We are involved in several areas of analysis of LHCb data, and many group members have led the relevant working groups. Tim Gershon was the overall LHCb Physics Co-ordinator for the calender years 2012 & 13.

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Beauty hadron decays to open charm

• Studies of B→Dhh Dalitz plots (Gershon, Latham, Morris; previously Craik, Kreps, Qian, Wallace, Whitehead)
  • LHCb-PAPER-2012-018 (arXiv:1207.5991) PRL 109 (2012) 131801
  • LHCb-PAPER-2013-022 (arXiv:1304.6317) PRD 87 (2013) 112009
  • LHCb-PAPER-2014-035 (arXiv:1407.7574) PRL 113 (2014) 162001
  • LHCb-PAPER-2014-036 (arXiv:1407.7712) PRD 90 (2014) 072003
  • LHCb-PAPER-2015-007 (arXiv:1503.02995) PRD 91 (2015) 092002
  • LHCb-PAPER-2015-017 (arXiv:1505.01505) PRD 92 (2015) 012012
  • LHCb-PAPER-2016-026 (arXiv:1608.01289) PRD 94 (2016) 072001
• Measurement of the angle γ of the CKM Unitarity Triangle through tree-dominated processes (Garcia Martin, Gershon, Kenzie, Latham, Weiderhold; previously Craik, Poluektov, Whitehead)
  • LHCb-PAPER-2011-008 (arXiv:1110.3676) PLB 706 (2011) 32
  • LHCb-CONF-2012-029
  • LHCb-PAPER-2014-038 (arxiv:1407.6127), JHEP 11 (2014) 060
  • LHCb-PAPER-2015-059 (arXiv:1602.03455) PRD 93 (2016) 112018
  • LHCb-CONF-2016-001
  • LHCb-PAPER-2016-032 (arXiv:1611.03076) JHEP 12 (2016) 087
  • LHCb-CONF-2020-003
  • LHCb-CONF-2021-001
  • LHCb-PAPER-2021-033 (arXiv:2110.02350) JHEP 12 (2021) 141
• Studies of other hadronic B→D decays (Brossa Gonzalo, Gershon, Kenzie, Latham; previously Craik, Kreps, Rera, Wallace, Whitehead)
  
  • LHCb-PAPER-2012-056 (arXiv:1302.6446) PRD 87 (2013) 071101(R)
  • LHCb-PAPER-2015-012 (arXiv:1505.01654) JHEP 08 (2015) 005
  • LHCb-PAPER-2015-054 (arxiv:1512.02494) PRD 93 (2016) 051101(R)
  • LHCb-PAPER-2017-006 (arXiv:1704.07581) PR D96 (2017) 011101(R)
  • LHCb-PAPER-2020-024 (arXiv:2009.00025) PRL 125 (2020) 242001 
  • LHCb-PAPER-2020-025 (arXiv:2009.00026) PR D102 (2020) 112003
  • LHCb-PAPER-2020-034 (arXiv:2011.09112) PRL 126 (2021) 122002
  • LHCb-PAPER-2021-043 (arXiv:2112.11428) PR D105 (2022) 072005
  • LHCb-PAPER-2022-026 (arXiv:2212.02716) PRL 131 (2023) 041902Link opens in a new window
  • LHCb-PAPER-2022-027 (arXiv:2212.02717) PR D108 (2023) 012017Link opens in a new window
• Studies of b baryon decays to open charm including Λ_b→Dph, Ξ_b→Λ_chh (Gershon, Latham, Pagare; previously Poluektov)
  • LHCb-CONF-2011-036
  • LHCb-PAPER-2013-056 (arXiv:1311.4823) PRD 89 (2014) 032001
  • LHCb-PAPER-2016-061 (arXiv:1701.07873) JHEP 05 (2017) 030
  • LHCb-CONF-2023-001

Beauty hadron decays to final states without charm

• Studies of B→K_Shh & hhh Dalitz plots (Gershon, Latham; previously Costa Sobral, Coutinho, O'Hanlon, Qian)
  • LHCb-CONF-2012-023
  • LHCb-PAPER-2013-042 (arXiv:1307.7648) JHEP 10 (2013) 143
  • LHCb-PAPER-2014-043 (arXiv:1407.7704) NJP 16 (2014) 123001
  • LHCb-PAPER-2017-010 (arXiv:1707.01665) JHEP 11 (2017) 027
    
  • LHCb-PAPER-2018-045 (arXiv:1902.07955) JHEP 06 (2019) 114
  • LHCb-PAPER-2019-017 (arXiv:1909.05212) PRD 101 (2020) 012006
  • LHCb-PAPER-2019-018 (arXiv:1909.05211) PRL 124 (2020) 031801
  • LHCb-PAPER-2020-031 (arXiv:2010.11802) PR D102 (2020) 112010
• Studies of charmless B meson decays to vector-vector final states (Gershon, Kenzie, Latham, Monk)
• Studies of charmless b baryon decays (Gershon, Latham; previously Coutinho, Kreps, Mathad, O'Hanlon)
  • LHCb-PAPER-2013-061 (arXiv:1402.0770) JHEP 04 (2014) 087
  • LHCb-PAPER-2016-004 (arXiv:1603.00413) JHEP 05 (2016) 081
  • LHCb-PAPER-2016-050 (arXiv:1612.02244) PRL 118 (2017) 071801
  • LHCb-PAPER-2020-017 (arXiv:2104.15074) PR D104 (2021) 052010

Rare beauty hadron decays to final states involving a dilepton pair

• Measurements of flavour-changing neutral current transitions in B_(s)⁰ & B⁺ decays (Abudinen, Blake, Cicala, Kreps, Ward; previously Crocombe, Langenbruch, Millard)
  • LHCb-PAPER-2014-006 (arXiv:1403.8044) JHEP 06 (2014) 133
  • LHCb-PAPER-2014-007 (arXiv:1403.8045) JHEP 05 (2014) 082
  • LHCb-PAPER-2014-030 (arXiv:1408.1137), JHEP 10 (2014) 064
  • LHCb-CONF-2015-002
  • LHCb-PAPER-2015-023 (arXiv:1506.08777) JHEP 09 (2015) 179
  • LHCb-PAPER-2015-051 (arXiv:1512.04442) JHEP 02 (2016) 104
  • LHCb-PAPER-2016-045 (arXiv:1612.06764) EPJ C77 (2017) 161
  • LHCb-PAPER-2018-004 (arXiv:1804.07167) JHEP 07 (2018) 020
    

  • LHCb-PAPER-2020-002 (arXiv:2003.04831) PRL 125 (2020) 011802

• Measurements of flavour-changing neutral current transitions in Λ_b⁰ decays (Beck, Blake, Jones, Kreps; previously Everett Wicht)
  • LHCb-PAPER-2013-025 (arXiv:1306.2577) PLB 725 (2013) 25
  • LHCb-PAPER-2015-009 (arxiv:1503.07138) JHEP 06 (2015) 115
  • LHCb-PAPER-2018-029 (arXiv:1808.00264) JHEP 09 (2018) 146
• Tests of lepton universality in b→sl+l- decays (Blake, Gershon, Kreps, Paolucci; previously Langenbruch, Loh, Sahoo)
  • LHCb-PAPER-2014-024 (arXiv:1406.6482), PRL 113 (2014) 151601
• Searches for D*⁰, B*⁰, B_s*⁰ dilepton decays
  • LHCb-PAPER-2023-004 (arXiv:2304.01981) EPJ C83 (2023) 666.

Electroweak physics

• Measurement of the W boson mass (Abdelmotteleb, Hunter, Muhammed, Ramos Pernas, Vesterinen, Xu; previously Lupton)
  • LHCb-PAPER-2021-024 (arXiv:2109.01113), JHEP 01 (2022) 036
  •  arXiv:2308.09417
• Test of lepton universality in W boson decays (Abdelmotteleb, Hunter, Ramos Pernas, Vesterinen, Xu; previously Lupton)

Miscellaneous other analyses

• Semileptonic B decays (Kenzie, Vesterinen)
  
  • LHCB-PAPER-2020-038 (arXiv:2012.05143Link opens in a new window) PRL 126 (2021) 081804
• Studies of radiative b hadron decays (Garcia Martin)
  • LHCb-PAPER-2021-017 (arXiv:2108.07678Link opens in a new window) JHEP 01 (2022) 069

  • LHCb-PAPER-2021-030Link opens in a new window (arXiv:2111.10194Link opens in a new window) PR D105 (2022) L051104

• Studies of hadronic B→J/ψ decays (Back, Blake, Garcia Martin, Kreps; previously Coutinho, Gershon, Latham, Poluektov, Reid)
  • LHCb-PAPER-2013-029 (arXiv:1306.4489) JHEP 09 (2013) 006
  • LHCb-PAPER-2014-016 (arXiv:1405.3219) JHEP 07 (2014) 140
  • LHCb-PAPER-2020-005 (arXiv:2004.10563) JHEP 06 (2020) 110
• Analysis of the time-dependent decay distribution of D→K_Shh decays (Gershon; previously Pilar)
  • LHCb-PAPER-2015-042 (arXiv:1510.01664) JHEP 04 (2016) 033
  • LHCb-PAPER-2019-001 (arXiv:1903.03074) PRL 122 (2019) 231802
• Searches for exotic charmonia-like states (Gershon, Kreps; previously Wicht)
  • LHCb-PAPER-2014-014 (arXiv:1404.1903) PRL 112 (2014) 222002
  • LHCb-PAPER-2015-029 (arXiv:1507.03414) PRL 115 (2015) 072001
• Analyses of and searches for excited B hadrons (Gershon; previously Craik, Poluektov)
  • LHCb-CONF-2011-053
  • LHCb-PAPER-2012-012 (arXiv:1205.3542) PRL 109 (2012) 172003
  • LHCb-PAPER-2012-030 (arXiv:1211.5994) PRL 110 (2013) 151803
  • LHCb-PAPER-2014-067 (arXiv:1502.02638) JHEP 04 (2015) 024
  • LHCb-CONF-2016-004
  • LHCb-PAPER-2016-029 (arXiv:1608.00435) PRL 117 (2016) 152003
• Searches for hadronic B_c decays (Gershon; previously Poluektov)
  • LHCb-PAPER-2013-044 (arXiv:1308.4544) PRL 111 (2013) 181801
• Studies for LHCb upgrades (Blake, Gershon, Latham, Vesterinen)
  
  • CERN-LHCC-2011-001
  • CERN-LHCC-2012-007
  • LHCb-PAPER-2012-031 (arXiv:1208.3355) EPJ C73 (2013) 2373
  • CERN-LHCC-2017-003
  • CERN-LHCC-2018-027 (arXiv:1808.08865)
  • CERN-LPCC-2018-06 (arXiv:1812.07638)
  • CYRM-2019-007 
  • CERN-LHCC-2021-012
  • LHCb-DP-2022-002 (arXiv:2305.10515)
• Exotic hadron naming convention
  • LHCb-PUB-2022-013 (arXiv:2206.15233)