Publications by authors named "M S Poliakova"

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  • The LHCb experiment measures prompt D^{0} meson production in proton-lead collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8.16 TeV, focusing on both forward and backward rapidity regions.
  • Results reveal significant suppression of D^{0} meson production in the forward rapidity region compared to proton-proton collisions, offering valuable insights into nuclear parton distribution models.
  • In the backward rapidity region, a noteworthy suppression is also observed, particularly in high transverse momentum ranges, challenging existing parton distribution function predictions in a nuclear context.
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The time-integrated CP asymmetry in the Cabibbo-suppressed decay D^{0}→K^{-}K^{+} is measured using proton-proton collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.7  fb^{-1} collected at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the LHCb detector. The D^{0} mesons are required to originate from promptly produced D^{*+}→D^{0}π^{+} decays, and the charge of the companion pion is used to determine the flavor of the charm meson at production.

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Searches for the rare hadronic decays B^{0}→pp[over ¯]pp[over ¯] and B_{s}^{0}→pp[over ¯]pp[over ¯] are performed using proton-proton collision data recorded by the LHCb experiment and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9  fb^{-1}. Significances of 9.3σ and 4.

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An amplitude analysis of the B^{+}→D_{s}^{+}D_{s}^{-}K^{+} decay is carried out to study for the first time its intermediate resonant contributions, using proton-proton collision data collected with the LHCb detector at center-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13 TeV. A near-threshold peaking structure, referred to as X(3960), is observed in the D_{s}^{+}D_{s}^{-} invariant-mass spectrum with significance greater than 12 standard deviations. The mass, width, and the quantum numbers of the structure are measured to be 3956±5±10  MeV, 43±13±8  MeV, and J^{PC}=0^{++}, respectively, where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second systematic.

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Article Synopsis
  • The LHCb experiment measured the production rates of B_{s}^{0} and B^{0} mesons in proton-proton collisions at a high energy of 13 TeV, focusing on events with different levels of particle density.
  • They observed a significant 3.4σ increase in the ratio of B_{s}^{0} to B^{0} mesons at low transverse momenta (below 6 GeV/c) as the number of charged particles in the event increased, but no significant change at higher momenta.
  • The findings suggest that the hadronic medium's density influences B meson production, which aligns with the idea that quark coalescence might be a key process in creating particles during
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