Exotic Heavy Hadrons at LHCb
Dr. Vanya Belyaev
ITEP Moscow
Virtual only
Faculty Host: Eric Braaten
Abstract: In the almost 20 years since the discovery of the enigmatic X(3872) meson in 2003, more than 30 exotic heavy-flavor hadrons that do not fit into the simple quark-antiquark and three-quark structures predicted by the Quark Model (and postdicted by QCD) have been observed. A large fraction of them, including the first representatives of two totally new classes of hadrons -- charm-anticharm pentaquarks and double-charm tetraquarks -- have been observed by the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The LHCb experiment has collected about 9 fb-1 of data in proton-proton collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7, 8 and 13 TeV in the years 2010-2018, and it is currently preparing for the LHC Run-3 data-taking period. The most recent LHCb results on heavy-flavor exotic hadrons, their possible interpretations, and the expectations from Run 3 will be discussed.
Bio: Vanya Belyaev graduated from Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology in 1991, and he obtained his Ph.D. from the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics in Moscow in 2004. Beginning in 1989, he worked with the ARGUS collaboration at DESY in Germany studying rare decays of charm and beauty mesons. Beginning in 1993, he worked with the HERA-B collaboration at DESY in the design, optimization, and construction of the muon system, the electromagnetic calorimeter, the high-pT system, and the first-level trigger. Since 1998, he has been a member of the LHCb collaboration. He has worked on the design, construction, and operation of the electromagnetic calorimeter and on the development of analysis software and triggers. His physics interests include rare decays of charm and beauty hadrons, heavy-quark and quarkonium physics, multiple heavy-quark production, and heavy-hadron spectroscopy.
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