Villa, Andrea
(2020)
Measurement of y_CP with D^0 mesons from semileptonic B-meson decays at LHCb.
[Laurea magistrale], Università di Bologna, Corso di Studio in
Fisica [LM-DM270]
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Abstract
This thesis reports a measurement of the charm-mixing observable yCP using D^0->K^+K^−, D^0->pi^+pi^−, and D^0->K^−pi^+ decays, where the D^0 meson originates from semileptonic B-meson decays. The analysis is performed on the full Run 2 dataset collected by LHCb with pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.57 fb^−1 . The dataset is divided into 18 exclusive D^0 decay-time bins, in which an invariant mass fit is performed to extract the signal yield for each decay channel. The ratios of KK/Kpi and pipi/Kpi yields in each bin, corrected for the efficiency as function of the decay-time estimated from a Monte Carlo sample, are then fitted to extract the difference between the decay widths of KK (pipi) and Kpi channels, ∆Γ^{KK} (∆Γ^{pipi}). Finally, y_CP is computed as ∆Γt(D^0), where t(D^0) is the precisely known D^0 lifetime. The values obtained from the two decay channels with preliminary systematic uncertainties are y_CP^{KK} = (75.98 ± 0.07 (stat) ± 0.06 (syst))%, y_CP^{pipi} = (76.29 ± 0.14 (stat) ± 0.05 (syst))%, which are consistent with each other (the central values are blind), and when combined yield a result of y_CP = (76.08 ± 0.06 (stat) ± 0.04 (syst))%. The analysis aims at updating the previous LHCb measurement with a larger data sample size, and is expected to improve the precision by a factor two with respect to the current world average y_CP = (0.715 ± 0.111)%.
Abstract
This thesis reports a measurement of the charm-mixing observable yCP using D^0->K^+K^−, D^0->pi^+pi^−, and D^0->K^−pi^+ decays, where the D^0 meson originates from semileptonic B-meson decays. The analysis is performed on the full Run 2 dataset collected by LHCb with pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.57 fb^−1 . The dataset is divided into 18 exclusive D^0 decay-time bins, in which an invariant mass fit is performed to extract the signal yield for each decay channel. The ratios of KK/Kpi and pipi/Kpi yields in each bin, corrected for the efficiency as function of the decay-time estimated from a Monte Carlo sample, are then fitted to extract the difference between the decay widths of KK (pipi) and Kpi channels, ∆Γ^{KK} (∆Γ^{pipi}). Finally, y_CP is computed as ∆Γt(D^0), where t(D^0) is the precisely known D^0 lifetime. The values obtained from the two decay channels with preliminary systematic uncertainties are y_CP^{KK} = (75.98 ± 0.07 (stat) ± 0.06 (syst))%, y_CP^{pipi} = (76.29 ± 0.14 (stat) ± 0.05 (syst))%, which are consistent with each other (the central values are blind), and when combined yield a result of y_CP = (76.08 ± 0.06 (stat) ± 0.04 (syst))%. The analysis aims at updating the previous LHCb measurement with a larger data sample size, and is expected to improve the precision by a factor two with respect to the current world average y_CP = (0.715 ± 0.111)%.
Tipologia del documento
Tesi di laurea
(Laurea magistrale)
Autore della tesi
Villa, Andrea
Relatore della tesi
Correlatore della tesi
Scuola
Corso di studio
Indirizzo
Curriculum B: Fisica nucleare e subnucleare
Ordinamento Cds
DM270
Parole chiave
LHCb,Charm,Quark mixing,CP violation
Data di discussione della Tesi
25 Settembre 2020
URI
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Tipologia del documento
Tesi di laurea
(NON SPECIFICATO)
Autore della tesi
Villa, Andrea
Relatore della tesi
Correlatore della tesi
Scuola
Corso di studio
Indirizzo
Curriculum B: Fisica nucleare e subnucleare
Ordinamento Cds
DM270
Parole chiave
LHCb,Charm,Quark mixing,CP violation
Data di discussione della Tesi
25 Settembre 2020
URI
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