Publications

The LHCb upgrade represents a major change of the experiment. The detectors have been almost completely renewed to allow running at an instantaneous luminosity five times larger than that of the previous running periods. Readout of all detectors into an all-software trigger is central to the new design, facilitating the reconstruction of events at the maximum LHC interaction rate, and their selection in real time. The experiment's tracking system has been completely upgraded with a new pixel vertex detector, a silicon tracker upstream of the dipole magnet and three scintillating fibre tracking stations downstream of the magnet. The whole photon detection system of the RICH detectors has been renewed and the readout electronics of the calorimeter and muon systems have been fully overhauled. The first stage of the all-software trigger is implemented on a GPU farm. The output of the trigger provides a combination of totally reconstructed physics objects, such as tracks and vertices, ready for final analysis, and of entire events which need further offline reprocessing. This scheme required a complete revision of the computing model and rewriting of the experiment's software.

The production of $\eta$ and $\mathrm{\eta \text{'}}$ mesons is studied in proton-proton and proton-lead collisions collected with the LHCb detector. Proton-proton collisions are studied at center-of-mass energies of $5.02$ and $13\text{TeV}$, and proton-lead collisions are studied at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon of $8.16\text{TeV}$. The studies are performed in center-of-mass rapidity regions $2.5$

A search for CP violation in $D^0\to \pi -\pi +\pi 0$ decays is reported, using pp collision data collected by the LHCb experiment from 2015 to 2018 corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 6 fb−1. An unbinned model-independent approach provides sensitivity to local CP violation within the two-dimensional phase space of the decay. The method is validated using the Cabibbo-favoured channel D0 → K−π+π0 and background regions of the signal mode. The results are consistent with CP symmetry in this decay

The production of prompt $D_s^{+}$ and $D_{+}$ mesons is measured by the LHCb experiment in proton-lead ($p\mathrm{Pb}$) collisions...

The first observation and study of two new baryonic structures in the final state ${\Xi }_b^0\pi +\pi -$...

A measurement of the $CP$-violating observables from $B^{\pm }\to D*K^{\pm }$...

The magnetic monopole is a hypothetical particle with a magnetic charge. It is an important field configuration in many Grand Unified Theories. Dirac in 1931 derived a charge quantization condition, which suggests that the existence of one magnetic monopole in the universe will explain electric charge quantization. Since then, a search of the elusive particle has begun, and yet all came with negative results. The NOνA Far Detector is able to probe some of the parameter space for the search for monopoles. To achieve this, two dedicated triggers, one for fast monopoles and the other for slow monopoles, have been developed to record signals. Results for the first 8 months of high-gain slow monopole data were obtained, and a 90% CL limit was established with no monopole observed. The analysis in this thesis is focused on new data with a higher gain, and we have explored potential improvement in efficiency and improvements in the reconstruction algorithm. We have done this analysis on Monte-Carlo generated simulated data to establish efficiencies and examined a control set of the new data to understand its differences from the old.

In this study, the concept of magnetically charged black hole is discussed through calculating the angular momentum (L) of its interaction with an electric test charge. Results confirm that the angular momentum form will agree with the prediction of no-hair theorem and we will show that L will depend on the distance between the charge and the black hole.

The CMS silicon tracker consists of two tracking devices utilizing semiconductor technology: the inner pixel and the outer strip detectors. They operate in a high-occupancy and high-radiation environment presented by particle collisions in the LHC. The tracker detectors occupy the region around the center of CMS, where the LHC beams collide, between 4 cm and 110 cm in radius and up to 280 cm along the beam axis. The pixel detector consists of 66 million pixels, covering about 1 m{ extasciicircum}2 total area. It is surrounded by the strip tracker with 10 million read-out channels covering about 200 m{ extasciicircum}2 total area. In this study, details are given about the performance of the strip tracker at high occupancy with respect to local observables such as signal to noise ratio and hit reconstruction efficiency. Studies of strip hit resolution that affects the quality of track reconstruction.