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1. Study of the rare Bs0 and B0 decays into the π+π−μ+μ− final state

Author: R. Aaij, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi, A. Affolder, Z. Ajaltouni, S. Akar, J. Albrecht, F. Alessio, M. Alexander, S. Ali, G. Alkhazov, P. Alvarez Cartelle, A.A. Alves, Jr, S. Amato, S. Amerio, Y. Amhis, L. An, L. Anderlini, J. Anderson, R. Andreassen, M. Andreotti, J.E. Andrews, R.B. Appleby, O. Aquines Gutierrez, F. Archilli, A. Artamonov, M. Artuso, E. Aslanides, G. Auriemma, M. Baalouch, S. Bachmann, J.J. Back, A. Badalov, C. Baesso, W. Baldini, R.J. Barlow, C. Barschel, S. Barsuk, W. Barter, V. Batozskaya, V. Battista, A. Bay, L. Beaucourt, J. Beddow, F. Bedeschi, I. Bediaga, S. Belogurov, K. Belous, I. Belyaev, E. Ben-Haim, G. Bencivenni, S. Benson, J. Benton, A. Berezhnoy, R. Bernet, A. Bertolin, M.-O. Bettler, M. van Beuzekom, A. Bien, S. Bifani, T. Bird, A. Bizzeti, P.M. Bjørnstad, T. Blake, F. Blanc, J. Blouw, S. Blusk, V. Bocci, A. Bondar, N. Bondar, W. Bonivento, S. Borghi, A. Borgia, M. Borsato, T.J.V. Bowcock, E. Bowen, C. Bozzi, D. Brett, M. Britsch, T. Britton, J. Brodzicka, N.H. Brook, A. Bursche, J. Buytaert, S. Cadeddu, R. Calabrese, M. Calvi, M. Calvo Gomez, P. Campana, D. Campora Perez, L. Capriotti, A. Carbone, G. Carboni, R. Cardinale, A. Cardini, L. Carson, K. Carvalho Akiba, R.C.M. Casanova Mohr, G. Casse, L. Cassina, L. Castillo Garcia, M. Cattaneo, Ch. Cauet, R. Cenci, M. Charles, Ph. Charpentier, M. Chefdeville, S. Chen, S.-F. Cheung, N. Chiapolini, M. Chrzaszcz, X. Cid Vidal, G. Ciezarek, P.E.L. Clarke, M. Clemencic, H.V. Cliff, J. Closier, V. Coco, J. Cogan, E. Cogneras, V. Cogoni, L. Cojocariu, G. Collazuol, P. Collins, A. Comerma-Montells, A. Contu, A. Cook, M. Coombes, S. Coquereau, G. Corti, M. Corvo, I. Counts, B. Couturier, G.A. Cowan, D.C. Craik, A.C. Crocombe, M. Cruz Torres, S. Cunliffe, R. Currie, C. D'Ambrosio, J. Dalseno, P. David, P.N.Y. David, A. Davis, K. De Bruyn, S. De Capua, M. De Cian, J.M. De Miranda, L. De Paula, W. De Silva, P. De Simone, C.-T. Dean, D. Decamp, M. Deckenhoff, L. Del Buono, N. Déléage, D. Derkach, O. Deschamps, F. Dettori, B. Dey, A. Di Canto, A. Di Domenico, H. Dijkstra, S. Donleavy, F. Dordei, M. Dorigo, A. Dosil Suárez, D. Dossett, A. Dovbnya, K. Dreimanis, G. Dujany, F. Dupertuis, P. Durante, R. Dzhelyadin, A. Dziurda, A. Dzyuba, S. Easo, U. Egede, V. Egorychev, S. Eidelman, S. Eisenhardt, U. Eitschberger, R. Ekelhof, L. Eklund, I. El Rifai, Ch. Elsasser, S. Ely, S. Esen, H.M. Evans, T. Evans, A. Falabella, C. Färber, C. Farinelli, N. Farley, S. Farry, R. Fay, D. Ferguson, V. Fernandez Albor, F. Ferreira Rodrigues, M. Ferro-Luzzi, S. Filippov, M. Fiore, M. Fiorini, M. Firlej, C. Fitzpatrick, T. Fiutowski, P. Fol, M. Fontana, F. Fontanelli, R. Forty, O. Francisco, M. Frank, C. Frei, M. Frosini, J. Fu, E. Furfaro, A. Gallas Torreira, D. Galli, S. Gallorini, S. Gambetta, M. Gandelman, P. Gandini, Y. Gao, J. García Pardiñas, J. Garofoli, J. Garra Tico, L. Garrido, D. Gascon, C. Gaspar, U. Gastaldi, R. Gauld, L. Gavardi, G. Gazzoni, A. Geraci, E. Gersabeck, M. Gersabeck, T. Gershon, Ph. Ghez, A. Gianelle, S. Gianì, V. Gibson, L. Giubega, V.V. Gligorov, C. Göbel, D. Golubkov, A. Golutvin, A. Gomes, C. Gotti, M. Grabalosa Gándara, R. Graciani Diaz, L.A. Granado Cardoso, E. Graugés, E. Graverini, G. Graziani, A. Grecu, E. Greening, S. Gregson, P. Griffith, L. Grillo, O. Grünberg, B. Gui, E. Gushchin, Yu. Guz, T. Gys, C. Hadjivasiliou, G. Haefeli, C. Haen, S.C. Haines, S. Hall, B. Hamilton, T. Hampson, X. Han, S. Hansmann-Menzemer, N. Harnew, S.T. Harnew, J. Harrison, J. He, T. Head, V. Heijne, K. Hennessy, P. Henrard, L. Henry, J.A. Hernando Morata, E. van Herwijnen, M. Heß, A. Hicheur, D. Hill, M. Hoballah, C. Hombach, W. Hulsbergen, N. Hussain, D. Hutchcroft, D. Hynds, M. Idzik, P. Ilten, R. Jacobsson, A. Jaeger, J. Jalocha, E. Jans, A. Jawahery, F. Jing, M. John, D. Johnson, C.R. Jones, C. Joram, B. Jost, N. Jurik, S. Kandybei, W. Kanso, M. Karacson, T.M. Karbach, S. Karodia, M. Kelsey, I.R. Kenyon, T. Ketel, B. Khanji, C. Khurewathanakul, S. Klaver, K. Klimaszewski, O. Kochebina, M. Kolpin, I. Komarov, R.F. Koopman, P. Koppenburg, M. Korolev, L. Kravchuk, K. Kreplin, M. Kreps, G. Krocker, P. Krokovny, F. Kruse, W. Kucewicz, M. Kucharczyk, V. Kudryavtsev, K. Kurek, T. Kvaratskheliya, V.N. La Thi, D. Lacarrere, G. Lafferty, A. Lai, D. Lambert, R.W. Lambert, G. Lanfranchi, C. Langenbruch, B. Langhans, T. Latham, C. Lazzeroni, R. Le Gac, J. van Leerdam, J.-P. Lees, R. Lefèvre, A. Leflat, J. Lefrançois, O. Leroy, T. Lesiak, B. Leverington, Y. Li, T. Likhomanenko, M. Liles, R. Lindner, C. Linn, F. Lionetto, B. Liu, S. Lohn, I. Longstaff, J.H. Lopes, P. Lowdon, D. Lucchesi, H. Luo, A. Lupato, E. Luppi, O. Lupton, F. Machefert, I.V. Machikhiliyan, F. Maciuc, O. Maev, S. Malde, A. Malinin, G. Manca, G. Mancinelli, A. Mapelli, J. Maratas, J.F. Marchand, U. Marconi, C. Marin Benito, P. Marino, R. Märki, J. Marks, G. Martellotti, M. Martinelli, D. Martinez Santos, F. Martinez Vidal, D. Martins Tostes, A. Massafferri, R. Matev, Z. Mathe, C. Matteuzzi, A. Mazurov, M. McCann, J. McCarthy, A. McNab, R. McNulty, B. McSkelly, B. Meadows, F. Meier, M. Meissner, M. Merk, D.A. Milanes, M.-N. Minard, N. Moggi, J. Molina Rodriguez, S. Monteil, M. Morandin, P. Morawski, A. Mordà, M.J. Morello, J. Moron, A.-B. Morris, R. Mountain, F. Muheim, K. Müller, M. Mussini, B. Muster, P. Naik, T. Nakada, R. Nandakumar, I. Nasteva, M. Needham, N. Neri, S. Neubert, N. Neufeld, M. Neuner, A.D. Nguyen, T.D. Nguyen, C. Nguyen-Mau, M. Nicol, V. Niess, R. Niet, N. Nikitin, T. Nikodem, A. Novoselov, D.P. O'Hanlon, A. Oblakowska-Mucha, V. Obraztsov, S. Ogilvy, O. Okhrimenko, R. Oldeman, C.J.G. Onderwater, M. Orlandea, B. Osorio Rodrigues, J.M. Otalora Goicochea, A. Otto, P. Owen, A. Oyanguren, B.K. Pal, A. Palano, F. Palombo, M. Palutan, J. Panman, A. Papanestis, M. Pappagallo, L.L. Pappalardo, C. Parkes, C.J. Parkinson, G. Passaleva, G.D. Patel, M. Patel, C. Patrignani, A. Pearce, A. Pellegrino, G. Penso, M. Pepe Altarelli, S. Perazzini, P. Perret, L. Pescatore, E. Pesen, K. Petridis, A. Petrolini, E. Picatoste Olloqui, B. Pietrzyk, T. Pilař, D. Pinci, A. Pistone, S. Playfer, M. Plo Casasus, F. Polci, A. Poluektov, I. Polyakov, E. Polycarpo, A. Popov, D. Popov, B. Popovici, C. Potterat, E. Price, J.D. Price, J. Prisciandaro, A. Pritchard, C. Prouve, V. Pugatch, A. Puig Navarro, G. Punzi, W. Qian, B. Rachwal, J.H. Rademacker, B. Rakotomiaramanana, M. Rama, M.S. Rangel, I. Raniuk, N. Rauschmayr, G. Raven, F. Redi, S. Reichert, M.M. Reid, A.C. dos Reis, S. Ricciardi, S. Richards, M. Rihl, K. Rinnert, V. Rives Molina, P. Robbe, A.B. Rodrigues, E. Rodrigues, P. Rodriguez Perez, S. Roiser, V. Romanovsky, A. Romero Vidal, M. Rotondo, J. Rouvinet, T. Ruf, H. Ruiz, P. Ruiz Valls, J.J. Saborido Silva, N. Sagidova, P. Sail, B. Saitta, V. Salustino Guimaraes, C. Sanchez Mayordomo, B. Sanmartin Sedes, R. Santacesaria, C. Santamarina Rios, E. Santovetti, A. Sarti, C. Satriano, A. Satta, D.M. Saunders, D. Savrina, M. Schiller, H. Schindler, M. Schlupp, M. Schmelling, B. Schmidt, O. Schneider, A. Schopper, M.-H. Schune, R. Schwemmer, B. Sciascia, A. Sciubba, A. Semennikov, I. Sepp, N. Serra, J. Serrano, L. Sestini, P. Seyfert, M. Shapkin, I. Shapoval, Y. Shcheglov, T. Shears, L. Shekhtman, V. Shevchenko, A. Shires, R. Silva Coutinho, G. Simi, M. Sirendi, N. Skidmore, I. Skillicorn, T. Skwarnicki, N.A. Smith, E. Smith, J. Smith, M. Smith, H. Snoek, M.D. Sokoloff, F.J.P. Soler, F. Soomro, D. Souza, B. Souza De Paula, B. Spaan, P. Spradlin, S. Sridharan, F. Stagni, M. Stahl, S. Stahl, O. Steinkamp, O. Stenyakin, F. Sterpka, S. Stevenson, S. Stoica, S. Stone, B. Storaci, S. Stracka, M. Straticiuc, U. Straumann, R. Stroili, L. Sun, W. Sutcliffe, K. Swientek, S. Swientek, V. Syropoulos, M. Szczekowski, P. Szczypka, T. Szumlak, S. T'Jampens, M. Teklishyn, G. Tellarini, F. Teubert, C. Thomas, E. Thomas, J. van Tilburg, V. Tisserand, M. Tobin, J. Todd, S. Tolk, L. Tomassetti, D. Tonelli, S. Topp-Joergensen, N. Torr, E. Tournefier, S. Tourneur, M.T. Tran, M. Tresch, A. Trisovic, A. Tsaregorodtsev, P. Tsopelas, N. Tuning, M. Ubeda Garcia, A. Ukleja, A. Ustyuzhanin, U. Uwer, C. Vacca, V. Vagnoni, G. Valenti, A. Vallier, R. Vazquez Gomez, P. Vazquez Regueiro, C. Vázquez Sierra, S. Vecchi, J.J. Velthuis, M. Veltri, G. Veneziano, M. Vesterinen, J.V.V.B.Viana Barbosa, B. Viaud, D. Vieira, M. Vieites Diaz, X. Vilasis-Cardona, A. Vollhardt, D. Volyanskyy, D. Voong, A. Vorobyev, V. Vorobyev, C. Voß, J.A. de Vries, R. Waldi, C. Wallace, R. Wallace, J. Walsh, S. Wandernoth, J. Wang, D.R. Ward, N.K. Watson, D. Websdale, M. Whitehead, D. Wiedner, G. Wilkinson, M. Wilkinson, M.P. Williams, M. Williams, H.W. Wilschut, F.F. Wilson, J. Wimberley, J. Wishahi, W. Wislicki, M. Witek, G. Wormser, S.A. Wotton, S. Wright, K. Wyllie, Y. Xie, Z. Xing, Z. Xu, Z. Yang, X. Yuan, O. Yushchenko, M. Zangoli, M. Zavertyaev, L. Zhang, W.C. Zhang, Y. Zhang, A. Zhelezov, A. Zhokhov, and L. Zhong
Subjects: Physics, QC1-999
Abstract: A search for the rare decays Bs0→π+π−μ+μ− and B0→π+π−μ+μ− is performed in a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb−1 collected by the LHCb detector in proton–proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. Decay candidates with pion pairs that have invariant mass in the range 0.5–1.3 GeV/c2 and with muon pairs that do not originate from a resonance are considered. The first observation of the decay Bs0→π+π−μ+μ− and the first evidence of the decay B0→π+π−μ+μ− are obtained and the branching fractions, restricted to the dipion-mass range considered, are measured to be B(Bs0→π+π−μ+μ−)=(8.6±1.5 (stat)±0.7 (syst)±0.7(norm))×10−8 and B(B0→π+π−μ+μ−)=(2.11±0.51(stat)±0.15(syst)±0.16(norm))×10−8, where the third uncertainty is due to the branching fraction of the decay B0→J/ψ(→μ+μ−)K⁎(892)0(→K+π−), used as a normalisation.
Published: 2015
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2. Measurement of the CP-violating phase β in B0→J/ψπ+π− decays and limits on penguin effects

Author: R. Aaij, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi, A. Affolder, Z. Ajaltouni, S. Akar, J. Albrecht, F. Alessio, M. Alexander, S. Ali, G. Alkhazov, P. Alvarez Cartelle, A.A. Alves, Jr, S. Amato, S. Amerio, Y. Amhis, L. An, L. Anderlini, J. Anderson, R. Andreassen, M. Andreotti, J.E. Andrews, R.B. Appleby, O. Aquines Gutierrez, F. Archilli, A. Artamonov, M. Artuso, E. Aslanides, G. Auriemma, M. Baalouch, S. Bachmann, J.J. Back, A. Badalov, C. Baesso, W. Baldini, R.J. Barlow, C. Barschel, S. Barsuk, W. Barter, V. Batozskaya, V. Battista, A. Bay, L. Beaucourt, J. Beddow, F. Bedeschi, I. Bediaga, S. Belogurov, K. Belous, I. Belyaev, E. Ben-Haim, G. Bencivenni, S. Benson, J. Benton, A. Berezhnoy, R. Bernet, A.B. Bertolin, M.-O. Bettler, M. van Beuzekom, A. Bien, S. Bifani, T. Bird, A. Bizzeti, P.M. Bjørnstad, T. Blake, F. Blanc, J. Blouw, S. Blusk, V. Bocci, A. Bondar, N. Bondar, W. Bonivento, S. Borghi, A. Borgia, M. Borsato, T.J.V. Bowcock, E. Bowen, C. Bozzi, D. Brett, M. Britsch, T. Britton, J. Brodzicka, N.H. Brook, A. Bursche, J. Buytaert, S. Cadeddu, R. Calabrese, M. Calvi, M. Calvo Gomez, P. Campana, D. Campora Perez, A. Carbone, G. Carboni, R. Cardinale, A. Cardini, L. Carson, K. Carvalho Akiba, R.C.M. Casanova Mohr, G. Casse, L. Cassina, L. Castillo Garcia, M. Cattaneo, Ch. Cauet, R. Cenci, M. Charles, Ph. Charpentier, M. Chefdeville, S. Chen, S.-F. Cheung, N. Chiapolini, M. Chrzaszcz, X. Cid Vidal, G. Ciezarek, P.E.L. Clarke, M. Clemencic, H.V. Cliff, J. Closier, V. Coco, J. Cogan, E. Cogneras, V. Cogoni, L. Cojocariu, G. Collazuol, P. Collins, A. Comerma-Montells, A. Contu, A. Cook, M. Coombes, S. Coquereau, G. Corti, M. Corvo, I. Counts, B. Couturier, G.A. Cowan, D.C. Craik, A.C. Crocombe, M. Cruz Torres, S. Cunliffe, R. Currie, C. D'Ambrosio, J. Dalseno, P. David, P.N.Y. David, A. Davis, K. De Bruyn, S. De Capua, M. De Cian, J.M. De Miranda, L. De Paula, W. De Silva, P. De Simone, C.-T. Dean, D. Decamp, M. Deckenhoff, L. Del Buono, N. Déléage, D. Derkach, O. Deschamps, F. Dettori, A. Di Canto, A. Di Domenico, H. Dijkstra, S. Donleavy, F. Dordei, M. Dorigo, A. Dosil Suárez, D. Dossett, A. Dovbnya, K. Dreimanis, G. Dujany, F. Dupertuis, P. Durante, R. Dzhelyadin, A. Dziurda, A. Dzyuba, S. Easo, U. Egede, V. Egorychev, S. Eidelman, S. Eisenhardt, U. Eitschberger, R. Ekelhof, L. Eklund, I. El Rifai, Ch. Elsasser, S. Ely, S. Esen, H.-M. Evans, T. Evans, A. Falabella, C. Färber, C. Farinelli, N. Farley, S. Farry, R. Fay, D. Ferguson, V. Fernandez Albor, F. Ferreira Rodrigues, M. Ferro-Luzzi, S. Filippov, M. Fiore, M. Fiorini, M. Firlej, C. Fitzpatrick, T. Fiutowski, P. Fol, M. Fontana, F. Fontanelli, R. Forty, O. Francisco, M. Frank, C. Frei, M. Frosini, J. Fu, E. Furfaro, A. Gallas Torreira, D. Galli, S. Gallorini, S. Gambetta, M. Gandelman, P. Gandini, Y. Gao, J. García Pardiñas, J. Garofoli, J. Garra Tico, L. Garrido, D. Gascon, C. Gaspar, U. Gastaldi, R. Gauld, L. Gavardi, G. Gazzoni, A. Geraci, E. Gersabeck, M. Gersabeck, T. Gershon, Ph. Ghez, A. Gianelle, S. Gianì, V. Gibson, L. Giubega, V.V. Gligorov, C. Göbel, D. Golubkov, A. Golutvin, A. Gomes, C. Gotti, M. Grabalosa Gándara, R. Graciani Diaz, L.A. Granado Cardoso, E. Graugés, E. Graverini, G. Graziani, A. Grecu, E. Greening, S. Gregson, P. Griffith, L. Grillo, O. Grünberg, B. Gui, E. Gushchin, Yu. Guz, T. Gys, C. Hadjivasiliou, G. Haefeli, C. Haen, S.C. Haines, S. Hall, B. Hamilton, T. Hampson, X. Han, S. Hansmann-Menzemer, N. Harnew, S.T. Harnew, J. Harrison, J. He, T. Head, V. Heijne, K. Hennessy, P. Henrard, L. Henry, J.A. Hernando Morata, E. van Herwijnen, M. Heß, A. Hicheur, D. Hill, M. Hoballah, C. Hombach, W. Hulsbergen, N. Hussain, D. Hutchcroft, D. Hynds, M. Idzik, P. Ilten, R. Jacobsson, A. Jaeger, J. Jalocha, E. Jans, P. Jaton, A. Jawahery, F. Jing, M. John, D. Johnson, C.R. Jones, C. Joram, B. Jost, N. Jurik, S. Kandybei, W. Kanso, M. Karacson, T.M. Karbach, S. Karodia, M. Kelsey, I.R. Kenyon, T. Ketel, B. Khanji, C. Khurewathanakul, S. Klaver, K. Klimaszewski, O. Kochebina, M. Kolpin, I. Komarov, R.F. Koopman, P. Koppenburg, M. Korolev, L. Kravchuk, K. Kreplin, M. Kreps, G. Krocker, P. Krokovny, F. Kruse, W. Kucewicz, M. Kucharczyk, V. Kudryavtsev, K. Kurek, T. Kvaratskheliya, V.N. La Thi, D. Lacarrere, G. Lafferty, A. Lai, D. Lambert, R.W. Lambert, G. Lanfranchi, C. Langenbruch, B. Langhans, T. Latham, C. Lazzeroni, R. Le Gac, J. van Leerdam, J.-P. Lees, R. Lefèvre, A. Leflat, J. Lefrançois, O. Leroy, T. Lesiak, B. Leverington, Y. Li, T. Likhomanenko, M. Liles, R. Lindner, C. Linn, F. Lionetto, B. Liu, S. Lohn, I. Longstaff, J.H. Lopes, P. Lowdon, D. Lucchesi, H. Luo, A. Lupato, E. Luppi, O. Lupton, F. Machefert, I.V. Machikhiliyan, F. Maciuc, O. Maev, S. Malde, A. Malinin, G. Manca, G. Mancinelli, A. Mapelli, J. Maratas, J.F. Marchand, U. Marconi, C. Marin Benito, P. Marino, R. Märki, J. Marks, G. Martellotti, M. Martinelli, D. Martinez Santos, F. Martinez Vidal, D. Martins Tostes, A. Massafferri, R. Matev, Z. Mathe, C. Matteuzzi, A. Mazurov, M. McCann, J. McCarthy, A. McNab, R. McNulty, B. McSkelly, B. Meadows, F. Meier, M. Meissner, M. Merk, D.A. Milanes, M.-N. Minard, N. Moggi, J. Molina Rodriguez, S. Monteil, M. Morandin, P. Morawski, A. Mordà, M.J. Morello, J. Moron, A.-B. Morris, R. Mountain, F. Muheim, K. Müller, M. Mussini, B. Muster, P. Naik, T. Nakada, R. Nandakumar, I. Nasteva, M. Needham, N. Neri, S. Neubert, N. Neufeld, M. Neuner, A.D. Nguyen, T.D. Nguyen, C. Nguyen-Mau, M. Nicol, V. Niess, R. Niet, N. Nikitin, T. Nikodem, A. Novoselov, D.P. O'Hanlon, A. Oblakowska-Mucha, V. Obraztsov, S. Ogilvy, O. Okhrimenko, R. Oldeman, C.J.G. Onderwater, M. Orlandea, J.M. Otalora Goicochea, A. Otto, P. Owen, A. Oyanguren, B.K. Pal, A. Palano, F. Palombo, M. Palutan, J. Panman, A. Papanestis, M. Pappagallo, L.L. Pappalardo, C. Parkes, C.J. Parkinson, G. Passaleva, G.D. Patel, M. Patel, C. Patrignani, A. Pearce, A. Pellegrino, G. Penso, M. Pepe Altarelli, S. Perazzini, P. Perret, L. Pescatore, E. Pesen, K. Petridis, A. Petrolini, E. Picatoste Olloqui, B. Pietrzyk, T. Pilař, D. Pinci, A. Pistone, S. Playfer, M. Plo Casasus, F. Polci, A. Poluektov, I. Polyakov, E. Polycarpo, A. Popov, D. Popov, B. Popovici, C. Potterat, E. Price, J.D. Price, J. Prisciandaro, A. Pritchard, C. Prouve, V. Pugatch, A. Puig Navarro, G. Punzi, W. Qian, B. Rachwal, J.H. Rademacker, B. Rakotomiaramanana, M. Rama, M.S. Rangel, I. Raniuk, N. Rauschmayr, G. Raven, F. Redi, S. Reichert, M.M. Reid, A.C. dos Reis, S. Ricciardi, S. Richards, M. Rihl, K. Rinnert, V. Rives Molina, P. Robbe, A.B. Rodrigues, E. Rodrigues, P. Rodriguez Perez, S. Roiser, V. Romanovsky, A. Romero Vidal, M. Rotondo, J. Rouvinet, T. Ruf, H. Ruiz, P. Ruiz Valls, J.J. Saborido Silva, N. Sagidova, P. Sail, B. Saitta, V. Salustino Guimaraes, C. Sanchez Mayordomo, B. Sanmartin Sedes, R. Santacesaria, C. Santamarina Rios, E. Santovetti, A. Sarti, C. Satriano, A. Satta, D.M. Saunders, D. Savrina, M. Schiller, H. Schindler, M. Schlupp, M. Schmelling, B. Schmidt, O. Schneider, A. Schopper, M.-H. Schune, R. Schwemmer, B. Sciascia, A. Sciubba, A. Semennikov, I. Sepp, N. Serra, J. Serrano, L. Sestini, P. Seyfert, M. Shapkin, I. Shapoval, Y. Shcheglov, T. Shears, L. Shekhtman, V. Shevchenko, A. Shires, R. Silva Coutinho, G. Simi, M. Sirendi, N. Skidmore, I. Skillicorn, T. Skwarnicki, N.A. Smith, E. Smith, J. Smith, M. Smith, H. Snoek, M.D. Sokoloff, F.J.P. Soler, F. Soomro, D. Souza, B. Souza De Paula, B. Spaan, P. Spradlin, S. Sridharan, F. Stagni, M. Stahl, S. Stahl, O. Steinkamp, O. Stenyakin, F. Sterpka, S. Stevenson, S. Stoica, S. Stone, B. Storaci, S. Stracka, M. Straticiuc, U. Straumann, R. Stroili, L. Sun, W. Sutcliffe, K. Swientek, S. Swientek, V. Syropoulos, M. Szczekowski, P. Szczypka, T. Szumlak, S. T'Jampens, M. Teklishyn, G. Tellarini, F. Teubert, C. Thomas, E. Thomas, J. van Tilburg, V. Tisserand, M. Tobin, J. Todd, S. Tolk, L. Tomassetti, D. Tonelli, S. Topp-Joergensen, N. Torr, E. Tournefier, S. Tourneur, M.T. Tran, M. Tresch, A. Trisovic, A. Tsaregorodtsev, P. Tsopelas, N. Tuning, M. Ubeda Garcia, A. Ukleja, A. Ustyuzhanin, U. Uwer, C. Vacca, V. Vagnoni, G. Valenti, A. Vallier, R. Vazquez Gomez, P. Vazquez Regueiro, C. Vázquez Sierra, S. Vecchi, J.J. Velthuis, M. Veltri, G. Veneziano, M. Vesterinen, J.V.V.B.Viana Barbosa, B. Viaud, D. Vieira, M. Vieites Diaz, X. Vilasis-Cardona, A. Vollhardt, D. Volyanskyy, D. Voong, A. Vorobyev, V. Vorobyev, C. Voß, J.A. de Vries, R. Waldi, C. Wallace, R. Wallace, J. Walsh, S. Wandernoth, J. Wang, D.R. Ward, N.K. Watson, D. Websdale, M. Whitehead, D. Wiedner, G. Wilkinson, M. Wilkinson, M.P. Williams, M. Williams, H.W. Wilschut, F.F. Wilson, J. Wimberley, J. Wishahi, W. Wislicki, M. Witek, G. Wormser, S.A. Wotton, S. Wright, K. Wyllie, Y. Xie, Z. Xing, Z. Xu, Z. Yang, X. Yuan, O. Yushchenko, M. Zangoli, M. Zavertyaev, L. Zhang, W.C. Zhang, Y. Zhang, A. Zhelezov, A. Zhokhov, and L. Zhong
Subjects: Physics, QC1-999
Abstract: Time-dependent CP violation is measured in the B0→J/ψπ+π− channel for each π+π− resonant final state using data collected with an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb−1 in pp collisions using the LHCb detector. The final state with the largest rate, J/ψρ0(770), is used to measure the CP-violating angle 2βeff to be (41.7±9.6−6.3+2.8)°. This result can be used to limit the size of penguin amplitude contributions to CP violation measurements in, for example, Bs0→J/ψϕ decays. Assuming approximate SU(3) flavour symmetry and neglecting higher order diagrams, the shift in the CP-violating phase ϕs is limited to be within the interval [−1.05°,+1.18°] at 95% confidence level. Changes to the limit due to SU(3) symmetry breaking effects are also discussed.
Published: 2015
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3. Measurement of the lifetime of the Bc+ meson using the Bc+→J/ψπ+ decay mode

Author: R. Aaij, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi, A. Affolder, Z. Ajaltouni, S. Akar, J. Albrecht, F. Alessio, M. Alexander, S. Ali, G. Alkhazov, P. Alvarez Cartelle, A.A. Alves, Jr., S. Amato, S. Amerio, Y. Amhis, L. An, L. Anderlini, J. Anderson, R. Andreassen, M. Andreotti, J.E. Andrews, R.B. Appleby, O. Aquines Gutierrez, F. Archilli, A. Artamonov, M. Artuso, E. Aslanides, G. Auriemma, M. Baalouch, S. Bachmann, J.J. Back, A. Badalov, C. Baesso, W. Baldini, R.J. Barlow, C. Barschel, S. Barsuk, W. Barter, V. Batozskaya, V. Battista, A. Bay, L. Beaucourt, J. Beddow, F. Bedeschi, I. Bediaga, S. Belogurov, K. Belous, I. Belyaev, E. Ben-Haim, G. Bencivenni, S. Benson, J. Benton, A. Berezhnoy, R. Bernet, A. Bertolin, M.-O. Bettler, M. van Beuzekom, A. Bien, S. Bifani, T. Bird, A. Bizzeti, P.M. Bjørnstad, T. Blake, F. Blanc, J. Blouw, S. Blusk, V. Bocci, A. Bondar, N. Bondar, W. Bonivento, S. Borghi, A. Borgia, M. Borsato, T.J.V. Bowcock, E. Bowen, C. Bozzi, D. Brett, M. Britsch, T. Britton, J. Brodzicka, N.H. Brook, A. Bursche, J. Buytaert, S. Cadeddu, R. Calabrese, M. Calvi, M. Calvo Gomez, P. Campana, D. Campora Perez, L. Capriotti, A. Carbone, G. Carboni, R. Cardinale, A. Cardini, L. Carson, K. Carvalho Akiba, R.C.M. Casanova Mohr, G. Casse, L. Cassina, L. Castillo Garcia, M. Cattaneo, Ch. Cauet, R. Cenci, M. Charles, Ph. Charpentier, M. Chefdeville, S. Chen, S.-F. Cheung, N. Chiapolini, M. Chrzaszcz, X. Cid Vidal, G. Ciezarek, P.E.L. Clarke, M. Clemencic, H.V. Cliff, J. Closier, V. Coco, J. Cogan, E. Cogneras, V. Cogoni, L. Cojocariu, G. Collazuol, P. Collins, A. Comerma-Montells, A. Contu, A. Cook, M. Coombes, S. Coquereau, G. Corti, M. Corvo, I. Counts, B. Couturier, G.A. Cowan, D.C. Craik, A.C. Crocombe, M. Cruz Torres, S. Cunliffe, R. Currie, C. D'Ambrosio, J. Dalseno, P. David, P.N.Y. David, A. Davis, K. De Bruyn, S. De Capua, M. De Cian, J.M. De Miranda, L. De Paula, W. De Silva, P. De Simone, C.-T. Dean, D. Decamp, M. Deckenhoff, L. Del Buono, N. Déléage, D. Derkach, O. Deschamps, F. Dettori, B. Dey, A. Di Canto, A. Di Domenico, H. Dijkstra, S. Donleavy, F. Dordei, M. Dorigo, A. Dosil Suárez, D. Dossett, A. Dovbnya, K. Dreimanis, G. Dujany, F. Dupertuis, P. Durante, R. Dzhelyadin, A. Dziurda, A. Dzyuba, S. Easo, U. Egede, V. Egorychev, S. Eidelman, S. Eisenhardt, U. Eitschberger, R. Ekelhof, L. Eklund, I. El Rifai, Ch. Elsasser, S. Ely, S. Esen, H.M. Evans, T. Evans, A. Falabella, C. Färber, C. Farinelli, N. Farley, S. Farry, R. Fay, D. Ferguson, V. Fernandez Albor, F. Ferreira Rodrigues, M. Ferro-Luzzi, S. Filippov, M. Fiore, M. Fiorini, M. Firlej, C. Fitzpatrick, T. Fiutowski, P. Fol, M. Fontana, F. Fontanelli, R. Forty, O. Francisco, M. Frank, C. Frei, M. Frosini, J. Fu, E. Furfaro, A. Gallas Torreira, D. Galli, S. Gallorini, S. Gambetta, M. Gandelman, P. Gandini, Y. Gao, J. García Pardiñas, J. Garofoli, J. Garra Tico, L. Garrido, D. Gascon, C. Gaspar, U. Gastaldi, R. Gauld, L. Gavardi, G. Gazzoni, A. Geraci, E. Gersabeck, M. Gersabeck, T. Gershon, Ph. Ghez, A. Gianelle, S. Gianì, V. Gibson, L. Giubega, V.V. Gligorov, C. Göbel, D. Golubkov, A. Golutvin, A. Gomes, C. Gotti, M. Grabalosa Gándara, R. Graciani Diaz, L.A. Granado Cardoso, E. Graugés, E. Graverini, G. Graziani, A. Grecu, E. Greening, S. Gregson, P. Griffith, L. Grillo, O. Grünberg, B. Gui, E. Gushchin, Yu. Guz, T. Gys, C. Hadjivasiliou, G. Haefeli, C. Haen, S.C. Haines, S. Hall, B. Hamilton, T. Hampson, X. Han, S. Hansmann-Menzemer, N. Harnew, S.T. Harnew, J. Harrison, J. He, T. Head, V. Heijne, K. Hennessy, P. Henrard, L. Henry, J.A. Hernando Morata, E. van Herwijnen, M. Heß, A. Hicheur, D. Hill, M. Hoballah, C. Hombach, W. Hulsbergen, N. Hussain, D. Hutchcroft, D. Hynds, M. Idzik, P. Ilten, R. Jacobsson, A. Jaeger, J. Jalocha, E. Jans, P. Jaton, A. Jawahery, F. Jing, M. John, D. Johnson, C.R. Jones, C. Joram, B. Jost, N. Jurik, S. Kandybei, W. Kanso, M. Karacson, T.M. Karbach, S. Karodia, M. Kelsey, I.R. Kenyon, T. Ketel, B. Khanji, C. Khurewathanakul, S. Klaver, K. Klimaszewski, O. Kochebina, M. Kolpin, I. Komarov, R.F. Koopman, P. Koppenburg, M. Korolev, L. Kravchuk, K. Kreplin, M. Kreps, G. Krocker, P. Krokovny, F. Kruse, W. Kucewicz, M. Kucharczyk, V. Kudryavtsev, K. Kurek, T. Kvaratskheliya, V.N. La Thi, D. Lacarrere, G. Lafferty, A. Lai, D. Lambert, R.W. Lambert, G. Lanfranchi, C. Langenbruch, B. Langhans, T. Latham, C. Lazzeroni, R. Le Gac, J. van Leerdam, J.-P. Lees, R. Lefèvre, A. Leflat, J. Lefrançois, O. Leroy, T. Lesiak, B. Leverington, Y. Li, T. Likhomanenko, M. Liles, R. Lindner, C. Linn, F. Lionetto, B. Liu, S. Lohn, I. Longstaff, J.H. Lopes, P. Lowdon, D. Lucchesi, H. Luo, A. Lupato, E. Luppi, O. Lupton, F. Machefert, I.V. Machikhiliyan, F. Maciuc, O. Maev, S. Malde, A. Malinin, G. Manca, G. Mancinelli, A. Mapelli, J. Maratas, J.F. Marchand, U. Marconi, C. Marin Benito, P. Marino, R. Märki, J. Marks, G. Martellotti, M. Martinelli, D. Martinez Santos, F. Martinez Vidal, D. Martins Tostes, A. Massafferri, R. Matev, Z. Mathe, C. Matteuzzi, A. Mazurov, M. McCann, J. McCarthy, A. McNab, R. McNulty, B. McSkelly, B. Meadows, F. Meier, M. Meissner, M. Merk, D.A. Milanes, M.-N. Minard, N. Moggi, J. Molina Rodriguez, S. Monteil, M. Morandin, P. Morawski, A. Mordà, M.J. Morello, J. Moron, A.-B. Morris, R. Mountain, F. Muheim, K. Müller, M. Mussini, B. Muster, P. Naik, T. Nakada, R. Nandakumar, I. Nasteva, M. Needham, N. Neri, S. Neubert, N. Neufeld, M. Neuner, A.D. Nguyen, T.D. Nguyen, C. Nguyen-Mau, M. Nicol, V. Niess, R. Niet, N. Nikitin, T. Nikodem, A. Novoselov, D.P. O'Hanlon, A. Oblakowska-Mucha, V. Obraztsov, S. Ogilvy, O. Okhrimenko, R. Oldeman, C.J.G. Onderwater, M. Orlandea, J.M. Otalora Goicochea, A. Otto, P. Owen, A. Oyanguren, B.K. Pal, A. Palano, F. Palombo, M. Palutan, J. Panman, A. Papanestis, M. Pappagallo, L.L. Pappalardo, C. Parkes, C.J. Parkinson, G. Passaleva, G.D. Patel, M. Patel, C. Patrignani, A. Pearce, A. Pellegrino, G. Penso, M. Pepe Altarelli, S. Perazzini, P. Perret, L. Pescatore, E. Pesen, K. Petridis, A. Petrolini, E. Picatoste Olloqui, B. Pietrzyk, T. Pilař, D. Pinci, A. Pistone, S. Playfer, M. Plo Casasus, F. Polci, A. Poluektov, I. Polyakov, E. Polycarpo, A. Popov, D. Popov, B. Popovici, C. Potterat, E. Price, J.D. Price, J. Prisciandaro, A. Pritchard, C. Prouve, V. Pugatch, A. Puig Navarro, G. Punzi, W. Qian, B. Rachwal, J.H. Rademacker, B. Rakotomiaramanana, M. Rama, M.S. Rangel, I. Raniuk, N. Rauschmayr, G. Raven, F. Redi, S. Reichert, M.M. Reid, A.C. dos Reis, S. Ricciardi, S. Richards, M. Rihl, K. Rinnert, V. Rives Molina, P. Robbe, A.B. Rodrigues, E. Rodrigues, P. Rodriguez Perez, S. Roiser, V. Romanovsky, A. Romero Vidal, M. Rotondo, J. Rouvinet, T. Ruf, H. Ruiz, P. Ruiz Valls, J.J. Saborido Silva, N. Sagidova, P. Sail, B. Saitta, V. Salustino Guimaraes, C. Sanchez Mayordomo, B. Sanmartin Sedes, R. Santacesaria, C. Santamarina Rios, E. Santovetti, A. Sarti, C. Satriano, A. Satta, D.M. Saunders, D. Savrina, M. Schiller, H. Schindler, M. Schlupp, M. Schmelling, B. Schmidt, O. Schneider, A. Schopper, M.-H. Schune, R. Schwemmer, B. Sciascia, A. Sciubba, A. Semennikov, I. Sepp, N. Serra, J. Serrano, L. Sestini, P. Seyfert, M. Shapkin, I. Shapoval, Y. Shcheglov, T. Shears, L. Shekhtman, V. Shevchenko, A. Shires, R. Silva Coutinho, G. Simi, M. Sirendi, N. Skidmore, I. Skillicorn, T. Skwarnicki, N.A. Smith, E. Smith, J. Smith, M. Smith, H. Snoek, M.D. Sokoloff, F.J.P. Soler, F. Soomro, D. Souza, B. Souza De Paula, B. Spaan, P. Spradlin, S. Sridharan, F. Stagni, M. Stahl, S. Stahl, O. Steinkamp, O. Stenyakin, F. Sterpka, S. Stevenson, S. Stoica, S. Stone, B. Storaci, S. Stracka, M. Straticiuc, U. Straumann, R. Stroili, L. Sun, W. Sutcliffe, K. Swientek, S. Swientek, V. Syropoulos, M. Szczekowski, P. Szczypka, T. Szumlak, S. T'Jampens, M. Teklishyn, G. Tellarini, F. Teubert, C. Thomas, E. Thomas, J. van Tilburg, V. Tisserand, M. Tobin, J. Todd, S. Tolk, L. Tomassetti, D. Tonelli, S. Topp-Joergensen, N. Torr, E. Tournefier, S. Tourneur, M.T. Tran, M. Tresch, A. Trisovic, A. Tsaregorodtsev, P. Tsopelas, N. Tuning, M. Ubeda Garcia, A. Ukleja, A. Ustyuzhanin, U. Uwer, C. Vacca, V. Vagnoni, G. Valenti, A. Vallier, R. Vazquez Gomez, P. Vazquez Regueiro, C. Vázquez Sierra, S. Vecchi, J.J. Velthuis, M. Veltri, G. Veneziano, M. Vesterinen, J.V. Viana Barbosa, B. Viaud, D. Vieira, M. Vieites Diaz, X. Vilasis-Cardona, A. Vollhardt, D. Volyanskyy, D. Voong, A. Vorobyev, V. Vorobyev, C. Voß, J.A. de Vries, R. Waldi, C. Wallace, R. Wallace, J. Walsh, S. Wandernoth, J. Wang, D.R. Ward, N.K. Watson, D. Websdale, M. Whitehead, D. Wiedner, G. Wilkinson, M. Wilkinson, M.P. Williams, M. Williams, H.W. Wilschut, F.F. Wilson, J. Wimberley, J. Wishahi, W. Wislicki, M. Witek, G. Wormser, S.A. Wotton, S. Wright, K. Wyllie, Y. Xie, Z. Xing, Z. Xu, Z. Yang, X. Yuan, O. Yushchenko, M. Zangoli, M. Zavertyaev, L. Zhang, W.C. Zhang, Y. Zhang, A. Zhelezov, A. Zhokhov, and L. Zhong
Subjects: Physics, QC1-999
Abstract: The difference in total widths between the Bc+ and B+ mesons is measured using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb−1 collected by the LHCb experiment in 7 and 8 TeV centre-of-mass energy proton–proton collisions at the LHC. Through the study of the time evolution of Bc+→J/ψπ+ and B+→J/ψK+ decays, the width difference is measured to beΔΓ≡ΓBc+−ΓB+=4.46±0.14±0.07 mm−1c, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. The known lifetime of the B+ meson is used to convert this to a precise measurement of the Bc+ lifetime,τBc+=513.4±11.0±5.7 fs, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic.
Published: 2015
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4. Determination of γ and −2βs from charmless two-body decays of beauty mesons

Author: R. Aaij, C. Abellán Beteta, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi, A. Affolder, Z. Ajaltouni, S. Akar, J. Albrecht, F. Alessio, M. Alexander, S. Ali, G. Alkhazov, P. Alvarez Cartelle, A.A. Alves, Jr, S. Amato, S. Amerio, Y. Amhis, L. An, L. Anderlini, J. Anderson, R. Andreassen, M. Andreotti, J.E. Andrews, R.B. Appleby, O. Aquines Gutierrez, F. Archilli, A. Artamonov, M. Artuso, E. Aslanides, G. Auriemma, M. Baalouch, S. Bachmann, J.J. Back, A. Badalov, C. Baesso, W. Baldini, R.J. Barlow, C. Barschel, S. Barsuk, W. Barter, V. Batozskaya, V. Battista, A. Bay, L. Beaucourt, J. Beddow, F. Bedeschi, I. Bediaga, S. Belogurov, K. Belous, I. Belyaev, E. Ben-Haim, G. Bencivenni, S. Benson, J. Benton, A. Berezhnoy, R. Bernet, M.-O. Bettler, M. van Beuzekom, A. Bien, S. Bifani, T. Bird, A. Bizzeti, P.M. Bjørnstad, T. Blake, F. Blanc, J. Blouw, S. Blusk, V. Bocci, A. Bondar, N. Bondar, W. Bonivento, S. Borghi, A. Borgia, M. Borsato, T.J.V. Bowcock, E. Bowen, C. Bozzi, T. Brambach, J. Bressieux, D. Brett, M. Britsch, T. Britton, J. Brodzicka, N.H. Brook, H. Brown, A. Bursche, G. Busetto, J. Buytaert, S. Cadeddu, R. Calabrese, M. Calvi, M. Calvo Gomez, P. Campana, D. Campora Perez, A. Carbone, G. Carboni, R. Cardinale, A. Cardini, L. Carson, K. Carvalho Akiba, G. Casse, L. Cassina, L. Castillo Garcia, M. Cattaneo, Ch. Cauet, R. Cenci, M. Charles, Ph. Charpentier, M. Chefdeville, S. Chen, S.-F. Cheung, N. Chiapolini, M. Chrzaszcz, K. Ciba, X. Cid Vidal, G. Ciezarek, P.E.L. Clarke, M. Clemencic, H.V. Cliff, J. Closier, V. Coco, J. Cogan, E. Cogneras, L. Cojocariu, P. Collins, A. Comerma-Montells, A. Contu, A. Cook, M. Coombes, S. Coquereau, G. Corti, M. Corvo, I. Counts, B. Couturier, G.A. Cowan, D.C. Craik, M. Cruz Torres, S. Cunliffe, R. Currie, C. D'Ambrosio, J. Dalseno, P. David, P.N.Y. David, A. Davis, K. De Bruyn, S. De Capua, M. De Cian, J.M. De Miranda, L. De Paula, W. De Silva, P. De Simone, D. Decamp, M. Deckenhoff, L. Del Buono, N. Déléage, D. Derkach, O. Deschamps, F. Dettori, A. Di Canto, H. Dijkstra, S. Donleavy, F. Dordei, M. Dorigo, A. Dosil Suárez, D. Dossett, A. Dovbnya, K. Dreimanis, G. Dujany, F. Dupertuis, P. Durante, R. Dzhelyadin, A. Dziurda, A. Dzyuba, S. Easo, V. Egorychev, S. Eidelman, S. Eisenhardt, U. Eitschberger, R. Ekelhof, L. Eklund, I. El Rifai, Ch. Elsasser, S. Ely, S. Esen, H.-M. Evans, T. Evans, A. Falabella, C. Färber, C. Farinelli, N. Farley, S. Farry, R.F. Fay, D. Ferguson, V. Fernandez Albor, F. Ferreira Rodrigues, M. Ferro-Luzzi, S. Filippov, M. Fiore, M. Fiorini, M. Firlej, C. Fitzpatrick, T. Fiutowski, P. Fol, M. Fontana, F. Fontanelli, R. Forty, O. Francisco, M. Frank, C. Frei, M. Frosini, J. Fu, E. Furfaro, A. Gallas Torreira, D. Galli, S. Gallorini, S. Gambetta, M. Gandelman, P. Gandini, Y. Gao, J. García Pardiñas, J. Garofoli, J. Garra Tico, L. Garrido, C. Gaspar, R. Gauld, L. Gavardi, G. Gavrilov, A. Geraci, E. Gersabeck, M. Gersabeck, T. Gershon, Ph. Ghez, A. Gianelle, S. Gianì, V. Gibson, L. Giubega, V.V. Gligorov, C. Göbel, D. Golubkov, A. Golutvin, A. Gomes, C. Gotti, M. Grabalosa Gándara, R. Graciani Diaz, L.A. Granado Cardoso, E. Graugés, G. Graziani, A. Grecu, E. Greening, S. Gregson, P. Griffith, L. Grillo, O. Grünberg, B. Gui, E. Gushchin, Yu. Guz, T. Gys, C. Hadjivasiliou, G. Haefeli, C. Haen, S.C. Haines, S. Hall, B. Hamilton, T. Hampson, X. Han, S. Hansmann-Menzemer, N. Harnew, S.T. Harnew, J. Harrison, J. He, T. Head, V. Heijne, K. Hennessy, P. Henrard, L. Henry, J.A. Hernando Morata, E. van Herwijnen, M. Heß, A. Hicheur, D. Hill, M. Hoballah, C. Hombach, W. Hulsbergen, P. Hunt, N. Hussain, D. Hutchcroft, D. Hynds, M. Idzik, P. Ilten, R. Jacobsson, A. Jaeger, J. Jalocha, E. Jans, P. Jaton, A. Jawahery, F. Jing, M. John, D. Johnson, C.R. Jones, C. Joram, B. Jost, N. Jurik, M. Kaballo, S. Kandybei, W. Kanso, M. Karacson, T.M. Karbach, S. Karodia, M. Kelsey, I.R. Kenyon, T. Ketel, B. Khanji, C. Khurewathanakul, S. Klaver, K. Klimaszewski, O. Kochebina, M. Kolpin, I. Komarov, R.F. Koopman, P. Koppenburg, M. Korolev, A. Kozlinskiy, L. Kravchuk, K. Kreplin, M. Kreps, G. Krocker, P. Krokovny, F. Kruse, W. Kucewicz, M. Kucharczyk, V. Kudryavtsev, K. Kurek, T. Kvaratskheliya, V.N. La Thi, D. Lacarrere, G. Lafferty, A. Lai, D. Lambert, R.W. Lambert, G. Lanfranchi, C. Langenbruch, B. Langhans, T. Latham, C. Lazzeroni, R. Le Gac, J. van Leerdam, J.-P. Lees, R. Lefèvre, A. Leflat, J. Lefrançois, S. Leo, O. Leroy, T. Lesiak, B. Leverington, Y. Li, T. Likhomanenko, M. Liles, R. Lindner, C. Linn, F. Lionetto, B. Liu, S. Lohn, I. Longstaff, J.H. Lopes, N. Lopez-March, P. Lowdon, H. Lu, D. Lucchesi, H. Luo, A. Lupato, E. Luppi, O. Lupton, F. Machefert, I.V. Machikhiliyan, F. Maciuc, O. Maev, S. Malde, A. Malinin, G. Manca, G. Mancinelli, A. Mapelli, J. Maratas, J.F. Marchand, U. Marconi, C. Marin Benito, P. Marino, R. Märki, J. Marks, G. Martellotti, A. Martens, A. Martín Sánchez, M. Martinelli, D. Martinez Santos, F. Martinez Vidal, D. Martins Tostes, A. Massafferri, R. Matev, Z. Mathe, C. Matteuzzi, A. Mazurov, M. McCann, J. McCarthy, A. McNab, R. McNulty, B. McSkelly, B. Meadows, F. Meier, M. Meissner, M. Merk, D.A. Milanes, M.-N. Minard, N. Moggi, J. Molina Rodriguez, S. Monteil, M. Morandin, P. Morawski, A. Mordà, M.J. Morello, J. Moron, A.-B. Morris, R. Mountain, F. Muheim, K. Müller, M. Mussini, B. Muster, P. Naik, T. Nakada, R. Nandakumar, I. Nasteva, M. Needham, N. Neri, S. Neubert, N. Neufeld, M. Neuner, A.D. Nguyen, T.D. Nguyen, C. Nguyen-Mau, M. Nicol, V. Niess, R. Niet, N. Nikitin, T. Nikodem, A. Novoselov, D.P. O'Hanlon, A. Oblakowska-Mucha, V. Obraztsov, S. Oggero, S. Ogilvy, O. Okhrimenko, R. Oldeman, G. Onderwater, M. Orlandea, J.M. Otalora Goicochea, P. Owen, A. Oyanguren, B.K. Pal, A. Palano, F. Palombo, M. Palutan, J. Panman, A. Papanestis, M. Pappagallo, L.L. Pappalardo, C. Parkes, C.J. Parkinson, G. Passaleva, G.D. Patel, M. Patel, C. Patrignani, A. Pazos Alvarez, A. Pearce, A. Pellegrino, M. Pepe Altarelli, S. 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Saunders, M. Savrie, D. Savrina, M. Schiller, H. Schindler, M. Schlupp, M. Schmelling, B. Schmidt, O. Schneider, A. Schopper, M.-H. Schune, R. Schwemmer, B. Sciascia, A. Sciubba, M. Seco, A. Semennikov, I. Sepp, N. Serra, J. Serrano, L. Sestini, P. Seyfert, M. Shapkin, I. Shapoval, Y. Shcheglov, T. Shears, L. Shekhtman, V. Shevchenko, A. Shires, R. Silva Coutinho, G. Simi, M. Sirendi, N. Skidmore, T. Skwarnicki, N.A. Smith, E. Smith, J. Smith, M. Smith, H. Snoek, M.D. Sokoloff, F.J.P. Soler, F. Soomro, D. Souza, B. Souza De Paula, B. Spaan, A. Sparkes, P. Spradlin, S. Sridharan, F. Stagni, M. Stahl, S. Stahl, O. Steinkamp, O. Stenyakin, S. Stevenson, S. Stoica, S. Stone, B. Storaci, S. Stracka, M. Straticiuc, U. Straumann, R. Stroili, V.K. Subbiah, L. Sun, W. Sutcliffe, K. Swientek, S. Swientek, V. Syropoulos, M. Szczekowski, P. Szczypka, D. Szilard, T. Szumlak, S. T'Jampens, M. Teklishyn, G. Tellarini, F. Teubert, C. Thomas, E. Thomas, J. van Tilburg, V. Tisserand, M. Tobin, S. Tolk, L. Tomassetti, S. Topp-Joergensen, N. Torr, E. Tournefier, S. Tourneur, M.T. Tran, M. Tresch, A. Tsaregorodtsev, P. Tsopelas, N. Tuning, M. Ubeda Garcia, A. Ukleja, A. Ustyuzhanin, U. Uwer, C. Vacca, V. Vagnoni, G. Valenti, A. Vallier, R. Vazquez Gomez, P. Vazquez Regueiro, C. Vázquez Sierra, S. Vecchi, J.J. Velthuis, M. Veltri, G. Veneziano, M. Vesterinen, B. Viaud, D. Vieira, M. Vieites Diaz, X. Vilasis-Cardona, A. Vollhardt, D. Volyanskyy, D. Voong, A. Vorobyev, V. Vorobyev, C. Voß, H. Voss, J.A. de Vries, R. Waldi, C. Wallace, R. Wallace, J. Walsh, S. Wandernoth, J. Wang, D.R. Ward, N.K. Watson, D. Websdale, M. Whitehead, J. Wicht, D. Wiedner, G. Wilkinson, M.P. Williams, M. Williams, H.W. Wilschut, F.F. Wilson, J. Wimberley, J. Wishahi, W. Wislicki, M. Witek, G. Wormser, S.A. Wotton, S. Wright, K. Wyllie, Y. Xie, Z. Xing, Z. Xu, Z. Yang, X. Yuan, O. Yushchenko, M. Zangoli, M. Zavertyaev, L. Zhang, W.C. Zhang, Y. Zhang, A. Zhelezov, A. Zhokhov, L. Zhong, and A. Zvyagin
Subjects: Physics, QC1-999
Abstract: Using the latest LHCb measurements of time-dependent CP violation in the Bs0→K+K− decay, a U-spin relation between the decay amplitudes of Bs0→K+K− and B0→π+π− decay processes allows constraints to be placed on the angle γ of the unitarity triangle and on the Bs0 mixing phase −2βs. Results from an extended approach, which uses additional inputs on B0→π0π0 and B+→π+π0 decays from other experiments and exploits isospin symmetry, are also presented. The dependence of the results on the maximum allowed amount of U-spin breaking is studied. At 68% probability, the value γ=(63.5−6.7+7.2)° modulo 180° is determined. In an alternative analysis, the value −2βs=−0.12−0.16+0.14 rad is found. In both measurements, the uncertainties due to U-spin breaking effects up to 50% are included.
Published: 2015
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5. Search for CP violation in D0→π−π+π0 decays with the energy test

Author: R. Aaij, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi, A. Affolder, Z. Ajaltouni, S. Akar, J. Albrecht, F. Alessio, M. Alexander, S. Ali, G. Alkhazov, P. Alvarez Cartelle, A.A. Alves, Jr, S. Amato, S. Amerio, Y. Amhis, L. An, L. Anderlini, J. Anderson, R. Andreassen, M. Andreotti, J.E. Andrews, R.B. Appleby, O. Aquines Gutierrez, F. Archilli, A. Artamonov, M. Artuso, E. Aslanides, G. Auriemma, M. Baalouch, S. Bachmann, J.J. Back, A. Badalov, C. Baesso, W. Baldini, R.J. Barlow, C. Barschel, S. Barsuk, W. Barter, V. Batozskaya, V. Battista, A. Bay, L. Beaucourt, J. Beddow, F. Bedeschi, I. Bediaga, S. Belogurov, K. Belous, I. Belyaev, E. Ben-Haim, G. Bencivenni, S. Benson, J. Benton, A. Berezhnoy, R. Bernet, M.-O. Bettler, M. van Beuzekom, A. Bien, S. Bifani, T. Bird, A. Bizzeti, P.M. Bjørnstad, T. Blake, F. Blanc, J. Blouw, S. Blusk, V. Bocci, A. Bondar, N. Bondar, W. Bonivento, S. Borghi, A. Borgia, M. Borsato, T.J.V. Bowcock, E. Bowen, C. Bozzi, T. Brambach, D. Brett, M. Britsch, T. Britton, J. Brodzicka, N.H. Brook, H. Brown, A. Bursche, J. Buytaert, S. Cadeddu, R. Calabrese, M. Calvi, M. Calvo Gomez, P. Campana, D. Campora Perez, A. Carbone, G. Carboni, R. Cardinale, A. Cardini, L. Carson, K. Carvalho Akiba, G. Casse, L. Cassina, L. Castillo Garcia, M. Cattaneo, Ch. Cauet, R. Cenci, M. Charles, Ph. Charpentier, M. Chefdeville, S. Chen, S.-F. Cheung, N. Chiapolini, M. Chrzaszcz, X. Cid Vidal, G. Ciezarek, P.E.L. Clarke, M. Clemencic, H.V. Cliff, J. Closier, V. Coco, J. Cogan, E. Cogneras, V. Cogoni, L. Cojocariu, G. Collazuol, P. Collins, A. Comerma-Montells, A. Contu, A. Cook, M. Coombes, S. Coquereau, G. Corti, M. Corvo, I. Counts, B. Couturier, G.A. Cowan, D.C. Craik, A.C. Crocombe, M. Cruz Torres, S. Cunliffe, R. Currie, C. D'Ambrosio, J. Dalseno, P. David, P.N.Y. David, A. Davis, K. De Bruyn, S. De Capua, M. De Cian, J.M. De Miranda, L. De Paula, W. De Silva, P. De Simone, C.-T. Dean, D. Decamp, M. Deckenhoff, L. Del Buono, N. Déléage, D. Derkach, O. Deschamps, F. Dettori, A. Di Canto, H. Dijkstra, S. Donleavy, F. Dordei, M. Dorigo, A. Dosil Suárez, D. Dossett, A. Dovbnya, K. Dreimanis, G. Dujany, F. Dupertuis, P. Durante, R. Dzhelyadin, A. Dziurda, A. Dzyuba, S. Easo, U. Egede, V. Egorychev, S. Eidelman, S. Eisenhardt, U. Eitschberger, R. Ekelhof, L. Eklund, I. El Rifai, Ch. Elsasser, S. Ely, S. Esen, H.-M. Evans, T. Evans, A. Falabella, C. Färber, C. Farinelli, N. Farley, S. Farry, R. Fay, D. Ferguson, V. Fernandez Albor, F. Ferreira Rodrigues, M. Ferro-Luzzi, S. Filippov, M. Fiore, M. Fiorini, M. Firlej, C. Fitzpatrick, T. Fiutowski, P. Fol, M. Fontana, F. Fontanelli, R. Forty, O. Francisco, M. Frank, C. Frei, M. Frosini, J. Fu, E. Furfaro, A. Gallas Torreira, D. Galli, S. Gallorini, S. Gambetta, M. Gandelman, P. Gandini, Y. Gao, J. García Pardiñas, J. Garofoli, J. Garra Tico, L. Garrido, D. Gascon, C. Gaspar, R. Gauld, L. Gavardi, A. Geraci, E. Gersabeck, M. Gersabeck, T. Gershon, Ph. Ghez, A. Gianelle, S. Gianì, V. Gibson, L. Giubega, V.V. Gligorov, C. Göbel, D. Golubkov, A. Golutvin, A. Gomes, C. Gotti, M. Grabalosa Gándara, R. Graciani Diaz, L.A. Granado Cardoso, E. Graugés, E. Graverini, G. Graziani, A. Grecu, E. Greening, S. Gregson, P. Griffith, L. Grillo, O. Grünberg, B. Gui, E. Gushchin, Yu. Guz, T. Gys, C. Hadjivasiliou, G. Haefeli, C. Haen, S.C. Haines, S. Hall, B. Hamilton, T. Hampson, X. Han, S. Hansmann-Menzemer, N. Harnew, S.T. Harnew, J. Harrison, J. He, T. Head, V. Heijne, K. Hennessy, P. Henrard, L. Henry, J.A. Hernando Morata, E. van Herwijnen, M. Heß, A. Hicheur, D. Hill, M. Hoballah, C. Hombach, W. Hulsbergen, P. Hunt, N. Hussain, D. Hutchcroft, D. Hynds, M. Idzik, P. Ilten, R. Jacobsson, A. Jaeger, J. Jalocha, E. Jans, P. Jaton, A. Jawahery, F. Jing, M. John, D. Johnson, C.R. Jones, C. Joram, B. Jost, N. Jurik, S. Kandybei, W. Kanso, M. Karacson, T.M. Karbach, S. Karodia, M. Kelsey, I.R. Kenyon, T. Ketel, B. Khanji, C. Khurewathanakul, S. Klaver, K. Klimaszewski, O. Kochebina, M. Kolpin, I. Komarov, R.F. Koopman, P. Koppenburg, M. Korolev, A. Kozlinskiy, L. Kravchuk, K. Kreplin, M. Kreps, G. Krocker, P. Krokovny, F. Kruse, W. Kucewicz, M. Kucharczyk, V. Kudryavtsev, K. Kurek, T. Kvaratskheliya, V.N. La Thi, D. Lacarrere, G. Lafferty, A. Lai, D. Lambert, R.W. Lambert, G. Lanfranchi, C. Langenbruch, B. Langhans, T. Latham, C. Lazzeroni, R. Le Gac, J. van Leerdam, J.-P. Lees, R. Lefèvre, A. Leflat, J. Lefrançois, S. Leo, O. Leroy, T. Lesiak, B. Leverington, Y. Li, T. Likhomanenko, M. Liles, R. Lindner, C. Linn, F. Lionetto, B. Liu, S. Lohn, I. Longstaff, J.H. Lopes, N. Lopez-March, P. Lowdon, D. Lucchesi, H. Luo, A. Lupato, E. Luppi, O. Lupton, F. Machefert, I.V. Machikhiliyan, F. Maciuc, O. Maev, K. Maguire, S. Malde, A. Malinin, G. Manca, G. Mancinelli, A. Mapelli, J. Maratas, J.F. Marchand, U. Marconi, C. Marin Benito, P. Marino, R. Märki, J. Marks, G. Martellotti, A. Martín Sánchez, M. Martinelli, D. Martinez Santos, F. Martinez Vidal, D. Martins Tostes, A. Massafferri, R. Matev, Z. Mathe, C. Matteuzzi, B. Maurin, A. Mazurov, M. McCann, J. McCarthy, A. McNab, R. McNulty, B. McSkelly, B. Meadows, F. Meier, M. Meissner, M. Merk, D.A. Milanes, M.-N. Minard, N. Moggi, J. Molina Rodriguez, S. Monteil, M. Morandin, P. Morawski, A. Mordà, M.J. Morello, J. Moron, A.-B. Morris, R. Mountain, F. Muheim, K. Müller, M. Mussini, B. Muster, P. Naik, T. Nakada, R. Nandakumar, I. Nasteva, M. Needham, N. Neri, S. Neubert, N. Neufeld, M. Neuner, A.D. Nguyen, T.D. Nguyen, C. Nguyen-Mau, M. Nicol, V. Niess, R. Niet, N. Nikitin, T. Nikodem, A. Novoselov, D.P. O'Hanlon, A. Oblakowska-Mucha, V. Obraztsov, S. Oggero, S. Ogilvy, O. Okhrimenko, R. Oldeman, C.J.G. Onderwater, M. Orlandea, J.M. Otalora Goicochea, A. Otto, P. Owen, A. Oyanguren, B.K. Pal, A. Palano, F. Palombo, M. Palutan, J. Panman, A. Papanestis, M. Pappagallo, L.L. Pappalardo, C. Parkes, C.J. Parkinson, G. Passaleva, G.D. Patel, M. Patel, C. Patrignani, A. Pearce, A. Pellegrino, M. Pepe Altarelli, S. Perazzini, P. Perret, M. Perrin-Terrin, L. Pescatore, E. Pesen, K. Petridis, A. Petrolini, E. Picatoste Olloqui, B. Pietrzyk, T. Pilař, D. Pinci, A. Pistone, S. Playfer, M. Plo Casasus, F. Polci, A. Poluektov, I. Polyakov, E. Polycarpo, A. Popov, D. Popov, B. Popovici, C. Potterat, E. Price, J.D. Price, J. Prisciandaro, A. Pritchard, C. Prouve, V. Pugatch, A. Puig Navarro, G. Punzi, W. Qian, B. Rachwal, J.H. Rademacker, B. Rakotomiaramanana, M. Rama, M.S. Rangel, I. Raniuk, N. Rauschmayr, G. Raven, F. Redi, S. Reichert, M.M. Reid, A.C. dos Reis, S. Ricciardi, S. Richards, M. Rihl, K. Rinnert, V. Rives Molina, P. Robbe, A.B. Rodrigues, E. Rodrigues, P. Rodriguez Perez, S. Roiser, V. Romanovsky, A. Romero Vidal, M. Rotondo, J. Rouvinet, T. Ruf, H. Ruiz, P. Ruiz Valls, J.J. Saborido Silva, N. Sagidova, P. Sail, B. Saitta, V. Salustino Guimaraes, C. Sanchez Mayordomo, B. Sanmartin Sedes, R. Santacesaria, C. Santamarina Rios, E. Santovetti, A. Sarti, C. Satriano, A. Satta, D.M. Saunders, D. Savrina, M. Schiller, H. Schindler, M. Schlupp, M. Schmelling, B. Schmidt, O. Schneider, A. Schopper, M. Schubiger, M.-H. Schune, R. Schwemmer, B. Sciascia, A. Sciubba, A. Semennikov, I. Sepp, N. Serra, J. Serrano, L. Sestini, P. Seyfert, M. Shapkin, I. Shapoval, Y. Shcheglov, T. Shears, L. Shekhtman, V. Shevchenko, A. Shires, R. Silva Coutinho, G. Simi, M. Sirendi, N. Skidmore, I. Skillicorn, T. Skwarnicki, N.A. Smith, E. Smith, J. Smith, M. Smith, H. Snoek, M.D. Sokoloff, F.J.P. Soler, F. Soomro, D. Souza, B. Souza De Paula, B. Spaan, P. Spradlin, S. Sridharan, F. Stagni, M. Stahl, S. Stahl, O. Steinkamp, O. Stenyakin, S. Stevenson, S. Stoica, S. Stone, B. Storaci, S. Stracka, M. Straticiuc, U. Straumann, R. Stroili, V.K. Subbiah, L. Sun, W. Sutcliffe, K. Swientek, S. Swientek, V. Syropoulos, M. Szczekowski, P. Szczypka, T. Szumlak, S. T'Jampens, M. Teklishyn, G. Tellarini, F. Teubert, C. Thomas, E. Thomas, J. van Tilburg, V. Tisserand, M. Tobin, J. Todd, S. Tolk, L. Tomassetti, D. Tonelli, S. Topp-Joergensen, N. Torr, E. Tournefier, S. Tourneur, M.T. Tran, M. Tresch, A. Trisovic, A. Tsaregorodtsev, P. Tsopelas, N. Tuning, M. Ubeda Garcia, A. Ukleja, A. Ustyuzhanin, U. Uwer, C. Vacca, V. Vagnoni, G. Valenti, A. Vallier, R. Vazquez Gomez, P. Vazquez Regueiro, C. Vázquez Sierra, S. Vecchi, J.J. Velthuis, M. Veltri, G. Veneziano, M. Vesterinen, B. Viaud, D. Vieira, M. Vieites Diaz, X. Vilasis-Cardona, A. Vollhardt, D. Volyanskyy, D. Voong, A. Vorobyev, V. Vorobyev, C. Voß, J.A. de Vries, R. Waldi, C. Wallace, R. Wallace, J. Walsh, S. Wandernoth, J. Wang, D.R. Ward, N.K. Watson, D. Websdale, M. Whitehead, J. Wicht, D. Wiedner, G. Wilkinson, M. Wilkinson, M.P. Williams, M. Williams, H.W. Wilschut, F.F. Wilson, J. Wimberley, J. Wishahi, W. Wislicki, M. Witek, G. Wormser, S.A. Wotton, S. Wright, K. Wyllie, Y. Xie, Z. Xing, Z. Xu, Z. Yang, X. Yuan, O. Yushchenko, M. Zangoli, M. Zavertyaev, L. Zhang, W.C. Zhang, Y. Zhang, A. Zhelezov, A. Zhokhov, and L. Zhong
Subjects: Physics, QC1-999
Abstract: A search for time-integrated CP violation in the Cabibbo-suppressed decay D0→π−π+π0 is performed using for the first time an unbinned model-independent technique known as the energy test. Using proton–proton collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.0 fb−1 collected by the LHCb detector at a centre-of-mass energy of s=8 TeV, the world's best sensitivity to CP violation in this decay is obtained. The data are found to be consistent with the hypothesis of CP symmetry with a p-value of (2.6±0.5)%.
Published: 2015
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6. Measurement of the B¯0–B0 and B¯s0–Bs0 production asymmetries in pp collisions at s=7 TeV

Author: R. Aaij, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi, A. Affolder, Z. Ajaltouni, S. Akar, J. Albrecht, F. Alessio, M. Alexander, S. Ali, G. Alkhazov, P. Alvarez Cartelle, A.A. Alves, Jr., S. Amato, S. Amerio, Y. Amhis, L. An, L. Anderlini, J. Anderson, R. Andreassen, M. Andreotti, J.E. Andrews, R.B. Appleby, O. Aquines Gutierrez, F. Archilli, A. Artamonov, M. Artuso, E. Aslanides, G. Auriemma, M. Baalouch, S. Bachmann, J.J. Back, A. Badalov, W. Baldini, R.J. Barlow, C. Barschel, S. Barsuk, W. Barter, V. Batozskaya, V. Battista, A. Bay, L. Beaucourt, J. Beddow, F. Bedeschi, I. Bediaga, S. Belogurov, K. Belous, I. Belyaev, E. Ben-Haim, G. Bencivenni, S. Benson, J. Benton, A. Berezhnoy, R. Bernet, M.-O. Bettler, M. van Beuzekom, A. Bien, S. Bifani, T. Bird, A. Bizzeti, P.M. Bjørnstad, T. Blake, F. Blanc, J. Blouw, S. Blusk, V. Bocci, A. Bondar, N. Bondar, W. Bonivento, S. Borghi, A. Borgia, M. Borsato, T.J.V. Bowcock, E. Bowen, C. Bozzi, T. Brambach, J. van den Brand, J. Bressieux, D. Brett, M. Britsch, T. Britton, J. Brodzicka, N.H. Brook, H. Brown, A. Bursche, G. Busetto, J. Buytaert, S. Cadeddu, R. Calabrese, M. Calvi, M. Calvo Gomez, P. Campana, D. Campora Perez, A. Carbone, G. Carboni, R. Cardinale, A. Cardini, L. Carson, K. Carvalho Akiba, G. Casse, L. Cassina, L. Castillo Garcia, M. Cattaneo, Ch. Cauet, R. Cenci, M. Charles, Ph. Charpentier, M. Chefdeville, S. Chen, S.-F. Cheung, N. Chiapolini, M. Chrzaszcz, K. Ciba, X. Cid Vidal, G. Ciezarek, P.E.L. Clarke, M. Clemencic, H.V. Cliff, J. Closier, V. Coco, J. Cogan, E. Cogneras, L. Cojocariu, P. Collins, A. Comerma-Montells, A. Contu, A. Cook, M. Coombes, S. Coquereau, G. Corti, M. Corvo, I. Counts, B. Couturier, G.A. Cowan, D.C. Craik, M. Cruz Torres, S. Cunliffe, R. Currie, C. D'Ambrosio, J. Dalseno, P. David, P.N.Y. David, A. Davis, K. De Bruyn, S. De Capua, M. De Cian, J.M. De Miranda, L. De Paula, W. De Silva, P. De Simone, D. Decamp, M. Deckenhoff, L. Del Buono, N. Déléage, D. Derkach, O. Deschamps, F. Dettori, A. Di Canto, H. Dijkstra, S. Donleavy, F. Dordei, M. Dorigo, A. Dosil Suárez, D. Dossett, A. Dovbnya, K. Dreimanis, G. Dujany, F. Dupertuis, P. Durante, R. Dzhelyadin, A. Dziurda, A. Dzyuba, S. Easo, U. Egede, V. Egorychev, S. Eidelman, S. Eisenhardt, U. Eitschberger, R. Ekelhof, L. Eklund, I. El Rifai, Ch. Elsasser, S. Ely, S. Esen, H.-M. Evans, T. Evans, A. Falabella, C. Färber, C. Farinelli, N. Farley, S. Farry, R.F. Fay, D. Ferguson, V. Fernandez Albor, F. Ferreira Rodrigues, M. Ferro-Luzzi, S. Filippov, M. Fiore, M. Fiorini, M. Firlej, C. Fitzpatrick, T. Fiutowski, M. Fontana, F. Fontanelli, R. Forty, O. Francisco, M. Frank, C. Frei, M. Frosini, J. Fu, E. Furfaro, A. Gallas Torreira, D. Galli, S. Gallorini, S. Gambetta, M. Gandelman, P. Gandini, Y. Gao, J. García Pardiñas, J. Garofoli, J. Garra Tico, L. Garrido, C. Gaspar, R. Gauld, L. Gavardi, G. Gavrilov, A. Geraci, E. Gersabeck, M. Gersabeck, T. Gershon, Ph. Ghez, A. Gianelle, S. Giani', V. Gibson, L. Giubega, V.V. Gligorov, C. Göbel, D. Golubkov, A. Golutvin, A. Gomes, C. Gotti, M. Grabalosa Gándara, R. Graciani Diaz, L.A. Granado Cardoso, E. Graugés, G. Graziani, A. Grecu, E. Greening, S. Gregson, P. Griffith, L. Grillo, O. Grünberg, B. Gui, E. Gushchin, Yu. Guz, T. Gys, C. Hadjivasiliou, G. Haefeli, C. Haen, S.C. Haines, S. Hall, B. Hamilton, T. Hampson, X. Han, S. Hansmann-Menzemer, N. Harnew, S.T. Harnew, J. Harrison, J. He, T. Head, V. Heijne, K. Hennessy, P. Henrard, L. Henry, J.A. Hernando Morata, E. van Herwijnen, M. Heß, A. Hicheur, D. Hill, M. Hoballah, C. Hombach, W. Hulsbergen, P. Hunt, N. Hussain, D. Hutchcroft, D. Hynds, M. Idzik, P. Ilten, R. Jacobsson, A. Jaeger, J. Jalocha, E. Jans, P. Jaton, A. Jawahery, F. Jing, M. John, D. Johnson, C.R. Jones, C. Joram, B. Jost, N. Jurik, M. Kaballo, S. Kandybei, W. Kanso, M. Karacson, T.M. Karbach, S. Karodia, M. Kelsey, I.R. Kenyon, T. Ketel, B. Khanji, C. Khurewathanakul, S. Klaver, K. Klimaszewski, O. Kochebina, M. Kolpin, I. Komarov, R.F. Koopman, P. Koppenburg, M. Korolev, A. Kozlinskiy, L. Kravchuk, K. Kreplin, M. Kreps, G. Krocker, P. Krokovny, F. Kruse, W. Kucewicz, M. Kucharczyk, V. Kudryavtsev, K. Kurek, T. Kvaratskheliya, V.N. La Thi, D. Lacarrere, G. Lafferty, A. Lai, D. Lambert, R.W. Lambert, G. Lanfranchi, C. Langenbruch, B. Langhans, T. Latham, C. Lazzeroni, R. Le Gac, J. van Leerdam, J.-P. Lees, R. Lefèvre, A. Leflat, J. Lefrançois, S. Leo, O. Leroy, T. Lesiak, B. Leverington, Y. Li, T. Likhomanenko, M. Liles, R. Lindner, C. Linn, F. Lionetto, B. Liu, S. Lohn, I. Longstaff, J.H. Lopes, N. Lopez-March, P. Lowdon, H. Lu, D. Lucchesi, H. Luo, A. Lupato, E. Luppi, O. Lupton, F. Machefert, I.V. Machikhiliyan, F. Maciuc, O. Maev, S. Malde, A. Malinin, G. Manca, G. Mancinelli, A. Mapelli, J. Maratas, J.F. Marchand, U. Marconi, C. Marin Benito, P. Marino, R. Märki, J. Marks, G. Martellotti, A. Martens, A. Martín Sánchez, M. Martinelli, D. Martinez Santos, F. Martinez Vidal, D. Martins Tostes, A. Massafferri, R. Matev, Z. Mathe, C. Matteuzzi, A. Mazurov, M. McCann, J. McCarthy, A. McNab, R. McNulty, B. McSkelly, B. Meadows, F. Meier, M. Meissner, M. Merk, D.A. Milanes, M.-N. Minard, N. Moggi, J. Molina Rodriguez, S. Monteil, M. Morandin, P. Morawski, A. Mordà, M.J. Morello, J. Moron, A.-B. Morris, R. Mountain, F. Muheim, K. Müller, M. Mussini, B. Muster, P. Naik, T. Nakada, R. Nandakumar, I. Nasteva, M. Needham, N. Neri, S. Neubert, N. Neufeld, M. Neuner, A.D. Nguyen, T.D. Nguyen, C. Nguyen-Mau, M. Nicol, V. Niess, R. Niet, N. Nikitin, T. Nikodem, A. Novoselov, D.P. O'Hanlon, A. Oblakowska-Mucha, V. Obraztsov, S. Oggero, S. Ogilvy, O. Okhrimenko, R. Oldeman, G. Onderwater, M. Orlandea, J.M. Otalora Goicochea, P. Owen, A. Oyanguren, B.K. Pal, A. Palano, F. Palombo, M. Palutan, J. Panman, A. Papanestis, M. Pappagallo, L.L. Pappalardo, C. Parkes, C.J. Parkinson, G. Passaleva, G.D. Patel, M. Patel, C. Patrignani, A. Pazos Alvarez, A. Pearce, A. Pellegrino, M. Pepe Altarelli, S. Perazzini, E. Perez Trigo, P. Perret, M. Perrin-Terrin, L. Pescatore, E. Pesen, K. Petridis, A. Petrolini, E. Picatoste Olloqui, B. Pietrzyk, T. Pilař, D. Pinci, A. Pistone, S. Playfer, M. Plo Casasus, F. Polci, A. Poluektov, E. Polycarpo, A. Popov, D. Popov, B. Popovici, C. Potterat, E. Price, J. Prisciandaro, A. Pritchard, C. Prouve, V. Pugatch, A. Puig Navarro, G. Punzi, W. Qian, B. Rachwal, J.H. Rademacker, B. Rakotomiaramanana, M. Rama, M.S. Rangel, I. Raniuk, N. Rauschmayr, G. Raven, S. Reichert, M.M. Reid, A.C. dos Reis, S. Ricciardi, S. Richards, M. Rihl, K. Rinnert, V. Rives Molina, D.A. Roa Romero, P. Robbe, A.B. Rodrigues, E. Rodrigues, P. Rodriguez Perez, S. Roiser, V. Romanovsky, A. Romero Vidal, M. Rotondo, J. Rouvinet, T. Ruf, H. Ruiz, P. Ruiz Valls, J.J. Saborido Silva, N. Sagidova, P. Sail, B. Saitta, V. Salustino Guimaraes, C. Sanchez Mayordomo, B. Sanmartin Sedes, R. Santacesaria, C. Santamarina Rios, E. Santovetti, A. Sarti, C. Satriano, A. Satta, D.M. Saunders, M. Savrie, D. Savrina, M. Schiller, H. Schindler, M. Schlupp, M. Schmelling, B. Schmidt, O. Schneider, A. Schopper, M.-H. Schune, R. Schwemmer, B. Sciascia, A. Sciubba, M. Seco, A. Semennikov, I. Sepp, N. Serra, J. Serrano, L. Sestini, P. Seyfert, M. Shapkin, I. Shapoval, Y. Shcheglov, T. Shears, L. Shekhtman, V. Shevchenko, A. Shires, R. Silva Coutinho, G. Simi, M. Sirendi, N. Skidmore, T. Skwarnicki, N.A. Smith, E. Smith, J. Smith, M. Smith, H. Snoek, M.D. Sokoloff, F.J.P. Soler, F. Soomro, D. Souza, B. Souza De Paula, B. Spaan, A. Sparkes, P. Spradlin, S. Sridharan, F. Stagni, M. Stahl, S. Stahl, O. Steinkamp, O. Stenyakin, S. Stevenson, S. Stoica, S. Stone, B. Storaci, S. Stracka, M. Straticiuc, U. Straumann, R. Stroili, V.K. Subbiah, L. Sun, W. Sutcliffe, K. Swientek, S. Swientek, V. Syropoulos, M. Szczekowski, P. Szczypka, D. Szilard, T. Szumlak, S. T'Jampens, M. Teklishyn, G. Tellarini, F. Teubert, C. Thomas, E. Thomas, J. van Tilburg, V. Tisserand, M. Tobin, S. Tolk, L. Tomassetti, D. Tonelli, S. Topp-Joergensen, N. Torr, E. Tournefier, S. Tourneur, M.T. Tran, M. Tresch, A. Tsaregorodtsev, P. Tsopelas, N. Tuning, M. Ubeda Garcia, A. Ukleja, A. Ustyuzhanin, U. Uwer, V. Vagnoni, G. Valenti, A. Vallier, R. Vazquez Gomez, P. Vazquez Regueiro, C. Vázquez Sierra, S. Vecchi, J.J. Velthuis, M. Veltri, G. Veneziano, M. Vesterinen, B. Viaud, D. Vieira, M. Vieites Diaz, X. Vilasis-Cardona, A. Vollhardt, D. Volyanskyy, D. Voong, A. Vorobyev, V. Vorobyev, C. Voß, H. Voss, J.A. de Vries, R. Waldi, C. Wallace, R. Wallace, J. Walsh, S. Wandernoth, J. Wang, D.R. Ward, N.K. Watson, D. Websdale, M. Whitehead, J. Wicht, D. Wiedner, G. Wilkinson, M.P. Williams, M. Williams, F.F. Wilson, J. Wimberley, J. Wishahi, W. Wislicki, M. Witek, G. Wormser, S.A. Wotton, S. Wright, S. Wu, K. Wyllie, Y. Xie, Z. Xing, Z. Xu, Z. Yang, X. Yuan, O. Yushchenko, M. Zangoli, M. Zavertyaev, L. Zhang, W.C. Zhang, Y. Zhang, A. Zhelezov, A. Zhokhov, L. Zhong, and A. Zvyagin
Subjects: Physics, QC1-999
Abstract: The B¯0–B0 and B¯s0–Bs0 production asymmetries, AP(B0) and AP(Bs0), are measured by means of a time-dependent analysis of B0→J/ψK⁎0, B0→D−π+ and Bs0→Ds−π+ decays, using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb−1, collected by LHCb in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. The measurements are performed as a function of transverse momentum and pseudorapidity of the B0 and Bs0 mesons within the LHCb acceptance. The production asymmetries, integrated over pT and η in the range 4
Published: 2014
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7. Measurement of CP violation and constraints on the CKM angle γ in B±→DK± with D→KS0π+π− decays

Author: R. Aaij, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi, A. Affolder, Z. Ajaltouni, J. Albrecht, F. Alessio, M. Alexander, S. Ali, G. Alkhazov, P. Alvarez Cartelle, A.A. Alves, Jr, S. Amato, S. Amerio, Y. Amhis, L. An, L. Anderlini, J. Anderson, R. Andreassen, M. Andreotti, J.E. Andrews, R.B. Appleby, O. Aquines Gutierrez, F. Archilli, A. Artamonov, M. Artuso, E. Aslanides, G. Auriemma, M. Baalouch, S. Bachmann, J.J. Back, A. Badalov, V. Balagura, W. Baldini, R.J. Barlow, C. Barschel, S. Barsuk, W. Barter, V. Batozskaya, A. Bay, L. Beaucourt, J. Beddow, F. Bedeschi, I. Bediaga, S. Belogurov, K. Belous, I. Belyaev, E. Ben-Haim, G. Bencivenni, S. Benson, J. Benton, A. Berezhnoy, R. Bernet, M.-O. Bettler, M. van Beuzekom, A. Bien, S. Bifani, T. Bird, A. Bizzeti, P.M. Bjørnstad, T. Blake, F. Blanc, J. Blouw, S. Blusk, V. Bocci, A. Bondar, N. Bondar, W. Bonivento, S. Borghi, A. Borgia, M. Borsato, T.J.V. Bowcock, E. Bowen, C. Bozzi, T. Brambach, J. van den Brand, J. Bressieux, D. Brett, M. Britsch, T. Britton, J. Brodzicka, N.H. Brook, H. Brown, A. Bursche, G. Busetto, J. Buytaert, S. Cadeddu, R. Calabrese, M. Calvi, M. Calvo Gomez, A. Camboni, P. Campana, D. Campora Perez, A. Carbone, G. Carboni, R. Cardinale, A. Cardini, H. Carranza-Mejia, L. Carson, K. Carvalho Akiba, G. Casse, L. Cassina, L. Castillo Garcia, M. Cattaneo, Ch. Cauet, R. Cenci, M. Charles, Ph. Charpentier, S. Chen, S.-F. Cheung, N. Chiapolini, M. Chrzaszcz, K. Ciba, X. Cid Vidal, G. Ciezarek, P.E.L. Clarke, M. Clemencic, H.V. Cliff, J. Closier, V. Coco, J. Cogan, E. Cogneras, P. Collins, A. Comerma-Montells, A. Contu, A. Cook, M. Coombes, S. Coquereau, G. Corti, M. Corvo, I. Counts, B. Couturier, G.A. Cowan, D.C. Craik, M. Cruz Torres, S. Cunliffe, R. Currie, C. D'Ambrosio, J. Dalseno, P. David, P.N.Y. David, A. Davis, K. De Bruyn, S. De Capua, M. De Cian, J.M. De Miranda, L. De Paula, W. De Silva, P. De Simone, D. Decamp, M. Deckenhoff, L. Del Buono, N. Déléage, D. Derkach, O. Deschamps, F. Dettori, A. Di Canto, H. Dijkstra, S. Donleavy, F. Dordei, M. Dorigo, A. Dosil Suárez, D. Dossett, A. Dovbnya, G. Dujany, F. Dupertuis, P. Durante, R. Dzhelyadin, A. Dziurda, A. Dzyuba, S. Easo, U. Egede, V. Egorychev, S. Eidelman, S. Eisenhardt, U. Eitschberger, R. Ekelhof, L. Eklund, I. El Rifai, Ch. Elsasser, S. Ely, S. Esen, A. Falabella, C. Färber, C. Farinelli, N. Farley, S. Farry, R.F. Fay, D. Ferguson, V. Fernandez Albor, F. Ferreira Rodrigues, M. Ferro-Luzzi, S. Filippov, M. Fiore, M. Fiorini, M. Firlej, C. Fitzpatrick, T. Fiutowski, M. Fontana, F. Fontanelli, R. Forty, O. Francisco, M. Frank, C. Frei, M. Frosini, J. Fu, E. Furfaro, A. Gallas Torreira, D. Galli, S. Gallorini, S. Gambetta, M. Gandelman, P. Gandini, Y. Gao, J. Garofoli, J. Garra Tico, L. Garrido, C. Gaspar, R. Gauld, L. Gavardi, A. Geraci, E. Gersabeck, M. Gersabeck, T. Gershon, Ph. Ghez, A. Gianelle, S. Giani', V. Gibson, L. Giubega, V.V. Gligorov, C. Göbel, D. Golubkov, A. Golutvin, A. Gomes, H. Gordon, C. Gotti, M. Grabalosa Gándara, R. Graciani Diaz, L.A. Granado Cardoso, E. Graugés, G. Graziani, A. Grecu, E. Greening, S. Gregson, P. Griffith, L. Grillo, O. Grünberg, B. Gui, E. Gushchin, Yu. Guz, T. Gys, C. Hadjivasiliou, G. Haefeli, C. Haen, S.C. Haines, S. Hall, B. Hamilton, T. Hampson, X. Han, S. Hansmann-Menzemer, N. Harnew, S.T. Harnew, J. Harrison, T. Hartmann, J. He, T. Head, V. Heijne, K. Hennessy, P. Henrard, L. Henry, J.A. Hernando Morata, E. van Herwijnen, M. Heß, A. Hicheur, D. Hill, M. Hoballah, C. Hombach, W. Hulsbergen, P. Hunt, N. Hussain, D. Hutchcroft, D. Hynds, M. Idzik, P. Ilten, R. Jacobsson, A. Jaeger, J. Jalocha, E. Jans, P. Jaton, A. Jawahery, F. Jing, M. John, D. Johnson, C.R. Jones, C. Joram, B. Jost, N. Jurik, M. Kaballo, S. Kandybei, W. Kanso, M. Karacson, T.M. Karbach, M. Kelsey, I.R. Kenyon, T. Ketel, B. Khanji, C. Khurewathanakul, S. Klaver, O. Kochebina, M. Kolpin, I. Komarov, R.F. Koopman, P. Koppenburg, M. Korolev, A. Kozlinskiy, L. Kravchuk, K. Kreplin, M. Kreps, G. Krocker, P. Krokovny, F. Kruse, M. Kucharczyk, V. Kudryavtsev, K. Kurek, T. Kvaratskheliya, V.N. La Thi, D. Lacarrere, G. Lafferty, A. Lai, D. Lambert, R.W. Lambert, E. Lanciotti, G. Lanfranchi, C. Langenbruch, B. Langhans, T. Latham, C. Lazzeroni, R. Le Gac, J. van Leerdam, J.-P. Lees, R. Lefèvre, A. Leflat, J. Lefrançois, S. Leo, O. Leroy, T. Lesiak, B. Leverington, Y. Li, M. Liles, R. Lindner, C. Linn, F. Lionetto, B. Liu, G. Liu, S. Lohn, I. Longstaff, J.H. Lopes, N. Lopez-March, P. Lowdon, H. Lu, D. Lucchesi, H. Luo, A. Lupato, E. Luppi, O. Lupton, F. Machefert, I.V. Machikhiliyan, F. Maciuc, O. Maev, S. Malde, G. Manca, G. Mancinelli, A. Mapelli, J. Maratas, J.F. Marchand, U. Marconi, C. Marin Benito, P. Marino, R. Märki, J. Marks, G. Martellotti, A. Martens, A. Martín Sánchez, M. Martinelli, D. Martinez Santos, F. Martinez Vidal, D. Martins Tostes, A. Massafferri, R. Matev, Z. Mathe, C. Matteuzzi, A. Mazurov, M. McCann, J. McCarthy, A. McNab, R. McNulty, B. McSkelly, B. Meadows, F. Meier, M. Meissner, M. Merk, D.A. Milanes, M.-N. Minard, N. Moggi, J. Molina Rodriguez, S. Monteil, D. Moran, M. Morandin, P. Morawski, A. Mordà, M.J. Morello, J. Moron, A.-B. Morris, R. Mountain, F. Muheim, K. Müller, R. Muresan, M. Mussini, B. Muster, P. Naik, T. Nakada, R. Nandakumar, I. Nasteva, M. Needham, N. Neri, S. Neubert, N. Neufeld, M. Neuner, A.D. Nguyen, T.D. Nguyen, C. Nguyen-Mau, M. Nicol, V. Niess, R. Niet, N. Nikitin, T. Nikodem, A. Novoselov, A. Oblakowska-Mucha, V. Obraztsov, S. Oggero, S. Ogilvy, O. Okhrimenko, R. Oldeman, G. Onderwater, M. Orlandea, J.M. Otalora Goicochea, P. Owen, A. Oyanguren, B.K. Pal, A. Palano, F. Palombo, M. Palutan, J. Panman, A. Papanestis, M. Pappagallo, C. Parkes, C.J. Parkinson, G. Passaleva, G.D. Patel, M. Patel, C. Patrignani, A. Pazos Alvarez, A. Pearce, A. Pellegrino, M. Pepe Altarelli, S. Perazzini, E. Perez Trigo, P. Perret, M. Perrin-Terrin, L. Pescatore, E. Pesen, K. Petridis, A. Petrolini, E. Picatoste Olloqui, B. Pietrzyk, T. Pilař, D. Pinci, A. Pistone, S. Playfer, M. Plo Casasus, F. Polci, A. Poluektov, E. Polycarpo, A. Popov, D. Popov, B. Popovici, C. Potterat, A. Powell, J. Prisciandaro, A. Pritchard, C. Prouve, V. Pugatch, A. Puig Navarro, G. Punzi, W. Qian, B. Rachwal, J.H. Rademacker, B. Rakotomiaramanana, M. Rama, M.S. Rangel, I. Raniuk, N. Rauschmayr, G. Raven, S. Reichert, M.M. Reid, A.C. dos Reis, S. Ricciardi, A. Richards, M. Rihl, K. Rinnert, V. Rives Molina, D.A. Roa Romero, P. Robbe, A.B. Rodrigues, E. Rodrigues, P. Rodriguez Perez, S. Roiser, V. Romanovsky, A. Romero Vidal, M. Rotondo, J. Rouvinet, T. Ruf, F. Ruffini, H. Ruiz, P. Ruiz Valls, G. Sabatino, J.J. Saborido Silva, N. Sagidova, P. Sail, B. Saitta, V. Salustino Guimaraes, C. Sanchez Mayordomo, B. Sanmartin Sedes, R. Santacesaria, C. Santamarina Rios, E. Santovetti, M. Sapunov, A. Sarti, C. Satriano, A. Satta, M. Savrie, D. Savrina, M. Schiller, H. Schindler, M. Schlupp, M. Schmelling, B. Schmidt, O. Schneider, A. Schopper, M.-H. Schune, R. Schwemmer, B. Sciascia, A. Sciubba, M. Seco, A. Semennikov, K. Senderowska, I. Sepp, N. Serra, J. Serrano, L. Sestini, P. Seyfert, M. Shapkin, I. Shapoval, Y. Shcheglov, T. Shears, L. Shekhtman, V. Shevchenko, A. Shires, R. Silva Coutinho, G. Simi, M. Sirendi, N. Skidmore, T. Skwarnicki, N.A. Smith, E. Smith, J. Smith, M. Smith, H. Snoek, M.D. Sokoloff, F.J.P. Soler, F. Soomro, D. Souza, B. Souza De Paula, B. Spaan, A. Sparkes, P. Spradlin, F. Stagni, S. Stahl, O. Steinkamp, O. Stenyakin, S. Stevenson, S. Stoica, S. Stone, B. Storaci, S. Stracka, M. Straticiuc, U. Straumann, R. Stroili, V.K. Subbiah, L. Sun, W. Sutcliffe, K. Swientek, S. Swientek, V. Syropoulos, M. Szczekowski, P. Szczypka, D. Szilard, T. Szumlak, S. T'Jampens, M. Teklishyn, G. Tellarini, F. Teubert, C. Thomas, E. Thomas, J. van Tilburg, V. Tisserand, M. Tobin, S. Tolk, L. Tomassetti, D. Tonelli, S. Topp-Joergensen, N. Torr, E. Tournefier, S. Tourneur, M.T. Tran, M. Tresch, A. Tsaregorodtsev, P. Tsopelas, N. Tuning, M. Ubeda Garcia, A. Ukleja, A. Ustyuzhanin, U. Uwer, V. Vagnoni, G. Valenti, A. Vallier, R. Vazquez Gomez, P. Vazquez Regueiro, C. Vázquez Sierra, S. Vecchi, J.J. Velthuis, M. Veltri, G. Veneziano, M. Vesterinen, B. Viaud, D. Vieira, M. Vieites Diaz, X. Vilasis-Cardona, A. Vollhardt, D. Volyanskyy, D. Voong, A. Vorobyev, V. Vorobyev, C. Voß, H. Voss, J.A. de Vries, R. Waldi, C. Wallace, R. Wallace, J. Walsh, S. Wandernoth, J. Wang, D.R. Ward, N.K. Watson, D. Websdale, M. Whitehead, J. Wicht, D. Wiedner, G. Wilkinson, M.P. Williams, M. Williams, F.F. Wilson, J. Wimberley, J. Wishahi, W. Wislicki, M. Witek, G. Wormser, S.A. Wotton, S. Wright, S. Wu, K. Wyllie, Y. Xie, Z. Xing, Z. Xu, Z. Yang, X. Yuan, O. Yushchenko, M. Zangoli, M. Zavertyaev, F. Zhang, L. Zhang, W.C. Zhang, Y. Zhang, A. Zhelezov, A. Zhokhov, L. Zhong, and A. Zvyagin
Subjects: Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract: A model-dependent amplitude analysis of B±→DK± with D→KS0π+π− decays is performed using proton–proton collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1 fb−1, recorded by LHCb at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV in 2011. Values of the CP violation observables x± and y±, which are sensitive to the CKM angle γ, are measured to be x−=+0.027±0.044−0.008+0.010±0.001, y−=+0.013±0.048−0.007+0.009±0.003, x+=−0.084±0.045±0.009±0.005, y+=−0.032±0.048−0.009+0.010±0.008, where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second systematic and the third arises from the uncertainty of the D→KS0π+π− amplitude model. The value of γ is determined to be (84−42+49)°, including all sources of uncertainty. Neutral D meson mixing is found to have negligible effect.
Published: 2014
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8. Effective lifetime measurements in the Bs0→K+K−, B0→K+π− and Bs0→π+K− decays

Author: R. Aaij, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi, A. Affolder, Z. Ajaltouni, J. Albrecht, F. Alessio, M. Alexander, S. Ali, G. Alkhazov, P. Alvarez Cartelle, A.A. Alves, Jr., S. Amato, S. Amerio, Y. Amhis, L. An, L. Anderlini, J. Anderson, R. Andreassen, M. Andreotti, J.E. Andrews, R.B. Appleby, O. Aquines Gutierrez, F. Archilli, A. Artamonov, M. Artuso, E. Aslanides, G. Auriemma, M. Baalouch, S. Bachmann, J.J. Back, A. Badalov, V. Balagura, W. Baldini, R.J. Barlow, C. Barschel, S. Barsuk, W. Barter, V. Batozskaya, Th. Bauer, A. Bay, J. Beddow, F. Bedeschi, I. Bediaga, S. Belogurov, K. Belous, I. Belyaev, E. Ben-Haim, G. Bencivenni, S. Benson, J. Benton, A. Berezhnoy, R. Bernet, M.-O. Bettler, M. van Beuzekom, A. Bien, S. Bifani, T. Bird, A. Bizzeti, P.M. Bjørnstad, T. Blake, F. Blanc, J. Blouw, S. Blusk, V. Bocci, A. Bondar, N. Bondar, W. Bonivento, S. Borghi, A. Borgia, M. Borsato, T.J.V. Bowcock, E. Bowen, C. Bozzi, T. Brambach, J. van den Brand, J. Bressieux, D. Brett, M. Britsch, T. Britton, N.H. Brook, H. Brown, A. Bursche, G. Busetto, J. Buytaert, S. Cadeddu, R. Calabrese, M. Calvi, M. Calvo Gomez, A. Camboni, P. Campana, D. Campora Perez, A. Carbone, G. Carboni, R. Cardinale, A. Cardini, H. Carranza-Mejia, L. Carson, K. Carvalho Akiba, G. Casse, L. Cassina, L. Castillo Garcia, M. Cattaneo, Ch. Cauet, R. Cenci, M. Charles, Ph. Charpentier, S.-F. Cheung, N. Chiapolini, M. Chrzaszcz, K. Ciba, X. Cid Vidal, G. Ciezarek, P.E.L. Clarke, M. Clemencic, H.V. Cliff, J. Closier, V. Coco, J. Cogan, E. Cogneras, P. Collins, A. Comerma-Montells, A. Contu, A. Cook, M. Coombes, S. Coquereau, G. Corti, M. Corvo, I. Counts, B. Couturier, G.A. Cowan, D.C. Craik, M. Cruz Torres, S. Cunliffe, R. Currie, C. D'Ambrosio, J. Dalseno, P. David, P.N.Y. David, A. Davis, K. De Bruyn, S. De Capua, M. De Cian, J.M. De Miranda, L. De Paula, W. De Silva, P. De Simone, D. Decamp, M. Deckenhoff, L. Del Buono, N. Déléage, D. Derkach, O. Deschamps, F. Dettori, A. Di Canto, H. Dijkstra, S. Donleavy, F. Dordei, M. Dorigo, A. Dosil Suárez, D. Dossett, A. Dovbnya, F. Dupertuis, P. Durante, R. Dzhelyadin, A. Dziurda, A. Dzyuba, S. Easo, U. Egede, V. Egorychev, S. Eidelman, S. Eisenhardt, U. Eitschberger, R. Ekelhof, L. Eklund, I. El Rifai, Ch. Elsasser, S. Esen, A. Falabella, C. Färber, C. Farinelli, N. Farley, S. Farry, R.F. Fay, D. Ferguson, V. Fernandez Albor, F. Ferreira Rodrigues, M. Ferro-Luzzi, S. Filippov, M. Fiore, M. Fiorini, M. Firlej, C. Fitzpatrick, T. Fiutowski, M. Fontana, F. Fontanelli, R. Forty, O. Francisco, M. Frank, C. Frei, M. Frosini, J. Fu, E. Furfaro, A. Gallas Torreira, D. Galli, S. Gallorini, S. Gambetta, M. Gandelman, P. Gandini, Y. Gao, J. Garofoli, J. Garra Tico, L. Garrido, C. Gaspar, R. Gauld, L. Gavardi, A. Geraci, E. Gersabeck, M. Gersabeck, T. Gershon, Ph. Ghez, A. Gianelle, S. Giani', V. Gibson, L. Giubega, V.V. Gligorov, C. Göbel, D. Golubkov, A. Golutvin, A. Gomes, H. Gordon, C. Gotti, M. Grabalosa Gándara, R. Graciani Diaz, L.A. Granado Cardoso, E. Graugés, G. Graziani, A. Grecu, E. Greening, S. Gregson, P. Griffith, L. Grillo, O. Grünberg, B. Gui, E. Gushchin, Yu. Guz, T. Gys, C. Hadjivasiliou, G. Haefeli, C. Haen, S.C. Haines, S. Hall, B. Hamilton, T. Hampson, X. Han, S. Hansmann-Menzemer, N. Harnew, S.T. Harnew, J. Harrison, T. Hartmann, J. He, T. Head, V. Heijne, K. Hennessy, P. Henrard, L. Henry, J.A. Hernando Morata, E. van Herwijnen, M. Heß, A. Hicheur, D. Hill, M. Hoballah, C. Hombach, W. Hulsbergen, P. Hunt, N. Hussain, D. Hutchcroft, D. Hynds, M. Idzik, P. Ilten, R. Jacobsson, A. Jaeger, J. Jalocha, E. Jans, P. Jaton, A. Jawahery, F. Jing, M. John, D. Johnson, C.R. Jones, C. Joram, B. Jost, N. Jurik, M. Kaballo, S. Kandybei, W. Kanso, M. Karacson, T.M. Karbach, M. Kelsey, I.R. Kenyon, T. Ketel, B. Khanji, C. Khurewathanakul, S. Klaver, O. Kochebina, M. Kolpin, I. Komarov, R.F. Koopman, P. Koppenburg, M. Korolev, A. Kozlinskiy, L. Kravchuk, K. Kreplin, M. Kreps, G. Krocker, P. Krokovny, F. Kruse, M. Kucharczyk, V. Kudryavtsev, K. Kurek, T. Kvaratskheliya, V.N. La Thi, D. Lacarrere, G. Lafferty, A. Lai, D. Lambert, R.W. Lambert, E. Lanciotti, G. Lanfranchi, C. Langenbruch, B. Langhans, T. Latham, C. Lazzeroni, R. Le Gac, J. van Leerdam, J.-P. Lees, R. Lefèvre, A. Leflat, J. Lefrançois, S. Leo, O. Leroy, T. Lesiak, B. Leverington, Y. Li, M. Liles, R. Lindner, C. Linn, F. Lionetto, B. Liu, G. Liu, S. Lohn, I. Longstaff, J.H. Lopes, N. Lopez-March, P. Lowdon, H. Lu, D. Lucchesi, H. Luo, A. Lupato, E. Luppi, O. Lupton, F. Machefert, I.V. Machikhiliyan, F. Maciuc, O. Maev, S. Malde, G. Manca, G. Mancinelli, A. Mapelli, J. Maratas, J.F. Marchand, U. Marconi, C. Marin Benito, P. Marino, R. Märki, J. Marks, G. Martellotti, A. Martens, A. Martín Sánchez, M. Martinelli, D. Martinez Santos, F. Martinez Vidal, D. Martins Tostes, A. Massafferri, R. Matev, Z. Mathe, C. Matteuzzi, A. Mazurov, M. McCann, J. McCarthy, A. McNab, R. McNulty, B. McSkelly, B. Meadows, F. Meier, M. Meissner, M. Merk, D.A. Milanes, M.-N. Minard, N. Moggi, J. Molina Rodriguez, S. Monteil, D. Moran, M. Morandin, P. Morawski, A. Mordà, M.J. Morello, J. Moron, R. Mountain, F. Muheim, K. Müller, R. Muresan, M. Mussini, B. Muster, P. Naik, T. Nakada, R. Nandakumar, I. Nasteva, M. Needham, N. Neri, S. Neubert, N. Neufeld, M. Neuner, A.D. Nguyen, T.D. Nguyen, C. Nguyen-Mau, M. Nicol, V. Niess, R. Niet, N. Nikitin, T. Nikodem, A. Novoselov, A. Oblakowska-Mucha, V. Obraztsov, S. Oggero, S. Ogilvy, O. Okhrimenko, R. Oldeman, G. Onderwater, M. Orlandea, J.M. Otalora Goicochea, P. Owen, A. Oyanguren, B.K. Pal, A. Palano, F. Palombo, M. Palutan, J. Panman, A. Papanestis, M. Pappagallo, C. Parkes, C.J. Parkinson, G. Passaleva, G.D. Patel, M. Patel, C. Patrignani, A. Pazos Alvarez, A. Pearce, A. Pellegrino, M. Pepe Altarelli, S. Perazzini, E. Perez Trigo, P. Perret, M. Perrin-Terrin, L. Pescatore, E. Pesen, K. Petridis, A. Petrolini, E. Picatoste Olloqui, B. Pietrzyk, T. Pilař, D. Pinci, A. Pistone, S. Playfer, M. Plo Casasus, F. Polci, A. Poluektov, E. Polycarpo, A. Popov, D. Popov, B. Popovici, C. Potterat, A. Powell, J. Prisciandaro, A. Pritchard, C. Prouve, V. Pugatch, A. Puig Navarro, G. Punzi, W. Qian, B. Rachwal, J.H. Rademacker, B. Rakotomiaramanana, M. Rama, M.S. Rangel, I. Raniuk, N. Rauschmayr, G. Raven, S. Reichert, M.M. Reid, A.C. dos Reis, S. Ricciardi, A. Richards, M. Rihl, K. Rinnert, V. Rives Molina, D.A. Roa Romero, P. Robbe, A.B. Rodrigues, E. Rodrigues, P. Rodriguez Perez, S. Roiser, V. Romanovsky, A. Romero Vidal, M. Rotondo, J. Rouvinet, T. Ruf, F. Ruffini, H. Ruiz, P. Ruiz Valls, G. Sabatino, J.J. Saborido Silva, N. Sagidova, P. Sail, B. Saitta, V. Salustino Guimaraes, C. Sanchez Mayordomo, B. Sanmartin Sedes, R. Santacesaria, C. Santamarina Rios, E. Santovetti, M. Sapunov, A. Sarti, C. Satriano, A. Satta, M. Savrie, D. Savrina, M. Schiller, H. Schindler, M. Schlupp, M. Schmelling, B. Schmidt, O. Schneider, A. Schopper, M.-H. Schune, R. Schwemmer, B. Sciascia, A. Sciubba, M. Seco, A. Semennikov, K. Senderowska, I. Sepp, N. Serra, J. Serrano, L. Sestini, P. Seyfert, M. Shapkin, I. Shapoval, Y. Shcheglov, T. Shears, L. Shekhtman, V. Shevchenko, A. Shires, R. Silva Coutinho, G. Simi, M. Sirendi, N. Skidmore, T. Skwarnicki, N.A. Smith, E. Smith, J. Smith, M. Smith, H. Snoek, M.D. Sokoloff, F.J.P. Soler, F. Soomro, D. Souza, B. Souza De Paula, B. Spaan, A. Sparkes, P. Spradlin, F. Stagni, S. Stahl, O. Steinkamp, O. Stenyakin, S. Stevenson, S. Stoica, S. Stone, B. Storaci, S. Stracka, M. Straticiuc, U. Straumann, R. Stroili, V.K. Subbiah, L. Sun, W. Sutcliffe, K. Swientek, S. Swientek, V. Syropoulos, M. Szczekowski, P. Szczypka, D. Szilard, T. Szumlak, S. T'Jampens, M. Teklishyn, G. Tellarini, F. Teubert, C. Thomas, E. Thomas, J. van Tilburg, V. Tisserand, M. Tobin, S. Tolk, L. Tomassetti, D. Tonelli, S. Topp-Joergensen, N. Torr, E. Tournefier, S. Tourneur, M.T. Tran, M. Tresch, A. Tsaregorodtsev, P. Tsopelas, N. Tuning, M. Ubeda Garcia, A. Ukleja, A. Ustyuzhanin, U. Uwer, V. Vagnoni, G. Valenti, A. Vallier, R. Vazquez Gomez, P. Vazquez Regueiro, C. Vázquez Sierra, S. Vecchi, J.J. Velthuis, M. Veltri, G. Veneziano, M. Vesterinen, B. Viaud, D. Vieira, M. Vieites Diaz, X. Vilasis-Cardona, A. Vollhardt, D. Volyanskyy, D. Voong, A. Vorobyev, V. Vorobyev, C. Voß, H. Voss, J.A. de Vries, R. Waldi, C. Wallace, R. Wallace, J. Walsh, S. Wandernoth, J. Wang, D.R. Ward, N.K. Watson, D. Websdale, M. Whitehead, J. Wicht, D. Wiedner, G. Wilkinson, M.P. Williams, M. Williams, F.F. Wilson, J. Wimberley, J. Wishahi, W. Wislicki, M. Witek, G. Wormser, S.A. Wotton, S. Wright, S. Wu, K. Wyllie, Y. Xie, Z. Xing, Z. Xu, Z. Yang, X. Yuan, O. Yushchenko, M. Zangoli, M. Zavertyaev, F. Zhang, L. Zhang, W.C. Zhang, Y. Zhang, A. Zhelezov, A. Zhokhov, L. Zhong, and A. Zvyagin
Subjects: Physics, QC1-999
Abstract: Measurements of the effective lifetimes in the Bs0→K+K−, B0→K+π− and Bs0→π+K− decays are presented using 1.0 fb−1 of pp collision data collected at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV by the LHCb experiment. The analysis uses a data-driven approach to correct for the decay time acceptance. The measured effective lifetimes are τBs0→K+K−=1.407±0.016(stat)±0.007(syst) ps, τB0→K+π−=1.524±0.011(stat)±0.004(syst) ps, τBs0→π+K−=1.60±0.06(stat)±0.01(syst) ps. This is the most precise determination to date of the effective lifetime in the Bs0→K+K− decay and provides constraints on contributions from physics beyond the Standard Model to the Bs0 mixing phase and the width difference ΔΓs.
Published: 2014
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9. Measurement of the Ξb− and Ωb− baryon lifetimes

Author: R. Aaij, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi, A. Affolder, Z. Ajaltouni, J. Albrecht, F. Alessio, M. Alexander, S. Ali, G. Alkhazov, P. Alvarez Cartelle, A.A. Alves, Jr, S. Amato, S. Amerio, Y. Amhis, L. An, L. Anderlini, J. Anderson, R. Andreassen, M. Andreotti, J.E. Andrews, R.B. Appleby, O. Aquines Gutierrez, F. Archilli, A. Artamonov, M. Artuso, E. Aslanides, G. Auriemma, M. Baalouch, S. Bachmann, J.J. Back, A. Badalov, V. Balagura, W. Baldini, R.J. Barlow, C. Barschel, S. Barsuk, W. Barter, V. Batozskaya, Th. Bauer, A. Bay, J. Beddow, F. Bedeschi, I. Bediaga, S. Belogurov, K. Belous, I. Belyaev, E. Ben-Haim, G. Bencivenni, S. Benson, J. Benton, A. Berezhnoy, R. Bernet, M.-O. Bettler, M. van Beuzekom, A. Bien, S. Bifani, T. Bird, A. Bizzeti, P.M. Bjørnstad, T. Blake, F. Blanc, J. Blouw, S. Blusk, V. Bocci, A. Bondar, N. Bondar, W. Bonivento, S. Borghi, A. Borgia, M. Borsato, T.J.V. Bowcock, E. Bowen, C. Bozzi, T. Brambach, J. van den Brand, J. Bressieux, D. Brett, M. Britsch, T. Britton, N.H. Brook, H. Brown, A. Bursche, G. Busetto, J. Buytaert, S. Cadeddu, R. Calabrese, M. Calvi, M. Calvo Gomez, A. Camboni, P. Campana, D. Campora Perez, A. Carbone, G. Carboni, R. Cardinale, A. Cardini, H. Carranza-Mejia, L. Carson, K. Carvalho Akiba, G. Casse, L. Cassina, L. Castillo Garcia, M. Cattaneo, Ch. Cauet, R. Cenci, M. Charles, Ph. Charpentier, S.-F. Cheung, N. Chiapolini, M. Chrzaszcz, K. Ciba, X. Cid Vidal, G. Ciezarek, P.E.L. Clarke, M. Clemencic, H.V. Cliff, J. Closier, V. Coco, J. Cogan, E. Cogneras, P. Collins, A. Comerma-Montells, A. Contu, A. Cook, M. Coombes, S. Coquereau, G. Corti, M. Corvo, I. Counts, B. Couturier, G.A. Cowan, D.C. Craik, M. Cruz Torres, S. Cunliffe, R. Currie, C. D'Ambrosio, J. Dalseno, P. David, P.N.Y. David, A. Davis, K. De Bruyn, S. De Capua, M. De Cian, J.M. De Miranda, L. De Paula, W. De Silva, P. De Simone, D. Decamp, M. Deckenhoff, L. Del Buono, N. Déléage, D. Derkach, O. Deschamps, F. Dettori, A. Di Canto, H. Dijkstra, S. Donleavy, F. Dordei, M. Dorigo, A. Dosil Suárez, D. Dossett, A. Dovbnya, F. Dupertuis, P. Durante, R. Dzhelyadin, A. Dziurda, A. Dzyuba, S. Easo, U. Egede, V. Egorychev, S. Eidelman, S. Eisenhardt, U. Eitschberger, R. Ekelhof, L. Eklund, I. El Rifai, Ch. Elsasser, S. Esen, T. Evans, A. Falabella, C. Färber, C. Farinelli, N. Farley, S. Farry, D. Ferguson, V. Fernandez Albor, F. Ferreira Rodrigues, M. Ferro-Luzzi, S. Filippov, M. Fiore, M. Fiorini, M. Firlej, C. Fitzpatrick, T. Fiutowski, M. Fontana, F. Fontanelli, R. Forty, O. Francisco, M. Frank, C. Frei, M. Frosini, J. Fu, E. Furfaro, A. Gallas Torreira, D. Galli, S. Gallorini, S. Gambetta, M. Gandelman, P. Gandini, Y. Gao, J. Garofoli, J. Garra Tico, L. Garrido, C. Gaspar, R. Gauld, L. Gavardi, E. Gersabeck, M. Gersabeck, T. Gershon, Ph. Ghez, A. Gianelle, S. Gianì, V. Gibson, L. Giubega, V.V. Gligorov, C. Göbel, D. Golubkov, A. Golutvin, A. Gomes, H. Gordon, C. Gotti, M. Grabalosa Gándara, R. Graciani Diaz, L.A. Granado Cardoso, E. Graugés, G. Graziani, A. Grecu, E. Greening, S. Gregson, P. Griffith, L. Grillo, O. Grünberg, B. Gui, E. Gushchin, Yu. Guz, T. Gys, C. Hadjivasiliou, G. Haefeli, C. Haen, S.C. Haines, S. Hall, B. Hamilton, T. Hampson, X. Han, S. Hansmann-Menzemer, N. Harnew, S.T. Harnew, J. Harrison, T. Hartmann, J. He, T. Head, V. Heijne, K. Hennessy, P. Henrard, L. Henry, J.A. Hernando Morata, E. van Herwijnen, M. Heß, A. Hicheur, D. Hill, M. Hoballah, C. Hombach, W. Hulsbergen, P. Hunt, N. Hussain, D. Hutchcroft, D. Hynds, M. Idzik, P. Ilten, R. Jacobsson, A. Jaeger, J. Jalocha, E. Jans, P. Jaton, A. Jawahery, M. Jezabek, F. Jing, M. John, D. Johnson, C.R. Jones, C. Joram, B. Jost, N. Jurik, M. Kaballo, S. Kandybei, W. Kanso, M. Karacson, T.M. Karbach, M. Kelsey, I.R. Kenyon, T. Ketel, B. Khanji, C. Khurewathanakul, S. Klaver, O. Kochebina, M. Kolpin, I. Komarov, R.F. Koopman, P. Koppenburg, M. Korolev, A. Kozlinskiy, L. Kravchuk, K. Kreplin, M. Kreps, G. Krocker, P. Krokovny, F. Kruse, M. Kucharczyk, V. Kudryavtsev, K. Kurek, T. Kvaratskheliya, V.N. La Thi, D. Lacarrere, G. Lafferty, A. Lai, D. Lambert, R.W. Lambert, E. Lanciotti, G. Lanfranchi, C. Langenbruch, B. Langhans, T. Latham, C. Lazzeroni, R. Le Gac, J. van Leerdam, J.-P. Lees, R. Lefèvre, A. Leflat, J. Lefrançois, S. Leo, O. Leroy, T. Lesiak, B. Leverington, Y. Li, M. Liles, R. Lindner, C. Linn, F. Lionetto, B. Liu, G. Liu, S. Lohn, I. Longstaff, J.H. Lopes, N. Lopez-March, P. Lowdon, H. Lu, D. Lucchesi, H. Luo, A. Lupato, E. Luppi, O. Lupton, F. Machefert, I.V. Machikhiliyan, F. Maciuc, O. Maev, S. Malde, G. Manca, G. Mancinelli, M. Manzali, J. Maratas, J.F. Marchand, U. Marconi, C. Marin Benito, P. Marino, R. Märki, J. Marks, G. Martellotti, A. Martens, A. Martín Sánchez, M. Martinelli, D. Martinez Santos, F. Martinez Vidal, D. Martins Tostes, A. Massafferri, R. Matev, Z. Mathe, C. Matteuzzi, A. Mazurov, M. McCann, J. McCarthy, A. McNab, R. McNulty, B. McSkelly, B. Meadows, F. Meier, M. Meissner, M. Merk, D.A. Milanes, M.-N. Minard, N. Moggi, J. Molina Rodriguez, S. Monteil, D. Moran, M. Morandin, P. Morawski, A. Mordà, M.J. Morello, J. Moron, R. Mountain, F. Muheim, K. Müller, R. Muresan, M. Mussini, B. Muster, P. Naik, T. Nakada, R. Nandakumar, I. Nasteva, M. Needham, N. Neri, S. Neubert, N. Neufeld, M. Neuner, A.D. Nguyen, T.D. Nguyen, C. Nguyen-Mau, M. Nicol, V. Niess, R. Niet, N. Nikitin, T. Nikodem, A. Novoselov, A. Oblakowska-Mucha, V. Obraztsov, S. Oggero, S. Ogilvy, O. Okhrimenko, R. Oldeman, G. Onderwater, M. Orlandea, J.M. Otalora Goicochea, P. Owen, A. Oyanguren, B.K. Pal, A. Palano, F. Palombo, M. Palutan, J. Panman, A. Papanestis, M. Pappagallo, C. Parkes, C.J. Parkinson, G. Passaleva, G.D. Patel, M. Patel, C. Patrignani, A. Pazos Alvarez, A. Pearce, A. Pellegrino, M. Pepe Altarelli, S. Perazzini, E. Perez Trigo, P. Perret, M. Perrin-Terrin, L. Pescatore, E. Pesen, K. Petridis, A. Petrolini, E. Picatoste Olloqui, B. Pietrzyk, T. Pilař, D. Pinci, A. Pistone, S. Playfer, M. Plo Casasus, F. Polci, A. Poluektov, E. Polycarpo, A. Popov, D. Popov, B. Popovici, C. Potterat, A. Powell, J. Prisciandaro, A. Pritchard, C. Prouve, V. Pugatch, A. Puig Navarro, G. Punzi, W. Qian, B. Rachwal, J.H. Rademacker, B. Rakotomiaramanana, M. Rama, M.S. Rangel, I. Raniuk, N. Rauschmayr, G. Raven, S. Reichert, M.M. Reid, A.C. dos Reis, S. Ricciardi, A. Richards, M. Rihl, K. Rinnert, V. Rives Molina, D.A. Roa Romero, P. Robbe, A.B. Rodrigues, E. Rodrigues, P. Rodriguez Perez, S. Roiser, V. Romanovsky, A. Romero Vidal, M. Rotondo, J. Rouvinet, T. Ruf, F. Ruffini, H. Ruiz, P. Ruiz Valls, G. Sabatino, J.J. Saborido Silva, N. Sagidova, P. Sail, B. Saitta, V. Salustino Guimaraes, C. Sanchez Mayordomo, B. Sanmartin Sedes, R. Santacesaria, C. Santamarina Rios, E. Santovetti, M. Sapunov, A. Sarti, C. Satriano, A. Satta, M. Savrie, D. Savrina, M. Schiller, H. Schindler, M. Schlupp, M. Schmelling, B. Schmidt, O. Schneider, A. Schopper, M.-H. Schune, R. Schwemmer, B. Sciascia, A. Sciubba, M. Seco, A. Semennikov, K. Senderowska, I. Sepp, N. Serra, J. Serrano, L. Sestini, P. Seyfert, M. Shapkin, I. Shapoval, Y. Shcheglov, T. Shears, L. Shekhtman, V. Shevchenko, A. Shires, R. Silva Coutinho, G. Simi, M. Sirendi, N. Skidmore, T. Skwarnicki, N.A. Smith, E. Smith, J. Smith, M. Smith, H. Snoek, M.D. Sokoloff, F.J.P. Soler, F. Soomro, D. Souza, B. Souza De Paula, B. Spaan, A. Sparkes, F. Spinella, P. Spradlin, F. Stagni, S. Stahl, O. Steinkamp, O. Stenyakin, S. Stevenson, S. Stoica, S. Stone, B. Storaci, S. Stracka, M. Straticiuc, U. Straumann, R. Stroili, V.K. Subbiah, L. Sun, W. Sutcliffe, K. Swientek, S. Swientek, V. Syropoulos, M. Szczekowski, P. Szczypka, D. Szilard, T. Szumlak, S. T'Jampens, M. Teklishyn, G. Tellarini, F. Teubert, C. Thomas, E. Thomas, J. van Tilburg, V. Tisserand, M. Tobin, S. Tolk, L. Tomassetti, D. Tonelli, S. Topp-Joergensen, N. Torr, E. Tournefier, S. Tourneur, M.T. Tran, M. Tresch, A. Tsaregorodtsev, P. Tsopelas, N. Tuning, M. Ubeda Garcia, A. Ukleja, A. Ustyuzhanin, U. Uwer, V. Vagnoni, G. Valenti, A. Vallier, R. Vazquez Gomez, P. Vazquez Regueiro, C. Vázquez Sierra, S. Vecchi, J.J. Velthuis, M. Veltri, G. Veneziano, M. Vesterinen, B. Viaud, D. Vieira, M. Vieites Diaz, X. Vilasis-Cardona, A. Vollhardt, D. Volyanskyy, D. Voong, A. Vorobyev, V. Vorobyev, C. Voß, H. Voss, J.A. de Vries, R. Waldi, C. Wallace, R. Wallace, J. Walsh, S. Wandernoth, J. Wang, D.R. Ward, N.K. Watson, D. Websdale, M. Whitehead, J. Wicht, D. Wiedner, G. Wilkinson, M.P. Williams, M. Williams, F.F. Wilson, J. Wimberley, J. Wishahi, W. Wislicki, M. Witek, G. Wormser, S.A. Wotton, S. Wright, S. Wu, K. Wyllie, Y. Xie, Z. Xing, Z. Xu, Z. Yang, X. Yuan, O. Yushchenko, M. Zangoli, M. Zavertyaev, F. Zhang, L. Zhang, W.C. Zhang, Y. Zhang, A. Zhelezov, A. Zhokhov, L. Zhong, and A. Zvyagin
Subjects: Physics, QC1-999
Abstract: Using a data sample of pp collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb−1, the Ξb− and Ωb− baryons are reconstructed in the Ξb−→J/ψΞ− and Ωb−→J/ψΩ− decay modes and their lifetimes measured to be τ(Ξb−)=1.55−0.09+0.10 (stat)±0.03 (syst) ps,τ(Ωb−)=1.54−0.21+0.26 (stat)±0.05 (syst) ps. These are the most precise determinations to date. Both measurements are in good agreement with previous experimental results and with theoretical predictions.
Published: 2014
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10. Measurement of the CP-violating phase ϕs in B¯s0→J/ψπ+π− decays

Author: R. Aaij, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi, A. Affolder, Z. Ajaltouni, S. Akar, J. Albrecht, F. Alessio, M. Alexander, S. Ali, G. Alkhazov, P. Alvarez Cartelle, A.A. Alves, Jr., S. Amato, S. Amerio, Y. Amhis, L. An, L. Anderlini, J. Anderson, R. Andreassen, M. Andreotti, J.E. Andrews, R.B. Appleby, O. Aquines Gutierrez, F. Archilli, A. Artamonov, M. Artuso, E. Aslanides, G. Auriemma, M. Baalouch, S. Bachmann, J.J. Back, A. Badalov, V. Balagura, W. Baldini, R.J. Barlow, C. Barschel, S. Barsuk, W. Barter, V. Batozskaya, V. Battista, A. Bay, L. Beaucourt, J. Beddow, F. Bedeschi, I. Bediaga, S. Belogurov, K. Belous, I. Belyaev, E. Ben-Haim, G. Bencivenni, S. Benson, J. Benton, A. Berezhnoy, R. Bernet, M.-O. Bettler, M. van Beuzekom, A. Bien, S. Bifani, T. Bird, A. Bizzeti, P.M. Bjørnstad, T. Blake, F. Blanc, J. Blouw, S. Blusk, V. Bocci, A. Bondar, N. Bondar, W. Bonivento, S. Borghi, A. Borgia, M. Borsato, T.J.V. Bowcock, E. Bowen, C. Bozzi, T. Brambach, J. van den Brand, J. Bressieux, D. Brett, M. Britsch, T. Britton, J. Brodzicka, N.H. Brook, H. Brown, A. Bursche, G. Busetto, J. Buytaert, S. Cadeddu, R. Calabrese, M. Calvi, M. Calvo Gomez, A. Camboni, P. Campana, D. Campora Perez, A. Carbone, G. Carboni, R. Cardinale, A. Cardini, H. Carranza-Mejia, L. Carson, K. Carvalho Akiba, G. Casse, L. Cassina, L. Castillo Garcia, M. Cattaneo, Ch. Cauet, R. Cenci, M. Charles, Ph. Charpentier, S. Chen, S.-F. Cheung, N. Chiapolini, M. Chrzaszcz, K. Ciba, X. Cid Vidal, G. Ciezarek, P.E.L. Clarke, M. Clemencic, H.V. Cliff, J. Closier, V. Coco, J. Cogan, E. Cogneras, P. Collins, A. Comerma-Montells, A. Contu, A. Cook, M. Coombes, S. Coquereau, G. Corti, M. Corvo, I. Counts, B. Couturier, G.A. Cowan, D.C. Craik, M. Cruz Torres, S. Cunliffe, R. Currie, C. D'Ambrosio, J. Dalseno, P. David, P.N.Y. David, A. Davis, K. De Bruyn, S. De Capua, M. De Cian, J.M. De Miranda, L. De Paula, W. De Silva, P. De Simone, D. Decamp, M. Deckenhoff, L. Del Buono, N. Déléage, D. Derkach, O. Deschamps, F. Dettori, A. Di Canto, H. Dijkstra, S. Donleavy, F. Dordei, M. Dorigo, A. Dosil Suárez, D. Dossett, A. Dovbnya, K. Dreimanis, G. Dujany, F. Dupertuis, P. Durante, R. Dzhelyadin, A. Dziurda, A. Dzyuba, S. Easo, U. Egede, V. Egorychev, S. Eidelman, S. Eisenhardt, U. Eitschberger, R. Ekelhof, L. Eklund, I. El Rifai, Ch. Elsasser, S. Ely, S. Esen, T. Evans, A. Falabella, C. Färber, C. Farinelli, N. Farley, S. Farry, D. Ferguson, V. Fernandez Albor, F. Ferreira Rodrigues, M. Ferro-Luzzi, S. Filippov, M. Fiore, M. Fiorini, M. Firlej, C. Fitzpatrick, T. Fiutowski, M. Fontana, F. Fontanelli, R. Forty, O. Francisco, M. Frank, C. Frei, M. Frosini, J. Fu, E. Furfaro, A. Gallas Torreira, D. Galli, S. Gallorini, S. Gambetta, M. Gandelman, P. Gandini, Y. Gao, J. Garofoli, J. Garra Tico, L. Garrido, C. Gaspar, R. Gauld, L. Gavardi, G. Gavrilov, E. Gersabeck, M. Gersabeck, T. Gershon, Ph. Ghez, A. Gianelle, S. Giani', V. Gibson, L. Giubega, V.V. Gligorov, C. Göbel, D. Golubkov, A. Golutvin, A. Gomes, H. Gordon, C. Gotti, M. Grabalosa Gándara, R. Graciani Diaz, L.A. Granado Cardoso, E. Graugés, G. Graziani, A. Grecu, E. Greening, S. Gregson, P. Griffith, L. Grillo, O. Grünberg, B. Gui, E. Gushchin, Yu. Guz, T. Gys, C. Hadjivasiliou, G. Haefeli, C. Haen, S.C. Haines, S. Hall, B. Hamilton, T. Hampson, X. Han, S. Hansmann-Menzemer, N. Harnew, S.T. Harnew, J. Harrison, T. Hartmann, J. He, T. Head, V. Heijne, K. Hennessy, P. Henrard, L. Henry, J.A. Hernando Morata, E. van Herwijnen, M. Heß, A. Hicheur, D. Hill, M. Hoballah, C. Hombach, W. Hulsbergen, P. Hunt, N. Hussain, D. Hutchcroft, D. Hynds, M. Idzik, P. Ilten, R. Jacobsson, A. Jaeger, J. Jalocha, E. Jans, P. Jaton, A. Jawahery, F. Jing, M. John, D. Johnson, C.R. Jones, C. Joram, B. Jost, N. Jurik, M. Kaballo, S. Kandybei, W. Kanso, M. Karacson, T.M. Karbach, S. Karodia, M. Kelsey, I.R. Kenyon, T. Ketel, B. Khanji, C. Khurewathanakul, S. Klaver, O. Kochebina, M. Kolpin, I. Komarov, R.F. Koopman, P. Koppenburg, M. Korolev, A. Kozlinskiy, L. Kravchuk, K. Kreplin, M. Kreps, G. Krocker, P. Krokovny, F. Kruse, W. Kucewicz, M. Kucharczyk, V. Kudryavtsev, K. Kurek, T. Kvaratskheliya, V.N. La Thi, D. Lacarrere, G. Lafferty, A. Lai, D. Lambert, R.W. Lambert, E. Lanciotti, G. Lanfranchi, C. Langenbruch, B. Langhans, T. Latham, C. Lazzeroni, R. Le Gac, J. van Leerdam, J.-P. Lees, R. Lefèvre, A. Leflat, J. Lefrançois, S. Leo, O. Leroy, T. Lesiak, B. Leverington, Y. Li, M. Liles, R. Lindner, C. Linn, F. Lionetto, B. Liu, G. Liu, S. Lohn, I. Longstaff, J.H. Lopes, N. Lopez-March, P. Lowdon, H. Lu, D. Lucchesi, H. Luo, A. Lupato, E. Luppi, O. Lupton, F. Machefert, I.V. Machikhiliyan, F. Maciuc, O. Maev, S. Malde, G. Manca, G. Mancinelli, J. Maratas, J.F. Marchand, U. Marconi, C. Marin Benito, P. Marino, R. Märki, J. Marks, G. Martellotti, A. Martens, A. Martín Sánchez, M. Martinelli, D. Martinez Santos, F. Martinez Vidal, D. Martins Tostes, A. Massafferri, R. Matev, Z. Mathe, C. Matteuzzi, A. Mazurov, M. McCann, J. McCarthy, A. McNab, R. McNulty, B. McSkelly, B. Meadows, F. Meier, M. Meissner, M. Merk, D.A. Milanes, M.-N. Minard, N. Moggi, J. Molina Rodriguez, S. Monteil, M. Morandin, P. Morawski, A. Mordà, M.J. Morello, J. Moron, A.-B. Morris, R. Mountain, F. Muheim, K. Müller, R. Muresan, M. Mussini, B. Muster, P. Naik, T. Nakada, R. Nandakumar, I. Nasteva, M. Needham, N. Neri, S. Neubert, N. Neufeld, M. Neuner, A.D. Nguyen, T.D. Nguyen, C. Nguyen-Mau, M. Nicol, V. Niess, R. Niet, N. Nikitin, T. Nikodem, A. Novoselov, D.P. O'Hanlon, A. Oblakowska-Mucha, V. Obraztsov, S. Oggero, S. Ogilvy, O. Okhrimenko, R. Oldeman, G. Onderwater, M. Orlandea, J.M. Otalora Goicochea, P. Owen, A. Oyanguren, B.K. Pal, A. Palano, F. Palombo, M. Palutan, J. Panman, A. Papanestis, M. Pappagallo, C. Parkes, C.J. Parkinson, G. Passaleva, G.D. Patel, M. Patel, C. Patrignani, A. Pazos Alvarez, A. Pearce, A. Pellegrino, M. Pepe Altarelli, S. Perazzini, E. Perez Trigo, P. Perret, M. Perrin-Terrin, L. Pescatore, E. Pesen, K. Petridis, A. Petrolini, E. Picatoste Olloqui, B. Pietrzyk, T. Pilař, D. Pinci, A. Pistone, S. Playfer, M. Plo Casasus, F. Polci, A. Poluektov, E. Polycarpo, A. Popov, D. Popov, B. Popovici, C. Potterat, J. Prisciandaro, A. Pritchard, C. Prouve, V. Pugatch, A. Puig Navarro, G. Punzi, W. Qian, B. Rachwal, J.H. Rademacker, B. Rakotomiaramanana, M. Rama, M.S. Rangel, I. Raniuk, N. Rauschmayr, G. Raven, S. Reichert, M.M. Reid, A.C. dos Reis, S. Ricciardi, A. Richards, M. Rihl, K. Rinnert, V. Rives Molina, D.A. Roa Romero, P. Robbe, A.B. Rodrigues, E. Rodrigues, P. Rodriguez Perez, S. Roiser, V. Romanovsky, A. Romero Vidal, M. Rotondo, J. Rouvinet, T. Ruf, F. Ruffini, H. Ruiz, P. Ruiz Valls, G. Sabatino, J.J. Saborido Silva, N. Sagidova, P. Sail, B. Saitta, V. Salustino Guimaraes, C. Sanchez Mayordomo, B. Sanmartin Sedes, R. Santacesaria, C. Santamarina Rios, E. Santovetti, M. Sapunov, A. Sarti, C. Satriano, A. Satta, M. Savrie, D. Savrina, M. Schiller, H. Schindler, M. Schlupp, M. Schmelling, B. Schmidt, O. Schneider, A. Schopper, M.-H. Schune, R. Schwemmer, B. Sciascia, A. Sciubba, M. Seco, A. Semennikov, I. Sepp, N. Serra, J. Serrano, L. Sestini, P. Seyfert, M. Shapkin, I. Shapoval, Y. Shcheglov, T. Shears, L. Shekhtman, V. Shevchenko, A. Shires, R. Silva Coutinho, G. Simi, M. Sirendi, N. Skidmore, T. Skwarnicki, N.A. Smith, E. Smith, J. Smith, M. Smith, H. Snoek, M.D. Sokoloff, F.J.P. Soler, F. Soomro, D. Souza, B. Souza De Paula, B. Spaan, A. Sparkes, P. Spradlin, F. Stagni, M. Stahl, S. Stahl, O. Steinkamp, O. Stenyakin, S. Stevenson, S. Stoica, S. Stone, B. Storaci, S. Stracka, M. Straticiuc, U. Straumann, R. Stroili, V.K. Subbiah, L. Sun, W. Sutcliffe, K. Swientek, S. Swientek, V. Syropoulos, M. Szczekowski, P. Szczypka, D. Szilard, T. Szumlak, S. T'Jampens, M. Teklishyn, G. Tellarini, F. Teubert, C. Thomas, E. Thomas, J. van Tilburg, V. Tisserand, M. Tobin, S. Tolk, L. Tomassetti, D. Tonelli, S. Topp-Joergensen, N. Torr, E. Tournefier, S. Tourneur, M.T. Tran, M. Tresch, A. Tsaregorodtsev, P. Tsopelas, N. Tuning, M. Ubeda Garcia, A. Ukleja, A. Ustyuzhanin, U. Uwer, V. Vagnoni, G. Valenti, A. Vallier, R. Vazquez Gomez, P. Vazquez Regueiro, C. Vázquez Sierra, S. Vecchi, J.J. Velthuis, M. Veltri, G. Veneziano, M. Vesterinen, B. Viaud, D. Vieira, M. Vieites Diaz, X. Vilasis-Cardona, A. Vollhardt, D. Volyanskyy, D. Voong, A. Vorobyev, V. Vorobyev, C. Voß, H. Voss, J.A. de Vries, R. Waldi, C. Wallace, R. Wallace, J. Walsh, S. Wandernoth, J. Wang, D.R. Ward, N.K. Watson, D. Websdale, M. Whitehead, J. Wicht, D. Wiedner, G. Wilkinson, M.P. Williams, M. Williams, F.F. Wilson, J. Wimberley, J. Wishahi, W. Wislicki, M. Witek, G. Wormser, S.A. Wotton, S. Wright, S. Wu, K. Wyllie, Y. Xie, Z. Xing, Z. Xu, Z. Yang, X. Yuan, O. Yushchenko, M. Zangoli, M. Zavertyaev, L. Zhang, W.C. Zhang, Y. Zhang, A. Zhelezov, A. Zhokhov, L. Zhong, and A. Zvyagin
Subjects: Physics, QC1-999
Abstract: The mixing-induced CP-violating phase ϕs in Bs0 and B¯s0 decays is measured using the J/ψπ+π− final state in data, taken from 3 fb−1 of integrated luminosity, collected with the LHCb detector in 7 and 8 TeV centre-of-mass pp collisions at the LHC. A time-dependent flavour-tagged amplitude analysis, allowing for direct CP violation, yields a value for the phase ϕs=70±68±8 mrad. This result is consistent with the Standard Model expectation and previous measurements.
Published: 2014
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11. Evidence for the decay X(3872)→ψ(2S)γ

Author: R. Aaij, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi, A. Affolder, Z. Ajaltouni, J. Albrecht, F. Alessio, M. Alexander, S. Ali, G. Alkhazov, P. Alvarez Cartelle, A.A. Alves, Jr., S. Amato, S. Amerio, Y. Amhis, L. An, L. Anderlini, J. Anderson, R. Andreassen, M. Andreotti, J.E. Andrews, R.B. Appleby, O. Aquines Gutierrez, F. Archilli, A. Artamonov, M. Artuso, E. Aslanides, G. Auriemma, M. Baalouch, S. Bachmann, J.J. Back, A. Badalov, V. Balagura, W. Baldini, R.J. Barlow, C. Barschel, S. Barsuk, W. Barter, V. Batozskaya, Th. Bauer, A. Bay, J. Beddow, F. Bedeschi, I. Bediaga, S. Belogurov, K. Belous, I. Belyaev, E. Ben-Haim, G. Bencivenni, S. Benson, J. Benton, A. Berezhnoy, R. Bernet, M.-O. Bettler, M. van Beuzekom, A. Bien, S. Bifani, T. Bird, A. Bizzeti, P.M. Bjørnstad, T. Blake, F. Blanc, J. Blouw, S. Blusk, V. Bocci, A. Bondar, N. Bondar, W. Bonivento, S. Borghi, A. Borgia, M. Borsato, T.J.V. Bowcock, E. Bowen, C. Bozzi, T. Brambach, J. van den Brand, J. Bressieux, D. Brett, M. Britsch, T. Britton, N.H. Brook, H. Brown, A. Bursche, G. Busetto, J. Buytaert, S. Cadeddu, R. Calabrese, O. Callot, M. Calvi, M. Calvo Gomez, A. Camboni, P. Campana, D. Campora Perez, A. Carbone, G. Carboni, R. Cardinale, A. Cardini, H. Carranza-Mejia, L. Carson, K. Carvalho Akiba, G. Casse, L. Cassina, L. Castillo Garcia, M. Cattaneo, Ch. Cauet, R. Cenci, M. Charles, Ph. Charpentier, S.-F. Cheung, N. Chiapolini, M. Chrzaszcz, K. Ciba, X. Cid Vidal, G. Ciezarek, P.E.L. Clarke, M. Clemencic, H.V. Cliff, J. Closier, C. Coca, V. Coco, J. Cogan, E. Cogneras, P. Collins, A. Comerma-Montells, A. Contu, A. Cook, M. Coombes, S. Coquereau, G. Corti, M. Corvo, I. Counts, B. Couturier, G.A. Cowan, D.C. Craik, M. Cruz Torres, S. Cunliffe, R. Currie, C. D'Ambrosio, J. Dalseno, P. David, P.N.Y. David, A. Davis, K. De Bruyn, S. De Capua, M. De Cian, J.M. De Miranda, L. De Paula, W. De Silva, P. De Simone, D. Decamp, M. Deckenhoff, L. Del Buono, N. Déléage, D. Derkach, O. Deschamps, F. Dettori, A. Di Canto, H. Dijkstra, S. Donleavy, F. Dordei, M. Dorigo, A. Dosil Suárez, D. Dossett, A. Dovbnya, F. Dupertuis, P. Durante, R. Dzhelyadin, A. Dziurda, A. Dzyuba, S. Easo, U. Egede, V. Egorychev, S. Eidelman, S. Eisenhardt, U. Eitschberger, R. Ekelhof, L. Eklund, I. El Rifai, Ch. Elsasser, S. Esen, T. Evans, A. Falabella, C. Färber, C. Farinelli, S. Farry, D. Ferguson, V. Fernandez Albor, F. Ferreira Rodrigues, M. Ferro-Luzzi, S. Filippov, M. Fiore, M. Fiorini, M. Firlej, C. Fitzpatrick, T. Fiutowski, M. Fontana, F. Fontanelli, R. Forty, O. Francisco, M. Frank, C. Frei, M. Frosini, J. Fu, E. Furfaro, A. Gallas Torreira, D. Galli, S. Gallorini, S. Gambetta, M. Gandelman, P. Gandini, Y. Gao, J. Garofoli, J. Garra Tico, L. Garrido, C. Gaspar, R. Gauld, L. Gavardi, E. Gersabeck, M. Gersabeck, T. Gershon, Ph. Ghez, A. Gianelle, S. Giani', V. Gibson, L. Giubega, V.V. Gligorov, C. Göbel, D. Golubkov, A. Golutvin, A. Gomes, H. Gordon, C. Gotti, M. Grabalosa Gándara, R. Graciani Diaz, L.A. Granado Cardoso, E. Graugés, G. Graziani, A. Grecu, E. Greening, S. Gregson, P. Griffith, L. Grillo, O. Grünberg, B. Gui, E. Gushchin, Yu. Guz, T. Gys, C. Hadjivasiliou, G. Haefeli, C. Haen, S.C. Haines, S. Hall, B. Hamilton, T. Hampson, X. Han, S. Hansmann-Menzemer, N. Harnew, S.T. Harnew, J. Harrison, T. Hartmann, J. He, T. Head, V. Heijne, K. Hennessy, P. Henrard, L. Henry, J.A. Hernando Morata, E. van Herwijnen, M. Heß, A. Hicheur, D. Hill, M. Hoballah, C. Hombach, W. Hulsbergen, P. Hunt, N. Hussain, D. Hutchcroft, D. Hynds, M. Idzik, P. Ilten, R. Jacobsson, A. Jaeger, J. Jalocha, E. Jans, P. Jaton, A. Jawahery, M. Jezabek, F. Jing, M. John, D. Johnson, C.R. Jones, C. Joram, B. Jost, N. Jurik, M. Kaballo, S. Kandybei, W. Kanso, M. Karacson, T.M. Karbach, M. Kelsey, I.R. Kenyon, T. Ketel, B. Khanji, C. Khurewathanakul, S. Klaver, O. Kochebina, M. Kolpin, I. Komarov, R.F. Koopman, P. Koppenburg, M. Korolev, A. Kozlinskiy, L. Kravchuk, K. Kreplin, M. Kreps, G. Krocker, P. Krokovny, F. Kruse, M. Kucharczyk, V. Kudryavtsev, K. Kurek, T. Kvaratskheliya, V.N. La Thi, D. Lacarrere, G. Lafferty, A. Lai, D. Lambert, R.W. Lambert, E. Lanciotti, G. Lanfranchi, C. Langenbruch, B. Langhans, T. Latham, C. Lazzeroni, R. Le Gac, J. van Leerdam, J.-P. Lees, R. Lefèvre, A. Leflat, J. Lefrançois, S. Leo, O. Leroy, T. Lesiak, B. Leverington, Y. Li, M. Liles, R. Lindner, C. Linn, F. Lionetto, B. Liu, G. Liu, S. Lohn, I. Longstaff, J.H. Lopes, N. Lopez-March, P. Lowdon, H. Lu, D. Lucchesi, H. Luo, A. Lupato, E. Luppi, O. Lupton, F. Machefert, I.V. Machikhiliyan, F. Maciuc, O. Maev, S. Malde, G. Manca, G. Mancinelli, M. Manzali, J. Maratas, J.F. Marchand, U. Marconi, C. Marin Benito, P. Marino, R. Märki, J. Marks, G. Martellotti, A. Martens, A. Martín Sánchez, M. Martinelli, D. Martinez Santos, F. Martinez Vidal, D. Martins Tostes, A. Massafferri, R. Matev, Z. Mathe, C. Matteuzzi, A. Mazurov, M. McCann, J. McCarthy, A. McNab, R. McNulty, B. McSkelly, B. Meadows, F. Meier, M. Meissner, M. Merk, D.A. Milanes, M.-N. Minard, J. Molina Rodriguez, S. Monteil, D. Moran, M. Morandin, P. Morawski, A. Mordà, M.J. Morello, J. Moron, R. Mountain, F. Muheim, K. Müller, R. Muresan, B. Muster, P. Naik, T. Nakada, R. Nandakumar, I. Nasteva, M. Needham, N. Neri, S. Neubert, N. Neufeld, M. Neuner, A.D. Nguyen, T.D. Nguyen, C. Nguyen-Mau, M. Nicol, V. Niess, R. Niet, N. Nikitin, T. Nikodem, A. Novoselov, A. Oblakowska-Mucha, V. Obraztsov, S. Oggero, S. Ogilvy, O. Okhrimenko, R. Oldeman, G. Onderwater, M. Orlandea, J.M. Otalora Goicochea, P. Owen, A. Oyanguren, B.K. Pal, A. Palano, F. Palombo, M. Palutan, J. Panman, A. Papanestis, M. Pappagallo, C. Parkes, C.J. Parkinson, G. Passaleva, G.D. Patel, M. Patel, C. Patrignani, A. Pazos Alvarez, A. Pearce, A. Pellegrino, M. Pepe Altarelli, S. Perazzini, E. Perez Trigo, P. Perret, M. Perrin-Terrin, L. Pescatore, E. Pesen, K. Petridis, A. Petrolini, E. Picatoste Olloqui, B. Pietrzyk, T. Pilař, D. Pinci, A. Pistone, S. Playfer, M. Plo Casasus, F. Polci, A. Poluektov, I. Polyakov, E. Polycarpo, A. Popov, D. Popov, B. Popovici, C. Potterat, A. Powell, J. Prisciandaro, A. Pritchard, C. Prouve, V. Pugatch, A. Puig Navarro, G. Punzi, W. Qian, B. Rachwal, J.H. Rademacker, B. Rakotomiaramanana, M. Rama, M.S. Rangel, I. Raniuk, N. Rauschmayr, G. Raven, S. Reichert, M.M. Reid, A.C. dos Reis, S. Ricciardi, A. Richards, K. Rinnert, V. Rives Molina, D.A. Roa Romero, P. Robbe, A.B. Rodrigues, E. Rodrigues, P. Rodriguez Perez, S. Roiser, V. Romanovsky, A. Romero Vidal, M. Rotondo, J. Rouvinet, T. Ruf, F. Ruffini, H. Ruiz, P. Ruiz Valls, G. Sabatino, J.J. Saborido Silva, N. Sagidova, P. Sail, B. Saitta, V. Salustino Guimaraes, C. Sanchez Mayordomo, B. Sanmartin Sedes, R. Santacesaria, C. Santamarina Rios, E. Santovetti, M. Sapunov, A. Sarti, C. Satriano, A. Satta, M. Savrie, D. Savrina, M. Schiller, H. Schindler, M. Schlupp, M. Schmelling, B. Schmidt, O. Schneider, A. Schopper, M.-H. Schune, R. Schwemmer, B. Sciascia, A. Sciubba, M. Seco, A. Semennikov, K. Senderowska, I. Sepp, N. Serra, J. Serrano, L. Sestini, P. Seyfert, M. Shapkin, I. Shapoval, Y. Shcheglov, T. Shears, L. Shekhtman, V. Shevchenko, A. Shires, R. Silva Coutinho, G. Simi, M. Sirendi, N. Skidmore, T. Skwarnicki, N.A. Smith, E. Smith, J. Smith, M. Smith, H. Snoek, M.D. Sokoloff, F.J.P. Soler, F. Soomro, D. Souza, B. Souza De Paula, B. Spaan, A. Sparkes, F. Spinella, P. Spradlin, F. Stagni, S. Stahl, O. Steinkamp, O. Stenyakin, S. Stevenson, S. Stoica, S. Stone, B. Storaci, S. Stracka, M. Straticiuc, U. Straumann, R. Stroili, V.K. Subbiah, L. Sun, W. Sutcliffe, K. Swientek, S. Swientek, V. Syropoulos, M. Szczekowski, P. Szczypka, D. Szilard, T. Szumlak, S. T'Jampens, M. Teklishyn, G. Tellarini, E. Teodorescu, F. Teubert, C. Thomas, E. Thomas, J. van Tilburg, V. Tisserand, M. Tobin, S. Tolk, L. Tomassetti, D. Tonelli, S. Topp-Joergensen, N. Torr, E. Tournefier, S. Tourneur, M.T. Tran, M. Tresch, A. Tsaregorodtsev, P. Tsopelas, N. Tuning, M. Ubeda Garcia, A. Ukleja, A. Ustyuzhanin, U. Uwer, V. Vagnoni, G. Valenti, A. Vallier, R. Vazquez Gomez, P. Vazquez Regueiro, C. Vázquez Sierra, S. Vecchi, J.J. Velthuis, M. Veltri, G. Veneziano, M. Vesterinen, B. Viaud, D. Vieira, M. Vieites Diaz, X. Vilasis-Cardona, A. Vollhardt, D. Volyanskyy, D. Voong, A. Vorobyev, V. Vorobyev, C. Voß, H. Voss, J.A. de Vries, R. Waldi, C. Wallace, R. Wallace, J. Walsh, S. Wandernoth, J. Wang, D.R. Ward, N.K. Watson, A.D. Webber, D. Websdale, M. Whitehead, J. Wicht, D. Wiedner, G. Wilkinson, M.P. Williams, M. Williams, F.F. Wilson, J. Wimberley, J. Wishahi, W. Wislicki, M. Witek, G. Wormser, S.A. Wotton, S. Wright, S. Wu, K. Wyllie, Y. Xie, Z. Xing, Z. Xu, Z. Yang, X. Yuan, O. Yushchenko, M. Zangoli, M. Zavertyaev, F. Zhang, L. Zhang, W.C. Zhang, Y. Zhang, A. Zhelezov, A. Zhokhov, L. Zhong, and A. Zvyagin
Subjects: Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract: Evidence for the decay mode X(3872)→ψ(2S)γ in B+→X(3872)K+ decays is found with a significance of 4.4 standard deviations. The analysis is based on a data sample of proton–proton collisions, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb−1, collected with the LHCb detector, at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. The ratio of the branching fraction of the X(3872)→ψ(2S)γ decay to that of the X(3872)→J/ψγ decay is measured to be B(X(3872)→ψ(2S)γ)B(X(3872)→J/ψγ)=2.46±0.64±0.29, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. The measured value does not support a pure DD¯⁎ molecular interpretation of the X(3872) state.
Published: 2014
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12. Direct Salmonella injection into enteroid cells allows the study of host-pathogen interactions in the cytosol with high spatiotemporal resolution.

Author: Chantal Ernst, Patrick R Andreassen, Gabriel H Giger, Bidong D Nguyen, Christoph G Gäbelein, Orane Guillaume-Gentil, Stefan A Fattinger, Mikael E Sellin, Wolf-Dietrich Hardt, and Julia A Vorholt
Subjects: Biology (General), QH301-705.5
Abstract: Intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) play pivotal roles in nutrient uptake and in the protection against gut microorganisms. However, certain enteric pathogens, such as Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Tm), can invade IECs by employing flagella and type III secretion systems (T3SSs) with cognate effector proteins and exploit IECs as a replicative niche. Detection of flagella or T3SS proteins by IECs results in rapid host cell responses, i.e., the activation of inflammasomes. Here, we introduce a single-cell manipulation technology based on fluidic force microscopy (FluidFM) that enables direct bacteria delivery into the cytosol of single IECs within a murine enteroid monolayer. This approach allows to specifically study pathogen-host cell interactions in the cytosol uncoupled from preceding events such as docking, initiation of uptake, or vacuole escape. Consistent with current understanding, we show using a live-cell inflammasome reporter that exposure of the IEC cytosol to S. Tm induces NAIP/NLRC4 inflammasomes via its known ligands flagellin and T3SS rod and needle. Injected S. Tm mutants devoid of these invasion-relevant ligands were able to grow in the cytosol of IECs despite the absence of T3SS functions, suggesting that, in the absence of NAIP/NLRC4 inflammasome activation and the ensuing cell death, no effector-mediated host cell manipulation is required to render the epithelial cytosol growth-permissive for S. Tm. Overall, the experimental system to introduce S. Tm into single enteroid cells enables investigations into the molecular basis governing host-pathogen interactions in the cytosol with high spatiotemporal resolution.
Published: 2024
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13. Active DNA damage response signaling initiates and maintains meiotic sex chromosome inactivation

Author: Hironori Abe, Yu-Han Yeh, Yasuhisa Munakata, Kei-Ichiro Ishiguro, Paul R. Andreassen, and Satoshi H. Namekawa
Subjects: Science
Abstract: Here the authors show that active DNA damage response signaling is required both to initiate and maintain meiotic sex chromosome inactivation via a dynamic and reversible process.
Published: 2022
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14. Supplementary Data from PALB2 Functionally Connects the Breast Cancer Susceptibility Proteins BRCA1 and BRCA2

Author: Paul R. Andreassen, Keqin Ren, Qiang Fan, and Fan Zhang
Abstract: Supplementary Data from PALB2 Functionally Connects the Breast Cancer Susceptibility Proteins BRCA1 and BRCA2
Published: 2023

15. Figure S2 from Acquisition of Relative Interstrand Crosslinker Resistance and PARP Inhibitor Sensitivity in Fanconi Anemia Head and Neck Cancers

Author: Susanne I. Wells, Laura E. Hays, Winifred W. Keeble, Susan B. Olson, Allison J. Jacobs, Paul R. Andreassen, Helmut Hanenberg, Lisa Wiesmüller, Kathryn A. Wikenheiser-Brokamp, Grant D. Foglesong, Elizabeth E. Hoskins, and Anne J. Lombardi
Abstract: Figure S2. Crosslinker and chemotherapy sensitivity of human FA-deficient and -proficient HNSCC lines
Published: 2023

16. Supplementary Materials and Methods from Acquisition of Relative Interstrand Crosslinker Resistance and PARP Inhibitor Sensitivity in Fanconi Anemia Head and Neck Cancers

Author: Susanne I. Wells, Laura E. Hays, Winifred W. Keeble, Susan B. Olson, Allison J. Jacobs, Paul R. Andreassen, Helmut Hanenberg, Lisa Wiesmüller, Kathryn A. Wikenheiser-Brokamp, Grant D. Foglesong, Elizabeth E. Hoskins, and Anne J. Lombardi
Abstract: Supplementary Materials and Methods. Details on experimental approaches and reagents that were utilized
Published: 2023

17. Data from Acquisition of Relative Interstrand Crosslinker Resistance and PARP Inhibitor Sensitivity in Fanconi Anemia Head and Neck Cancers

Author: Susanne I. Wells, Laura E. Hays, Winifred W. Keeble, Susan B. Olson, Allison J. Jacobs, Paul R. Andreassen, Helmut Hanenberg, Lisa Wiesmüller, Kathryn A. Wikenheiser-Brokamp, Grant D. Foglesong, Elizabeth E. Hoskins, and Anne J. Lombardi
Abstract: Purpose: Fanconi anemia is an inherited disorder associated with a constitutional defect in the Fanconi anemia DNA repair machinery that is essential for resolution of DNA interstrand crosslinks. Individuals with Fanconi anemia are predisposed to formation of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC) at a young age. Prognosis is poor, partly due to patient intolerance of chemotherapy and radiation requiring dose reduction, which may lead to early recurrence of disease.Experimental Design: Using HNSCC cell lines derived from the tumors of patients with Fanconi anemia, and murine HNSCC cell lines derived from the tumors of wild-type and Fancc−/− mice, we sought to define Fanconi anemia–dependent chemosensitivity and DNA repair characteristics. We utilized DNA repair reporter assays to explore the preference of Fanconi anemia HNSCC cells for non-homologous end joining (NHEJ).Results: Surprisingly, interstrand crosslinker (ICL) sensitivity was not necessarily Fanconi anemia–dependent in human or murine cell systems. Our results suggest that the increased Ku-dependent NHEJ that is expected in Fanconi anemia cells did not mediate relative ICL resistance. ICL exposure resulted in increased DNA damage sensing and repair by PARP in Fanconi anemia–deficient cells. Moreover, human and murine Fanconi anemia HNSCC cells were sensitive to PARP inhibition, and sensitivity of human cells was attenuated by Fanconi anemia gene complementation.Conclusions: The observed reliance upon PARP-mediated mechanisms reveals a means by which Fanconi anemia HNSCCs can acquire relative resistance to the ICL-based chemotherapy that is a foundation of HNSCC treatment, as well as a potential target for overcoming chemoresistance in the chemosensitive individual. Clin Cancer Res; 21(8); 1962–72. ©2015 AACR.
Published: 2023

18. Supplementary Figure Legends from Acquisition of Relative Interstrand Crosslinker Resistance and PARP Inhibitor Sensitivity in Fanconi Anemia Head and Neck Cancers

Author: Susanne I. Wells, Laura E. Hays, Winifred W. Keeble, Susan B. Olson, Allison J. Jacobs, Paul R. Andreassen, Helmut Hanenberg, Lisa Wiesmüller, Kathryn A. Wikenheiser-Brokamp, Grant D. Foglesong, Elizabeth E. Hoskins, and Anne J. Lombardi
Abstract: Legends for supplementary figures and table
Published: 2023

19. Table S1 from Acquisition of Relative Interstrand Crosslinker Resistance and PARP Inhibitor Sensitivity in Fanconi Anemia Head and Neck Cancers

Author: Susanne I. Wells, Laura E. Hays, Winifred W. Keeble, Susan B. Olson, Allison J. Jacobs, Paul R. Andreassen, Helmut Hanenberg, Lisa Wiesmüller, Kathryn A. Wikenheiser-Brokamp, Grant D. Foglesong, Elizabeth E. Hoskins, and Anne J. Lombardi
Abstract: Table S1. Analyses and crosslinker sensitivity of murine Fancc and wild type cell lines
Published: 2023

20. A novel cancer risk prediction score for the natural course of FA patients with biallelic BRCA2/FANCD1 mutations

Author: Ivana Radulovic, Michael M Schündeln, Lisa Müller, Johannes Ptok, Ellen Honisch, Dieter Niederacher, Constanze Wiek, Kathrin Scheckenbach, Thierry Leblanc, Lise Larcher, Jean Soulier, Dirk Reinhardt, Heiner Schaal, Paul R Andreassen, and Helmut Hanenberg
Subjects: Genetics, Medizin, General Medicine, Molecular Biology, Genetics (clinical)
Abstract: Biallelic germline mutations in BRCA2 occur in the Fanconi anemia (FA)-D1 subtype of the rare pediatric disorder, FA, characterized clinically by severe congenital abnormalities and a very high propensity to develop malignancies early in life. Clinical and genetic data from 96 FA-D1 patients with biallelic BRCA2 mutations were collected and used to develop a new cancer risk prediction score system based on the specific mutations in BRCA2. This score takes into account the location of frameshift/stop and missense mutations relative to exon 11 of BRCA2, which encodes the major sites for interaction with the RAD51 recombinase, and uses the MaxEnt and HBond splicing scores to analyze potential splice site perturbations. Among 75 FA-D1 patients with ascertained BRCA2 mutations, 66 patients developed 102 malignancies, ranging from one to three independent tumors per individual. The median age at the clinical presentation of peripheral embryonal tumors was 1.0, at the onset of hematologic malignancies 1.8 and at the manifestation of CNS tumors 2.7 years, respectively. Patients who received treatment lived longer than those without. Using our novel scoring system, we could distinguish three distinct cancer risk groups among FA-D1 patients: in the first, patients developed their initial malignancy at a median age of 1.3 years (n = 36, 95% CI = 0.9–1.8), in the second group at 2.3 years (n = 17, 95% CI = 1.4–4.4) and in the third group at 23.0 years (n = 22, 95% CI = 4.3—n/a). Therefore, this scoring system allows, for the first time, to predict the cancer manifestation of FA-D1 patients simply based on the type and position of the mutations in BRCA2.
Published: 2023

21. Setd2 regulates quiescence and differentiation of adult hematopoietic stem cells by restricting RNA polymerase II elongation

Author: Yile Zhou, Xiaomei Yan, Xiaomin Feng, Jiachen Bu, Yunzhu Dong, Peipei Lin, Yoshihiro Hayashi, Rui Huang, Andre Olsson, Paul R. Andreassen, H. Leighton Grimes, Qian-fei Wang, Tao Cheng, Zhijian Xiao, Jie Jin, and Gang Huang
Subjects: Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs, RC633-647.5
Abstract: SET domain containing 2 (Setd2), encoding a histone methyltransferase, is associated with many hematopoietic diseases when mutated. By generating a novel exon 6 conditional knockout mouse model, we describe an essential role of Setd2 in maintaining the adult hematopoietic stem cells. Loss of Setd2 results in leukopenia, anemia, and increased platelets accompanied by hypocellularity, erythroid dysplasia, and mild fibrosis in bone marrow. Setd2 knockout mice show significantly decreased hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells except for erythroid progenitors. Setd2 knockout hematopoietic stem cells fail to establish long-term bone marrow reconstitution after transplantation because of the loss of quiescence, increased apoptosis, and reduced multiple-lineage terminal differentiation potential. Bioinformatic analysis revealed that the hematopoietic stem cells exit from quiescence and commit to differentiation, which lead to hematopoietic stem cell exhaustion. Mechanistically, we attribute an important Setd2 function in murine adult hematopoietic stem cells to the inhibition of the Nsd1/2/3 transcriptional complex, which recruits super elongation complex and controls RNA polymerase II elongation on a subset of target genes, including Myc. Our results reveal a critical role of Setd2 in regulating quiescence and differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells through restricting the NSDs/SEC mediated RNA polymerase II elongation.
Published: 2018
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22. RNF8 and SCML2 cooperate to regulate ubiquitination and H3K27 acetylation for escape gene activation on the sex chromosomes.

Author: Shannel R Adams, So Maezawa, Kris G Alavattam, Hironori Abe, Akihiko Sakashita, Megan Shroder, Tyler J Broering, Julie Sroga Rios, Michael A Thomas, Xinhua Lin, Carolyn M Price, Artem Barski, Paul R Andreassen, and Satoshi H Namekawa
Subjects: Genetics, QH426-470
Abstract: The sex chromosomes are enriched with germline genes that are activated during the late stages of spermatogenesis. Due to meiotic sex chromosome inactivation (MSCI), these sex chromosome-linked genes must escape silencing for activation in spermatids, thereby ensuring their functions for male reproduction. RNF8, a DNA damage response protein, and SCML2, a germline-specific Polycomb protein, are two major, known regulators of this process. Here, we show that RNF8 and SCML2 cooperate to regulate ubiquitination during meiosis, an early step to establish active histone modifications for subsequent gene activation. Double mutants of Rnf8 and Scml2 revealed that RNF8-dependent monoubiquitination of histone H2A at Lysine 119 (H2AK119ub) is deubiquitinated by SCML2, demonstrating interplay between RNF8 and SCML2 in ubiquitin regulation. Additionally, we identify distinct functions of RNF8 and SCML2 in the regulation of ubiquitination: SCML2 deubiquitinates RNF8-independent H2AK119ub but does not deubiquitinate RNF8-dependent polyubiquitination. RNF8-dependent polyubiquitination is required for the establishment of H3K27 acetylation, a marker of active enhancers, while persistent H2AK119ub inhibits establishment of H3K27 acetylation. Following the deposition of H3K27 acetylation, H3K4 dimethylation is established as an active mark on poised promoters. Together, we propose a model whereby regulation of ubiquitin leads to the organization of poised enhancers and promoters during meiosis, which induce subsequent gene activation from the otherwise silent sex chromosomes in postmeiotic spermatids.
Published: 2018
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23. The p.Ser64Leu and p.Pro104Leu missense variants of PALB2 identified in familial pancreatic cancer patients compromise the DNA damage response

Author: Jung-Young Park, Marc Ladanyi, Yirong Li, Fan Zhang, Amanda E. Toland, Irene Orlow, Paul R. Andreassen, Yue Zhang, Robert C. Kurtz, Sara H. Olson, Liying Zhang, and Jie Chen
Subjects: NF-E2-Related Factor 2, DNA damage, PALB2, Article, Olaparib, 03 medical and health sciences, chemistry.chemical_compound, Pancreatic cancer, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Missense mutation, Genetics (clinical), Polymerase, 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, Kelch-Like ECH-Associated Protein 1, biology, 030305 genetics & heredity, medicine.disease, Pancreatic Neoplasms, chemistry, PARP inhibitor, biology.protein, Cancer research, Rad51 Recombinase, Fanconi Anemia Complementation Group N Protein, Homologous recombination, DNA Damage
Abstract: PALB2 has been identified as a breast and pancreatic cancer susceptibility gene. Utilizing a targeted sequencing approach, we discovered two novel germline missense PALB2 variants c.191C>T and c.311C>T, encoding p.Ser64Leu and p.Pro104Leu, respectively, in individuals in a pancreatic cancer registry. No missense PALB2 variants from familial pancreatic cancer patients, and few PALB2 variants overall, have been functionally characterized. Given the known role of PALB2, we tested the impact of p.Ser64Leu and p.Pro104Leu variants on DNA damage responses. Neither p.Ser64Leu nor p.Pro104Leu have clear effects on interactions with BRCA1 and KEAP1, which are mediated by adjacent motifs in PALB2. However, both variants are associated with defective recruitment of PALB2, and the RAD51 recombinase downstream, to DNA damage foci. Furthermore, p.Ser64Leu and p.Pro104Leu both largely compromise DNA double-strand break-initiated homologous recombination, and confer increased cellular sensitivity to ionizing radiation (IR) and the poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitor Olaparib. Taken together, our results represent the first demonstration of functionally deleterious PALB2 missense variants associated with familial pancreatic cancer and of deleterious variants in the N-terminus outside of the coiled-coil domain. Furthermore, our results suggest the possibility of personalized treatments, using IR or PARP inhibitor, of pancreatic and other cancers that carry a deleterious PALB2 variant.
Published: 2020

24. Identification of new RAD51D-regulating microRNAs that also emerge as potent inhibitors of the Fanconi anemia/homologous recombination pathways

Author: Nina Hater, Katharina M Iwaniuk, Carina Leifeld, Pia Grüten, Constanze Wiek, Katharina Raba, Fan Zhang, Johannes C Fischer, Paul R Andreassen, Helmut Hanenberg, and Hans-Ingo Trompeter
Subjects: Genetics, Medizin, General Medicine, Molecular Biology, Genetics (clinical)
Abstract: The Fanconi anemia (FA) and homologous recombination (HR) pathways, which partially overlap and include RAD51 and its paralogs, are key for the repair of different types of DNA damage, such as DNA interstrand crosslinks. First, to broadly assess the impact of microRNA-mediated regulation, we examined microRNA expression profiles in five isogenic fibroblast cell pairs, either deficient in DNA repair due to germline mutations in FANCA, FANCB, FANCC, FANCI or BRIP1/FANCJ or proficient due to correction with retroviral vectors. In each pair, we observed lower abundance of specific microRNAs in the FA-deficient cells. From the list of microRNAs, we experimentally confirmed the effects of miR-141-3p and miR-369-3p targeting RAD51B and miR-15a-5p, miR-494-3p as well as miR-544a targeting RAD51D. However, by western blotting, only RAD51D protein was reduced by a mixture of its regulating microRNAs. Gene ontology analyses and identification of additional FA/HR factors as targets of miR-15a-5p, miR-494-3p and miR-544a strongly suggested the widespread influence of these microRNAs on HR. Interestingly, only miR-494-3p directly reduced RAD51 foci formation, while a mixture of miR-15a-5p, miR-494-3p and miR-544a strongly reduced HR activity in green fluorescent protein (GFP) repair assays. In summary, by successfully employing this novel loss- and gain-of-function strategy, we have identified new microRNAs strongly inhibiting HR in mammalian cells. Understanding and modulating such miRNA regulation of DNA repair genes/pathways might help to overcome the reduced repair capacity of FA patients with biallelic hypomorphic mutations or help to engineer synthetic lethality strategies for patients with mutations in cancer-associated FA/HR genes.
Published: 2022

25. Meiotic sex chromosome inactivation and the XY body: a phase separation hypothesis

Author: Kris G. Alavattam, So Maezawa, Paul R. Andreassen, and Satoshi H. Namekawa
Subjects: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Germline, DNA Repair, Physiology, Clinical Sciences, Liquid–liquid phase separation, Models, Biological, Article, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Genetic, Models, Dosage Compensation, Genetic, Germ cells, Genetics, Animals, Humans, Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, Sex Chromosomes, Cell Biology, Biological, Liquid-liquid phase separation, Meiosis, Dosage Compensation, Molecular Medicine, Epigenetics, Generic health relevance, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Sex body, DNA Damage
Abstract: In mammalian male meiosis, the heterologous X and Y chromosomes remain unsynapsed and, as a result, are subject to meiotic sex chromosome inactivation (MSCI). MSCI is required for the successful completion of spermatogenesis. Following the initiation of MSCI, the X and Y chromosomes undergo various epigenetic modifications and are transformed into a nuclear body termed the XY body. Here, we review the mechanisms underlying the initiation of two essential, sequential processes in meiotic prophase I: MSCI and XY-body formation. The initiation of MSCI is directed by the action of DNA damage response (DDR) pathways; downstream of the DDR, unique epigenetic states are established, leading to the formation of the XY body. Accumulating evidence suggests that MSCI and subsequent XY-body formation may be driven by phase separation, a physical process that governs the formation of membraneless organelles and other biomolecular condensates. Thus, herewe gather literature-based evidence to explore a phase separation hypothesis for the initiation of MSCI and the formation of the XY body.
Published: 2021

26. SETD2 mutations confer chemoresistance in acute myeloid leukemia partly through altered cell cycle checkpoints

Author: Yile Zhou, Zefeng Xu, Paul R. Andreassen, Jiachen Bu, Zhijian Xiao, Taoran Zhao, Zhenyu Ju, Jieyu Wang, Yue Zhang, Di Zhan, Xinghui Zhao, Rui Huang, Qianfei Wang, Wei Chen, Ya Zhang, Xiaomei Yan, Yoshihiro Hayashi, Yunzhu Dong, Xiaomin Feng, and Gang Huang
Subjects: Male, 0301 basic medicine, Heterozygote, Cancer Research, Cell cycle checkpoint, Myeloid, Mice, Transgenic, Biology, Article, Epigenesis, Genetic, Mice, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Cell Line, Tumor, hemic and lymphatic diseases, medicine, Animals, Humans, Mitotic catastrophe, Alleles, Acute leukemia, Gene Expression Regulation, Leukemic, Cell Cycle, Cytarabine, Nuclear Proteins, Myeloid leukemia, Cell Cycle Checkpoints, Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase, Hematology, Cell cycle, medicine.disease, Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute, Leukemia, Phenotype, 030104 developmental biology, medicine.anatomical_structure, Oncology, Drug Resistance, Neoplasm, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Mutation, Cancer research, Female, Neoplasm Recurrence, Local, Myeloid-Lymphoid Leukemia Protein, DNA Damage, Signal Transduction, medicine.drug
Abstract: SETD2, an epigenetic tumor suppressor, is frequently mutated in MLL-rearranged (MLLr) leukemia and relapsed acute leukemia (AL). To clarify the impact of SETD2 mutations on chemotherapy sensitivity in MLLr leukemia, two loss-of-function (LOF) Setd2-mutant alleles (Setd2(F2478L/WT) or Setd2(Ex6-KO/WT)) were generated and introduced, respectively, to the Mll-Af9 knock-in leukemia mouse model. Both alleles cooperated with Mll-Af9 to accelerate leukemia development that resulted in resistance to standard Cytarabine-based chemotherapy. Mechanistically, Setd2-mutant leukemic cells showed downregulated signaling related to cell cycle progression, S, and G2/M checkpoint regulation. Thus, after Cytarabine treatment, Setd2-mutant leukemic cells exit from the S phase and progress to the G2/M phase. Importantly, S and G2/M cell cycle checkpoint inhibition could resensitize the Mll-Af9/Setd2 double-mutant cells to standard chemotherapy by causing DNA replication collapse, mitotic catastrophe, and increased cell death. These findings demonstrate that LOF SETD2 mutations confer chemoresistance on AL to DNA-damaging treatment by S and G2/M checkpoint defects. The combination of S and G2/M checkpoint inhibition with chemotherapy can be explored as a promising therapeutic strategy by exploiting their unique vulnerability and resensitizing chemoresistant AL with SETD2 or SETD2-like epigenetic mutations.
Published: 2019

27. Deficiency of the Fanconi anemia E2 ubiqitin conjugase UBE2T only partially abrogates Alu-mediated recombination in a new model of homology dependent recombination

Author: René M. Linka, Todd Lewis, Paul R. Andreassen, Joanna Barthelemy, Feng Zhang, Elizabeth L. Virts, Felicia M. Kennedy, Rujuta Yashodhan Gadgil, Constanze Wiek, Michael Leffak, and Helmut Hanenberg
Subjects: Medizin, Reversion, Alu element, Biology, Genome Integrity, Repair and Replication, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Fanconi anemia, Alu Elements, Gene Duplication, Gene duplication, Genetics, Null cell, medicine, Humans, DNA Breaks, Double-Stranded, Homologous Recombination, Gene, 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, Fanconi Anemia Complementation Group D2 Protein, medicine.disease, Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Molecular biology, Fanconi Anemia Complementation Group Proteins, 3. Good health, Fanconi Anemia, Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzymes, Paternal Inheritance, Maternal Inheritance, Stem cell, CRISPR-Cas Systems, Homologous recombination, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Gene Deletion, DNA Damage, HeLa Cells
Abstract: The primary function of the UBE2T ubiquitin conjugase is in the monoubiquitination of the FANCI-FANCD2 heterodimer, a central step in the Fanconi anemia (FA) pathway. Genetic inactivation of UBE2T is responsible for the phenotypes of FANCT patients; however, a FANCT patient carrying a maternal duplication and a paternal deletion in the UBE2T loci displayed normal peripheral blood counts and UBE2T protein levels in B-lymphoblast cell lines. To test whether reversion by recombination between UBE2T AluYa5 elements could have occurred in the patient's hematopoietic stem cells despite the defects in homologous recombination (HR) in FA cells, we constructed HeLa cell lines containing the UBE2T AluYa5 elements and neighboring intervening sequences flanked by fluorescent reporter genes. Introduction of a DNA double strand break in the model UBE2T locus in vivo promoted single strand annealing (SSA) between proximal Alu elements and deletion of the intervening color marker gene, recapitulating the reversion of the UBE2T duplication in the FA patient. To test whether UBE2T null cells retain HR activity, the UBE2T genes were knocked out in HeLa cells and U2OS cells. CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genetic knockout of UBE2T only partially reduced HR, demonstrating that UBE2T-independent pathways can compensate for the recombination defect in UBE2T/FANCT null cells. CA extern
Published: 2019

28. RNF8 is not required for histone-to-protamine exchange in spermiogenesis†

Author: Paul R. Andreassen, Rajyalakshmi Meduri, Ziwei Li, Hironori Abe, and Satoshi H. Namekawa
Subjects: Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases, Piwi-interacting RNA, Biology, Histones, Mice, Ubiquitin, Meiosis, MiWi, Animals, Protamines, Spermatogenesis, Mice, Knockout, Sex Chromosomes, Ubiquitination, Acetylation, Biological Transport, Cell Biology, General Medicine, Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly, Protamine, Ubiquitin ligase, Cell biology, Histone, Reproductive Medicine, biology.protein, Research Article
Abstract: While an E3 ubiquitin ligase, RNF8, was initially reported to be required for histone-to-protamine exchange in spermiogenesis, we subsequently demonstrated that RNF8 is not involved in this process. Nevertheless, reflecting a lingering misunderstanding in the field, a growing number of studies have continued to postulate a requirement for RNF8 in the histone-to-protamine exchange. For example, a recent study claimed that a mouse PIWI protein, MIWI, controls RNF8-mediated histone-to-protamine exchange. Here, confirming our earlier conclusions, we show that RNF8 is required neither for the establishment of histone H4K16 acetylation, which is an initial step in histone removal during spermiogenesis, nor for the incorporation of two protamine proteins, PRM1 and PRM2. Thus, whereas RNF8 mediates ubiquitination of H2A on the sex chromosomes in meiosis, during the prior stage of spermatogenesis, our genetic evidence underscores that RNF8 is not involved in histone-to-protamine exchange.
Published: 2021

29. RNF8 is not required for histone-to-protamine exchange in spermiogenesis

Author: Satoshi H. Namekawa, Rajyalakshmi Meduri, Xin Zhiguo Li, Paul R. Andreassen, Hironori Abe, and Ziwei Li
Subjects: Histone, biology, Ubiquitin, Mutant, MiWi, biology.protein, Piwi-interacting RNA, RNA, Protamine, Ubiquitin ligase, Cell biology
Abstract: SummaryA member of the PIWI family of proteins, MIWI, binds to Piwi-interacting RNA (piRNA) and is essential in mouse spermiogenesis. A recent study demonstrated that MIWI is an essential regulator of the histone-to-protamine exchange in spermiogenesis and that this function is mediated by its binding to an ubiquitin ligase, RNF8. However, here we confirm that RNF8 is not required for histone-to-protamine exchange in spermiogenesis. We show that histone-to-protamine exchange takes place in Rnf8-deficient mice, while RNF8 mediates ubiquitination of H2A on the sex chromosomes in meiosis, the prior stage of spermatogenesis. Therefore, the infertile phenotype of MIWI mutant mice cannot be explained by a RNF8-mediated mechanism in spermiogenesis.
Published: 2020

30. Head and Neck Cancer Susceptibility and Metabolism in Fanconi Anemia

Author: Tafadzwa Chihanga, Sara Vicente-Muñoz, Sonya Ruiz-Torres, Bidisha Pal, Mathieu Sertorio, Paul R. Andreassen, Ruby Khoury, Parinda Mehta, Stella M. Davies, Andrew N. Lane, Lindsey E. Romick-Rosendale, and Susanne I. Wells
Subjects: Cancer Research, Oncology
Abstract: Fanconi anemia (FA) is a rare inherited, generally autosomal recessive syndrome, but it displays X-linked or dominant negative inheritance for certain genes. FA is characterized by a deficiency in DNA damage repair that results in bone marrow failure, and in an increased risk for various epithelial tumors, most commonly squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck (HNSCC) and of the esophagus, anogenital tract and skin. Individuals with FA exhibit increased human papilloma virus (HPV) prevalence. Furthermore, a subset of anogenital squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) in FA harbor HPV sequences and FA-deficient laboratory models reveal molecular crosstalk between HPV and FA proteins. However, a definitive role for HPV in HNSCC development in the FA patient population is unproven. Cellular metabolism plays an integral role in tissue homeostasis, and metabolic deregulation is a known hallmark of cancer progression that supports uncontrolled proliferation, tumor development and metastatic dissemination. The metabolic consequences of FA deficiency in keratinocytes and associated impact on the development of SCC in the FA population is poorly understood. Herein, we review the current literature on the metabolic consequences of FA deficiency and potential effects of resulting metabolic reprogramming on FA cancer phenotypes.
Published: 2022

31. The initiation of meiotic sex chromosome inactivation sequesters DNA damage signaling from autosomes in mouse spermatogenesis

Author: Paul R. Andreassen, Qishen Pang, Rashmi S. Hegde, Hironori Abe, Kris G. Alavattam, Satoshi H. Namekawa, and Yueh-Chiang Hu
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, DNA damage signaling, germline, Medical and Health Sciences, Germline, Histones, Mice, 0302 clinical medicine, checkpoint, meiosis, Tyrosine, Phosphorylation, Sex Chromosomes, biology, Biological Sciences, Chromatin, Cell biology, Meiosis, Histone, Dosage Compensation, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Signal Transduction, Pediatric Research Initiative, DNA damage, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Rare Diseases, Genetic, Dosage Compensation, Genetic, Genetics, Animals, Spermatogenesis, Autosome, Epidermal Growth Factor, Point mutation, Contraception/Reproduction, Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, body regions, 030104 developmental biology, biology.protein, Generic health relevance, Pachytene Stage, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, DNA Damage, Developmental Biology
Abstract: Summary Meiotic sex chromosome inactivation (MSCI) is an essential event in the mammalian male germline. MSCI is directed by a DNA damage response (DDR) pathway centered on the phosphorylation of histone variant H2AX at serine 139 (termed γH2AX). The failure to initiate MSCI is linked to complete meiotic arrest and elimination of germ cells; however, the mechanisms underlying this arrest and elimination remain unknown. To address this question, we established a new separation-of-function mouse model for H2ax that shows specific and complete defects in MSCI. The genetic change is a point mutation in which another H2AX amino acid residue important in the DDR, tyrosine 142 (Y142), is converted to alanine (H2ax-Y142A). In H2ax-Y142A meiosis, the establishment of DDR signals on the chromosome-wide domain of the sex chromosomes is impaired. The initiation of MSCI is required for stage progression, which enables crossover formation, suggesting that the establishment of MSCI permits the timely progression of male meiosis. Our results suggest that normal meiotic progression requires the removal of ATR-mediated DDR signaling from autosomes. We propose a novel biological function for MSCI: the initiation of MSCI sequesters DDR factors from autosomes to the sex chromosomes at the onset of the pachytene stage, and the subsequent formation of an isolated XY nuclear compartment—the XY body—sequesters DDR factors to permit meiotic progression from the mid-pachytene stage onward. Video Abstract Download : Download video (33MB)
Published: 2020

32. Measurements of the Absolute Branching Fractions of B± →k±Xc c

Author: A. J. Edwards, F. Simonetto, W. F. Mader, R. H. Schindler, Fry, Shanhui Fan, I Eschrich, W. Menges, M Bruinsma, K. Suzuki, T Schalk, R. Kroeger, J. M. Bauer, D. Boutigny, H. Nicholson, A Petzold, Marcello Rotondo, AT Watson, Martino Margoni, H. U. Flaecher, L. M. Cremaldi, M. Verderi, A Pompili, T. Hadig, U. Mallik, S. K. Swain, KS Chaisanguanthum, Muller, J. F. Strube, Roberto Calabrese, AN Yushkov, E. Gabathuler, Jordan Nash, O. Hamon, R. R. Kofler, M. Krishnamurthy, C. M. Cormack, AE Blinov, WH Toki, R Schwierz, Heiko Lacker, M Battaglia, D. G. Hitlin, S. Ye, M Andreotti, T. C. Petersen, Corrado Angelini, W. Gradl, Stephen Sekula, G Mancinelli, F. C. Porter, R. Ter-Antonyan, R. C. Field, D. E. Wagoner, W. O. Ruddick, Gabriele Simi, A. Buzzo, A. K. Mohapatra, D. J. Payne, J Kadyk, L Piemontese, F. Bucci, P. Wang, ML Vetere, G Lynch, D. Côté, L. Gioi, TW Beck, P. S. Jackson, R. Godang, D. Piccolo, Tisserand, G. Therin, J Marks, W. Bhimji, Gill, Q Zeng, S. Rodier, Nicola Neri, F. Lodovico, O. L. Buchmueller, D. Su, Nicolo De Groot, Wp Vazquez, B. Cheng, Chunhui Chen, K. R. Schubert, C. L. Davis, R. Gamet, H. L. Lynch, A. Gaidot, G. P. Gopal, B. Viaud, Maurizio Pierini, M. P. Kelly, M Saleem, D. J. Bard, A. Calcaterra, J. Ocariz, R Nogowski, M. Piccolo, M. T. Allen, S. Saremi, M Mandelkern, A. W. Weidemann, Matteo Rama, D. M. Strom, Mauro Morandin, G Brandenburg, S. Playfer, C. Bozzi, M. Haire, J. C. Williams, Halyo, K. Honscheid, C. A. Chavez, C. L. Edgar, J Zhang, LT Kerth, D. Dong, DC Williams, JE Sundermann, SE Morgan, J. M. Roney, JS Minamora, Luca Lista, S. J. Gowdy, K. A. George, J. G. Smith, M. B. Nikolich, D Kirkby, C. Cartaro, A. Oyanguren, G. Batignani, R. Sacco, C. Roat, M. Benayoun, Fabio Cossutti, M. A. Mazzoni, G. Wormser, RJ Wilson, H. L. Snoek, S Curry, J. W. Gary, K. Goetzen, B. Franek, P Bloom, R. Frey, H. J. Bulten, CJ Flacco, A. M. Eisner, D. W. G. S. Leith, Nicolas Berger, D. A. Hopkins, S. M. Spanier, Vladimir Blinov, G Vasileiadis, B Lewandowski, J Kroseberg, C. Gatto, A Santroni, S Tosi, C. K. Lae, D. B. MacFarlane, R. J. Barlow, G. Rizzo, E. P. Solodov, D Altenburg, W. N. Cottingham, N. Chevalier, M. Posocco, Marco Bomben, R. Barate, D. Bernard, JD Richman, C Thiebaux, J.J. Reidy, R. Bula, T. Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T. Schroeder, Johnson, G. Schott, M. H. Kelsey, T. Abe, J. Stelzer, C. Touramanis, J. P. Burke, E. Torrence, Giuseppe Della Ricca, Sw. Banerjee, M Pappagallo, Abner Soffer, C. Hearty, R. Claus, S. Prell, Matteo Negrini, Thomas Allmendinger, C. Dallapiccola, J. J. Hollar, Y. P. Lau, D. Fortin, J. A. McKenna, Kyung-Soo Yi, G. Calderini, Douglas Wright, P Lund, James H Cochran, R. Cenci, T. Glanzman, R. L. Flack, HP Paar, J. L. Ritchie, EA Eckhart, S. Bettarini, A. J.S. Smith, Philippe Grenier, M Macri, J. M. LoSecco, E Feltresi, A. Zallo, J. Libby, AB Breon, FS Tehrani, G. Grosdidier, I. J. Forster, D. J. Summers, M. Spitznagel, B Stugu, S. F. Ganzhur, H. R. Band, B Spaan, H. B. Crawley, I. Kitayama, S. I. Serednyakov, MG Wilson, M Morii, KE Ford, D Best, Yuri Skovpen, R. J. Sobie, G. W. London, Y Groysman, J. C. Dingfelder, N. B. Sinev, BL Hartfiel, R. Liu, Daniele Del Re, Luth, A. Perazzo, C. Voena, L. Vitale, W. R. Innes, RG Jacobsen, E Chen, Alam, T. S. Mattison, D. A. Sanders, F. Martinez-Vidal, J. Chauveau, M. J.J. John, R. Aleksan, S. B. Zain, G. P. Dubois-Felsmann, H. A. Neal, S. Willocq, D. Monorchio, I Ofte, K Peters, T. B. Moore, Q. K. Wong, B. T. Meadows, J. Biesiada, A Samuel, V. B. Koptchev, V. E. Ozcan, S. A. Majewski, A Seiden, P. Tan, C. Hast, D. J. Lange, G. Piredda, A. Dvoretskii, W. Kozanecki, M. Legendre, GS Abrams, G. Raven, T. Held, C. Lu, D. Judd, Y. B. Pan, D. Bettoni, M. Lu, Dmytro Kovalskyi, J. I. Yi, C. M. Brown, Y Xie, H. W. Zhao, P. D. Dauncey, J. P. Lees, R. Kowalewski, A. Hocker, S. Ahmed, D. Gamba, A. Lusiani, F. Gallo, RK Mommsen, P. R. Burchat, S Schrenk, M. Pioppi, F. Polci, N. S. Knecht, V. P. 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Blaylock, Herbert Koch, A Hauke, Lombardo, F. Blanc, A. Satpathy, M. C. Hodgkinson, G. Graziani, E. I. Rosenberg, W. S. Lockman, A. A. Salnikov, M. C. Simani, F. Anulli, S. 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P., Poireau, V., Tisserand, V., Grauges, E., Palano, A., Eigen, G., Brown, D. N., Kolomensky, Y. G., Fritsch, M., Koch, H., Schroeder, T., Cheaib, R., Hearty, C., Mattison, T. S., Mckenna, J. A., So, R. Y., Blinov, V. E., Buzykaev, A. R., Druzhinin, V. P., Golubev, V. B., Kozyrev, E. A., Kravchenko, E. A., Onuchin, A. P., Serednyakov, S. I., Skovpen, Y. I., Solodov, E. P., Todyshev, K. Y., Lankford, A. J., Dey, B., Gary, J. W., Long, O., Eisner, A. M., Lockman, W. S., Panduro Vazquez, W., Chao, D. S., Cheng, C. H., Echenard, B., Flood, K. T., Hitlin, D. G., Kim, J., Li, Y., Miyashita, T. S., Ongmongkolkul, P., Porter, F. C., Rohrken, M., Huard, Z., Meadows, B. T., Pushpawela, B. G., Sokoloff, M. D., Sun, L., Smith, J. G., Wagner, S. R., Bernard, D., Verderi, M., Bettoni, D., Bozzi, C., Calabrese, R., Cibinetto, G., Fioravanti, E., Garzia, I., Luppi, E., Santoro, V., Calcaterra, A., De Sangro, R., Finocchiaro, G., Martellotti, S., Patteri, P., Peruzzi, I. M., Piccolo, M., Rotondo, M., Zallo, A., Passaggio, S., Patrignani, C., Shuve, B. J., Lacker, H. M., Bhuyan, B., Mallik, U., Chen, C., Cochran, J., Prell, S., Gritsan, A. V., Arnaud, N., Davier, M., Le Diberder, F., Lutz, A. M., Wormser, G., Lange, D. J., Wright, D. M., Coleman, J. P., Gabathuler, E., Hutchcroft, D. E., Payne, D. J., Touramanis, C., Bevan, A. J., Di Lodovico, F., Sacco, R., Cowan, G., Banerjee, S., Davis, C. L., Denig, A. G., Gradl, W., Griessinger, K., Hafner, A., Schubert, K. R., Barlow, R. J., Lafferty, G. D., Cenci, R., Jawahery, A., Roberts, D. A., Cowan, R., Robertson, S. H., Seddon, R. M., Neri, N., Palombo, F., Cremaldi, L., Godang, R., Summers, D. J., Taras, P., De Nardo, G., Sciacca, C., Raven, G., Jessop, C. P., Losecco, J. M., Honscheid, K., Kass, R., Gaz, A., Margoni, M., Posocco, M., Simi, G., Simonetto, F., Stroili, R., Akar, S., Ben-Haim, E., Bomben, M., Bonneaud, G. R., Calderini, G., Chauveau, J., Marchiori, G., Ocariz, J., Biasini, M., Manoni, E., Rossi, A., Batignani, G., Bettarini, S., Carpinelli, M., Casarosa, G., Chrzaszcz, M., Forti, F., Giorgi, M. A., Lusiani, A., Oberhof, B., Paoloni, E., Rama, M., Rizzo, G., Walsh, J. J., Zani, L., Smith, A. J. S., Anulli, F., Faccini, R., Ferrarotto, F., Ferroni, F., Pilloni, A., Piredda, G., Bunger, C., Dittrich, S., Grunberg, O., Hess, M., Leddig, T., Voss, C., Waldi, R., Adye, T., Wilson, F. F., Emery, S., Vasseur, G., Aston, D., Cartaro, C., Convery, M. R., Dorfan, J., Dunwoodie, W., Ebert, M., Field, R. C., Fulsom, B. G., Graham, M. T., Hast, C., Innes, W. R., Kim, P., Leith, D. W. G. S., Luitz, S., Macfarlane, D. B., Muller, D. R., Neal, H., Ratcliff, B. N., Roodman, A., Sullivan, M. K., Va'Vra, J., Wisniewski, W. J., Purohit, M. V., Wilson, J. R., Randle-Conde, A., Sekula, S. J., Ahmed, H., Bellis, M., Burchat, P. R., Puccio, E. M. T., Alam, M. S., Ernst, J. A., Gorodeisky, R., Guttman, N., Peimer, D. R., Soffer, A., Spanier, S. M., Ritchie, J. L., Schwitters, R. F., Izen, J. M., Lou, X. C., Bianchi, F., De Mori, F., Filippi, A., Gamba, D., Lanceri, L., Vitale, L., Martinez-Vidal, F., Oyanguren, A., Albert, J., Beaulieu, A., Bernlochner, F. U., King, G. J., Kowalewski, R., Lueck, T., Nugent, I. M., Roney, J. M., Sobie, R. J., Tasneem, N., Gershon, T. J., Harrison, P. F., Latham, T. E., Prepost, R., and Wu, S. L.
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Kjerne- og elementærpartikkelfysikk: 431 [VDP], Meson, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Electron–positron annihilation, General Physics and Astronomy, BaBar experiment, Bottom meson, BaBar, PEP-II, B meson, Bottom mesons, Branching (polymer chemistry), 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Lower limit, HEP, NO, Nuclear and elementary particle physics: 431 [VDP], 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Bar (unit)
Abstract: A study of the two-body decays B±→XccK±, where Xcc refers to one charmonium state, is reported by the BABAR Collaboration using a data sample of 424 fb-1. The absolute determination of branching fractions for these decays are significantly improved compared to previous BABAR measurements. Evidence is found for the decay B+→X(3872)K+ at the 3σ level. The absolute branching fraction B[B+→X(3872)K+]=[2.1±0.6(stat)±0.3(syst)]×10-4 is measured for the first time. It follows that B[X(3872)→J/ψπ+π-]=(4.1±1.3)%, supporting the hypothesis of a molecular component for this resonance., This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and National Science Foundation, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada), Institute of High Energy Physics (China), the Commissariat `a l’Energie Atomique and Institut National de Physique Nucl´eaire et de Physique des Particules (France), the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Germany), the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Italy), the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (The Netherlands), the Research Council of Norway, the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation, and the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (United Kingdom). Individuals have received support from CONACyT (Mexico), the A. P. Sloan Foundation, the Research Corporation, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Published: 2020

33. CHEK1 coordinates DNA damage signaling and meiotic progression in the male germline of mice

Author: Hironori Abe, Kris G. Alavattam, Yasuko Kato, Diego H. Castrillon, Satoshi H. Namekawa, Paul R. Andreassen, and Qishen Pang
Subjects: Male, 0301 basic medicine, Cell cycle checkpoint, Somatic cell, DNA damage, Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated Proteins, Germline, Mice, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Genetics, Animals, CHEK1, Molecular Biology, Mitosis, Genetics (clinical), Mice, Knockout, biology, Articles, General Medicine, Spermatogonia, Cell biology, Meiosis, 030104 developmental biology, Histone, Checkpoint Kinase 1, biology.protein, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, DNA Damage, Signal Transduction
Abstract: The continuity of life depends on mechanisms in the germline that ensure the integrity of the genome. The DNA damage response/checkpoint kinases ATM and ATR are essential signaling factors in the germline. However, it remains unknown how a downstream transducer, Checkpoint Kinase 1 (CHEK1 or CHK1), mediates signaling in the male germline. Here, we show that CHEK1 has distinct functions in both the mitotic and meiotic phases of the male germline in mice. In the mitotic phase, CHEK1 is required for the resumption of prospermatogonia proliferation after birth and the maintenance of spermatogonia. In the meiotic phase, we uncovered two functions for CHEK1: one is the stage-specific attenuation of DNA damage signaling on autosomes, and the other is coordination of meiotic stage progression. On autosomes, the loss of CHEK1 delays the removal of DNA damage signaling that manifests as phosphorylation of histone variant H2AX at serine 139 (γH2AX). Importantly, CHEK1 does not have a direct function in meiotic sex chromosome inactivation (MSCI), an essential event in male meiosis, in which ATR is a key regulator. Thus, the functions of ATR and CHEK1 are uncoupled in MSCI, in contrast to their roles in DNA damage signaling in somatic cells. Our study reveals stage-speciﬁc functions for CHEK1 that ensure the integrity of the male germline.
Published: 2018

34. Understanding BRCA2 Function as a Tumor Suppressor Based on Domain-Specific Activities in DNA Damage Responses

Author: Paul R. Andreassen, Helmut Hanenberg, Constanze Wiek, and Joonbae Seo
Subjects: DNA Replication, 0301 basic medicine, variants of uncertain significance, DNA Repair, Tumor suppressor gene, tumor suppressor, DNA repair, DNA damage, Medizin, homologous recombination, Review, QH426-470, Biology, Genomic Instability, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Genetics, Humans, Genes, Tumor Suppressor, DNA binding, skin and connective tissue diseases, Gene, Genetics (clinical), BRCA2 Protein, Binding Sites, G2-M DNA damage checkpoint, BRCA2, Cell biology, G2 checkpoint, 030104 developmental biology, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, DNA damage responses, Fanconi Anemia Complementation Group N Protein, Homologous recombination, DNA Damage, Protein Binding, Genetic screen
Abstract: BRCA2 is an essential genome stability gene that has various functions in cells, including roles in homologous recombination, G2 checkpoint control, protection of stalled replication forks, and promotion of cellular resistance to numerous types of DNA damage. Heterozygous mutation of BRCA2 is associated with an increased risk of developing cancers of the breast, ovaries, pancreas, and other sites, thus BRCA2 acts as a classic tumor suppressor gene. However, understanding BRCA2 function as a tumor suppressor is severely limited by the fact that ~70% of the encoded protein has not been tested or assigned a function in the cellular DNA damage response. Remarkably, even the specific role(s) of many known domains in BRCA2 are not well characterized, predominantly because stable expression of the very large BRCA2 protein in cells, for experimental purposes, is challenging. Here, we review what is known about these domains and the assay systems that are available to study the cellular roles of BRCA2 domains in DNA damage responses. We also list criteria for better testing systems because, ultimately, functional assays for assessing the impact of germline and acquired mutations identified in genetic screens are important for guiding cancer prevention measures and for tailored cancer treatments.
Published: 2021

35. CRISPR-Cas9 fusion to dominant-negative 53BP1 enhances HDR and inhibits NHEJ specifically at Cas9 target sites

Author: Devin Pillis, Fan Zhang, Michael A. Goodman, Rajeswari Jayavaradhan, Paul R. Andreassen, Yue Zhang, and Punam Malik
Subjects: CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, 0301 basic medicine, DNA End-Joining Repair, DNA Repair, Molecular biology, DNA repair, Science, Mutant, General Physics and Astronomy, 02 engineering and technology, Biology, Article, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Cell Line, 03 medical and health sciences, Genome editing, CRISPR-Associated Protein 9, Humans, CRISPR, Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, DNA Breaks, Double-Stranded, lcsh:Science, Gene Editing, Multidisciplinary, Cas9, fungi, Recombinational DNA Repair, General Chemistry, DNA Repair Pathway, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Fusion protein, Cell biology, Mutagenesis, Insertional, enzymes and coenzymes (carbohydrates), 030104 developmental biology, Genetic engineering, embryonic structures, lcsh:Q, CRISPR-Cas Systems, Tumor Suppressor p53-Binding Protein 1, 0210 nano-technology, Biotechnology
Abstract: Precise genome editing/correction of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) induced by CRISPR-Cas9 by homology-dependent repair (HDR) is limited by the competing error-prone non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) DNA repair pathway. Here, we define a safer and efficient system that promotes HDR-based precise genome editing, while reducing NHEJ locally, only at CRISPR-Cas9-induced DSBs. We fused a dominant-negative mutant of 53BP1, DN1S, to Cas9 nucleases, and the resulting Cas9-DN1S fusion proteins significantly block NHEJ events specifically at Cas9 cut sites and improve HDR frequency; HDR frequency reached 86% in K562 cells. Cas9-DN1S protein maintains this effect in different human cell types, including leukocyte adhesion deficiency (LAD) patient-derived immortalized B lymphocytes, where nearly 70% of alleles were repaired by HDR and 7% by NHEJ. Our CRISPR-Cas9-DN1S system is clinically relevant to improve the efficiencies of precise gene correction/insertion, significantly reducing error-prone NHEJ events at the nuclease cleavage site, while avoiding the unwanted effects of global NHEJ inhibition., Global inhibition of NHEJ factors has been one strategy to improve CRISPR-Cas9 mediated HDR. Here the authors fuse a dominant-negative mutant of 53BP1 to Cas9 to enhance HDR frequency, reduce NHEJ specifically at the Cas9 cut sites, and reduce the toxicity associated with global NHEJ inhibition.
Published: 2019

36. NF1 patient missense variants predict a role for ATM in modifying neurofibroma initiation

Author: Phillip J. Dexheimer, Kristine S. Vogel, Kwangmin Choi, Hilde Brems, Jianqiang Wu, Eric Legius, Jose A. Cancelas, Yanan Yu, Mehdi Keddache, Margaret R. Wallace, Lisa J. Martin, Paul R. Andreassen, Nancy Ratner, and Robert J. Spinner
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Neurofibromatosis 1, Population, Mutation, Missense, Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated Proteins, Biology, Gene mutation, medicine.disease_cause, Germline, Article, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Loss of heterozygosity, 03 medical and health sciences, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Mice, 0302 clinical medicine, Plexiform neurofibroma, Genes, Neurofibromatosis 1, Exome Sequencing, medicine, Neurofibroma, Animals, Humans, education, Exome sequencing, Neurofibroma, Plexiform, education.field_of_study, Mutation, Fibroblasts, medicine.disease, 030104 developmental biology, Cancer research, Neurology (clinical), Schwann Cells, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: In Neurofibromatosis type 1, NF1 gene mutations in Schwann cells (SC) drive benign plexiform neurofibroma (PNF), and no additional SC changes explain patient-to-patient variability in tumor number. Evidence from twin studies suggests that variable expressivity might be caused by unidentified modifier genes. Whole exome sequencing of SC and fibroblast DNA from the same resected PNFs confirmed biallelic SC NF1 mutations; non-NF1 somatic SC variants were variable and present at low read number. We identified frequent germline variants as possible neurofibroma modifier genes. Genes harboring variants were validated in two additional cohorts of NF1 patients and by variant burden test. Genes including CUBN, CELSR2, COL14A1, ATR and ATM also showed decreased gene expression in some neurofibromas. ATM-relevant DNA repair defects were also present in a subset of neurofibromas with ATM variants, and in some neurofibroma SC. Heterozygous ATM G2023R or homozygous S707P variants reduced ATM protein expression in heterologous cells. In mice, genetic Atm heterozygosity promoted Schwann cell precursor self-renewal and increased tumor formation in vivo, suggesting that ATM variants contribute to neurofibroma initiation. We identify germline variants, rare in the general population, overrepresented in NF1 patients with neurofibromas. ATM and other identified genes are candidate modifiers of PNF pathogenesis.
Published: 2019

37. XRCC2 (X-ray repair cross complementing 2)

Author: Helmut Hanenberg and Paul R. Andreassen
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Cancer Research, DNA Repair, DNA damage, DNA repair, Medizin, RAD51, Breast Cancer Susceptibility, Biology, Article, XRCC2, 03 medical and health sciences, chemistry.chemical_compound, 0302 clinical medicine, Genetics, Homologous Recombination, DNA replication, Hematology, Molecular biology, 030104 developmental biology, Oncology, chemistry, Fanconi anemia, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, RAD51C, Homologous recombination, RAD51 Paralog, Tumor Suppressor, DNA
Abstract: XRCC2 is one of five somatic RAD51 paralogs, all of which have Walker A and B ATPase motifs. Each of the paralogs, including XRCC2, has a function in DNA double-strand break repair by homologous recombination (HR). However, their individual roles are not as well understood as that of RAD51 itself. The XRCC2 protein forms a complex (BCDX2) with three other RAD51 paralogs, RAD51B, RAD51C and RAD51D. It is believed that the BCDX2 complex mediates HR downstream of BRCA2 but upstream of RAD51, as XRCC2 is involved in the assembly of RAD51 into DNA damage foci. XRCC2 can bind DNA and, along with RAD51D, can promote homologous pairing in vitro. Consistent with its role in HR, XRCC2-deficient cells have increased levels of spontaneous chromosome instability, and exhibit hypersensitivity to DNA interstrand crosslinking agents such as mitomycin C and cisplatin as well as ionizing radiation, alkylating agents and aldehydes. XRCC2 also functions in promoting DNA replication and chromosome segregation. Biallelic mutation of XRCC2 (FANCU) causes the FA-U subtype of FA, while heterozygosity for deleterious mutations in XRCC2 may be associated with an increased breast cancer risk. XRCC2 appears to function 'downstream' in the FA pathway, since it is not required for FANCD2 monoubiquitination, which is the central step in the FA pathway. Clinically, the only known FA-U patient in the world exhibits severe congenital abnormalities, but had not developed, by seven years of age, the bone marrow failure and cancer that are often seen in patients from other FA complementation groups. © 2019 Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology. CA extern
Published: 2019

38. Observation of and evidence for decays

Author: The LHCb Collaboration, R Aaij, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, A Affolder, Z Ajaltouni, S Akar, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, S Ali, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, A A Alves Jr, S Amato, S Amerio, Y Amhis, L An, L Anderlini, J Anderson, R Andreassen, M Andreotti, J E Andrews, R B Appleby, O Aquines Gutierrez, F Archilli, A Artamonov, M Artuso, E Aslanides, G Auriemma, M Baalouch, S Bachmann, J J Back, A Badalov, W Baldini, R J Barlow, C Barschel, S Barsuk, W Barter, V Batozskaya, V Battista, A Bay, L Beaucourt, J Beddow, F Bedeschi, I Bediaga, S Belogurov, K Belous, I Belyaev, E Ben-Haim, G Bencivenni, S Benson, J Benton, A Berezhnoy, R Bernet, M-O Bettler, M van Beuzekom, A Bien, S Bifani, T Bird, A Bizzeti, P M Bjørnstad, T Blake, F Blanc, J Blouw, S Blusk, V Bocci, A Bondar, N Bondar, W Bonivento, S Borghi, A Borgia, M Borsato, T J V Bowcock, E Bowen, C Bozzi, T Brambach, J van den Brand, J Bressieux, D Brett, M Britsch, T Britton, J Brodzicka, N H Brook, H Brown, A Bursche, G Busetto, J Buytaert, S Cadeddu, R Calabrese, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, P Campana, D Campora Perez, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, L Carson, K Carvalho Akiba, G Casse, L Cassina, L Castillo Garcia, M Cattaneo, Ch Cauet, R Cenci, M Charles, Ph Charpentier, M Chefdeville, S Chen, S-F Cheung, N Chiapolini, M Chrzaszcz, K Ciba, X Cid Vidal, G Ciezarek, P E L Clarke, M Clemencic, H V Cliff, J Closier, V Coco, J Cogan, E Cogneras, L Cojocariu, P Collins, A Comerma-Montells, A Contu, A Cook, M Coombes, S Coquereau, G Corti, M Corvo, I Counts, B Couturier, G A Cowan, D C Craik, M Cruz Torres, S Cunliffe, R Currie, C D’Ambrosio, J Dalseno, P David, P N Y David, A Davis, K De Bruyn, S De Capua, M De Cian, J M De Miranda, L De Paula, W De Silva, P De Simone, D Decamp, M Deckenhoff, L Del Buono, N Déléage, D Derkach, O Deschamps, F Dettori, A Di Canto, H Dijkstra, S Donleavy, F Dordei, M Dorigo, A Dosil Suárez, D Dossett, A Dovbnya, K Dreimanis, G Dujany, F Dupertuis, P Durante, R Dzhelyadin, A Dziurda, A Dzyuba, S Easo, U Egede, V Egorychev, S Eidelman, S Eisenhardt, U Eitschberger, R Ekelhof, L Eklund, I El Rifai, Ch Elsasser, S Ely, S Esen, H-M Evans, T Evans, A Falabella, C Färber, C Farinelli, N Farley, S Farry, R F Fay, D Ferguson, V Fernandez Albor, F Ferreira Rodrigues, M Ferro-Luzzi, S Filippov, M Fiore, M Fiorini, M Firlej, C Fitzpatrick, T Fiutowski, M Fontana, F Fontanelli, R Forty, O Francisco, M Frank, C Frei, M Frosini, J Fu, E Furfaro, A Gallas Torreira, D Galli, S Gallorini, S Gambetta, M Gandelman, P Gandini, Y Gao, J García Pardiñas, J Garofoli, J Garra Tico, L Garrido, C Gaspar, R Gauld, L Gavardi, G Gavrilov, A Geraci, E Gersabeck, M Gersabeck, T Gershon, Ph Ghez, A Gianelle, S Giani’, V Gibson, L Giubega, V V Gligorov, C Göbel, D Golubkov, A Golutvin, A Gomes, C Gotti, M Grabalosa Gándara, R Graciani Diaz, L A Granado Cardoso, E Graugés, G Graziani, A Grecu, E Greening, S Gregson, P Griffith, L Grillo, O Grünberg, B Gui, E Gushchin, Yu Guz, T Gys, C Hadjivasiliou, G Haefeli, C Haen, S C Haines, S Hall, B Hamilton, T Hampson, X Han, S Hansmann-Menzemer, N Harnew, S T Harnew, J Harrison, J He, T Head, V Heijne, K Hennessy, P Henrard, L Henry, J A Hernando Morata, E van Herwijnen, M Heß, A Hicheur, D Hill, M Hoballah, C Hombach, W Hulsbergen, P Hunt, N Hussain, D Hutchcroft, D Hynds, M Idzik, P Ilten, R Jacobsson, A Jaeger, J Jalocha, E Jans, P Jaton, A Jawahery, F Jing, M John, D Johnson, C R Jones, C Joram, B Jost, N Jurik, M Kaballo, S Kandybei, W Kanso, M Karacson, T M Karbach, S Karodia, M Kelsey, I R Kenyon, T Ketel, B Khanji, C Khurewathanakul, S Klaver, K Klimaszewski, O Kochebina, M Kolpin, I Komarov, R F Koopman, P Koppenburg, M Korolev, A Kozlinskiy, L Kravchuk, K Kreplin, M Kreps, G Krocker, P Krokovny, F Kruse, W Kucewicz, M Kucharczyk, V Kudryavtsev, K Kurek, T Kvaratskheliya, V N LaThi, D Lacarrere, G Lafferty, A Lai, D Lambert, R W Lambert, G Lanfranchi, C Langenbruch, B Langhans, T Latham, C Lazzeroni, R Le Gac, J van Leerdam, J-P Lees, R Lefèvre, A Leflat, J Lefrançois, S Leo, O Leroy, T Lesiak, B Leverington, Y Li, T Likhomanenko, M Liles, R Lindner, C Linn, F Lionetto, B Liu, S Lohn, I Longstaff, J H Lopes, N Lopez-March, P Lowdon, H Lu, D Lucchesi, H Luo, A Lupato, E Luppi, O Lupton, F Machefert, I V Machikhiliyan, F Maciuc, O Maev, S Malde, A Malinin, G Manca, G Mancinelli, A Mapelli, J Maratas, J F Marchand, U Marconi, C Marin Benito, P Marino, R Märki, J Marks, G Martellotti, A Martens, A Martín Sánchez, M Martinelli, D Martinez Santos, F Martinez Vidal, D Martins Tostes, A Massafferri, R Matev, Z Mathe, C Matteuzzi, A Mazurov, M McCann, J McCarthy, A McNab, R McNulty, B McSkelly, B Meadows, F Meier, M Meissner, M Merk, D A Milanes, M-N Minard, N Moggi, J Molina Rodriguez, S Monteil, M Morandin, P Morawski, A Mordà, M J Morello, J Moron, A-B Morris, R Mountain, F Muheim, K Müller, M Mussini, B Muster, P Naik, T Nakada, R Nandakumar, I Nasteva, M Needham, N Neri, S Neubert, N Neufeld, M Neuner, A D Nguyen, T D Nguyen, C Nguyen-Mau, M Nicol, V Niess, R Niet, N Nikitin, T Nikodem, A Novoselov, D P O’Hanlon, A Oblakowska-Mucha, V Obraztsov, S Oggero, S Ogilvy, O Okhrimenko, R Oldeman, G Onderwater, M Orlandea, J M Otalora Goicochea, P Owen, A Oyanguren, B K Pal, A Palano, F Palombo, M Palutan, J Panman, A Papanestis, M Pappagallo, L L Pappalardo, C Parkes, C J Parkinson, G Passaleva, G D Patel, M Patel, C Patrignani, A Pazos Alvarez, A Pearce, A Pellegrino, M Pepe Altarelli, S Perazzini, E Perez Trigo, P Perret, M Perrin-Terrin, L Pescatore, E Pesen, K Petridis, A Petrolini, E Picatoste Olloqui, B Pietrzyk, T Pilař, D Pinci, A Pistone, S Playfer, M Plo Casasus, F Polci, A Poluektov, E Polycarpo, A Popov, D Popov, B Popovici, C Potterat, E Price, J Prisciandaro, A Pritchard, C Prouve, V Pugatch, A Puig Navarro, G Punzi, W Qian, B Rachwal, J H Rademacker, B Rakotomiaramanana, M Rama, M S Rangel, I Raniuk, N Rauschmayr, G Raven, S Reichert, M M Reid, A C dos Reis, S Ricciardi, S Richards, M Rihl, K Rinnert, V Rives Molina, D A Roa Romero, P Robbe, A B Rodrigues, E Rodrigues, P Rodriguez Perez, S Roiser, V Romanovsky, A Romero Vidal, M Rotondo, J Rouvinet, T Ruf, H Ruiz, P Ruiz Valls, J J Saborido Silva, N Sagidova, P Sail, B Saitta, V Salustino Guimaraes, C Sanchez Mayordomo, B Sanmartin Sedes, R Santacesaria, C Santamarina Rios, E Santovetti, A Sarti, C Satriano, A Satta, D M Saunders, M Savrie, D Savrina, M Schiller, H Schindler, M Schlupp, M Schmelling, B Schmidt, O Schneider, A Schopper, M-H Schune, R Schwemmer, B Sciascia, A Sciubba, M Seco, A Semennikov, I Sepp, N Serra, J Serrano, L Sestini, P Seyfert, M Shapkin, I Shapoval, Y Shcheglov, T Shears, L Shekhtman, V Shevchenko, A Shires, R Silva Coutinho, G Simi, M Sirendi, N Skidmore, T Skwarnicki, N A Smith, E Smith, J Smith, M Smith, H Snoek, M D Sokoloff, F J P Soler, F Soomro, D Souza, B Souza De Paula, B Spaan, A Sparkes, P Spradlin, S Sridharan, F Stagni, M Stahl, S Stahl, O Steinkamp, O Stenyakin, S Stevenson, S Stoica, S Stone, B Storaci, S Stracka, M Straticiuc, U Straumann, R Stroili, V K Subbiah, L Sun, W Sutcliffe, K Swientek, S Swientek, V Syropoulos, M Szczekowski, P Szczypka, D Szilard, T Szumlak, S T’Jampens, M Teklishyn, G Tellarini, F Teubert, C Thomas, E Thomas, J van Tilburg, V Tisserand, M Tobin, S Tolk, L Tomassetti, D Tonelli, S Topp-Joergensen, N Torr, E Tournefier, S Tourneur, M T Tran, M Tresch, A Tsaregorodtsev, P Tsopelas, N Tuning, M Ubeda Garcia, A Ukleja, A Ustyuzhanin, U Uwer, V Vagnoni, G Valenti, A Vallier, R Vazquez Gomez, P Vazquez Regueiro, C Vázquez Sierra, S Vecchi, J J Velthuis, M Veltri, G Veneziano, M Vesterinen, B Viaud, D Vieira, M Vieites Diaz, X Vilasis-Cardona, A Vollhardt, D Volyanskyy, D Voong, A Vorobyev, V Vorobyev, C Voß, H Voss, J A de Vries, R Waldi, C Wallace, R Wallace, J Walsh, S Wandernoth, J Wang, D R Ward, N K Watson, D Websdale, M Whitehead, J Wicht, D Wiedner, G Wilkinson, M P Williams, M Williams, F F Wilson, J Wimberley, J Wishahi, W Wislicki, M Witek, G Wormser, S A Wotton, S Wright, S Wu, K Wyllie, Y Xie, Z Xing, Z Xu, Z Yang, X Yuan, O Yushchenko, M Zangoli, M Zavertyaev, L Zhang, W C Zhang, Y Zhang, A Zhelezov, A Zhokhov, L Zhong, and A Zvyagin
Subjects: flavour physics, B physics, branching fraction, Science, Physics, QC1-999
Abstract: Measurements of the branching fractions of $B_{s}^{0}\to {{K}^{*\pm }}{{K}^{\mp }}$ and $B_{s}^{0}\to {{K}^{*\pm }}{{\pi }^{\mp }}$ decays are performed using a data sample corresponding to $1.0\ {\rm f}{{{\rm b}}^{-1}}$ of proton-proton collision data collected with the LHCb detector at a centre-of-mass energy of $7\;{\rm TeV}$ , where the ${{K}^{*\pm }}$ mesons are reconstructed in the $K_{S}^{0}{{\pi }^{\pm }}$ final state. The first observation of the $B_{s}^{0}\to {{K}^{*\pm }}{{K}^{\mp }}$ decay and the first evidence for the $B_{s}^{0}\to {{K}^{*-}}{{\pi }^{+}}$ decay are reported with branching fractions \begin{eqnarray*}\begin{array}{rcl} \bf{\mathcal{B}}\left( B_{s}^{0}\to {{K}^{*\pm }}{{K}^{\mp }} \right) & = & \left( 12.7\pm 1.9\pm 1.9 \right)\times {{10}^{-6}}, \\ \bf{\mathcal{B}}\left( B_{s}^{0}\to {{K}^{*-}}{{\pi }^{+}} \right) & = & \left( 3.3\pm 1.1\pm 0.5 \right)\times {{10}^{-6}}, \\ \end{array}\end{eqnarray*} where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second are systematic. In addition, an upper limit of $\mathcal{B}\left( {{B}^{0}}\to {{K}^{*\pm }}{{K}^{\mp }} \right)\lt 0.4\ (0.5)\times {{10}^{-6}}$ is set at $90\%\ (95\%)$ confidence level.
Published: 2014
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39. Coordination of the recruitment of the FANCD2 and PALB2 Fanconi anemia proteins by an ubiquitin signaling network

Author: A Ruhikanta Meetei, Paul R. Andreassen, Gregory Bick, and Fan Zhang
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities, Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases, Upstream and downstream (transduction), Plasma protein binding, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Ubiquitin, Fanconi anemia, hemic and lymphatic diseases, FANCD2, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Monoubiquitination, Genetics (clinical), biology, Fanconi Anemia Complementation Group D2 Protein, Ubiquitination, nutritional and metabolic diseases, medicine.disease, Ubiquitin ligase, MDC1, Fanconi Anemia, 030104 developmental biology, biology.protein, Fanconi Anemia Complementation Group N Protein, DNA Damage, Protein Binding, Signal Transduction
Abstract: Fanconi anemia (FA) is a chromosome instability syndrome and the 19 identified FA proteins are organized into two main arms which are thought to function at distinct steps in the repair of DNA interstrand crosslinks (ICLs). These two arms include the upstream FA pathway, which culminates in the monoubiquitination of FANCD2 and FANCI, and downstream breast cancer (BRCA) associated proteins that interact in protein complexes. How, and whether, these two groups of FA proteins are integrated is unclear. Here, we show that FANCD2 and PALB2, as indicators of the upstream and downstream arms, respectively, colocalize independently of each other in response to DNA damage induced by mitomycin C (MMC). We also show that ubiquitin chains are induced by MMC and colocalize with both FANCD2 and PALB2. Our finding that the RNF8 E3 ligase has a role in recruiting both FANCD2 and PALB2 also provides support for the hypothesis that the two branches of the FA-BRCA pathway are coordinated by ubiquitin signaling. Interestingly, we find that the RNF8 partner MDC1, as well as the ubiquitin binding protein, RAP80, specifically recruit PALB2, while a different ubiquitin binding protein, FAAP20, functions only in the recruitment of FANCD2. Thus, FANCD2 and PALB2 are not recruited in a single linear pathway, rather we define how their localization is coordinated and integrated by a network of ubiquitin-related proteins. We propose that such regulation may enable upstream and downstream FA proteins to act at distinct steps in the repair of ICLs.
Published: 2016

40. The BRUCE-ATR Signaling Axis Is Required for Accurate DNA Replication and Suppression of Liver Cancer Development

Author: Lee Zou, Lixiao Che, Raj K. Pandita, Susan E. Waltz, Paul R. Andreassen, Chrystelle L. Vilfranc, Shashank Hambarde, Shimul A. Shah, Chunying Du, Tej K. Pandita, Jiang Wang, Chunmin Ge, Olugbenga Olowokure, and Liang Niu
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Genome instability, DNA Replication, Male, Carcinoma, Hepatocellular, DNA Repair, DNA damage, Carcinogenesis, Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated Proteins, Biology, Origin of replication, medicine.disease_cause, Sensitivity and Specificity, Genomic Instability, Article, Inhibitor of Apoptosis Proteins, 03 medical and health sciences, Mice, Random Allocation, 0302 clinical medicine, medicine, Animals, Humans, Gene, Mice, Knockout, Hepatology, Tumor Suppressor Proteins, Liver Neoplasms, DNA replication, medicine.disease, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Disease Models, Animal, 030104 developmental biology, Cancer research, 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology, Female, Homologous recombination, Liver cancer, human activities, circulatory and respiratory physiology, Signal Transduction
Abstract: Replication fork stability during DNA replication is vital for maintenance of genomic stability and suppression of cancer development in mammals. ATR (ataxia-telangiectasia mutated [ATM] and RAD3-related) is a master regulatory kinase that activates the replication stress response to overcome replication barriers. Although many downstream effectors of ATR have been established, the upstream regulators of ATR and the effect of such regulation on liver cancer remain unclear. The ubiquitin conjugase BRUCE (BIR Repeat containing Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzyme) is a guardian of chromosome integrity and activator of ATM signaling, which promotes DNA double-strand break repair through homologous recombination. Here we demonstrate the functions for BRUCE in ATR activation in vitro and liver tumor suppression in vivo. BRUCE is recruited to induced DNA damage sites. Depletion of BRUCE inhibited multiple ATR-dependent signaling events during replication stress, including activation of ATR itself, phosphorylation of its downstream targets CHK1 and RPA, and the mono-ubiquitination of FANCD2. Consequently, BRUCE deficiency resulted in stalled DNA replication forks and increased firing of new replication origins. The in vivo impact of BRUCE loss on liver tumorigenesis was determined using the hepatocellular carcinoma model induced by genotoxin diethylnitrosamine. Liver-specific knockout of murine Bruce impaired ATR activation and exacerbated inflammation, fibrosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, which exhibited a trabecular architecture, closely resembling human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). In humans, the clinical relevance of BRUCE down-regulation in liver disease was found in hepatitis, cirrhosis, and HCC specimens, and deleterious somatic mutations of the Bruce gene was found in human hepatocellular carcinoma in the Cancer Genome Atlas database. Conclusion: These findings establish a BRUCE-ATR signaling axis in accurate DNA replication and suppression of liver cancer in mice and humans and provides a clinically relevant HCC mouse model.
Published: 2018

41. RNF8 and SCML2 cooperate to regulate ubiquitination and H3K27 acetylation for escape gene activation on the sex chromosomes

Author: Kris G. Alavattam, Megan Shroder, So Maezawa, Satoshi H. Namekawa, Julie Sroga Rios, Hironori Abe, Akihiko Sakashita, Tyler J. Broering, Artem Barski, Shannel R. Adams, Carolyn M. Price, Paul R. Andreassen, Xinhua Lin, Michael A. Thomas, and Adams, Ian R
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, Cancer Research, Gene Expression, Polycomb-Group Proteins, Immunostaining, QH426-470, Inbred C57BL, Biochemistry, Histones, Mice, 0302 clinical medicine, Ubiquitin, Animal Cells, Spermatocytes, Monoubiquitination, Cell Cycle and Cell Division, Post-Translational Modification, Genetics (clinical), Mice, Knockout, Staining, Regulation of gene expression, Sex Chromosomes, biology, Chromosome Biology, Acetylation, Animal Models, Spermatids, Cell biology, Meiosis, Histone, Experimental Organism Systems, Cell Processes, Female, Cellular Types, Research Article, Transcriptional Activation, Knockout, Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases, 1.1 Normal biological development and functioning, Mouse Models, Research and Analysis Methods, Chromosomes, 03 medical and health sciences, Model Organisms, Underpinning research, Histone H2A, Genetics, Gene silencing, Animals, Enhancer, Spermatogenesis, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ubiquitination, Biology and Life Sciences, Proteins, Cell Biology, Sperm, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Germ Cells, 030104 developmental biology, Specimen Preparation and Treatment, biology.protein, Generic health relevance, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Developmental Biology
Abstract: The sex chromosomes are enriched with germline genes that are activated during the late stages of spermatogenesis. Due to meiotic sex chromosome inactivation (MSCI), these sex chromosome-linked genes must escape silencing for activation in spermatids, thereby ensuring their functions for male reproduction. RNF8, a DNA damage response protein, and SCML2, a germline-specific Polycomb protein, are two major, known regulators of this process. Here, we show that RNF8 and SCML2 cooperate to regulate ubiquitination during meiosis, an early step to establish active histone modifications for subsequent gene activation. Double mutants of Rnf8 and Scml2 revealed that RNF8-dependent monoubiquitination of histone H2A at Lysine 119 (H2AK119ub) is deubiquitinated by SCML2, demonstrating interplay between RNF8 and SCML2 in ubiquitin regulation. Additionally, we identify distinct functions of RNF8 and SCML2 in the regulation of ubiquitination: SCML2 deubiquitinates RNF8-independent H2AK119ub but does not deubiquitinate RNF8-dependent polyubiquitination. RNF8-dependent polyubiquitination is required for the establishment of H3K27 acetylation, a marker of active enhancers, while persistent H2AK119ub inhibits establishment of H3K27 acetylation. Following the deposition of H3K27 acetylation, H3K4 dimethylation is established as an active mark on poised promoters. Together, we propose a model whereby regulation of ubiquitin leads to the organization of poised enhancers and promoters during meiosis, which induce subsequent gene activation from the otherwise silent sex chromosomes in postmeiotic spermatids., Author summary To produce unimpaired sperm, precise activation of germline-specific genes is an essential step during the late stages of spermatogenesis. However, sex chromosomes carrying these genes become silenced in a chromosome-wide manner during meiosis in a process called meiotic sex chromosome inactivation. Sex chromosome inactivation is maintained from meiosis into postmeiotic spermatids. Thus, to ensure the function of sex chromosome-linked (sex-linked) genes required for male reproduction, these genes must escape silencing for activation in spermatids. Here, we unravel the epigenetic mechanisms that underlie the activation of sex-linked genes from otherwise inactive sex chromosomes in the male germline. We determine the mechanism by which two factors regulate gene activation: one is RNF8, a DNA damage response protein, and the other is SCML2, a germline-specific Polycomb protein. Our data suggest that, during meiosis, RNF8 and SCML2 cooperate to regulate ubiquitination, which establishes active epigenetic modifications on enhancers and promoters for subsequent gene activation; these memories are maintained through meiotic divisions to induce gene activation in spermatids. Importantly, this study uncovers novel epigenetic mechanisms that underlie specific gene activation in spermatids and illuminates potential causes of male infertility.
Published: 2018

42. Study of the rare Bs0 and B0 decays into the π+π−μ+μ− final state

Author: M. Grabalosa Gándara, A. Di Canto, L. Anderlini, Federico Redi, M. Tobin, T. Hampson, S. Belogurov, Krzysztof Swientek, Franco Bedeschi, B. Rachwal, Brian Meadows, Tara Shears, L. Carson, B. K. Pal, Anton Poluektov, N. Torr, Marco Dorigo, E. Furfaro, C. Bozzi, G. D. Patel, P. Naik, S. Reichert, Alessio Sarti, Giulio Gazzoni, M. Schmelling, Max Neuner, C. J. Parkinson, Roger Forty, E. Santovetti, M. Nicol, R. Calabrese, B. X. Liu, A. Romero Vidal, Gabriele Simi, C. Barschel, N. Tuning, I. R. Kenyon, M. Pappagallo, Mark Richard James Williams, Nicola Serra, Silvia Borghi, O. Maev, Tomasz Skwarnicki, Angelo Geraci, Sebastian Bachmann, Martino Borsato, Albert Bursche, V. Obraztsov, A. Mapelli, Stephan Eisenhardt, Wouter Hulsbergen, F. Maciuc, S. Roiser, N. Chiapolini, I. Sepp, G. Passaleva, R. Casanova Mohr, M. Vesterinen, S. Gianì, B. Sanmartin Sedes, M. Karacson, A. Cook, Marta Calvi, V. Romanovsky, Fergus Wilson, Clarissa Baesso, T. Nikodem, F. Stagni, Giulio Dujany, E. Thomas, U. Marconi, E. Gersabeck, D. Ferguson, Mikhail Zavertyaev, Barbara Sciascia, Giovanni Carboni, K. Kurek, Lorenzo Cassina, A. Semennikov, D. Brett, C. Nguyen-Mau, I. V. Machikhiliyan, K. Kreplin, Stefano Gallorini, V. Rives Molina, M. Liles, Jan Buytaert, M. Plo Casasus, Lorenzo Sestini, P. Henrard, B. Schmidt, Ivan Belyaev, S. Playfer, L. Kravchuk, A. Di Domenico, N. Rauschmayr, Alessandro Cardini, J. M. De Miranda, Jonas Rademacker, F. Blanc, S. Amerio, W. Wislicki, Yejin Zhang, R. Nandakumar, V. Niess, M. Korolev, G. Mancinelli, R. Lefèvre, I. Counts, A. Ukleja, A. Artamonov, S. Easo, Miroslaw Firlej, A. Novoselov, G. Graziani, N. Skidmore, N. Hussain, Violetta Cogoni, Mariana Rihl, E. Grauges, Themistocles Bowcock, Laura Gavardi, V. Salustino Guimaraes, Eugenia Price, P. N. Y. David, David Gascon, C. Voss, C. Khurewathanakul, C. Santamarina Rios, S. Gregson, Stephen M. Stahl, P. Vazquez Regueiro, R. Silva Coutinho, Dmitry Popov, N. Neufeld, R. F. Koopman, C. Haen, M. Shapkin, Gianluigi Casse, D. Dossett, Alessandro Bertolin, C. Hadjivasiliou, Vincenzo Battista, C. Langenbruch, W. C. Zhang, I. Raniuk, Pierluigi Campana, D. Websdale, B. Couturier, Marco Cattaneo, S. Filippov, Claudio Gotti, B. Langhans, F. Fontanelli, E. Tournefier, F. Machefert, C. Hombach, J. J. Walsh, I. Nasteva, A. Shires, S. Tourneur, I. Shapoval, Luciano Pappalardo, V. Vorobyev, A. Borgia, S. Lohn, J. M. Otalora Goicochea, Alexander Berezhnoy, E. Cogneras, W. Sutcliffe, B. Rakotomiaramanana, C. Goebel, Konstantinos Petridis, V. Fernandez Albor, Y. Shcheglov, A. Dzyuba, F. Soomro, N. A. Smith, E. van Herwijnen, J. D. Price, B. Storaci, A.E. Bondar, A. Oyanguren, J. Beddow, J. Albrecht, J. V. Viana Barbosa, R. Wallace, R. Ekelhof, M. Ferro-Luzzi, G. Manca, O. Schneider, Kurt Rinnert, S. A. Wotton, S. Farry, Rudolf Oldeman, M. J. Morello, A. Dovbnya, V. Vagnoni, L. Zhang, Massimiliano Fiorini, P. David, Matthew Kelsey, D. C. Craik, P. M. Bjørnstad, Timothy Gershon, Y. Xie, Thomas Blake, Antonio Pellegrino, A. Gallas Torreira, L. Pescatore, Daniel Patrick O'Hanlon, E. Jans, G. Wormser, Karol Hennessy, L. Beaucourt, A. Pistone, C. Parkes, A. Petrolini, V. N. La Thi, A. Tsaregorodtsev, Silvia Gambetta, B. Souza De Paula, E. Rodrigues, Marianna Fontana, L. De Paula, R. Andreassen, T. Kvaratskheliya, G. Valenti, Wojciech Kucewicz, Zishuo Yang, M. Palutan, M. Teklishyn, M. O. Bettler, V. V. Gligorov, Biplab Dey, H. Schindler, Marek Idzik, F. Kruse, P. Ruiz Valls, T. Head, X. Cid Vidal, T. M. Karbach, M. De Cian, M. van Beuzekom, Scott Ely, M. Charles, F. Meier, C. Lazzeroni, M. Meissner, R. Santacesaria, C. Vázquez Sierra, Sheldon Stone, L. Grillo, Federica Lionetto, Marco Adinolfi, D. Voong, V. Gibson, R. Le Gac, Davide Pinci, R. Cenci, Stephane T'Jampens, M. S. Rangel, V. Bocci, Liupan An, Zhijie Xu, A. Zhokhov, A. Badalov, Marian Stahl, S. T. Harnew, R. Maerki, A. Satta, P. Lowdon, Gianni Penso, S. Neubert, V. Shevchenko, N. Moggi, T. Ruf, Nathanael Farley, M. Witek, K. Wyllie, Y. Li, A. Palano, Tomasz Szumlak, J. A. de Vries, P. Owen, Robert Appleby, J. Blouw, J. Maratas, M. M. Reid, Anna Lupato, M. Britsch, B. Pietrzyk, Sophie Richards, J. P. Lees, M. Needham, R. Currie, P. Fol, Michael Kolpin, P. Durante, C. Thomas, G. Lanfranchi, M.-N. Minard, A. D. Nguyen, A. Vorobyev, G. Martellotti, S. Hansmann-Menzemer, C. Sanchez Mayordomo, H. V. Cliff, Federico Alessio, D. Lambert, F. Teubert, D. Hynds, Cameron Thomas Dean, J. Lefrançois, A. Contu, Marina Artuso, M. Corvo, A. Jaeger, M. Schlupp, F. F. Jing, Olivier Leroy, W. Kanso, E. S. Smith, F. Dordei, Dmitry Golubkov, D. Galli, Malcolm John, S. Coquereau, M. Gandelman, Jinlin Fu, U. Eitschberger, P. Morawski, M. Merk, S. Monteil, A. Schopper, W. Bonivento, Diego Alejandro Milanes, E. Greening, O. Steinkamp, M. Andreotti, M. Tresch, Maximilien Chefdeville, R. Mountain, Simone Bifani, Eleonora Luppi, E. Gushchin, C. Linn, Ch. Elsasser, E. Polycarpo, Tatsuya Nakada, D. R. Johnson, M. Pepe Altarelli, D. Wiedner, A. Pritchard, R. Schwemmer, C. J. G. Onderwater, P. Perret, Manuel Schiller, K. Carvalho Akiba, Matteo Rama, L. Zhong, G. Collazuol, Mauro Morandin, R. Vazquez Gomez, O. Aquines Gutierrez, Sergey Barsuk, C. Joram, Patrick Koppenburg, Giulia Tellarini, Marco Gersabeck, H. Ruiz, M. Hoballah, G. Ciezarek, T. Lesiak, I. O. Skillicorn, C. R. Jones, K. Müller, M. Orlandea, Srikanth Sridharan, Andrew Crocombe, Z. Mathe, O. Lupton, M. T. Tran, R. Gauld, U. Uwer, J. Panman, Luca Tomassetti, D. Souza, G. Bencivenni, B. McSkelly, S. Esen, A. Gianelle, Sandro Cadeddu, Nikolay Bondar, L. Garrido, Simon Akar, O. Okhrimenko, F. Muheim, J. Jalocha, J. Todd, M. Veltri, G. Haefeli, H. W. Wilschut, B. Leverington, M. Chrzaszcz, Ph. Ghez, A. Sciubba, V. Egorychev, Marcello Rotondo, R. Jacobsson, Roger Barlow, William Barter, P. Szczypka, Angelo Carbone, Louis Henry, L. Giubega, Jakub Moron, A. Leflat, L. Castillo Garcia, Daniel Martin Saunders, S. Perazzini, J. Molina Rodriguez, Elie Aslanides, J. Marks, M. Straticiuc, Tomasz Fiutowski, Jaap Velthuis, Lucian Cojocariu, P. Collins, F. J. P. Soler, G. A. Cowan, S. Ali, S. C. Haines, A. Hicheur, M. P. Williams, D. Vieira, S. Malde, S. Ogilvy, B. Gui, S. Kandybei, David Hutchcroft, C. Satriano, F. Palombo, D. Martinez Santos, D. Lacarrere, A. Mordà, J. R. Smith, P. Gandini, I. Polyakov, M. McCann, C. Matteuzzi, M. Coombes, E. Ben-Haim, Valery Pugatch, M. Frosini, O. Kochebina, P. Spradlin, R. Niet, A. Dziurda, J. Prisciandaro, A. McNab, Roland Bernet, E. Picatoste Olloqui, T. Pilar, S. Wandernoth, R. Graciani Diaz, Neville Harnew, A. Vollhardt, S. Topp-Joergensen, Adam Benjamin Morris, B. Popovici, N. Déléage, Michael Alexander, D. Lucchesi, K. De Bruyn, J. Harrison, F. Polci, Ignacio Bediaga, F. Dupertuis, Wander Baldini, P. Alvarez Cartelle, A. Zhelezov, M. Fiore, J. McCarthy, Sandra Amato, M. Kucharczyk, T. Gys, U. Gastaldi, S. Ricciardi, Timothy Evans, K. Belous, Jolanta Brodzicka, S. Cunliffe, A. Davis, J. Wimberley, M. Deckenhoff, Christoph Frei, Tatiana Likhomanenko, S. Klaver, Julien Cogan, M. Sirendi, S. Swientek, O. Yushchenko, J. J. Saborido Silva, Nicola Neri, P. Tsopelas, Thomas Latham, C. Patrignani, R. Matev, Claudia Vacca, V. Tisserand, G. Wilkinson, A. Otto, P. Rodriguez Perez, J. Rouvinet, Carmelo D'Ambrosio, Jean François Marchand, Oleg Stenyakin, R. McNulty, P. Krokovny, Francesco Dettori, C. Fitzpatrick, A. Bien, S. Karodia, A. A. Alves, D. Volyanskyy, L. Del Buono, Ch. Cauet, Sai-Juan Chen, B. Muster, A. Gomes, A. Falabella, Biagio Saitta, J. van Tilburg, L. A. Granado Cardoso, Philip Ilten, O. Gruenberg, C. Wallace, R. W. Lambert, I. Komarov, R. Dzhelyadin, A. Lai, N. H. Brook, A. Pearce, Roberta Cardinale, A. Vallier, D. Martins Tostes, J. E. Andrews, M. Zangoli, Lorenzo Capriotti, G. Auriemma, Konrad Klimaszewski, S. Stracka, A. Jawahery, J. H. Lopes, Markus Frank, Karlis Dreimanis, F. Sterpka, S. Blusk, C. Potterat, T. Britton, M. Cruz Torres, M. Mussini, S. Tolk, B. Khanji, S. Vecchi, Jeremy Dalseno, M. Ubeda Garcia, Yasmine Amhis, A. A. Affolder, P. Griffith, M. Smith, C. Faerber, X. Yuan, J. Garofoli, J. Anderson, George Lafferty, M. Hess, Andrea Bizzeti, R. Stroili, M. Baalouch, Z. Xing, Yu. Guz, P. De Simone, J. García Pardiñas, R. Lindner, B. Spaan, H. L. Snoek, J. Closier, A. Massafferri, B. Osorio Rodrigues, J. A. Hernando Morata, Y. N. Gao, Hans Dijkstra, A. Ustyuzhanin, Roel Aaij, C. Gaspar, Jing Wang, A. Mazurov, G. Veneziano, Mark Whitehead, T. Bird, C. Farinelli, C. Marin Benito, Michal Kreps, E. Bowen, B. Jost, A. Bay, S. Donleavy, Marco Clemencic, J. van Leerdam, G. Raven, D. Decamp, A. Golutvin, Varvara Batozskaya, G. Krocker, L. Shekhtman, A. Dosil Suárez, Victor Coco, Albert Comerma-Montells, Xiaoxue Han, G. Alkhazov, S.I. Eidelman, A. Puig Navarro, M. Calvo Gomez, D. Campora Perez, G. Corti, V. Kudryavtsev, D. R. Ward, J. Wishahi, D. Hill, Maurizio Martinelli, M. Szczekowski, M. Vieites Diaz, S. De Capua, W. De Silva, Oscar De Aguiar Francisco, Nikolay Nikitin, I. Longstaff, D. Savrina, W. Qian, F. Martinez Vidal, Tjeerd Ketel, Ana Trisovic, P. E. L. Clarke, A. C. dos Reis, A. Popov, I. El Rifai, Lars Eklund, V. Heijne, J. Garra Tico, Ziad Ajaltouni, Giovanni Punzi, C. Prouve, Xavier Vilasis-Cardona, S. Stevenson, P. Seyfert, A. Papanestis, M. Patel, Michael Sokoloff, N. K. Watson, T. D. Nguyen, S.-F. Cheung, J. He, Marie Helene Schune, B. Viaud, D. Tonelli, S. Wright, A. Grecu, N. Sagidova, RF Fay, U. Egede, H. Luo, L. Sun, J. J. Back, Bernardo Adeva, B. Hamilton, Sean Benson, Hal Evans, U. Straumann, Elena Graverini, Ph. Charpentier, Alexander Malinin, Olivier Deschamps, Flavio Archilli, P. Marino, S. Hall, Mark Wilkinson, Roland Waldi, A. B. Rodrigues, V. Syropoulos, J. Serrano, Patrick Robbe, S. Stoica, E. Pesen, J. Benton, Nathan Jurik, P. Sail, Denis Derkach, F. Ferreira Rodrigues, and Agnieszka Oblakowska-Mucha
Subjects: Nuclear physics, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Large Hadron Collider, Muon, Pion, Branching fraction, Pi, CP violation, Invariant mass
Abstract: A search for the rare decays B0s→π+π−μ+μ− and B0→π+π−μ+μ− is performed in a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb−1 collected by the LHCb detector in proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. Decay candidates with pion pairs that have invariant mass in the range 0.5-1.3 GeV/c2 and with muon pairs that do not originate from a resonance are considered. The first observation of the decay B0s→π+π−μ+μ− and the first evidence of the decay B0→π+π−μ+μ− are obtained and the branching fractions are measured to be B(B0s→π+π−μ+μ−)=(8.6±1.5(stat)±0.7(syst)±0.7(norm))×10−8 and B(B0→π+π−μ+μ−)=(2.11±0.51(stat)±0.15(syst)±0.16(norm))×10−8, where the third uncertainty is due to the branching fraction of the decay B0→J/ψ(→μ+μ−)K∗(890)0(→K+π−), used as a normalisation.
Published: 2015

43. Measurement of the CP -violating phase β inB0→J/ψπ+π−decays and limits on penguin effects

Author: Ph. Charpentier, Alexander Malinin, Angelo Carbone, Jaap Velthuis, B. Rachwal, Marco Dorigo, Carmelo D'Ambrosio, Jean François Marchand, Oleg Stenyakin, S. Gambetta, A. B. Rodrigues, M. P. Williams, S. Malde, C. Barschel, A. Cook, C. Fitzpatrick, D. Ferguson, M. Coombes, Mark Richard James Williams, Mikhail Zavertyaev, L. Del Buono, S. Playfer, A. Vallier, B. Popovici, N. Déléage, E. Tournefier, Massimiliano Fiorini, C. Vázquez Sierra, A. Di Domenico, S. Hall, Ignacio Bediaga, Mark Wilkinson, Roland Waldi, G. Tellarini, Kurt Rinnert, V. Syropoulos, Robert Appleby, J. Maratas, T. E. Latham, M. M. Reid, Simon Akar, Gianluigi Casse, C. Göbel, J. E. Andrews, Guy Wilkinson, Jonas Rademacker, Stephen M. Stahl, N. Neufeld, M. Vieites Diaz, W. De Silva, Lucio Anderlini, Oscar De Aguiar Francisco, J. Serrano, G. Manca, O. Schneider, L. Pescatore, M. Corvo, Karol Hennessy, M. Charles, C. Lazzeroni, M. Meissner, E. Thomas, E. Gersabeck, C. Färber, L. Kravchuk, C. Thomas, Max Neuner, D. Lambert, Silvia Borghi, M. Karacson, Agnieszka Oblakowska-Mucha, F. J. P. Soler, S. Ali, S. C. Haines, A. Hicheur, D. Lacarrere, A. Mordà, C. Langenbruch, W. C. Zhang, E. Jans, M. S. Rangel, Liupan An, A. A. Affolder, J. Anderson, E. Santovetti, W. Sutcliffe, A. Petrolini, A. Popov, Alessandro Cardini, J. M. De Miranda, N. Skidmore, L. Grillo, F. Kruse, T. Head, Markus Frank, Simone Bifani, Karlis Dreimanis, R. Calabrese, M. McCann, C. Matteuzzi, A. McNab, P. Marino, Claudio Gotti, M. Baalouch, A. Grecu, L. Sun, J. Panman, J. J. Back, Bernardo Adeva, Hal Evans, P. Durante, Roland Bernet, S. Stracka, C. Sanchez Mayordomo, H. V. Cliff, Federico Alessio, V. Vagnoni, Ch. Elsasser, M. J. Morello, Marian Stahl, M. Schlupp, P. Perret, O. Aquines Gutierrez, Sergey Barsuk, C. Joram, P. Lowdon, E. Greening, H. Ruiz, M. Orlandea, E. Picatoste Olloqui, E. Luppi, S. Wandernoth, L. Zhang, Marianna Fontana, R. Andreassen, J. McCarthy, R. Santacesaria, Jakub Moron, A. Leflat, A. Davis, Patrick Koppenburg, Wojciech Kucewicz, A. Satta, J. Molina Rodriguez, J. A. de Vries, J. Wimberley, O. Lupton, M. T. Tran, R. Gauld, E. Pesen, Tara Shears, J. Todd, H. W. Wilschut, B. Leverington, M. Chrzaszcz, L. Giubega, A. Oyanguren, C. Voß, L. Castillo Garcia, A. Gianelle, Eugenia Price, M. Rama, F. Fontanelli, V. Gibson, Patrick Robbe, M. Tobin, T. J. V. Bowcock, F. Teubert, T. Hampson, J. Lefrançois, N. Neri, I. V. Machikhiliyan, Nathan Jurik, D. Lucchesi, Daniel Martin Saunders, Sandro Cadeddu, Hans Dijkstra, Lucian Cojocariu, A. Bertolin, W. Baldini, S. Stoica, Julien Cogan, J. M. Otalora Goicochea, Krzysztof Swientek, Anton Poluektov, Lorenzo Sestini, S. Ogilvy, C. Satriano, B. Gui, D. Martinez Santos, S. T. Harnew, G. Auriemma, A. Contu, Franco Bedeschi, B. Rakotomiaramanana, T. Ruf, T. J. Gershon, R. Cenci, Michael Kolpin, G. Lanfranchi, M.-N. Minard, R. Currie, S. Hansmann-Menzemer, A. Schopper, M. Heß, Elie Aslanides, A. Zhokhov, A. Badalov, R. Matev, Olivier Leroy, I. Longstaff, A. Romero Vidal, B. K. Pal, F. Martinez Vidal, K. De Bruyn, J. Harrison, F. Polci, W. Kanso, J. Benton, Adam Benjamin Morris, Varvara Batozskaya, R. Niet, G. Krocker, R. Mountain, Timothy Evans, P. Sail, Stephane T'Jampens, N. Torr, A. D. Nguyen, A. Vorobyev, F. Dordei, Denis Derkach, J. D. Price, B. Storaci, T. Lesiak, Tjeerd Ketel, J. Rouvinet, M. Zangoli, A.E. Bondar, R. McNulty, P. Krokovny, F. Ferreira Rodrigues, A. Vollhardt, G. Carboni, E. Furfaro, D. E. Hutchcroft, C. Potterat, S. Ricciardi, D. C. Craik, Michael Alexander, L. Shekhtman, P. M. Bjørnstad, I. El Rifai, A. Dosil Suárez, M. Sirendi, J. P. Lees, E. S. Smith, S. Swientek, S. Cunliffe, B. Schmidt, P. Tsopelas, Ivan Belyaev, C. Patrignani, Christoph Frei, D. Volyanskyy, Ch. Cauet, A. Artamonov, V. Tisserand, M. Andreotti, O. Yushchenko, M. Pepe Altarelli, Andrew Crocombe, Z. Mathe, Basem Khanji, Y. Xie, Anna Lupato, M. Britsch, Thomas Blake, V. Heijne, J. Garra Tico, H. Schindler, Marek Idzik, P. Ruiz Valls, Victor Coco, Marco Gersabeck, M. Cruz Torres, Francesco Dettori, Albert Comerma-Montells, A. Bien, C. Prouve, R. Vazquez Gomez, G. D. Patel, F. F. Wilson, V. Salustino Guimaraes, D. Vieira, M. De Cian, M. van Beuzekom, Scott Ely, A. Puig Navarro, A. Semennikov, D. Brett, A. Gomes, S. Monteil, Alessio Sarti, B. Sanmartin Sedes, A. Falabella, D. Souza, Biagio Saitta, A. A. Alves, K. Müller, M. Korolev, Yang Li, B. X. Liu, Xavier Vilasis-Cardona, G. Passaleva, O. Grünberg, Zhijie Xu, K. Wyllie, D. Campora Perez, B. Pietrzyk, P. Szczypka, Yejin Zhang, L. A. Granado Cardoso, V. Kudryavtsev, M. Merk, N. H. Brook, S. Tourneur, C. Wallace, D. A. Milanes, S. Topp-Joergensen, D. R. Ward, V. Niess, V. Fernandez Albor, S. Tolk, A. Dzyuba, T. Gys, A. Ustyuzhanin, I. Komarov, M. Patel, Barbara Sciascia, A. Jawahery, C. Gaspar, Jing Wang, Manuel Schiller, S. Easo, Miroslaw Firlej, R. Dzhelyadin, A. Lai, P. Campana, A. Pearce, R. Schwemmer, N. Hussain, S. Gregson, Violetta Cogoni, A. Borgia, E. Grauges, G. Simi, N. K. Watson, A. Mazurov, F. Machefert, C. Hombach, D. Tonelli, S. Wright, C. J. G. Onderwater, M. Deckenhoff, A. Di Canto, J. H. Lopes, S. Belogurov, F. Sterpka, K. Carvalho Akiba, S. Klaver, S. Esen, J. J. Saborido Silva, S. Blusk, Alexander Berezhnoy, T. Bird, R. Wallace, N. Chiapolini, F. Muheim, I. Sepp, R. Casanova Mohr, M. Veltri, G. Haefeli, C. Parkes, RF Fay, U. Egede, H. Luo, P. Henrard, S. Vecchi, B. Souza De Paula, L. Carson, B. Hamilton, Sean Benson, C. Bozzi, Michal Kreps, B. Jost, U. Straumann, F. Blanc, P. Rodriguez Perez, R. Lefèvre, Chung Nguyen-Mau, Stefano Gallorini, O. Maev, J. R. Smith, Valery Pugatch, Tomasz Skwarnicki, Angelo Geraci, Sebastian Bachmann, I. Nasteva, A. Novoselov, I. Shapoval, I. Counts, M. Mussini, Mariana Rihl, Elena Graverini, Giulio Gazzoni, Olivier Deschamps, A. Zhelezov, Flavio Archilli, R. J. Barlow, Yasmine Amhis, Marta Calvi, M. Morandin, M. Smith, G. Graziani, S. Donleavy, M. Fiore, Jeremy Dalseno, M. H. Schune, S. Filippov, P. N. Y. David, B. Langhans, David Gascon, Marco Clemencic, Martino Borsato, V. Vorobyev, M. Ferro-Luzzi, L. L. Pappalardo, A. Dovbnya, J. J. Walsh, M. Shapkin, M. Ubeda Garcia, V. Obraztsov, P. Vazquez Regueiro, R. Silva Coutinho, Dmitry Popov, Stephan Eisenhardt, Daniel Patrick O'Hanlon, O. Kochebina, P. Spradlin, P. Griffith, J. Jalocha, J. Prisciandaro, Marco Cattaneo, Louis Henry, U. Uwer, R. Stroili, Y. Shcheglov, T. Kvaratskheliya, Andrea Bizzeti, Tomasz Fiutowski, P. Collins, Ivan Polyakov, S. Kandybei, F. Maciuc, A. Palano, Tomasz Szumlak, F. Palombo, F. Meier, L. Beaucourt, Z. Xing, Yu. Guz, L. Tomassetti, A. Dziurda, R. Graciani Diaz, A. Ukleja, P. De Simone, G. D. Lafferty, P. Jaton, Neville Harnew, K. Kreplin, M. Hoballah, B. Spaan, G. Ciezarek, Antonio Pellegrino, J. Closier, A. Massafferri, J. A. Hernando Morata, R. Jacobsson, M. Liles, S. Coquereau, E. Polycarpo, Tatsuya Nakada, A. Pritchard, Roel Aaij, G. Bencivenni, U. Gastaldi, A. Otto, Claudia Vacca, B. Muster, S. Karodia, Sai-Juan Chen, J. van Tilburg, Philip Ilten, M. Frosini, R. W. Lambert, Roberta Cardinale, P. Fol, Dmitry Golubkov, Srikanth Sridharan, V. Bocci, D. Pinci, V. Egorychev, M. Grabalosa Gándara, Federico Redi, Xiaoxue Han, C. J. Parkinson, Nicola Serra, P. Naik, S. Reichert, M. Schmelling, M. Nicol, I. R. Kenyon, U. Marconi, M. Pappagallo, K. Kurek, M. Vesterinen, G. Alkhazov, G. Mancinelli, S. Gianì, V. Romanovsky, D. Websdale, S.I. Eidelman, V. Rives Molina, R. F. Koopman, C. Haen, C. Hadjivasiliou, B. Couturier, J. Beddow, P. David, V. N. La Thi, A. Tsaregorodtsev, J. V. Viana Barbosa, M. Calvo Gomez, Sheldon Stone, Zishuo Yang, M. Palutan, M. Teklishyn, G. Corti, M. O. Bettler, V. V. Gligorov, Gianni Penso, A. Jaeger, F. F. Jing, U. Eitschberger, P. Morawski, W. Bonivento, L. Zhong, G. Collazuol, J. Wishahi, B. McSkelly, G. Valenti, P. Owen, J. Blouw, Matthew Kelsey, Lars Eklund, Marcin Kucharczyk, Maximilien Chefdeville, D. R. Johnson, I. O. Skillicorn, C. R. Jones, E. Ben-Haim, Ziad Ajaltouni, N. Tuning, M. Rotondo, N. Rauschmayr, S. Stevenson, N. A. Smith, P. Seyfert, L. Garrido, C. Baesso, E. van Herwijnen, R. Ekelhof, T. D. Nguyen, S.-F. Cheung, P. Gandini, F. Dupertuis, P. Alvarez Cartelle, Sandra Amato, K. Belous, Jolanta Brodzicka, Tatiana Likhomanenko, B. Viaud, N. Sagidova, L. Cassina, D. Hill, Maurizio Martinelli, M. Szczekowski, G. Wormser, N. Moggi, G. Punzi, S. De Capua, Nikolay Nikitin, D. Savrina, W. Qian, Ana Trisovic, P. E. L. Clarke, A. C. dos Reis, X. Cid Vidal, T. M. Karbach, Marco Adinolfi, S. Neubert, V. Shevchenko, D. Martins Tostes, D. Wiedner, Cameron Thomas Dean, Jinlin Fu, O. Steinkamp, Konrad Klimaszewski, Roger Forty, Albert Bursche, A. Mapelli, S. Roiser, Nikolay Bondar, T. Nikodem, F. Stagni, Giulio Dujany, Jan Buytaert, M. Plo Casasus, O. Okhrimenko, I. Raniuk, Ph. Ghez, A. Sciubba, E. Cogneras, S. A. Wotton, J. Marks, M. Straticiuc, G. A. Cowan, A. Papanestis, Rudolf Oldeman, D. Voong, R. Le Gac, A. Gallas Torreira, T. Britton, Nathanael Farley, M. Witek, M. Needham, Johannes Albrecht, Malcolm John, M. Gandelman, M. Tresch, E. Gushchin, C. Linn, R. Nandakumar, R. Märki, Laura Gavardi, D. Dossett, Sophie Richards, D. Hynds, D. Galli, T. Pilař, Vincenzo Battista, S. Perazzini, Marina Artuso, S. Amerio, W. Wislicki, S. Farry, C. Farinelli, J. He, A. Pistone, C. Khurewathanakul, C. Santamarina Rios, G. Martellotti, C. Marin Benito, E. Rodrigues, L. De Paula, Federica Lionetto, A. Shires, E. Bowen, S. Lohn, A. Bay, W. D. Hulsbergen, B. T. Meadows, Konstantinos Petridis, J. van Leerdam, G. Raven, D. Decamp, A. Golutvin, F. Soomro, M. D. Sokoloff, X. Yuan, J. Garofoli, J. García Pardiñas, R. Lindner, H. L. Snoek, Y. N. Gao, G. Veneziano, Mark Whitehead, and William Barter
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Phase (waves), 01 natural sciences, Measure (mathematics), Symmetry (physics), Luminosity, Nuclear physics, Amplitude, 0103 physical sciences, CP violation, Limit (mathematics), Symmetry breaking, 010306 general physics
Abstract: Time-dependent CP violation is measured in the B0→J/ψπ+π− channel for each π+π− resonant final state using data collected with an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb−1 in pp collisions using the LHCb detector. The final state with the largest rate, J/ψρ0(770), is used to measure the CP-violating angle 2βeff to be (41.7±9.6+2.8−6.3)∘. This result can be used to limit the size of penguin amplitude contributions to CP violation measurements in, for example, B0s→J/ψϕ decays. Assuming approximate SU(3) flavour symmetry and neglecting higher order diagrams, the shift in the CP-violating phase ϕs is limited to be within the interval [−1.05∘, +1.18∘] at 95% confidence level. Changes to the limit due to SU(3) symmetry breaking effects are also discussed.
Published: 2015

44. Measurement of the lifetime of theBc+meson using theBc+→J/ψπ+decay mode

Author: A. Cook, D. Ferguson, S. Playfer, B. Schmidt, A. Di Domenico, William Barter, Angelo Carbone, W. Qian, Jaap Velthuis, Daniel Martin Saunders, Guy Wilkinson, Lucian Cojocariu, Ph. Ghez, Luciano Pappalardo, Ivan Belyaev, C. Sanchez Mayordomo, H. V. Cliff, Federico Alessio, J. D. Price, B. Storaci, Ch. Elsasser, Tara Shears, O. Lupton, M. T. Tran, R. Gauld, A. Oyanguren, T. J. Gershon, Elie Aslanides, D. C. Craik, P. M. Bjørnstad, Basem Khanji, Y. Xie, A. Artamonov, Thomas Blake, Biplab Dey, H. Schindler, Marek Idzik, P. Ruiz Valls, V. Salustino Guimaraes, M. De Cian, Anton Poluektov, Scott Ely, Zhijie Xu, W. Sutcliffe, M. P. Williams, S. Malde, M. Vieites Diaz, W. De Silva, A. Ustyuzhanin, C. Gaspar, Jing Wang, Stephane T'Jampens, L. Beaucourt, L. Garrido, C. Baesso, K. De Bruyn, J. Harrison, Marcello Rotondo, S. Ogilvy, B. Gui, N. Torr, S. Tolk, A. Petrolini, Lorenzo Sestini, I. Longstaff, M. Coombes, C. Vázquez Sierra, N. Tuning, Claudia Vacca, J. P. Lees, E. S. Smith, M. Korolev, A. Mazurov, Marian Stahl, Timothy Evans, Alessandro Bertolin, E. Furfaro, S. Vecchi, M. Sirendi, P. Lowdon, W. Kanso, S. Swientek, I. Nasteva, B. Pietrzyk, P. Tsopelas, C. Patrignani, S. Cunliffe, F. F. Wilson, K. Mueller, B. Popovici, Ignacio Bediaga, I. Shapoval, F. Teubert, J. Lefrançois, A. Gomes, S. Easo, Miroslaw Firlej, P. Campana, A. Borgia, Alexander Berezhnoy, L. Shekhtman, C. Langenbruch, W. C. Zhang, Tjeerd Ketel, Lucio Anderlini, Oscar De Aguiar Francisco, A. Popov, Yasmine Amhis, Wojciech Kucewicz, A. Shires, N. Rauschmayr, Robert Appleby, G. D. Patel, L. A. Granado Cardoso, N. H. Brook, J. Jalocha, Louis Henry, M. Smith, M. M. Reid, R. Vazquez Gomez, P. Gandini, S. Karodia, Sai-Juan Chen, J. van Tilburg, Luca Tomassetti, V. Tisserand, R. Wallace, D. Souza, P. Szczypka, T. Bird, W. Baldini, Wouter Hulsbergen, B. Sanmartin Sedes, C. Faerber, V. Heijne, J. Garra Tico, S. T. Harnew, Barbara Sciascia, Philip Ilten, Andrew Crocombe, Z. Mathe, N. A. Smith, M. H. 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Golutvin, Alexander Bondar, K. Wyllie, M. D. Sokoloff, M. Merk, C. J. G. Onderwater, X. Yuan, J. Marks, J. Garofoli, M. Straticiuc, S. Esen, G. A. Cowan, J. García Pardiñas, R. Lindner, H. L. Snoek, Y. N. Gao, G. Veneziano, Mark Whitehead, Semen Eidelman, M. Frosini, D. Martins Tostes, P. Spradlin, Konrad Klimaszewski, J. Prisciandaro, T. Britton, M. Nicol, X. Cid Vidal, T. M. Karbach, Marco Adinolfi, V. Niess, S. Neubert, V. Shevchenko, Cameron Thomas Dean, Jinlin Fu, O. Steinkamp, Roger Forty, E. Santovetti, Gabriele Simi, Albert Bursche, A. Mapelli, S. Roiser, T. Nikodem, F. Stagni, Giulio Dujany, Jan Buytaert, M. Plo Casasus, R. Le Gac, Claudio Gotti, I. Raniuk, S. A. Wotton, A. Papanestis, Rudolf Oldeman, Massimiliano Fiorini, V. Vagnoni, A. Gallas Torreira, P. Jaton, Giovanni Carboni, I. V. Machikhiliyan, K. Kreplin, M. Liles, P. David, O. Maev, Tomasz Skwarnicki, Angelo Geraci, Sebastian Bachmann, Martino Borsato, V. Obraztsov, Stephan Eisenhardt, and F. Maciuc
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, QCD sum rules, Particle physics, Large Hadron Collider, Meson, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, 0103 physical sciences, Time evolution, 010306 general physics, 01 natural sciences
Abstract: The difference in total widths between the B+c and B+ mesons is measured using 3.0fb−1 of data collected by the LHCb experiment in 7 and 8 TeV centre-of-mass energy proton-proton collisions at the LHC. Through the study of the time evolution of B+c→J/ψπ+ and B+→J/ψK+ decays, the width difference is measured to beΔΓ≡ΓB+c−ΓB+=4.46±0.14±0.07mm−1c,where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. The known lifetime of the B+ meson is used to convert this to a precise measurement of the B+c lifetime,τB+c=513.4±11.0±5.7fs,where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic.
Published: 2015

45. SCML2 Establishes the Male Germline Epigenome through Regulation of Histone H2A Ubiquitination

Author: Kenneth D. Greis, Andrey V. Kartashov, Satoshi H. Namekawa, Fan Zhang, So Maezawa, Yosuke Ichijima, Kazuteru Hasegawa, Tyler J. Broering, Ho-Su Sin, Paul R. Andreassen, Artem Barski, Kris G. Alavattam, and W. Clark Bacon
Subjects: Male, Epigenomics, Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone, Somatic cell, Messenger, Cell Cycle Proteins, Medical and Health Sciences, Germline, Histones, Immunoenzyme Techniques, Mice, Testis, Developmental, Cells, Cultured, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Mice, Knockout, Genetics, Regulation of gene expression, Polycomb Repressive Complex 1, Cultured, Sex Chromosomes, biology, Blotting, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, Adaptor Proteins, Biological Sciences, Chromosomal Proteins, Meiosis, Histone, Female, Stem Cell Research - Nonembryonic - Non-Human, Western, Biotechnology, Chromatin Immunoprecipitation, Cells, Knockout, Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases, 1.1 Normal biological development and functioning, Blotting, Western, Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction, Article, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Underpinning research, Animals, RNA, Messenger, Gene Silencing, Spermatogenesis, Molecular Biology, Psychological repression, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, Ubiquitin, Gene Expression Profiling, Contraception/Reproduction, Human Genome, fungi, Signal Transducing, Ubiquitination, Cell Biology, Epigenome, Non-Histone, Stem Cell Research, Repressor Proteins, Germ Cells, Gene Expression Regulation, Histone H2A ubiquitination, biology.protein, RNA, Biomarkers, Developmental Biology
Abstract: SummaryGametogenesis is dependent on the expression of germline-specific genes. However, it remains unknown how the germline epigenome is distinctly established from that of somatic lineages. Here we show that genes commonly expressed in somatic lineages and spermatogenesis-progenitor cells undergo repression in a genome-wide manner in late stages of the male germline and identify underlying mechanisms. SCML2, a germline-specific subunit of a Polycomb repressive complex 1 (PRC1), establishes the unique epigenome of the male germline through two distinct antithetical mechanisms. SCML2 works with PRC1 and promotes RNF2-dependent ubiquitination of H2A, thereby marking somatic/progenitor genes on autosomes for repression. Paradoxically, SCML2 also prevents RNF2-dependent ubiquitination of H2A on sex chromosomes during meiosis, thereby enabling unique epigenetic programming of sex chromosomes for male reproduction. Our results reveal divergent mechanisms involving a shared regulator by which the male germline epigenome is distinguished from that of the soma and progenitor cells.
Published: 2015
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46. Determination of γ and−2βsfrom charmless two-body decays of beauty mesons

Author: D. Wiedner, O. Okhrimenko, M. Shapkin, J. Jalocha, R. Schwemmer, S. De Capua, Y. Shcheglov, Nikolay Nikitin, Louis Henry, T. Kvaratskheliya, J. Vantilburg, Nikolay Bondar, P. Hunt, D. Savrina, J. F. Marchand, Mauro Morandin, F. Muheim, Tomasz Fiutowski, P. Collins, J. Wicht, P. E. L. Clarke, M. Veltri, A. Sciubba, S. Kandybei, F. Palombo, S. Gianì, Jan Maratas, A. Palano, Tomasz Szumlak, M. Hoballah, J. Marks, A. C. dos Reis, C. Langenbruch, M. Straticiuc, G. Ciezarek, R. Jacobsson, G. A. Cowan, Anthony Affolder, A. Dziurda, R. Graciani Diaz, W. C. Zhang, Y. M. Zhang, J. R. Smith, Marc-Olivier Bettler, Neville Harnew, A. Bien, X. Han, Marianna Fontana, R. Andreassen, V. Gibson, T. Ruf, Y. Li, R. Nandakumar, Laura Gavardi, A. Zhelezov, M. Fiore, G. Wormser, Michael Kolpin, G. Lanfranchi, A. Vorobyev, F. Dordei, R. Maerki, D. Dossett, N. Moggi, Z. Xing, Yu. Guz, P. De Simone, Lars Eklund, Tara Shears, Anton Poluektov, S. Farry, G. Punzi, M. J. Morello, J. He, N. Torr, Ziad Ajaltouni, Mirco Dorigo, A. Romero Vidal, Gabriele Veneziano, D. A. Milanes, A. Pistone, E. Furfaro, B. Spaan, J. Closier, S. Filippov, Jack Benton, A. Massafferri, G. D. Patel, E. Rodrigues, L. De Paula, J. Garca Pardinas, C. Nguyen-Mau, Federico Redi, Daniel Martin Saunders, J. A. Hernando Morata, S. Stevenson, V. N. La Thi, E. Gushchin, C. Khurewathanakul, Alessio Sarti, A. Ukleja, Roel Aaij, P. Seyfert, Federica Lionetto, B. Khanji, S.-F. Cheung, Lucian Cojocariu, A. Semennikov, D. Brett, W. Sutcliffe, L. Beaucourt, F. Blanc, Antonio Pellegrino, B. Viaud, N. Sagidova, L. Cassina, C. J. Parkinson, A. Petrolini, P. Krokovny, E. Polycarpo, C. Farinelli, M. Vieites Diaz, W. De Silva, Stephane Monteil, S. Gregson, Maximilien Chefdeville, Nicola Serra, U. Marconi, N. Tuning, I. Counts, G. Graziani, K. Kurek, P. Lowdon, A. Pritchard, A. Martn Sanchez, G. Bencivenni, D. Voong, Varvara Batozskaya, Lucio Anderlini, Oscar De Aguiar Francisco, G. Krocker, R. Cenci, R. Le Gac, C. 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Gui, Sandro Cadeddu, Roberta Cardinale, M. Smith, C. Faerber, M. H. Schune, U. Uwer, R. Stroili, M. Zangoli, P. Jaton, W. Kanso, Hans Dijkstra, Hal Evans, Matthew Charles, Ph. Charpentier, Alexander Malinin, M. Teklishyn, Max Neuner, Silvia Borghi, H. L. Snoek, Y. N. Gao, A. Pazos Alvarez, Xavier Vilasis-Cardona, Mark Whitehead, Semen Eidelman, D. Martins Tostes, F. Meier, M. Sirendi, S. Swientek, P. Tsopelas, C. Patrignani, M. Karacson, Carmelo D'Ambrosio, M. Seco, Oleg Stenyakin, C. Fitzpatrick, B. Sanmartin Sedes, Barbara Sciascia, Guy Wilkinson, Ph. Ghez, Luciano Pappalardo, N. Hussain, J. D. Price, B. Storaci, A. Oyanguren, D. C. Craik, P. M. Bjørnstad, S. Cunliffe, A. Vallier, Konrad Klimaszewski, A. Jawahery, A. Ustyuzhanin, B. Langhans, M. Ferro-Luzzi, C. Gaspar, L. Del Buono, Jing Wang, Anna Lupato, M. Britsch, Y. Xie, P. Spradlin, Thomas Blake, I. El Rifai, E. Grauges, C. Bozzi, A. Mazurov, H. Schindler, Marek Idzik, P. Ruiz Valls, V. Tisserand, Gianluigi Casse, O. Gruenberg, Markus Frank, S. Easo, Miroslaw Firlej, M. Liles, M.T. Tran, A. Borgia, G. D. Lafferty, F. Machefert, C. Hombach, Antony Morris, E. Jans, M. De Cian, M. van Beuzekom, Scott Ely, F. Dupertuis, F. F. Wilson, A. Gomes, L. A. Granado Cardoso, Karlis Dreimanis, N. H. Brook, T. Bird, J. McCarthy, R. Santacesaria, Eugenia Price, S. Hall, F. Fontanelli, Roland Waldi, Manuel Schiller, T. Britton, G. Manca, O. Schneider, L. Pescatore, T. D. Nguyen, R. Niet, J. Bressieux, A. Davis, J. Wimberley, C. Sanchez Mayordomo, V. Syropoulos, V. K. Subbiah, Michal Kreps, Sophie Richards, Alexander Berezhnoy, L. Shekhtman, H. V. Cliff, B. Jost, Federico Alessio, A. B. Rodrigues, M. S. Rangel, Liupan An, R. Wallace, Marta Calvi, B. Schmidt, M. Perrin-Terrin, A. Di anto, S. Tourneur, C. Parkes, Silvia Gambetta, T. J. V. Bowcock, Giulia Tellarini, A. Puig Navarro, Ch. Elsasser, D. Hynds, A. Vollhardt, Michael Alexander, D. Lucchesi, Julien Cogan, J. Serrano, Ivan Belyaev, C. Potterat, B. Rachwal, M. Cruz Torres, M. Grabalosa Gándara, Marina Artuso, S. Donleavy, Karol Hennessy, O. Lupton, R. Gauld, B. Souza De Paula, J. E. Andrews, A. Artamonov, K. Ciba, R. Matev, Marco Clemencic, V. Salustino Guimaraes, H. Brown, Francesco Polci, Matteo Rama, E. Perez Trigo, O. Aquines Gutierrez, Sergey Barsuk, C. Joram, I. Komarov, H. Ruiz, R. McNulty, Z. Mathe, E. Pesen, Mirco Andreotti, T. J. Gershon, M. Orlandea, Elie Aslanides, D. Volyanskyy, Ch. Cauet, Nathan Jurik, V. Fernandez Albor, D. Vieira, Jakub Moron, C. Lazzeroni, M. Meissner, A. Leflat, S. Perazzini, J. Molina Rodriguez, Patrick Robbe, A. Dzyuba, C. Barschel, E. Cogneras, M. Patel, Mark Richard James Williams, S. Topp-Joergensen, N. K. Watson, C. Goebel, B. Leverington, M. Chrzaszcz, L. Giubega, L. Castillo Garcia, M. Hess, S. Wright, Alessandro Mordà, F. Kruse, T. Head, S. Stoica, Mikhail Zavertyaev, RF Fay, P. David, H. Luo, A. Satta, B. Hamilton, Sean Benson, J. A. de Vries, C. Vázquez Sierra, U. Straumann, P. Sail, Denis Derkach, C. Satriano, Olivier Deschamps, Flavio Archilli, A. Martens, O. Maev, P. Marino, Tomasz Skwarnicki, F. Ferreira Rodrigues, S. Ricciardi, Angelo Geraci, Sebastian Bachmann, G. Auriemma, A. Contu, Francesco Dettori, Olivier Leroy, Christoph Frei, A. D. Nguyen, T. E. Latham, Kurt Rinnert, Martino Borsato, H. Lu, V. Obraztsov, C. Thomas, D. Lambert, K. Carvalho Akiba, B. Rakotomiaramanana, Stephan Eisenhardt, Simone Bifani, Pascal Perret, A. Falabella, Biagio Saitta, J. Panman, V. Vorobyev, Robert Appleby, D. Szilard, L. Grillo, C. Wallace, F. Maciuc, M. M. Reid, Gerco Onderwater, M. Corvo, M. Schlupp, G. Carboni, I. Raniuk, Pierluigi Campana, S. A. Wotton, A. Papanestis, Rudolf Oldeman, Massimiliano Fiorini, A. Gallas Torreira, M. Nicol, X. Cid Vidal, T. M. Karbach, Marco Adinolfi, V. Niess, S. Neubert, V. Shevchenko, A. Sparkes, Jinlin Fu, O. Steinkamp, E. Thomas, E. Gersabeck, Zhongyukun Xu, Roger Forty, E. Santovetti, Gabriele Simi, Albert Bursche, A. Mapelli, S. Roiser, Alessandro Cardini, J. M. De Miranda, T. Nikodem, F. Stagni, Giulio Dujany, Jan Buytaert, N. Skidmore, M. Plo Casasus, Claudio Gotti, F. Soomro, S. Stracka, V. Vagnoni, William Barter, Angelo Carbone, Jaap Velthuis, M. P. Williams, S. Malde, P. Owen, J. Blouw, Matthew Kelsey, Marcin Kucharczyk, D. R. Johnson, C. R. Jones, E. Ben-Haim, Nicola Neri, M. Coombes, B. Popovici, Ignacio Bediaga, Wojciech Kucewicz, A. Shires, S. T. Harnew, R. Currie, S. Hansmann-Menzemer, A. Schopper, R. Mountain, T. Lesiak, P. Naik, S. Reichert, M. Schmelling, I. R. Kenyon, M. Pappagallo, V. A. Kudryavtsev, M. Vesterinen, V. Romanovsky, V. Rives Molina, A. Jaeger, F. F. Jing, U. Eitschberger, P. Morawski, W. Bonivento, L. Zhong, H. Voss, B. McSkelly, R. F. Koopman, C. Haen, C. Hadjivasiliou, J. Beddow, Zishuo Yang, M. Palutan, V. V. Gligorov, T. Gys, M. Deckenhoff, S. Klaver, J. J. Saborido Silva, P. Rodriguez Perez, D. Hill, Maurizio Martinelli, and M. Szczekowski
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Amplitude, Meson, Unitarity, Isospin, Pi, Value (computer science), CP violation, Beta (velocity)
Abstract: Using the latest LHCb measurements of time-dependent CP violation in the B-s(0) -> K+K- decay, a U-spin relation between the decay amplitudes of B-s(0) -> K+K- and B-0 -> p(+)p(-) decay processes allows constraints to be placed on the angle gamma of the unitarity triangle and on the B-s(0) mixing phase -2 beta(s). Results from an extended approach, which uses additional inputs on B-0 -> pi(0)pi(0) and B+ -> pi(+)pi(0) decays from other experiments and exploits isospin symmetry, are also presented. The dependence of the results on the maximum allowed amount of U-spin breaking is studied. At 68% probability, the value gamma =( 63.5(-6.7)(+7.2))degrees modulo 180 degrees is determined. In an alternative analysis, the value -2 beta(s)= - 0.12(-0.16)(+ 0.14) rad is found. In both measurements, the uncertainties due to U-spin breaking effects up to 50% are included. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Published: 2015

47. Search for CP violation inD0→π−π+π0decays with the energy test

Author: T. Bird, Michal Kreps, B. Jost, S. Donleavy, Marco Clemencic, Varvara Batozskaya, G. Krocker, A. Dosil Suárez, Victor Coco, Albert Comerma-Montells, A. Puig Navarro, D. Campora Perez, D. R. Ward, J. Anderson, George Lafferty, O. Kochebina, C. Thomas, M. Baalouch, D. Lambert, Andrei Tsaregorodtsev, Hans Dijkstra, Simone Bifani, J. Panman, V. Vorobyev, Jonas Rademacker, S. Leo, C. Langenbruch, W. C. Zhang, Stephane T'Jampens, D. Martinez Santos, N. Tuning, Claudia Vacca, Stephen M. Stahl, Jakub Moron, A. Leflat, S. Perazzini, J. P. Lees, J. Molina Rodriguez, Marianna Fontana, S. Karodia, E. S. Smith, N. Neufeld, A. Oyanguren, C. Goebel, I. V. Machikhiliyan, Sai-Juan Chen, R. Andreassen, R. Schwemmer, N. Rauschmayr, V. Gibson, J. van Tilburg, F. Blanc, Luca Tomassetti, Adam Benjamin Morris, A. Vallier, T. Ruf, Philip Ilten, Y. Li, R. Vazquez Gomez, J. F. Marchand, Mauro Morandin, M. Frosini, G. Graziani, P. N. Y. David, David Gascon, S. Ricciardi, Markus Frank, Michael Kolpin, G. Lanfranchi, A. D. Nguyen, R. W. Lambert, Roberta Cardinale, G. Wormser, A. Vorobyev, F. Dordei, F. Muheim, D. Souza, M. Veltri, G. Haefeli, P. Vazquez Regueiro, R. Silva Coutinho, Dmitry Popov, G. Manca, O. Schneider, M. Shapkin, L. Pescatore, Christoph Frei, Lorenzo Sestini, Karlis Dreimanis, Y. Shcheglov, M. Korolev, N. Moggi, N. A. Smith, P. Szczypka, E. van Herwijnen, Marco Cattaneo, T. Kvaratskheliya, Karol Hennessy, I. Nasteva, S. Easo, Miroslaw Firlej, A. Palano, Tomasz Szumlak, P. Campana, Giampiero Mancinelli, R. Ekelhof, Nicolas Déléage, J. R. Smith, Valery Pugatch, C. Lazzeroni, M. Meissner, M. Hess, F. Kruse, A. Borgia, I. Shapoval, A. Zhelezov, Alexander Berezhnoy, L. Shekhtman, M. Hoballah, G. Ciezarek, R. Wallace, G. Punzi, G. Valenti, M. Fiore, W. Sutcliffe, B. Schmidt, B. Sanmartin Sedes, R. Jacobsson, C. Potterat, E. Cogneras, David Hutchcroft, C. Vázquez Sierra, T. Head, S. Ogilvy, B. Gui, M. Pepe-Altarelli, B. Souza De Paula, L. Beaucourt, M. Cruz Torres, Max Neuner, P. Owen, Silvia Borghi, A. Petrolini, Barbara Sciascia, K. Carvalho Akiba, A. Satta, A. Kozlinskiy, W. Kanso, Marian Stahl, A. Ukleja, M. Karacson, J. Blouw, Matthew Kelsey, A. Dovbnya, P. Lowdon, Agnieszka Oblakowska-Mucha, M. Zangoli, O. AquinesGutierrez, F. J. P. Soler, J. A. de Vries, S. Ali, S. C. Haines, M. N. Minard, A. Hicheur, S. Cunliffe, F. Teubert, Antonio Pellegrino, L. Garrido, C. Baesso, Marcin Kucharczyk, Marcello Rotondo, Daniel Patrick O'Hanlon, A. Jawahery, Robert Appleby, M. M. Reid, M. Teklishyn, J. Lefrançois, P. Krokovny, E. Polycarpo, Tatsuya Nakada, A. Pritchard, G. Bencivenni, Eugenia Price, M. Smith, W. Baldini, D. R. Johnson, C. Satriano, M. Corvo, G. Auriemma, M. Tobin, T. Hampson, A. Contu, D. Lacarrere, A. Gomes, L. A. Granado Cardoso, M. McCann, Krzysztof Swientek, Franco Bedeschi, F. Fontanelli, F. Meier, I. O. Skillicorn, C. R. Jones, R. Stroili, C. Matteuzzi, P. Gandini, B. Rakotomiaramanana, N. H. Brook, Olivier Leroy, M. Schlupp, M. Patel, Michael Sokoloff, Brian Meadows, B. K. Pal, O. Yushchenko, A. Otto, A. Martín Sánchez, F. Dupertuis, M. Perrin-Terrin, N. K. Watson, D. Tonelli, A. McNab, J. H. Lopes, Roland Bernet, E. Picatoste Olloqui, P. Alvarez Cartelle, A. Bien, A. A. Alves, Sandra Amato, Ivan Belyaev, S. Wright, C. Voss, S. Blusk, A. Artamonov, B. Muster, A. Romero Vidal, K. Belous, F. Palombo, Alessandro Mordà, Jolanta Brodzicka, RF Fay, U. Egede, Tatiana Likhomanenko, V. Salustino Guimaraes, H. Brown, T. Brambach, I. Komarov, H. Luo, Sophie Richards, R. Dzhelyadin, A. Lai, T. Pilar, S. Wandernoth, B. X. Liu, Nicola Neri, Gianluigi Casse, Chung Nguyen-Mau, M. Mussini, A. Pearce, Mirco Andreotti, Sean Benson, S. Tourneur, S. Tolk, D. Hynds, Marina Artuso, V. Fernandez Albor, U. Straumann, Ph. Charpentier, A. Semennikov, D. Brett, A. Dzyuba, Elena Graverini, Alexander Malinin, Jeremy Dalseno, B. Rachwal, M. Ubeda Garcia, Olivier Deschamps, S. Amerio, W. Wislicki, Flavio Archilli, Marco Dorigo, C. Barschel, Mark Richard James Williams, P. Marino, O. Gruenberg, E. Jans, P. Griffith, C. Khurewathanakul, C. Santamarina Rios, A. Di Canto, Yejin Zhang, S. Vecchi, Stephane Monteil, Mikhail Zavertyaev, L. Del Buono, N. Lopez-March, S. Belogurov, S. Hall, L. Carson, G. Martellotti, S. Gregson, N. Hussain, Violetta Cogoni, Maximilien Chefdeville, E. Grauges, F. Machefert, Mark Wilkinson, Roland Waldi, A. B. Rodrigues, V. Syropoulos, V. K. Subbiah, C. Bozzi, S. Lohn, Kurt Rinnert, Anna Lupato, M. Britsch, Pierre Henrard, W. D. Hulsbergen, K. Mueller, Yasmine Amhis, M. S. Rangel, Liupan An, Andrea Bizzeti, Konstantinos Petridis, L. Grillo, C. Hombach, J. J. Walsh, F. Soomro, M. Grabalosa Gándara, P. Durante, E. Greening, Marta Calvi, Manuel Schiller, Patrick Koppenburg, Lei Zhang, A. Gianelle, Sandro Cadeddu, R. Lefèvre, J. Albrecht, C. Parkes, Silvia Gambetta, E. Pesen, Z. Xing, Yu. Guz, I. El Rifai, C. Faerber, M. H. Schune, D. Websdale, Nathan Jurik, Kevin Maguire, M. Vieites Diaz, N. Chiapolini, D. Martins Tostes, W. De Silva, Lucio Anderlini, Oscar De Aguiar Francisco, I. Longstaff, R. Niet, B. Couturier, A. Vollhardt, J. D. Price, B. Storaci, F. Martinez Vidal, A. Jaeger, I. Sepp, G. Passaleva, Samuel Coquereau, Michael Alexander, D. Lucchesi, P. De Simone, R. Cenci, Tjeerd Ketel, A. Popov, Konrad Klimaszewski, F. F. Jing, U. Eitschberger, Stefano Gallorini, B. Hamilton, A. Novoselov, Marcin Chrzaszcz, B. Spaan, D. C. Craik, J. Closier, A. Massafferri, P. M. Bjørnstad, P. Morawski, W. Bonivento, A. Zhokhov, A. Badalov, R. Maerki, Diego Alejandro Milanes, V. N. La Thi, Mariana Rihl, S. Filippov, Sergey Barsuk, C. Joram, Timothy Gershon, Basem Khanji, Y. Xie, V. Heijne, J. Garra Tico, J. A. Hernando Morata, Thomas Blake, H. Schindler, Marek Idzik, L. Zhong, G. Collazuol, B. Langhans, C. Prouve, A. Grecu, P. Ruiz Valls, M. Ferro-Luzzi, Roel Aaij, T. Britton, L. Sun, Sheldon Stone, J. J. Back, Bernardo Adeva, Hal Evans, Matteo Rama, J. Jalocha, M. De Cian, Xavier Vilasis-Cardona, Eleonora Luppi, Matthew Charles, M. van Beuzekom, Scott Ely, H. Ruiz, M. Orlandea, Louis Henry, Zhijie Xu, B. McSkelly, P. Hunt, Tomasz Fiutowski, Marco Gersabeck, J. Todd, H. W. Wilschut, Patrick Robbe, Federico Redi, R. F. Koopman, P. Collins, C. Sanchez Mayordomo, K. Wyllie, C. Haen, C. Hadjivasiliou, H. V. Cliff, Federico Alessio, C. Farinelli, Andrew Crocombe, Z. Mathe, S. Stoica, S. Kandybei, J. Beddow, C. Marin Benito, Simon Akar, A. Dziurda, R. Graciani Diaz, Ch. Elsasser, C. J. G. Onderwater, Neville Harnew, E. Bowen, J. Benton, O. Lupton, B. Leverington, M. T. Tran, L. Giubega, L. Castillo Garcia, A. Bay, R. Gauld, P. Sail, Denis Derkach, Zishuo Yang, M. Palutan, Daniel Martin Saunders, D. Voong, Lucian Cojocariu, F. Ferreira Rodrigues, M. O. Bettler, V. V. Gligorov, D. Hill, Maurizio Martinelli, M. Szczekowski, S. Esen, J. van Leerdam, G. Raven, A. Golutvin, Alexander Bondar, P. Naik, C. J. Parkinson, S. Reichert, Elie Aslanides, R. Calabrese, M. Schmelling, D. Vieira, X. Yuan, S. De Capua, J. Garofoli, I. R. Kenyon, A. Cook, Nicola Serra, M. Pappagallo, S. Oggero, D. Ferguson, V. A. Kudryavtsev, P. Spradlin, M. Vesterinen, S. Gianì, Nathanael Farley, S. Playfer, V. Romanovsky, Fergus Wilson, J. Prisciandaro, J. García Pardiñas, R. Lindner, Nikolay Nikitin, S. Topp-Joergensen, V. Rives Molina, J. McCarthy, H. L. Snoek, Y. N. Gao, M. Witek, R. Santacesaria, U. Marconi, W. Qian, Guy Wilkinson, K. Kurek, T. Gys, M. Needham, D. Savrina, A. Davis, G. Veneziano, J. Wimberley, Mark Whitehead, T. J. V. Bowcock, Giulia Tellarini, Ph. Ghez, Luciano Pappalardo, Ana Trisovic, J. Wicht, P. E. L. Clarke, P. Fol, Julien Cogan, K. De Bruyn, J. Harrison, Semen Eidelman, M. Deckenhoff, R. Matev, Dmitry Golubkov, D. Galli, Jan Maratas, A. C. dos Reis, S. Klaver, Francesco Polci, A. Affolder, J. Rouvinet, R. McNulty, Lars Eklund, Ziad Ajaltouni, J. J. Saborido Silva, D. Volyanskyy, Ch. Cauet, Malcolm John, P. Rodriguez Perez, M. Gandelman, Timothy Evans, E. Tournefier, Srikanth Sridharan, V. Bocci, U. Uwer, D. Pinci, S. Stevenson, P. Seyfert, M. Tresch, T. D. Nguyen, S.-F. Cheung, E. Gushchin, C. Linn, V. Egorychev, Roger Barlow, R. Nandakumar, J. M. Otalora Goicochea, B. Viaud, M. Sirendi, S. Swientek, Laura Gavardi, N. Sagidova, L. Cassina, Xiaoxue Han, D. Dossett, Vincenzo Battista, P. Tsopelas, Thomas Latham, G. Alkhazov, C. Patrignani, V. Tisserand, B. Pietrzyk, M. Calvo Gomez, Marcel Merk, G. Corti, S. Farry, M. J. Morello, J. He, Francesco Dettori, J. Wishahi, Brice Maurin, Carmelo D'Ambrosio, Oleg Stenyakin, A. Pistone, C. Fitzpatrick, Pascal Perret, A. Falabella, Biagio Saitta, Ian Thomas Hunt Counts, E. Rodrigues, L. De Paula, C. Wallace, J. Serrano, J. E. Andrews, Federica Lionetto, D. Wiedner, Nikolay Bondar, O. Okhrimenko, A. Sciubba, J. Marks, M. Straticiuc, G. A. Cowan, M. Nicol, X. Cid Vidal, T. M. Karbach, Marco Adinolfi, V. Niess, S. Neubert, V. Shevchenko, Cameron Thomas Dean, Jinlin Fu, O. Steinkamp, Roger Forty, E. Santovetti, Gabriele Simi, Albert Bursche, A. Mapelli, S. Roiser, T. Nikodem, F. Stagni, Giulio Dujany, Jan Buytaert, M. Plo Casasus, I. Raniuk, S. A. Wotton, A. Papanestis, Rudolf Oldeman, Massimiliano Fiorini, A. Gallas Torreira, E. Thomas, E. Gersabeck, L. Kravchuk, Alessandro Cardini, J. M. De Miranda, N. Skidmore, R. Le Gac, Claudio Gotti, S. Stracka, V. Vagnoni, P. Jaton, William Barter, Giovanni Carboni, Angelo Carbone, Jaap Velthuis, K. Kreplin, M. P. Williams, S. Malde, M. Liles, M. Coombes, E. Ben-Haim, Maxime Schubiger, B. Popovici, Ignacio Bediaga, Wojciech Kucewicz, A. Shires, D. Decamp, S. T. Harnew, R. Currie, S. Hansmann-Menzemer, A. Schopper, R. Mountain, Tara Shears, Anton Poluektov, N. Torr, T. Lesiak, E. Furfaro, G. D. Patel, Alessio Sarti, P. David, O. Maev, Tomasz Skwarnicki, Angelo Geraci, Sebastian Bachmann, Martino Borsato, V. Obraztsov, Stephan Eisenhardt, Ivan Polyakov, F. Maciuc, A. Ustyuzhanin, C. Gaspar, Jing Wang, and A. Mazurov
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Pi, CP violation, Energy (signal processing), Luminosity
Abstract: A search for time-integrated CP violation in the Cabibbo-suppressed decay D-0 -> pi(-)pi(+)pi(0) ir is performed using for the first time an unbinned model-independent technique known as the energy test. Using proton-proton collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.0 fb(-1) collected by the LHCb detector at a centre-of-mass energy of root s = 8 TeV, the world's best sensitivity to CP violation in this decay is obtained. The data are found to be consistent with the hypothesis of CP symmetry with a p-value of (2.6 +/- 0.5)%. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
Published: 2015

48. Measurement of theB¯0–B0andB¯s0–Bs0production asymmetries in pp collisions ats=7 TeV

Author: R. Aaij, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi, A. Affolder, Z. Ajaltouni, S. Akar, J. Albrecht, F. Alessio, M. Alexander, S. Ali, G. Alkhazov, P. Alvarez Cartelle, A.A. Alves, S. Amato, S. Amerio, Y. Amhis, L. An, L. Anderlini, J. Anderson, R. Andreassen, M. Andreotti, J.E. Andrews, R.B. Appleby, O. Aquines Gutierrez, F. Archilli, A. Artamonov, M. Artuso, E. Aslanides, G. Auriemma, M. Baalouch, S. Bachmann, J.J. Back, A. Badalov, W. Baldini, R.J. Barlow, C. Barschel, S. Barsuk, W. Barter, V. Batozskaya, V. Battista, A. Bay, L. Beaucourt, J. Beddow, F. Bedeschi, I. Bediaga, S. Belogurov, K. Belous, I. Belyaev, E. Ben-Haim, G. Bencivenni, S. Benson, J. Benton, A. Berezhnoy, R. Bernet, M.-O. Bettler, M. van Beuzekom, A. Bien, S. Bifani, T. Bird, A. Bizzeti, P.M. Bjørnstad, T. Blake, F. Blanc, J. Blouw, S. Blusk, V. Bocci, A. Bondar, N. Bondar, W. Bonivento, S. Borghi, A. Borgia, M. Borsato, T.J.V. Bowcock, E. Bowen, C. Bozzi, T. Brambach, J. van den Brand, J. Bressieux, D. Brett, M. Britsch, T. Britton, J. Brodzicka, N.H. Brook, H. Brown, A. Bursche, G. Busetto, J. Buytaert, S. Cadeddu, R. Calabrese, M. Calvi, M. Calvo Gomez, P. Campana, D. Campora Perez, A. Carbone, G. Carboni, R. Cardinale, A. Cardini, L. Carson, K. Carvalho Akiba, G. Casse, L. Cassina, L. Castillo Garcia, M. Cattaneo, Ch. Cauet, R. Cenci, M. Charles, Ph. Charpentier, M. Chefdeville, S. Chen, S.-F. Cheung, N. Chiapolini, M. Chrzaszcz, K. Ciba, X. Cid Vidal, G. Ciezarek, P.E.L. Clarke, M. Clemencic, H.V. Cliff, J. Closier, V. Coco, J. Cogan, E. Cogneras, L. Cojocariu, P. Collins, A. Comerma-Montells, A. Contu, A. Cook, M. Coombes, S. Coquereau, G. Corti, M. Corvo, I. Counts, B. Couturier, G.A. Cowan, D.C. Craik, M. Cruz Torres, S. Cunliffe, R. Currie, C. D'Ambrosio, J. Dalseno, P. David, P.N.Y. David, A. Davis, K. De Bruyn, S. De Capua, M. De Cian, J.M. De Miranda, L. De Paula, W. De Silva, P. De Simone, D. Decamp, M. Deckenhoff, L. Del Buono, N. Déléage, D. Derkach, O. Deschamps, F. Dettori, A. Di Canto, H. Dijkstra, S. Donleavy, F. Dordei, M. Dorigo, A. Dosil Suárez, D. Dossett, A. Dovbnya, K. Dreimanis, G. Dujany, F. Dupertuis, P. Durante, R. Dzhelyadin, A. Dziurda, A. Dzyuba, S. Easo, U. Egede, V. Egorychev, S. Eidelman, S. Eisenhardt, U. Eitschberger, R. Ekelhof, L. Eklund, I. El Rifai, Ch. Elsasser, S. Ely, S. Esen, H.-M. Evans, T. Evans, A. Falabella, C. Färber, C. Farinelli, N. Farley, S. Farry, R.F. Fay, D. Ferguson, V. Fernandez Albor, F. Ferreira Rodrigues, M. Ferro-Luzzi, S. Filippov, M. Fiore, M. Fiorini, M. Firlej, C. Fitzpatrick, T. Fiutowski, M. Fontana, F. Fontanelli, R. Forty, O. Francisco, M. Frank, C. Frei, M. Frosini, J. Fu, E. Furfaro, A. Gallas Torreira, D. Galli, S. Gallorini, S. Gambetta, M. Gandelman, P. Gandini, Y. Gao, J. García Pardiñas, J. Garofoli, J. Garra Tico, L. Garrido, C. Gaspar, R. Gauld, L. Gavardi, G. Gavrilov, A. Geraci, E. Gersabeck, M. Gersabeck, T. Gershon, Ph. Ghez, A. Gianelle, S. Giani', V. Gibson, L. Giubega, V.V. Gligorov, C. Göbel, D. Golubkov, A. Golutvin, A. Gomes, C. Gotti, M. Grabalosa Gándara, R. Graciani Diaz, L.A. Granado Cardoso, E. Graugés, G. Graziani, A. Grecu, E. Greening, S. Gregson, P. Griffith, L. Grillo, O. Grünberg, B. Gui, E. Gushchin, Yu. Guz, T. Gys, C. Hadjivasiliou, G. Haefeli, C. Haen, S.C. Haines, S. Hall, B. Hamilton, T. Hampson, X. Han, S. Hansmann-Menzemer, N. Harnew, S.T. Harnew, J. Harrison, J. He, T. Head, V. Heijne, K. Hennessy, P. Henrard, L. Henry, J.A. Hernando Morata, E. van Herwijnen, M. Heß, A. Hicheur, D. Hill, M. Hoballah, C. Hombach, W. Hulsbergen, P. Hunt, N. Hussain, D. Hutchcroft, D. Hynds, M. Idzik, P. Ilten, R. Jacobsson, A. Jaeger, J. Jalocha, E. Jans, P. Jaton, A. Jawahery, F. Jing, M. John, D. Johnson, C.R. Jones, C. Joram, B. Jost, N. Jurik, M. Kaballo, S. Kandybei, W. Kanso, M. Karacson, T.M. Karbach, S. Karodia, M. Kelsey, I.R. Kenyon, T. Ketel, B. Khanji, C. Khurewathanakul, S. Klaver, K. Klimaszewski, O. Kochebina, M. Kolpin, I. Komarov, R.F. Koopman, P. Koppenburg, M. Korolev, A. Kozlinskiy, L. Kravchuk, K. Kreplin, M. Kreps, G. Krocker, P. Krokovny, F. Kruse, W. Kucewicz, M. Kucharczyk, V. Kudryavtsev, K. Kurek, T. Kvaratskheliya, V.N. La Thi, D. Lacarrere, G. Lafferty, A. Lai, D. Lambert, R.W. Lambert, G. Lanfranchi, C. Langenbruch, B. Langhans, T. Latham, C. Lazzeroni, R. Le Gac, J. van Leerdam, J.-P. Lees, R. Lefèvre, A. Leflat, J. Lefrançois, S. Leo, O. Leroy, T. Lesiak, B. Leverington, Y. Li, T. Likhomanenko, M. Liles, R. Lindner, C. Linn, F. Lionetto, B. Liu, S. Lohn, I. Longstaff, J.H. Lopes, N. Lopez-March, P. Lowdon, H. Lu, D. Lucchesi, H. Luo, A. Lupato, E. Luppi, O. Lupton, F. Machefert, I.V. Machikhiliyan, F. Maciuc, O. Maev, S. Malde, A. Malinin, G. Manca, G. Mancinelli, A. Mapelli, J. Maratas, J.F. Marchand, U. Marconi, C. Marin Benito, P. Marino, R. Märki, J. Marks, G. Martellotti, A. Martens, A. Martín Sánchez, M. Martinelli, D. Martinez Santos, F. Martinez Vidal, D. Martins Tostes, A. Massafferri, R. Matev, Z. Mathe, C. Matteuzzi, A. Mazurov, M. McCann, J. McCarthy, A. McNab, R. McNulty, B. McSkelly, B. Meadows, F. Meier, M. Meissner, M. Merk, D.A. Milanes, M.-N. Minard, N. Moggi, J. Molina Rodriguez, S. Monteil, M. Morandin, P. Morawski, A. Mordà, M.J. Morello, J. Moron, A.-B. Morris, R. Mountain, F. Muheim, K. Müller, M. Mussini, B. Muster, P. Naik, T. Nakada, R. Nandakumar, I. Nasteva, M. Needham, N. Neri, S. Neubert, N. Neufeld, M. Neuner, A.D. Nguyen, T.D. Nguyen, C. Nguyen-Mau, M. Nicol, V. Niess, R. Niet, N. Nikitin, T. Nikodem, A. Novoselov, D.P. O'Hanlon, A. Oblakowska-Mucha, V. Obraztsov, S. Oggero, S. Ogilvy, O. Okhrimenko, R. Oldeman, G. Onderwater, M. Orlandea, J.M. Otalora Goicochea, P. Owen, A. Oyanguren, B.K. Pal, A. Palano, F. Palombo, M. Palutan, J. Panman, A. Papanestis, M. Pappagallo, L.L. Pappalardo, C. Parkes, C.J. Parkinson, G. Passaleva, G.D. Patel, M. Patel, C. Patrignani, A. Pazos Alvarez, A. Pearce, A. Pellegrino, M. Pepe Altarelli, S. Perazzini, E. Perez Trigo, P. Perret, M. Perrin-Terrin, L. Pescatore, E. Pesen, K. Petridis, A. Petrolini, E. Picatoste Olloqui, B. Pietrzyk, T. Pilař, D. Pinci, A. Pistone, S. Playfer, M. Plo Casasus, F. Polci, A. Poluektov, E. Polycarpo, A. Popov, D. Popov, B. Popovici, C. Potterat, E. Price, J. Prisciandaro, A. Pritchard, C. Prouve, V. Pugatch, A. Puig Navarro, G. Punzi, W. Qian, B. Rachwal, J.H. Rademacker, B. Rakotomiaramanana, M. Rama, M.S. Rangel, I. Raniuk, N. Rauschmayr, G. Raven, S. Reichert, M.M. Reid, A.C. dos Reis, S. Ricciardi, S. Richards, M. Rihl, K. Rinnert, V. Rives Molina, D.A. Roa Romero, P. Robbe, A.B. Rodrigues, E. Rodrigues, P. Rodriguez Perez, S. Roiser, V. Romanovsky, A. Romero Vidal, M. Rotondo, J. Rouvinet, T. Ruf, H. Ruiz, P. Ruiz Valls, J.J. Saborido Silva, N. Sagidova, P. Sail, B. Saitta, V. Salustino Guimaraes, C. Sanchez Mayordomo, B. Sanmartin Sedes, R. Santacesaria, C. Santamarina Rios, E. Santovetti, A. Sarti, C. Satriano, A. Satta, D.M. Saunders, M. Savrie, D. Savrina, M. Schiller, H. Schindler, M. Schlupp, M. Schmelling, B. Schmidt, O. Schneider, A. Schopper, M.-H. Schune, R. Schwemmer, B. Sciascia, A. Sciubba, M. Seco, A. Semennikov, I. Sepp, N. Serra, J. Serrano, L. Sestini, P. Seyfert, M. Shapkin, I. Shapoval, Y. Shcheglov, T. Shears, L. Shekhtman, V. Shevchenko, A. Shires, R. Silva Coutinho, G. Simi, M. Sirendi, N. Skidmore, T. Skwarnicki, N.A. Smith, E. Smith, J. Smith, M. Smith, H. Snoek, M.D. Sokoloff, F.J.P. Soler, F. Soomro, D. Souza, B. Souza De Paula, B. Spaan, A. Sparkes, P. Spradlin, S. Sridharan, F. Stagni, M. Stahl, S. Stahl, O. Steinkamp, O. Stenyakin, S. Stevenson, S. Stoica, S. Stone, B. Storaci, S. Stracka, M. Straticiuc, U. Straumann, R. Stroili, V.K. Subbiah, L. Sun, W. Sutcliffe, K. Swientek, S. Swientek, V. Syropoulos, M. Szczekowski, P. Szczypka, D. Szilard, T. Szumlak, S. T'Jampens, M. Teklishyn, G. Tellarini, F. Teubert, C. Thomas, E. Thomas, J. van Tilburg, V. Tisserand, M. Tobin, S. Tolk, L. Tomassetti, D. Tonelli, S. Topp-Joergensen, N. Torr, E. Tournefier, S. Tourneur, M.T. Tran, M. Tresch, A. Tsaregorodtsev, P. Tsopelas, N. Tuning, M. Ubeda Garcia, A. Ukleja, A. Ustyuzhanin, U. Uwer, V. Vagnoni, G. Valenti, A. Vallier, R. Vazquez Gomez, P. Vazquez Regueiro, C. Vázquez Sierra, S. Vecchi, J.J. Velthuis, M. Veltri, G. Veneziano, M. Vesterinen, B. Viaud, D. Vieira, M. Vieites Diaz, X. Vilasis-Cardona, A. Vollhardt, D. Volyanskyy, D. Voong, A. Vorobyev, V. Vorobyev, C. Voß, H. Voss, J.A. de Vries, R. Waldi, C. Wallace, R. Wallace, J. Walsh, S. Wandernoth, J. Wang, D.R. Ward, N.K. Watson, D. Websdale, M. Whitehead, J. Wicht, D. Wiedner, G. Wilkinson, M.P. Williams, M. Williams, F.F. Wilson, J. Wimberley, J. Wishahi, W. Wislicki, M. Witek, G. Wormser, S.A. Wotton, S. Wright, S. Wu, K. Wyllie, Y. Xie, Z. Xing, Z. Xu, Z. Yang, X. Yuan, O. Yushchenko, M. Zangoli, M. Zavertyaev, L. Zhang, W.C. Zhang, Y. Zhang, A. Zhelezov, A. Zhokhov, L. Zhong, and A. Zvyagin
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Luminosity (scattering theory), Meson, Pseudorapidity, Transverse momentum, Production (computer science), Bar (unit)
Abstract: The (B) over bar (0)-B-0 and (B) over bar (0)(s)-B-s(0) production asymmetries, A(P)(B-0) and A(P)(B-s(0)), are measured by means of a time-dependent analysis of B-0 -> J/Psi K-*0, B-0 -> D-pi(+) and B-s(0) -> D-s(-)pi(+) decays, using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb(-1), collected by LHCb in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. The measurements are performed as a function of transverse momentum and pseudorapidity of the B-0 and B-s(0) mesons within the LHCb acceptance. The production asymmetries, integrated over p(T) and eta in the range 4 < p(T) < 30 GeV/c and 2.5 < eta < 4.5, are determined to be A(P)(B-0) = (-0.35 +/- 0.76 +/- 0.28)% and A(P)(B-s(0)) = (1.09 +/- 2.61 +/- 0.66)%, where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second systematic. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
Published: 2014

49. Evidence for CP violation in B+→K*(892)+π0 from a Dalitz plot analysis of B+→KS0π+π0 decays

Author: J. W. Gary, R. Gorodeisky, M. Simard, D. A. Roberts, A. M. Lutz, A. M. Eisner, J. Olsen, M. T. Graham, A. Hafner, E. M. T. Puccio, U. Mallik, Douglas Wright, Peter S. Kim, A. G. Denig, A. V. Gritsan, M. Röhrken, Cheng Chen, T. S. Miyashita, N. Neri, M. V. Purohit, A. Palano, R. F. Schwitters, F. De Mori, R. Contri, G. J. King, J. Albert, D. J. Bard, Sridhara Dasu, C. Cartaro, A. Khan, K. T. Flood, David Hutchcroft, L. Piemontese, P. Patteri, Denis Bernard, G. Lynch, Simon Akar, R. Prepost, D. Lindemann, M. J. Lewczuk, Hamad Ahmed, C. Bünger, E. Gabathuler, W. R. Innes, P. F. Harrison, A. Filippi, F. C. Porter, T. Leddig, R. Sacco, A. J. S. Smith, D. B. MacFarlane, A. Calcaterra, S. J. Sekula, A. Jawahery, B. N. Ratcliff, F. Di Lodovico, J. Va’vra, V. Prasad, B. Bhuyan, B. G. Fulsom, A. Adametz, J. Chauveau, E. A. Kravchenko, N. Guttman, B. Stugu, Crisostomo Sciacca, D. Aston, G. Rizzo, G. Marchiori, D. Su, R. Faccini, F. Ferrarotto, A. J. Lankford, F. Le Diberder, J. D. Richman, A. P. Onuchin, Pablo Villanueva-Perez, L. Lanceri, R. Godang, Dmytro Kovalskyi, M. Piccolo, L. M. Cremaldi, H. R. Band, W. S. Lockman, G. Vasseur, I. M. Peruzzi, R. Cowan, B. Echenard, M. Chrzaszcz, J. P. Lees, A. Stocchi, M. Ebert, M. R. Convery, R. Cenci, D. J. Payne, C. Voß, G. Cibinetto, J. L. Ritchie, Marco Bomben, S. Martellotti, J. Ocariz, Maria Roberta Monge, C. H. Cheng, P. Taras, E. P. Solodov, A. Zallo, H. M. Lacker, H. L. Lynch, G. Batignani, Tim Adye, E. Paoloni, J. R. Fry, R. Cheaib, Y. B. Pan, J. Cochran, D. Bettoni, M. Fritsch, S. I. Serednyakov, R. Kowalewski, F. Bianchi, E. O. Olaiya, E. Fioravanti, E. Ben-Haim, R. D. Kass, S. Luitz, R. Waldi, D. G. Hitlin, S. Bettarini, A. J. Bevan, M. Gaspero, V. Santoro, Corrado Angelini, S. Dittrich, G. Onorato, C. P. Jessop, P. Ongmongkolkul, R. de Sangro, S. L. Wu, Florian Urs Bernlochner, R. Y. So, J. J. Walsh, F. Palombo, T. Lueck, D. Lopes Pegna, J. M. LoSecco, V. B. Golubev, B. Dey, Bogdan Malaescu, B. T. Meadows, P. C. Bloom, W. H. Toki, G. Raven, C. Touramanis, S. M. Spanier, M. Hess, Yu. I. Skovpen, R. Andreassen, M. K. Sullivan, B. G. Pushpawela, I. M. Nugent, W. J. Wisniewski, S. Passaggio, H. W. Wulsin, M. D. Sokoloff, V. P. Druzhinin, T. E. Latham, M. Carpinelli, P. R. Burchat, C. Bozzi, G. Cowan, Denis Derkach, K. Honscheid, M. Rotondo, Yu. G. Kolomensky, C. L. Davis, O. Grünberg, G. De Nardo, M. J. Lee, G. Grosdidier, B. A. Schumm, S. Prell, V. E. Blinov, I. Garzia, Alessandro Pilloni, E. Grauges, C. Patrignani, Mario Giorgi, L. T. Kerth, M. Rama, F. Forti, V. Poireau, G. D. Lafferty, Z. C. Huard, D. S. Chao, J. A. McKenna, D. R. Peimer, A. Soffer, R. J. Barlow, J. M. Roney, M. Morandin, A. Lusiani, K. Yu Todyshev, D. W. G. S. Leith, Christopher West, V. Tisserand, G. Wormser, M. Posocco, M. Davier, C. Hast, J. P. Coleman, U. Uwer, F. Anulli, R. Stroili, F. Simonetto, J. M. Izen, R. H. Schindler, G. Calderini, J. G. Smith, D. J. Lange, G. Piredda, H. A. Neal, W. Panduro Vazquez, G. Casarosa, N. Tasneem, Alessandro Gaz, T. M. Hong, S. H. Robertson, T. S. Mattison, Maurizio Biasini, D. R. Muller, Aidan Randle-Conde, Herbert Koch, Martino Margoni, T. J. Gershon, M. Franco Sevilla, A. R. Buzykaev, A. Beaulieu, Tamara Vazquez Schroeder, R. Ayad, James R. Wilson, G. R. Bonneaud, J. Dorfan, D. N. Brown, K. Griessinger, Owen Rosser Long, A. Oyanguren, A. Seiden, F. F. Wilson, X. C. Lou, W. Dunwoodie, C. Hearty, William T. Ford, R. Calabrese, H. H. F. Choi, B. Hamilton, S. Emery, Elisa Manoni, J. A. Ernst, D. J. Summers, G. P. Dubois-Felsmann, P. Roudeau, L. Sun, R. J. Sobie, M. Verderi, S. Playfer, B. Spaan, L. Vitale, F. Martinez-Vidal, Ph Leruste, N. Arnaud, H. Briand, W. Gradl, E. Luppi, M. L. Perl, A. M. Rossi, Sw. Banerjee, G. Eigen, R. C. Field, A. Roodman, G. Finocchiaro, V. Luth, M. S. Alam, A. Snyder, B. Oberhof, T. Pulliam, G. Simi, F. Ferroni, D. Gamba, M. Bellis, P. M. Patel, Stephen Robert Wagner, and K. R. Schubert
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Meson, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Branching fraction, Hadron, Dalitz plot, Elementary particle, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Particle decay, 0103 physical sciences, CP violation, B meson, 010306 general physics
Abstract: We report a Dalitz plot analysis of charmless hadronic decays of charged B mesons to the final state K^0_Sπ^+π^0 using the full BABAR data set of 470.9±2.8 million BB[overbar] events collected at the Υ(4S)resonance. We measure the overall branching fraction and CP asymmetry to be B(B^+→K^0π^+π^0)=(31.8±1.8±2.1+^(6.0)_(−0.0))×10^(-6) and A_(CP)(B^+→K^0π^+π^0)=0.07±0.05±0.03^(+0.02)_(−0.03), where the uncertainties are statistical, systematic, and due to the signal model, respectively. This is the first measurement of the branching fraction for B^+→K^0π^+π^0. We find first evidence of a CP asymmetry in B^+→K∗(892)+π^0 decays: A_(CP)(B^+→K∗(892)^+π^0)=−0.52±0.14±0.04^(+0.04)_(−0.02). The significance of this asymmetry, including systematic and model uncertainties, is 3.4 standard deviations. We also measure the branching fractions and CP asymmetries for three other intermediate decay modes.
Published: 2017

50. Polycomb directs timely activation of germline genes in spermatogenesis

Author: Paul R. Andreassen, Masashi Yukawa, Miguel Vidal, Artem Barski, Kazuteru Hasegawa, So Maezawa, Satoshi H. Namekawa, Kris G. Alavattam, Akihiko Sakashita, and Haruhiko Koseki
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, Transcriptional Activation, gene activation, 1.1 Normal biological development and functioning, Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases, Mice, Transgenic, macromolecular substances, Biology, germline, DNA-binding protein, Medical and Health Sciences, Germline, Transgenic, Cell Line, Epigenesis, Genetic, 03 medical and health sciences, Mice, Genetic, SALL4, Transcription (biology), Underpinning research, Genetics, Animals, Spermatogenesis, Gene, Transcription factor, Regulation of gene expression, Polycomb Repressive Complex 1, Contraception/Reproduction, Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, Biological Sciences, Stem Cell Research, Spermatogonia, Cell biology, Polycomb, DNA-Binding Proteins, 030104 developmental biology, Infertility, Stem Cell Research - Nonembryonic - Non-Human, PRC1, Transcription Initiation Site, Epigenesis, Biotechnology, Developmental Biology, Research Paper, Transcription Factors
Abstract: During spermatogenesis, a large number of germline genes essential for male fertility are coordinately activated. However, it remains unknown how timely activation of this group of germline genes is accomplished. Here we show that Polycomb-repressive complex 1 (PRC1) directs timely activation of germline genes during spermatogenesis. Inactivation of PRC1 in male germ cells results in the gradual loss of a stem cell population and severe differentiation defects, leading to male infertility. In the stem cell population, RNF2, the dominant catalytic subunit of PRC1, activates transcription of Sall4, which codes for a transcription factor essential for subsequent spermatogenic differentiation. Furthermore, RNF2 and SALL4 together occupy transcription start sites of germline genes in the stem cell population. Once differentiation commences, these germline genes are activated to enable the progression of spermatogenesis. Our study identifies a novel mechanism by which Polycomb directs the developmental process by activating a group of lineage-specific genes.
Published: 2017

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