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Measurement Of Production And Decay Properties Of Bs Mesons Decaying Into J/Psi Phi With The Cms Detector At The Lhc, Giordano Cerizza

Doctoral Dissertations

The production of hadrons containing b-quarks has been measured in proton anti-proton collisions up to center-of-massenergies of 1.96 TeV at the Tevatron. Information at lower energy is provided by electron-positron collision experiments.The underlying theory of hadronic interactions is tuned to those data but cannot reliably predict reaction rates from first principlesfor higher energies. Therefore, it is important to test the extrapolations and optimize model parameters for the new energy regime at the LHC. The b-hadrons from proton-proton collisions are a major source of background in searches for the Higgs boson andother heavy not-yet-discovered particles. Hence, it is important to quantify …