Measurement of the B- /- production cross-section in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV

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Journal article

Measurement of the B- /- production cross-section in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV

R Aaij, C Abellan Beteta, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, C Adrover, A Affolder, Z Ajaltouni, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, AA Alves, S Amato, Y Amhis, J Anderson, RB Appleby, O Aquines Gutierrez, F Archilli, L Arrabito Show all

Journal of High Energy Physics | SPRINGER | Published : 2012

DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2012)093

University of Melbourne Researchers

Anna Phan Author Physics

Phillip Urquijo Author Physics

Grants

Awarded by Science and Technology Facilities Council

Funding Acknowledgements

We express our gratitude to our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC. We thank the technical and administrative staff at CERN and at the LHCb institutes, and acknowledge support from the National Agencies: CAPES, CNPq, FAPERJ and FINEP (Brazil); CERN; NSFC (China); CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, HGF and MPG (Germany); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); FOM and NWO (The Netherlands); SCSR (Poland); ANCS (Romania); MinES of Russia and Rosatom (Russia); MICINN, XuntaGal and GENCAT (Spain); SNSF and SER (Switzerland); NAS Ukraine (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); NSF (U.S.A.). We also acknowledge the support received from the ERC under FP7 and the Region Auvergne.