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Título: STRATEGIES FOR THE SEARCH OF CHARGE-PARITY VIOLATION IN THE D+ → PI−PI+PI+ DECAY IN THE LHCB EXPERIMENT
Autor: LUCAS CORDEIRO ROMAO
Colaborador(es): CARLA GOBEL BURLAMAQUI DE MELLO - Orientador
Catalogação: 16/JAN/2023 Língua(s): PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL
Tipo: TEXT Subtipo: THESIS
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Referência(s): [pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=61778&idi=1
[en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=61778&idi=2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.61778
Resumo:
Last century we discovered the existence of antiparticles, and since then the search to understand the asymmetry between particles and antiparticles has been a strong field of research in physics. Among the conditions that make matter-antimatter asymmetry possible in the Universe is the Charge-Parity Violation (CPV) phenomenon. Due to it we observe differences between the decay processes of a particle and its antiparticle. Such a phenomenon has important effects for mesons formed by b or s quarks, but the predictions of this effect for the charm sector are very small, with CP asymmetries around the order of 10−3 or smaller. In fact only recently has CPV been observed in 2-body decays of D0 mesons. This dissertation presents the validation of strategies in the search for CPV in the D+ → π−π+π+ channel using data from the LHCb experiment during Run II. The CPV search method, the so-called Mirandizing method, consists of statistically computing the populations of D+ and D− in intervals of the two-dimensional phase space, obtaining the significance of the difference of these populations. For large statistical samples, as is our case, the ultimate goal is to apply an alternative method by obtaining the number of the populations through mass fits for each interval. This work aims to perform the validation of the method. Our strategy is to perform the procedure by dividing the sample randomly into two subsamples, but not separating into the D+ and D− samples. What is expected, then, is that the results demonstrate statistical compatibility between the two samples. In addition to this validation using data, we will also perform the same procedure on 100 pseudo-experiments. Finally, we perform sensitivity studies in order to verify the possible scenarios in which CPV could be observed in this channel, given the total sample size. For this study, we will obtain the number of the populations by directly counting the phase space events (Mirandizing) within the mass region with the highest concentration of signal events.
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