Since the beginning of the project, the real-time analysis framework has been successfully delivered for the LHCb Upgrade. The main results achieved by Beauty2Charm so far are:
- The Beauty2Charm team have contributed to the implementation of 'flavour tagging', the way in which LHCb determines whether a particle is a B or anti-B meson, in the real-time framework. The results of flavor tagging can be seen in the included figure, in which particles tagged as Bs0 mesons are shown in blue, particles tagged as anti-Bs0 mesons are shown in red, and particles that did not receive a flavour tag are shown in grey.
- The project has developed a simulation of the real-time framework in order to determine the optimal allocation of processing hardware used by the real-time analysis software, the exploitation of which resulted in the LHCb collaboration deploying Graphics Processing Units in the earliest stages of the real-time data processing pipeline. This has been published in a peer-reviewed journal, disseminated in a press release in the CERN courier and on social media, as well as at several international conferences.
- The PI and team have contributed to several analyses of Beauty to Charm decays at LHCb, including the most precise measurement of the frequency at which beauty-strange mesons oscillate between their matter and antimatter counterparts. This has been published in a peer-reviewed journal, disseminated in a press release by the LHCb experiment, and presented at several international conferences. The included figure from this publication shows these incredibly precise oscillations and how the matter peaks in blue correspond to an antimatter trough in red.
- A member of the team has coauthored a peer-reviewed phenomenology paper on future sensitivity to anomalies in Beauty2Charm decays, the outcome of which has been disseminated on social media.
