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Ruiz de Austri, R.; Perez de los Heros, C. |
Title |
Impact of nucleon matrix element uncertainties on the interpretation of direct and indirect dark matter search results |
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Journal Article |
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2013 |
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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11 |
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11 |
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049 - 19pp |
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dark matter theory; dark matter experiments; supersymmetry and cosmology |
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We study in detail the impact of the current uncertainty in nucleon matrix elements on the sensitivity of direct and indirect experimental techniques for dark matter detection. We perform two scans in the framework of the cMSSM: one using recent values of the pion-sigma term obtained from Lattice QCD, and the other using values derived from experimental measurements. The two choices correspond to extreme values quoted in the literature and reflect the current tension between different ways of obtaining information about the structure of the nucleon. All other inputs in the scans, astrophysical and from particle physics, are kept unchanged. We use two experiments, XENON100 and IceCube, as benchmark cases to illustrate our case. We find that the interpretation of dark matter search results from direct detection experiments is more sensitive to the choice of the central values of the hadronic inputs than the results of indirect search experiments. The allowed regions of cMSSM parameter space after including XENON100 constrains strongly differ depending on the assumptions on the hadronic matrix elements used. On the other hand, the constraining potential of IceCube is almost independent of the choice of these values. |
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[Ruiz de Austri, R.] IFIC UV CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, Valencia, Spain, Email: rruiz@ific.uv.es; |
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Iop Publishing Ltd |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Mateu, V.; Rodrigo, G. |
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Oriented event shapes at (NLL)-L-3 + O(alpha(2)(S)) |
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Journal Article |
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2013 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
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11 |
Issue |
11 |
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030 - 29pp |
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Jets; NLO Computations |
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We analyze oriented event-shapes in the context of Soft-Collinear Effective Theory (SCET) and in fixed-order perturbation theory. Oriented event-shapes are distributions of event-shape variables which are differential on the angle theta(T) that the thrust axis forms with the electron-positron beam. We show that at any order in perturbation theory and for any event shape, only two angular structures can appear: F-0 = 3/8 (1+cos(2) theta(T)) and F-1 = (1 – 3 cos(2) theta(T)). When integrating over theta(T) to recover the more familiar event-shape distributions, only F-0 survives. The validity of our proof goes beyond perturbation theory, and hence only these two structures are present at the hadron level. The proof also carries over massive particles. Using SCET techniques we show that singular terms can only arise in the F-0 term. Since only the hard function is sensitive to the orientation of the thrust axis, this statement applies also for recoil-sensitive variables such as Jet Broadening. We show how to carry out resummation of the singular terms at (NLL)-L-3 for Thrust, Heavy-Jet Mass, the sum of the Hemisphere Masses and C-parameter by using existing computations in SCET. We also compute the fixed-order distributions for these event-shapes at O(alpha(S)) analytically and at O(alpha(2)(S)) with the program Event2. |
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[Mateu, Vicent; Rodrigo, German] Univ Valencia, Consejo Super Invest Cient, Inst Fis Corpuscular, E-46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain, Email: mateu@ific.uv.es; |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Mitsou, V.A. |
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Shedding light on dark matter at colliders |
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Journal Article |
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2013 |
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International Journal of Modern Physics A |
Abbreviated Journal |
Int. J. Mod. Phys. A |
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28 |
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31 |
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1330052 - 34pp |
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Dark matter; supersymmetry; extra dimensions; beyond Standard Model physics; Large Hadron Collider; ATLAS; CMS |
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Dark matter remains one of the most puzzling mysteries in Fundamental Physics of our times. Experiments at high-energy physics colliders are expected to shed light to its nature and determine its properties. This review focuses on recent searches for dark matter signatures at the Large Hadron Collider, also discussing related prospects in future e(+)e(-) colliders. |
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Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular IFIC, E-46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain, Email: vasiliki.mitsou@ific.uv.es |
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World Scientific Publ Co Pte Ltd |
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WOS:000329057000002 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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1676 |
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ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al); Cabrera Urban, S.; Castillo Gimenez, V.; Costa, M.J.; Fassi, F.; Ferrer, A.; Fiorini, L.; Fuster, J.; Garcia, C.; Garcia Navarro, J.E.; Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.; Hernandez Jimenez, Y.; Higon-Rodriguez, E.; Irles Quiles, A.; Kaci, M.; Lacasta, C.; Lacuesta, V.R.; March, L.; Marti-Garcia, S.; Miñano, M.; Mitsou, V.A.; Moles-Valls, R.; Moreno Llacer, M.; Oliver Garcia, E.; Pedraza Lopez, S.; Perez Garcia-Estañ, M.T.; Romero Adam, E.; Ros, E.; Salt, J.; Sanchez Martinez, V.; Soldevila, U.; Sanchez, J.; Torro Pastor, E.; Valero, A.; Valladolid Gallego, E.; Valls Ferrer, J.A.; Villaplana Perez, M.; Vos, M. |
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Measurement of top quark polarization in top-antitop events from proton-proton collisions at root s=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2013 |
Publication |
Physical Review Letters |
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Phys. Rev. Lett. |
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111 |
Issue |
23 |
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232002 - 19pp |
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This Letter presents measurements of the polarization of the top quark in top-antitop quark pair events, using 4: 7 fb(-1) of proton-proton collision data recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at root s = 7 TeV. Final states containing one or two isolated leptons ( electrons or muons) and jets are considered. Two measurements of alpha P-l, the product of the leptonic spin-analyzing power and the top quark polarization, are performed assuming that the polarization is introduced by either a CP conserving or a maximally CP violating production process. The measurements obtained, alpha P-l(CPC) = -0: 035 +/- 0: 014(stat) +/- 0: 037(syst) and alpha P-l(CPV) = 0: 020 +/- 0: 016(stat)(-0.017)(+0.013)(syst), are in good agreement with the standard model prediction of negligible top quark polarization. |
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[Jackson, P.; Soni, N.] Univ Adelaide, Sch Chem & Phys, Adelaide, SA, Australia |
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Amer Physical Soc |
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WOS:000328616300013 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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1677 |
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Vijande, J.; Granero, D.; Perez-Calatayud, J.; Ballester, F. |
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Monte Carlo dosimetric study of the medium dose rate CSM40 source |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2013 |
Publication |
Applied Radiation and Isotopes |
Abbreviated Journal |
Appl. Radiat. Isot. |
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82 |
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283-288 |
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Brachytherapy; Cs-137 seed; TG-43 based dosimetry; Monte Carlo |
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The Cs-137 medium dose rate (MDR) CSM40 source model (Eckert & Ziegler BEBIG, Germany) is in clinical use but no dosimetric dataset has been published. This study aims to obtain dosimetric data for the CSM40 source for its use in clinical practice as required by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) and the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO). Penelope2008 and Geant4 Monte Carlo codes were used to characterize this source dosimetrically. It was located in an unbounded water phantom with composition and mass density as recommended by AAPM and ESTRO. Due to the low photon energies of Cs-137, absorbed dose was approximated by collisional kerma. Additional simulations were performed to obtain the air-kerma strength, sic. Mass-energy absorption coefficients in water and air were consistently derived and used to calculate collisional kerma. Results performed with both radiation transport codes showed agreement typically within 0.05%. Dose rate constant, radial dose function and anisotropy function are provided for the CSM40 and compared with published data for other commercially available Cs-137 sources. An uncertainty analysis has been performed. The data provided by this study can be used as input data and verification in the treatment planning systems. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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[Vijande, J.; Ballester, F.] Univ Valencia, Dept Atom Mol & Nucl Phys, E-46100 Burjassot, Spain, Email: Javier.vijande@uv.es |
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Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd |
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WOS:000328804000043 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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1678 |
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ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL Collaborations, LEP Electroweak Working Group (Schael, S. et al); Costa, M.J.; Ferrer, A.; Fuster, J.; Garcia, C.; Oyanguren, A.; Perepelitsa, V.; Salt, J.; Tortosa, P. |
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Electroweak measurements in electron positron collisions at W-boson-pair energies at LEP |
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Journal Article |
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2013 |
Publication |
Physics Reports |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Rep. |
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532 |
Issue |
4 |
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119-244 |
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Electron-positron physics; Electroweak interactions; Decays of heavy intermediate gauge bosons; Fermion-antifermion production; Precision measurements at W-pair energies; Tests of the Standard Model; Radiative corrections; Effective coupling constants; Neutral weak current; Z boson; W boson; Top quark; Higgs boson |
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Electroweak measurements performed with data taken at the electron positron collider LEP at CERN from 1995 to 2000 are reported. The combined data set considered in this report corresponds to a total luminosity of about 3 fb(-1) collected by the four LEP experiments ALEPH, DELPHI, 13 and OPAL, at centre-of-mass energies ranging from 130 GeV to 209 GeV. Combining the published results of the four LEP experiments, the measurements include total and differential cross-sections in photon-pair, fermion-pair and four-fermion production, the latter resulting from both double-resonant WW and ZZ production as well as singly resonant production. Total and differential cross-sections are measured precisely, providing a stringent test of the Standard Model at centre-of-mass energies never explored before in electron positron collisions. Final-state interaction effects in four-fermion production, such as those arising from colour reconnection and Bose Einstein correlations between the two W decay systems arising in WW production, are searched for and upper limits on the strength of possible effects are obtained. The data are used to determine fundamental properties of the W boson and the electroweak theory. Among others, the mass and width of the W boson, m(w) and Gamma(w), the branching fraction of W decays to hadrons, B(W -> had), and the trilinear gauge-boson self-couplings g(1)(Z), K-gamma and lambda(gamma), are determined to be: m(w) = 80.376 +/- 0.033 GeV Gamma(w) = 2.195 +/- 0.083 GeV B(W -> had) = 67.41 +/- 0.27% g(1)(Z) = 0.984(-0.020)(+0.018) K-gamma – 0.982 +/- 0.042 lambda(gamma) = 0.022 +/- 0.019. |
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[Schael, S.] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys, D-52056 Aachen, Germany |
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Elsevier Science Bv |
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WOS:000328723800001 |
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Guendelman, E.I.; Olmo, G.J.; Rubiera-Garcia, D.; Vasihoun, M. |
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Nonsingular electrovacuum solutions with dynamically generated cosmological constant |
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Journal Article |
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2013 |
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Physics Letters B |
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Phys. Lett. B |
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726 |
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4-5 |
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870-875 |
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Modified gravity; Palatini formalism; Nonlinear electrodynamics; Dynamical cosmological constant; Nonsingular solutions; Wormholes |
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We consider static spherically symmetric configurations in a Palatini extension of General Relativity including R-2 and Ricci-squared terms, which is known to replace the central singularity by a wormhole in the electrovacuum case. We modify the matter sector of the theory by adding to the usual Maxwell term a nonlinear electromagnetic extension which is known to implement a confinement mechanism in flat space. One feature of the resulting theory is that the nonlinear electric field leads to a dynamically generated cosmological constant. We show that with this matter source the solutions of the model are asymptotically de Sitter and possess a wormhole topology. We discuss in some detail the conditions that guarantee the absence of singularities and of traversable wormholes. |
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[Guendelman, E. I.; Vasihoun, M.] Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Dept Phys, IL-84105 Beer Sheva, Israel, Email: guendel@bgumail.bgu.ac.il; |
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WOS:000327907000045 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Ramos, A.; Oset, E. |
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The role of vector-baryon channels and resonances in the gamma p -> K-0 Sigma(+) and gamma n -> K-0 Sigma(0) reactions near the K*Lambda threshold |
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Journal Article |
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2013 |
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Physics Letters B |
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Phys. Lett. B |
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727 |
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1-3 |
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287-292 |
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We have studied the gamma p -> K-0 Sigma(+) reaction in the energy region around the K*Lambda and K*Sigma thresholds, where the CBELSA/TAPS cross section shows a sudden drop and the differential cross section experiences a transition from a forward-peaked distribution to a flat one. Our coupled-channel model incorporates the dynamics of the vector meson-baryon interaction which is obtained from the hidden gauge formalism. We find that the cross section in this energy region results from a delicate interference between amplitudes having K*Lambda and K*Sigma intermediate states. The sharp downfall is dictated by the presence of a nearby N* resonance produced by our model, a feature that we have employed to predict its properties. We also show results for the complementary gamma n -> K-0 Sigma(0) reaction, the measurement of which would test the mechanism proposed in this work. |
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[Ramos, A.] Univ Barcelona, Dept Estruct & Constituents Mat, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain, Email: ramos@ecm.ub.edu |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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1681 |
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LHCb Collaboration (Aaij, R. et al); Oyanguren, A.; Ruiz Valls, P. |
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Measurement of the effective B-S(0) -> J/psi K-S(0) lifetime |
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Journal Article |
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2013 |
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Nuclear Physics B |
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Nucl. Phys. B |
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873 |
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2 |
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275-292 |
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This paper reports the first measurement of the effective B-S(0) -> J/psi K-S(0) lifetime and an updated measurement of its time-integrated branching fraction. Both measurements are performed with a data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb(-1) of pp collisions, recorded by the LHCb experiment in 2011 at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. The results are: tau(eff)(J/psi KS0) = 1.75 +/- 0.12 (stat) +/- 0.07 (syst) ps and B(B-S(0) -> J/psi K-S(0)) = (1.97 +/- 0.23) x 10(-5). For the latter measurement, the uncertainty includes both statistical and systematic sources. |
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[Bediaga, I.; De Miranda, J. M.; Ferreira Rodrigues, F.; Massaferri, A.; Nasteva, I.; dos Reis, A. C.] Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Email: debkr@nikhef.nl |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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1682 |
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LHCb Collaboration (Aaij, R. et al); Oyanguren, A.; Ruiz Valls, P. |
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Differential branching fraction and angular analysis of the decay B-0 -> K*(0)mu(+)mu(-) |
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Journal Article |
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2013 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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08 |
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8 |
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131 - 31pp |
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Rare decay; Hadron-Hadron Scattering; B physics; Flavour Changing Neutral Currents; Flavor physics |
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The angular distribution and differential branching fraction of the decay B-0 -> K*(0)mu(+)mu(-) are studied using a data sample, collected by the LHCb experiment in pp collisions at root s = 7 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb(-1). Several angular observables are measured in bins of the dimuon invariant mass squared, q(2). A first measurement of the zero-crossing point of the forward-backward asymmetry of the dimuon system is also presented. The zero-crossing point is measured to be q(0)(2) = 4.9 +/- 0.9 GeV2/c(4), where the uncertainty is the sum of statistical and systematic uncertainties. The results are consistent with the Standard Model predictions. |
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[Bediaga, I.; De Miranda, J. M.; Ferreira Rodrigues, F.; Massafferri, A.; Nasteva, I.; dos Reis, A. C.] Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Email: thomas.blake@cern.ch |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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