momentum in 2 < pT < 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 $$ {\varLambda}_b^0 $$ ??? $$ {\overline{\varLambda}}_b^0 $$ production asymmetry in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 7 and 8 TeV / Aaij, R., Abdelmotteleb, A.S.W., Beteta, C.Abell??n., Ackernley, T., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Afsharnia, H., Aidala, C.A., Aiola, S., Ajaltouni, Z., Akar, S., Albrecht, J., Alessio, F., Alexander, M., Alfonso Albero, A., Aliouche, Z., Alkhazov, G., Alvarez Cartelle, P., Amato, S., Amey, J.L., et al.. - In: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS. - ISSN 1029-8479. - 2021:10(2021). [10.1007/jhep10(2021)060]

Observation of a $$ {\varLambda}_b^0 $$ ??? $$ {\overline{\varLambda}}_b^0 $$ production asymmetry in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 7 and 8 TeV

G. Casse;A. Sarti;
2021

Abstract

This article presents differential measurements of the asymmetry between Λ0b and Λ-0b 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 Λ0b baryons are reconstructed through the inclusive semileptonic decay Λ0b → Λ+cμ−ν-μX. The production asymmetry is measured both in intervals of rapidity in the range 2.15 < y < 4.10 and transverse momentum in 2 < pT < 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.
2021
Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments), Heavy quark production, proton- proton scattering, Hard scattering, B physics
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Observation of a $$ {\varLambda}_b^0 $$ ??? $$ {\overline{\varLambda}}_b^0 $$ production asymmetry in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 7 and 8 TeV / Aaij, R., Abdelmotteleb, A.S.W., Beteta, C.Abell??n., Ackernley, T., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Afsharnia, H., Aidala, C.A., Aiola, S., Ajaltouni, Z., Akar, S., Albrecht, J., Alessio, F., Alexander, M., Alfonso Albero, A., Aliouche, Z., Alkhazov, G., Alvarez Cartelle, P., Amato, S., Amey, J.L., et al.. - In: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS. - ISSN 1029-8479. - 2021:10(2021). [10.1007/jhep10(2021)060]
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