The results of an analysis of data from the SERP-Е-184 experiment devoted to studying mechanisms of the production of charmed particles in proton–nucleus interactions at 70 GeV and their decays are presented. The data in question were obtained upon irradiating the SVD-2 active target consisting of carbon, silicon, and lead plates with a beam of 70-GeV protons. A detailed simulation on the basis of the FRITIOF7.02 and GEANT3.21 code packages made it possible to optimize event-selection criteria and to calculate the detection efficiency for Λ c + baryons. After selecting a signal from the threebody decay of a Λ c + baryon, the inclusive cross section for its production at near-threshold energies, its lifetime, and the parameter of the A dependence of the cross section were found. The Λ c + -baryon yields are tabulated along with data from other experiments and theoretical predictions.
A search for the rare decays B 0 s → π + π − μ + μ − and B 0 → 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 / c 2 and with muon pairs that do not originate from a resonance are considered. The first observation of the decay B 0 s → π + π − μ + μ − and the first evidence of the decay B 0 → π + π − μ + μ − are obtained and the branching fractions, restricted to the dipion-mass range considered, are measured to be B ( B 0 s → π + π − μ + μ − ) = ( 8 . 6 ± 1 . 5 ( stat ) ± 0 . 7 ( syst ) ± 0 . 7 ( norm )) × 10 − 8 and B ( B 0 → 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 B 0 → J /ψ( → μ + μ − ) K ∗ ( 892 ) 0 ( → K + π − ) , used as a normalisation. © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Funded by SCOAP 3 .
Описана конструкция калориметра мягких фотонов установки СВД-2. Апертура прибора 210 × 210 мм. Приведены первые результаты его испытания в ходе физического набора статистики в эксперименте E-190 на ускорителе У-70 ИФВЭ.
The design of the soft photon calorimeter for the SVD-2 experiment is described. The aperture of the calorimeter is 210 × 210 mm. The first results of its testing in the course of data acquisition in the E-190 experiment at the U-70 accelerator of the Institute for High Energy Physics are presented.