# LHCb Theses

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 Measurement of the $CP$-even Fraction of the $D^0 \rightarrow 2\pi^+ 2\pi^-$ Decay using Quantum Correlated ${D\bar{D}}$ Pairs at CLEO-c, and Real-time Alignment of the LHCb RICH optical Systems / Prouve, Claire This thesis covers three subjects, namely the measurement of the $C\!P$-even fraction of the $D^0\rightarrow 2\pi^+2\pi^-$ decay, the real-time alignment of the LHCb RICH mirror systems and the estimation of the sensitivity to the CKM angle $\gamma$ that can be obtained using $B^{\pm}\rightarrow D(\ [...] CERN-THESIS-2017-334 - 173 p. Fulltext 2018-02-26 10:12  Test of lepton flavour universality using hadronic tau decays with the LHCb detector / Arbouch, Emmanuel The goal of this internship was to realize a preliminary study on the measurement of the R(D ∗ ) parameter, defined as the ratio between the two branching frac- tions R(D ∗ ) ≡ B(B 0 → D ∗− τ + ν τ )/B(B 0 → D ∗− μ + ν μ ), using the τ + → π + π − π + ν τ hadroni [...] CERN-THESIS-2017-319 - 34 p. Fulltext 2018-02-23 17:40  Observation of the$B^0_s \to \eta_c \phi$decay with the LHCb experiment / Martin, Morgan Leni The interference between$B^0_s$meson decay amplitudes to CP final state directly or via mixing gives rise to a measurable CP-violating phase$\phi_s$, which is predicted to be$\phi_s^{SM} = (-0.0370\pm0.0006)~\mathrm{rad}$in the Standard Model [...] CERN-THESIS-2017-318 - 150 p. Fulltext 2018-02-21 06:04  Observation of CP violation in B+/- → DK+/- decays / Gandini, Paolo An accurate determination of the angle γ of the Unitary Triangle is one of the most important goals of the LHCb experiment [...] Springer, 2017. 10.1007/978-3-319-01029-8 Full text 2018-02-15 16:13  Measurement of particle multiplicity and energy ﬂow in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the LHCb detector / Dreimanis, Karlis The LHC is the world's largest and highest-energy particle collider [...] CERN-THESIS-2017-310 - 180 p. Fulltext 2018-02-02 11:54  CP Violation and Lifetime Measurements of Two-body Charmless Decays of B Hadrons at LHCb / Karodia, Sarah This thesis presents lifetime measurements of charmless two-body decays of b hadrons, specifically the decay modes known as$B\to h^+ h^{'-}$, where$B$refers to meson or baryon containing a$b$quark and$h^{(')}$refers to a proton$p$, pion$\pi$or kaon$K$[...] CERN-THESIS-2017-302 - 179 p. Fulltext 2018-02-01 12:08  Searches for$CP$violation in multi-body charm decays and studies of radiation damage in the LHCb VELO detector / Chen, Shanzhen This thesis presents two searches for direct charge-parity ($CP$) violation in multi-body decays in the charm-sector at LHCb, the development of techniques for performing model-independent searches for direct$CP$violation in multi-body decays, and the development of studies of radiation damage ef [...] CERN-THESIS-2017-301 - 296 p. Fulltext 2018-01-26 11:22  Search for a Higgs boson decaying to a pair of$b$quarks in the forward region of$pp$collisions with the LHCb detector / Sestini, Lorenzo LHCb is a forward spectrometer (pseudorapidity coverage 2 <$\eta$< 5) designed for heavy flavour physics, located at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) [...] CERN-THESIS-2017-294 - 172 p. Fulltext 2018-01-17 10:52  Searches for two-body charmless baryonic$B^0$decays at LHCb / Beddow, John The results of two separate searches for the rare two-body charmless baryonic decays B0 -> p pbar and B0s -> p pbar at the LHCb experiment are reported in this thesis [...] CERN-THESIS-2016-357 - Glasgow : University of Glasgow, 2016-09-26. - 166 p. Fulltext 2017-12-12 12:04 $CP$violation studies in three-body charmless$B^\pm$decays and contributions to the LHCb SciFi Tracker / Rodrigues Cavalcante, Ana Barbara In the first part of the thesis, we present studies on three-body charmless$B^\pm\$ decays [...] CERN-THESIS-2017-259 - 196 p.

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