JHEP

Measurements of CP observables in B$^{±}$ → DK$^{*±}$ decays are presented, where D denotes a superposition of D$^{0}$ and ${\overline{D}}^0$ meson states. Decays of the D meson to K$^{−}$ π$^{+}$, K$^{−}$ K$^{+}$, π$^{−}$ π$^{+}$, K$^{−}$ π$^{+}$ π$^{−}$ π$^{+}$ and π$^{−}$ π$^{+}$ π$^{−}$ π$^{+}$ are used and the K$^{*±}$ meson is reconstructed in the K$_{S}^{0}$ π$^{±}$ final state. This analysis uses a data sample of pp collisions collected with the LHCb experiment, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 1 fb$^{−1}$, 2 fb$^{−1}$ and 1.8 fb$^{−1}$ at centre-of-mass energies $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV, 8 TeV and 13 TeV, respectively. The sensitivity of the results to the CKM angle γ is discussed.

J. Phys. Conf. Ser.

Multi-VO supports based on DIRAC have been set up to provide workload and data management for several high energy experiments in IHEP. To monitor and manage the heterogeneous resources which belong to different Virtual Organizations in a uniform way, a resources monitoring and automatic management system based on Resource Status System(RSS) of DIRAC has been presented in this paper. The system is composed of three parts: information collection, status decision and automatic control, and information display. The information collection includes active and passive way of gathering status from different sources and stores them in databases. The status decision and automatic control is used to evaluate the resources status and take control actions on resources automatically through some pre-defined policies and actions. The monitoring information is displayed on a web portal. Both the real-time information and historical information can be obtained from the web portal. All the implementations are based on DIRAC framework. The information and control including sites, policies, web portal for different VOs can be well defined and distinguished within DIRAC user and group management infrastructure.

J.Phys.Conf.Ser.

Any time you modify an implementation within a program, change compiler version or operating system, you should also do regression testing. You can do regression testing by rerunning existing tests against the changes to determine whether this breaks anything that worked prior to the change and by writing new tests where necessary. At LHCb we have a huge codebase which is maintained by many people and can be run within different setups. Such situations lead to the crucial necessity to guide refactoring with a central profiling system that helps to run tests and find the impact of changes. In our work we present a software architecture and tools for running a profiling system. This system is responsible for systematically running regression tests, collecting and comparing results of these tests so changes between different setups can be observed and reported. The main feature of our solution is that it is based on a microservices architecture. Microservices break a large project into loosely coupled modules, which communicate with each other through simple APIs. Such modular architectural style helps us to avoid general pitfalls of monolithic architectures such as hard to understand a codebase as well as maintaining a large codebase and ineffective scalability. Our solution also allows to escape a complexity of microservices deployment process by using software containers and services management tools. Containers and service managers let us quickly deploy linked modules in development, production or in any other environments. Most of the developed modules are generic which means that the proposed architecture and tools can be used not only in LHCb but adopted for other experiments and companies.

J. Phys. Conf. Ser.

The ATLAS EventIndex has been running in production since mid-2015, reliably collecting information worldwide about all produced events and storing them in a central Hadoop infrastructure at CERN. A subset of this information is copied to an Oracle relational database for fast dataset discovery, event-picking, crosschecks with other ATLAS systems and checks for event duplication. The system design and its optimization is serving event picking from requests of a few events up to scales of tens of thousand of events, and in addition, data consistency checks are performed for large production campaigns. Detecting duplicate events with a scope of physics collections has recently arisen as an important use case. This paper describes the general architecture of the project and the data flow and operation issues, which are addressed by recent developments to improve the throughput of the overall system. In this direction, the data collection system is reducing the usage of the messaging infrastructure to overcome the performance shortcomings detected during production peaks; an object storage approach is instead used to convey the event index information, and messages to signal their location and status. Recent changes in the Producer/Consumer architecture are also presented in detail, as well as the monitoring infrastructure.

Phys.Rev.D

We calculate the angular distribution spectra between beauty (B) and antibeauty (B¯) mesons in proton-proton collisions in the leading order approximation of the parton Reggeization approach consistently merged with the next-to-leading order corrections from the emission of an additional hard gluon. To describe b-quark hadronization we use the universal scale-dependent parton-to-meson fragmentation functions extracted from the world e+e- annihilation data. We have obtained good agreement between our predictions and data from the CMS Collaboration at the energy S=7  TeV for BB¯ angular correlations within uncertainties and without free parameters. Predictions for analogous correlation observables at S=13  TeV are provided.

Phys. Rev. D

The T2K experiment reports an updated analysis of neutrino and antineutrino oscillations in appearance and disappearance channels. A sample of electron neutrino candidates at Super-Kamiokande in which a pion decay has been tagged is added to the four single-ring samples used in previous T2K oscillation analyses. Through combined analyses of these five samples, simultaneous measurements of four oscillation parameters, |Δm322|, sin2θ23, sin2θ13, and δCP and of the mass ordering are made. A set of studies of simulated data indicates that the sensitivity to the oscillation parameters is not limited by neutrino interaction model uncertainty. Multiple oscillation analyses are performed, and frequentist and Bayesian intervals are presented for combinations of the oscillation parameters with and without the inclusion of reactor constraints on sin2θ13. When combined with reactor measurements, the hypothesis of CP conservation (δCP=0 or π) is excluded at 90% confidence level. The 90% confidence region for δCP is [-2.95,-0.44] ([-1.47,-1.27]) for normal (inverted) ordering. The central values and 68% confidence intervals for the other oscillation parameters for normal (inverted) ordering are Δm322=2.54±0.08(2.51±0.08)×10−3  eV2/c4 and sin2θ23=0.55-0.09+0.05 (0.55-0.08+0.05), compatible with maximal mixing. In the Bayesian analysis, the data weakly prefer normal ordering (Bayes factor 3.7) and the upper octant for sin2θ23 (Bayes factor 2.4).

Eur.Phys.J.C

This paper reports on the development of a technology involving$^{100}\hbox {Mo}$ -enriched scintillating bolometers, compatible with the goals of CUPID, a proposed next-generation bolometric experiment to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay. Large mass ( $\sim 1~\hbox {kg}$ ), high optical quality, radiopure$^{100}\hbox {Mo}$ -containing zinc and lithium molybdate crystals have been produced and used to develop high performance single detector modules based on 0.2–0.4 kg scintillating bolometers. In particular, the energy resolution of the lithium molybdate detectors near the Q-value of the double-beta transition of$^{100}\hbox {Mo}$ (3034 keV) is 4–6 keV FWHM. The rejection of the $\alpha$ -induced dominant background above 2.6 MeV is better than $8\sigma$ . Less than ParseError: KaTeX parse error: Undefined control sequence: \upmu at position 4: 10~\̲u̲p̲m̲u̲ ̲\hbox {Bq/kg} activity of$^{232}\hbox {Th}\, (^{228}\hbox {Th})$ and$^{226}\hbox {Ra}$ in the crystals is ensured by boule recrystallization. The potential of$^{100}\hbox {Mo}$ -enriched scintillating bolometers to perform high sensitivity double-beta decay searches has been demonstrated with only $10~\hbox {kg}\times \hbox {d}$ exposure: the two neutrino double-beta decay half-life of$^{100}\hbox {Mo}$ has been measured with the up-to-date highest accuracy as $T_{1/2}$ = [6.90 ± 0.15(stat.) ± 0.37(syst.)] $\times ~10^{18}~\hbox {years}$ . Both crystallization and detector technologies favor lithium molybdate, which has been selected for the ongoing construction of the CUPID-0/Mo demonstrator, containing several kg of$^{100}\hbox {Mo}$ .