Information related to the B --> hh Road Map document

Road Map document

The Road Map document can be found here (to be inserted once published on EB page).

Present experimental status

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LHCb Talks (in reverse chronological order for each topic)

General presentations

• B->hh road map presentation, V. Vagnoni
• CP asymmetries in B -> hh, V. Vagnoni
• Steps towards CP analyses with B->hh, V. Vagnoni
• CP WG: recent highlights and plans for B->hh, V. Vagnoni
• Progress in B->hh studies, V. Vagnoni
• Report from B->hh subgroup, V. Vagnoni

Offline selection studies

• B->hh offline selection, A. Carbone
• B->hh selection status, A. Carbone
• Update on B-->hh selection, A. Carbone
• Status of DC06 selection studies, A. Carbone
• Status of DC06 B->hh background studies, A. Carbone
• Status of DC06 B->hh selection studies, A. Carbone
• B->hh selection efficiencies with DC06 data, A. Carbone

Online selection studies

• B->hh online selection, A. Carbone
• B->hh trigger status, A. Carbone
• B->hh and HLT2, A. Carbone
• First look at trigger with B->hh decays, E. Rodrigues
• Trigger issues for B->hh decays, E. Rodrigues

Mass line shape

• B->hh invariant mass parameterization, V. Vagnoni

Particle Identification

• PID observable for CP fits in the road map note, V. Vagnoni and S. Perazzini
• Update on B-->hh PID calibration and reweighting, R. Muresan
• Status of PID calibration with D* decays, R. Muresan
• Progresses with RICH PID calibration using D*, R. Muresan
• PID calibration with D* samples in DC06, R. Muresan

Proper time measurement

• Update on proper time resolution extraction from B->hh data, L. Carson
• Proper Time Resolution road map contribution, L. Carson
• Propertime resolution studies at Glasgow, L. Carson
• B->hh propertime studies, S. Vecchi
• B->hh proper time studies with DC06 data, S. Vecchi
• Studies on the Bs Proper Time systematics, S. Vecchi

Lifetime studies

• Update on unbiased Bs->KK lifetime measurement, U. Kerzel
• Lifetime fitting in B->hh, M. Gersabeck
• MC-free lifetime fitting, M. Gersabeck
• Ideas for PID-based Bs->KK trigger, U. Kerzel
• Update on B_s-->KK lifetime, U. Kerzel
• Status of B->hh lifetime studies in Cambridge, U. Kerzel
• B->hh, lifetime issues, M. Gersabeck

Misalignments

• B->hh misalignment studies, M. Gersabeck, E. Rodrigues and J. Nardulli
• Progresses of misalignment studies with B->hh channels, M. Gersabeck, J. Nardulli and E. Rodrigues
• Plans for misalignment studies with B->hh decays, J. Nardulli

Tagging

• B->hh Flavour Tagging strategy and performance, S. Perazzini and V. Vagnoni
• Study of B->hh mistag fractions and CP fits, A. Sarti

CP sensitivity

• Global fit to the full Monte Carlo sample, V. Vagnoni, A. Sarti and A. Carbone
• B->hh CP fits, V. Vagnoni, A. Sarti and A. Carbone
• Update on the B->hh global fit, A. Sarti
• Towards a global B->hh CP fit, A. Sarti and V. Vagnoni
• B->hh CP fits on DC06 data samples: first studies, S. Vecchi
• Simultaneous Fit, A. Sarti

B-->ppbar

• B to p pbar road map contribution, L. Carson
• Offline selection for the rare decays B-->ppbar, L. Carson
• First studies on rare B->hh decays - report primarily on B->p pbar, E. Rodrigues and C. Parkes
• Rare B->hh decays, E. Rodrigues

-- VincenzoVagnoni - 11 May 2009