Heavy flavour physics at the LHC

A summary of results in heavy flavour physics from Run 1 of the LHC is presented. Topics discussed include spectroscopy, mixing, CP violation and rare decays of charmed and beauty hadrons.     

Charged Top-Pion Production Associated with a Gluon Jet at the LHC

The charged top-pions have been predicted by the topcolour-assisted technicolour （TC2） model and the observation of the charged top-pions can be regarded as the robust evidence of the model. We study the charged top-pion and gluon associated production at the LHC, i.e., pp → gIIe^＋. The cross section of this process can reach tens of pb, even hundreds ofpb, and there will be enough gIIt^＋ events produced at the LHC. Because the gIIt^＋ production is a flavour-changing （FC） process, the SM background can be greatly depressed. Furthermore, there exists an FC decay mode cb for the charged top-pions, and such decay mode can provide us with the typical signals to detect the charged top-pions. Therefore, it is hopeful to find the charged top-pions via the gIIe^＋ production at the LHC.     

Upsilon production at Fermilab Tevatron and LHC energies

We update the theoretical predictions for direct Upsilon(nS) hadroproduction in the framework of nonrelativistic QCD. We show that the next-to-leading order corrections in alpha(S) to the color-singlet transition significantly raise the differential cross section at high p(T) and substantially affect the polarization of the Upsilon. Motivated by the remaining gap between the next-to-leading order yield and the cross-section measurements at the Fermilab Tevatron, we evaluate the leading part of the alpha(S)(5) contributions, namely, those coming from Upsilon(nS) associated with three light partons. The differential color-singlet cross section at alpha(S)(5) is in substantial agreement with the data, so that there is no evidence for the need of color-octet contributions. Furthermore, we find that the polarization of the Upsilon(nS) is longitudinal. We also present our predictions for Upsilon(nS) production at the LHC.     

Probing the TC2 model via Production of Top Quark Pairs at Tevatron and LHC

The topcolour-assisted technicolour （TC2） model is an interesting dynamical theory among the various new physics models. We cMculate the total tt cross section and the relative correction of the TC2 model to the cross section at Tevatron Run Ⅱ and LHC. At the Tevatron Run Ⅱ, the cross section predicted by the standard model （SM） is consistent with the experimental data, and in most parameter spaces of the TC2 model, the relative correction of the TC2 model to the cross section is too small to be detectable. We find that the tt cross section is more sensitive to the parameters of the TC2 model at the LHC and the relative correction of the TC2 model to the cross section is over 10% in general. Such a value of the relative correction should be large enough to be detectable at the LHC. Therefore, it is promising to find the clue of the TC2 model via the tt production at the LHC.     

Diffractive heavy flavour production at the Tevatron and the LHC

We give predictions for diffractive heavy flavour production at the Tevatron and the LHC in leading-order approximation. In the framework of these studies we use three different models for the partonic structure of the Pomeron recently proposed by Stirling and Kunszt. These Pomeron models are, despite being fitted to the same diffractive deep inelastic HERA data, very different in their parton content and taken together provide a powerful tool to probe the structure of the Pomeron. All models satisfy GLAP evolution and show a significant Q₂ dependence. We give numerical predictions for single as well as double diffractive cross sections assuming a Donnachie-Landshoff-type Pomeron flux factor.     

Heavy quark spin symmetry and heavy flavor hadronic molecules

We argue that the heavy quark spin symmetry can lead to important consequences for heavy flavor hadronic molecules.It can be used to predict new heavy flavor hadronic molecules and hence provides a method to identify the nature of some newly observed exotic hadrons.For example,if the Y(4660) were an S-wave ψ f 0 (980) shallow bound state,then the mass,width and line shape of its spin partner are predicted.     

Heavy quark spin symmetry and heavy flavor hadronic molecules

We argue that the heavy quark spin symmetry can lead to important consequences for heavy flavor hadronic molecules.It can be used to predict new heavy flavor hadronic molecules and hence provides a method to identify the nature of some newly observed exotic hadrons.For example,if the Y（4660） were an S-wave ψ f 0 （980） shallow bound state,then the mass,width and line shape of its spin partner are predicted.     

Top quark spin correlations at the Tevatron and the LHC

Spin correlations of top quarks produced in hadron collisions have not been observed experimentally with large significance. In this Letter, we propose a new variable that may enable demonstration of the existence of spin correlations with 3–4 σ$3\text{–}4\sigma$ significance using just a few hundred dilepton events both at the Tevatron and the LHC. Such number of dilepton events has been observed at the Tevatron. At the LHC, it will become available once integrated luminosity of a few hundred inverse picobarns is collected.     

Electroweak corrections to monojet production at the Tevatron and the LHC

The first LHC results seem to disfavor, from the point of view of naturalness, any constrained MSSM realization with universal conditions at the SUSY-breaking scale. A more motivated scenario is given by split-family SUSY, in which the first two generations of squarks are heavy, compatible with a U(2)³ flavor symmetry. We consider this flavor symmetry to be broken at a very high scale and study the consequences at low energies through its RGE evolution. Initial conditions compatible with a split scenario are found, and the preservation of correlations from minimal U(2)³ breaking are checked. The various chiral operators in ΔF=2 processes are analyzed, and we show that, due to LHC gluino bounds, the (LL)(RR) operators cannot always be neglected. Finally, we also study a possible extension of the U(2)³ model compatible with the lepton sector.     

Charged black hole remnants at the LHC

We investigate possible signatures of long-lived (or stable) charged black holes at the Large Hadron Collider. In particular, we find that black hole remnants are characterised by quite low speed. Due to this fact, the charged remnants could, in some cases, be very clearly distinguished from the background events, exploiting dE/dX measurements. We also compare the estimate energy released by such remnants with that of typical Standard Model particles, using the Bethe–Bloch formula.     

Double diffractive higgs and di-photon production at the Tevatron and LHC

We use the Monte Carlo generator to predict the cross-sections for double diffractive higgs and di-photon production at the Tevatron and LHC. We find that the higgs production cross-section is too small to be observable at Tevatron energies, and even at the LHC observation would be difficult. Double diffractive di-photon production, however, should be observable within one year of Tevatron Run II.     

Top quark from the Tevatron to LHC

The history of the detection of the heaviest elementary particle, the top quark, at the Tevatron accelerator using the CDF detector is presented. The basic channels of detecting the top quark and the methods of determining its mass are described. The importance and the strategy of measuring the top quark mass in various channels of the \(\mathop {tt}\limits^ - \)-pair decay at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with a cm energy of 14 TeV, an operation which is expected to begin in 2007, is discussed. The investigations into the physics of the top quark at the earliest stage of the LHC operation are described.     

Measuring beauty production in Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC via single electrons in ALICE

We present the expected ALICE performance for the measurement of the p _t-differential cross section of electrons from beauty decays in central Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC. for the ALICE Collaboration Presented in the Poster Session “Future Experiments and Facilities” at the 18th International Conference “Quark Matter 2005”, Budapest, Hungary, 4–9 August 2005.     

Production of Charged Scalars from the Littlest Higgs Model Associated with Top Quark at LHC

The littlest Higgs （LH） model is the most economical one among various little Higgs models, which predicts the existence of the charged scalars Φ^±. In this paper, we study the production of the charged Higgs boson Φ^- with single top quark via the process gb →tΦ^- at the CERN Large Hadron Collider （LHC）. The numerical results show that the production cross section is sma/ler than 0.2 pb in most of the parameters space, it is very difficult to observe the signatures of the charged scalars via the process pp → gb ＋ X → tΦ^- ＋ X at the LHC experiments. However, it can open a window to distinguish the top-pions in the TC2 model or charged Higgs in the MSSM from Φ^±.