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Observation of a Lambda(0)(b) - (Lambda)over-bar(b)(0) production asymmetry in proton-proton collisions at root s=7 and 8 TeV

Aaij, R.
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Abdelmotteleb, A. S. W.
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Ackernley, T.
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October 7, 2021
Journal of High Energy Physics

This article presents differential measurements of the asymmetry between Lambda(0)(b) and (Lambda) over bar (0)(b) baryon production rates in proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of root s = 7 and 8 TeV collected with the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb(-1). The Lambda(0)(b) baryons are reconstructed through the inclusive semileptonic decay Lambda(0)(b) -> Lambda(+)(c) mu(-)(nu) over bar X-mu. 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 root 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.

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research article
DOI
10.1007/JHEP10(2021)060
Web of Science ID

WOS:000705235400002

Author(s)
Aaij, R.
Abdelmotteleb, A. S. W.
Ackernley, T.
Adeva, B.
Adinolfi, M.
Afsharnia, H.
Aidala, C. A.
Aiola, S.
Ajaltouni, Z.
Akar, S.
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Corporate authors
LHCb Collaboration
Date Issued

2021-10-07

Publisher

Springer Nature

Published in
Journal of High Energy Physics
Issue

10

Start page

060

Subjects

Physics, Particles & Fields

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Physics

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hadron-hadron scattering (experiments)

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heavy quark production

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proton-proton scattering

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hard scattering

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b physics

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