LHCb reports the first experimental evidence for the Bs0 to K- pi+ gamma decay with 3.5 sigma significance and measures its branching fraction ratio to the B0 decay in two mass ranges.
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The LHCb Trigger and its Performance in 2011
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This paper presents the design of the LHCb trigger and its performance on data taken at the LHC in 2011. A principal goal of LHCb is to perform flavour physics measurements, and the trigger is designed to distinguish charm and beauty decays from the light quark background. Using a combination of lepton identification and measurements of the particles' transverse momenta the trigger selects particles originating from charm and beauty hadrons, which typically fly a finite distance before decaying. The trigger reduces the roughly 11\,MHz of bunch-bunch crossings that contain at least one inelastic $pp$ interaction to 3\,kHz. This reduction takes place in two stages; the first stage is implemented in hardware and the second stage is a software application that runs on a large computer farm. A data-driven method is used to evaluate the performance of the trigger on several charm and beauty decay modes.
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First observation of CP violation in B+ to rho(770)^0 K*(892)+ decays with A_CP = 0.507 and longitudinal polarization fraction f_L = 0.720 from 9 fb^-1 of LHCb data.
First evidence for B_s^0 to phi eta-prime decay with relative branching ratio (3.56 ± 0.79 ± 0.18 ± 0.06) x 10^{-2} and absolute branching fraction (0.66 ± 0.15 ± 0.03 ± 0.02) x 10^{-6}.
First observation of Λ_b^0 → Λ p p-bar with 5.1σ significance and relative branching fraction (5.1 ± 1.3(stat) ± 0.3(syst)) × 10^{-2} to the reference mode Λ_b^0 → Λ K^+ K^-.
First measurement of A_FB and F_H in B+→π+μ+μ− decay is consistent with Standard Model predictions in both high- and low-mass dimuon regions.
A new charm-strange resonance D_s1(2933)^+ with J^P=1^+ is observed at >10 sigma in B^0 to D+ D- K+ pi- decays, with measured mass 2933 MeV and width 72 MeV.
Charged-hadron distributions in heavy-flavor jets differ from light-quark jets in ways consistent with dead-cone suppression and hard fragmentation of the heavy hadron.
No evidence for KS0 or KL0 to pi+ pi- mu+ mu- decays; first upper limits set at 1.4e-9 and 6.6e-7 (90% CL).
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No signal observed for B+ → π+ μ± e∓; branching fraction upper limit set at 1.8 × 10^{-9} at 90% CL.
Most precise CP asymmetry and branching ratio measurements for B± → K0S h± decays with no significant signal observed for the rare Bc decay.
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