Abstract: The production of a W boson in association with a single charm quark is studied using 4.6 fb(-1) of pp collision data at root s = 7 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. In events in which a W boson decays to an electron or muon, the charm quark is tagged either by its semileptonic decay to a muon or by the presence of a charmed meson. The integrated and differential cross sections as a function of the pseudorapidity of the lepton from the W-boson decay are measured. Results are compared to the predictions of next-to-leading-order QCD calculations obtained from various parton distribution function parameterisations. The ratio of the strange-to-down sea-quark distributions is determined to be 0.96(-0.30)(+0.26) at Q (2) = 1.9 GeV2, which supports the hypothesis of an SU(3)-symmetric composition of the light-quark sea. Additionally, the cross-section ratio sigma(W (+) +)/sigma(W (-) + c) is compared to the predictions obtained using parton distribution function parameterisations with different assumptions about the s-(s) over bar quark asymmetry.

Abstract: A study of charm mixing and CP violation in D0 -> K +/-pi -/+pi +/-pi -/+ decays is performed using data collected by the LHCb experiment in proton-proton collisions from 2015 to 2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 6 fb-1. The ratio of promptly produced D0 -> K+pi-pi+pi- to D0 -> K-pi+pi-pi+ decay rates is measured as a function of D0 decay time, both inclusive over phase space and in bins of phase space. Taking external inputs for the D0-D<overline>0\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$ {D}<^>0-{\overline{D}}<^>0 $$\end{document} mixing parameters x and y allows constraints to be obtained on the hadronic parameters of the charm decay. When combined with previous measurements from charm-threshold experiments and at LHCb, improved knowledge is obtained for these parameters, which is valuable for studies of the angle gamma of the Unitarity Triangle. An alternative analysis is also performed, in which external inputs are taken for the hadronic parameters, and the mixing parameters are determined, including triangle x and triangle y, which are nonzero in the presence of CP violation. It is found that x=0.85-0.24+0.15%\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$ x=\left(0.{85}{-0.24}<^>{+0.15}\right)\% $$\end{document}, y=0.21-0.27+0.29%\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$ y=\left(0.{21}{-0.27}<^>{+0.29}\right)\% $$\end{document}, triangle x = (-0.02 +/- 0.04) % and Delta y=0.02-0.03+0.04%\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$ \Delta y=\left(0.0{2}_{-0.03}<^>{+0.04}\right)\% $$\end{document}. These results are consistent with previous measurements and the hypothesis of CP conservation.

Abstract: The lifetimes of the Omega(0)(c) and Xi(0)(c) baryons are measured using a pp collision dataset collected by the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 fb(-1). The charm baryons are produced in the fully reconstructed decay chains Omega(-)(b) -> Omega(0)(c)(-> pK(-)K(-)pi(+))pi(-) and Xi(-)(b) -> Xi(0)(c)(-> pK(-)K(-)pi(+))pi(-). The measurement uses topologically and kinematically similar B- -> D-0(-> K-K+pi(-)pi(+))pi(-) decays for normalisation. The measured lifetimes are tau(Omega c0) = 276.3 +/- 19.4 (stat) +/- 1.8 (syst) +/- 0.7(tau(D0))fs, tau(Xi c0) = 149.2 +/- 2.5 (stat) +/- 0.9 (syst) +/- 0.4(tau(D0))fs, where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second systematic and the third due to the uncertainty of the D-0 lifetime. These results are consistent with previous measurements performed by the LHCb experiment.

Abstract: An analysis of the flavour oscillations of the charmed neutral meson is presented. The ratio of D-0 -> K+ pi(-) and D-0 -> K- pi(+) decay rates is measured as a function of the decay time of the D-0 meson and compared with the charge-conjugated system to search for charge-parity violation. The meson flavour at production is double-tagged by the charges of the muon and pion in the preceding (B) over bar -> D*(2010)(+) mu(-) X and D*(2010)(+) -> D-0 pi(+) decays, respectively. These decays are selected from proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of 13TeV and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.4 fb(-1). The flavour oscillation parameters, relating to the differences in mass and width of the mass eigenstates, are found to be y' = (5.8 +/- 1.6) x10(-3) and (x')(2) = (0.0 +/- 1.2) x10(-4). No evidence for charge-parity violation is seen either in the flavour oscillations or in the decay, where the direct charge-parity asymmetry is measured to be A(D) = (2.3 +/- 1.7)%.

Abstract: A search for the Xi(++)(cc) baryon through the Xi(++)(cc) -> D(+)pK(-)pi(+) decay is performed with a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.7 fb(-1) recorded by the LHCb experiment in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. No significant signal is observed in the mass range from the kinematic threshold of the decay to 3800 MeV/c(2). An upper limit is set on the ratio of branching fractions R = B(Xi(++)(cc) -> D(+)pK(-)pi(+))/B(Xi(++)(cc) -> A(c)(+) K- pi(+)pi(+)) with R < 1.7 (2.1) x 10(-2) at the 90% (95%) confidence level at the known mass of the Xi(++)(cc) state.