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Measurement of the Branching Fraction Ratios 𝑅(𝐷+) and 𝑅(𝐷*+) Using Muonic 𝜏 Decays
Physical Review Letters. 2025. Vol. 134. Article 061801.
The branching fraction ratios of ¯𝐵0→𝐷+𝜏−¯𝜈𝜏 and ¯𝐵0→𝐷*+𝜏−¯𝜈𝜏 decays are measured with respect to their muonic counterparts, using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.0 fb−1 collected by the LHCb experiment in proton-proton collisions at √𝑠 =13 TeV. The reconstructed final states are formed by combining 𝐷+ mesons with 𝜏−→𝜇−¯𝜈𝜇𝜈𝜏 candidates, where the 𝐷+ is reconstructed via the 𝐷+ →𝐾−𝜋+𝜋+ decay. The results are 𝑅(𝐷+)=0.249±0.043±0.047, 𝑅(𝐷*+)=0.402±0.081±0.085, where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second systematic. The two measurements have a correlation coefficient of −0.39 and are compatible with the standard model.
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The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2026 Vol. 17 No. 18 P. 5386–5394
We demonstrate and rationalize the effect of Au nanoparticles (NPs) on the hierarchical g-C3N4/CeO2 heterojunction. g-C3N4/CeO2 decorated with monodispersed plasmonic Au NPs was synthesized. Detailed analyses showed that CeO2 nanocubes and monodispersed Au NPs were evenly distributed over the 2D g-C3N4 surface, forming a robust interface enriched with abundant active sites. The structure enabled efficient separation of photogenerated charge ...
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Das A., Paul R., Sharma N. et al., Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 2026 Vol. 728 P. 138830
Niobium-doped TiO2 (Nb-TiO2), demonstrates dual functionality as an efficient photocatalyst for dye degradation and a promising photoelectrocatalyst for water oxidation. Nb incorporation via a facile hydrothermal method was confirmed by XRD (Rietveld refinement), XPS, TEM, FT-IR, Raman, and BET analyses, indicating successful lattice doping and structural modification. Photocatalytic dye degradation experiments were conducted using a model ...
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Kolokolov I., Lebedev V., Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 2026 Vol. 113 Article 054117
We theoretically investigate the correlation functions of the phase of a light wave propagating through a
turbulent medium. We use an equation for the logarithm of a wave packet envelope, which includes a secondorder
nonlinear term. Based on this equation, we develop a diagrammatic technique to calculate corrections
to the correlation function obtained in the linear approximation. We ...
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Гущина В. А., / Series chemrxiv-2023-vpzhz-v2 "ChemRxiv". 2023.
All-inorganic perovskite CsPbBr3 and Cs4PbBr6 nanoparticles are being intensively studied due to their unique properties and wide range of applications; however, however, the nature of their optical properties is not yet fully understood due to the difficulty of synthesis of singlephase nanoparticles. In this article we describe the features of the synthesis of single-phase particles ...
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Гущина В. А., Mendeleev Communications 2025 Vol. 35 No. 2 P. 193–195
All-inorganic perovskite CsPbBr3 and Cs4PbBr6 nanoparticles are intensively studied for their unique optical properties, though synthesizing single-phase nanoparticles has posed challenges. Detailed synthesis method of CsPbBr3 and Cs4PbBr6 single-phase nanoparticles and their chemical and phase analysis are described. Distinctive optical characteristics, such as photoluminescence, optical band gap and the Urbach tail region, are revealed and explained within the current ...
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Гущина В. А., Physics of Complex Systems, Russia 2026 Vol. 7 No. 1 P. 3–15
Heterostructures based on ZnO nanorods and CsPbBr3 nanocrystals were investigated for their potential as semiconductor SERS substrates. We found that ZnO morphology governs the efficiency of interfacial energy transfer, leading to enhanced photoluminescence under 390 nm excitation and a noticeable reduction of the bandgap in the composites. Raman analysis revealed a pronounced intensity enhancement and ...
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Bisnovatyi-Kogan G., Kondratyev I., Moiseenko S. G., International Journal of Modern Physics A 2025 Vol. 40 No. 7 Article 2550018
Bright transient objects in different wave bands have been discovered in recent years.
To explain these short (from ms to s), and very powerful events, different models, galactic and
extragalactic, have been considered. One of the popular models is based on the suggestion of
transformation of the magnetized plasma blob, presumably a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)
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Торопина О. Д., Бисноватый-Коган Г. С., Moiseenko S. G., Astronomy Reports 2025 Vol. 69 No. Suppl. 1 P. 80–90
The results of MHD simulations of supersonic astrophysical and laboratory jets in an external
poloidal magnetic field (Br,Bz) taking into account the rotation of the matter, are presented. The ejected
matter is collimated by the magnetic field, the degree of collimation and the flow structure depend on the
relation between of the magnetic field induction and the angular ...
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Morozov E. V., Demin A. S., Borovitskaya I. V. et al., Inorganic Materials: Applied Research 2026 Vol. 17 No. 3 P. 619–626
This article presents the results of experiments on the impact of powerful pulsed ion-plasma and
electron flows generated in the working chamber of the Plasma Focus PF-5M installation during each highvoltage
discharge on a model aluminum alloy B95. It is shown that the general characteristics of the alloy’s
damage upon exposure to pulsed flows of helium ions (HI) ...
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A. A. Ponomarev, N. L. Aleksandrov, Plasma Physics Reports 2026 Vol. 52 No. 3 P. 367–378
An approximate method for calculating drift velocity and other kinetic coefficients of heavy ions
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and ions, as well as rate constants for inelastic ion–molecule processes with these ions in helium with
small additions of O2 under an electric field. Calculated ...
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Domrin V. I., Malova H. V., V. Yu. Popov et al., Cosmic Research 2026 Vol. 64 No. 2 P. 238–252
During magnetospheric perturbations a relatively thin current sheet with thickness about several
proton gyroradii forms in the Earth’s magnetotail. In a framework of the kinetic model describing current
sheet thinning in the magnetotail, the processes of its formation are investigated depending on the normal
magnetic field magnitude which affects both the current sheet structure and particle dynamics within ...
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Tsareva O. O., Malova H. V., V. Yu. Popov et al., Plasma Physics Reports 2026 Vol. 52 No. 2 P. 179–185
The influence of asymmetry of plasma sources on the structure and spatial localization of a superthin
current sheet (STCS) supported by demagnetized electrons is studied using a self-consistent model. The
simulation takes into account the presence of a single plasma source in the northern hemisphere, which
makes the plasma flow asymmetric. It is demonstrated that the asymmetry of ...
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П.А.Беспалов, О.Н. Савина, Геомагнетизм и аэрономия 2025 Т. 65 № 5 С. 620–628
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Bondarenko G.G., Fisher M. R., Kristya V. I., Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics 2026 Vol. 90 No. 4 P. 572–576
A model of the cathode layer of a glow gas discharge with a thin dielectric film on a fraction of the
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accompanied by a significant increase in discharge current density and a decrease in cathode voltage
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Lu X., Tognazzi A., Klimov V. et al., Plasmonics 2026 Vol. 21 P. 1503–1512
Plasmonic nanostructures typically exhibit shifts in their resonant wavelength in response to changes in the refractive index of the surrounding medium. This limits their applications in scenarios requiring stable optical resonances. Here we present a metallic-dielectric hybrid metasurface that exhibits stable multi-wavelength resonance even if the refractive index of its surrounding varies. To quantitatively evaluate the stability of ...
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Ai X., An L., An S. et al., Nuclear Science and Techniques/Hewuli 2025 Vol. 36 Article 242
Electron–positron colliders operating in the GeV center-of-mass range, or tau-charm energy region, have been proved to enable competitive frontier research due to several unique features. With the progress of high-energy physics in the last two decades, a new-generation Tau-Charm factory, called the Super Tau-Charm Facility (STCF), has been actively promoted by the particle physics community ...
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Ratnikov F., Hushchyn M., Bocharnikov V. et al., Physical Review Letters 2025 Vol. 134 Article 081901
The Ξ0(−)𝑏→Ξ𝑐(3055)+(0)(→𝐷+(0)Λ)𝜋− decay chains are observed, and the spin-parity of Ξ𝑐(3055)+(0) baryons is determined for the first time. The measurement is performed using proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of √𝑠 =13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.4 fb−1, recorded by the LHCb experiment between 2016 and 2018. The spin-parity of the Ξ𝑐(3055)+(0) baryons is determined to be 3/2+ with a significance of more than 6.5𝜎 (3.5𝜎) ...
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Derkach D., Ratnikov F., Курбатов Е. О., Revista Mexicana de Fisica 2025 Vol. 71 No. 4 P. 041201
TheMulti-Purpose Detector (MPD) is one of the three experiments of the Nuclotron Ion Collider-fAcility (NICA) complex, which is currently under construction at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna. With collisions of heavy ions in the collider mode, the MPD will cover the energy range √sNN = 4 − 11 GeV to scan the ...
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Ratnikov F., Hushchyn M., Boldyrev A. et al., The European Physical Journal C - Particles and Fields 2025 Vol. 85 Article 7
Charged-particle trajectories are usually reconstructed with the LHCb detector using combined information from the tracking devices placed upstream and downstream of the 4 T m dipole magnet. Trajectories reconstructed using only information from the tracker downstream of the dipole magnet, which are referred to as T tracks, have not been used for physics analysis to date. The ...
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Ratnikov F., Bocharnikov V., Boldyrev A. et al., Journal of High Energy Physics 2025 Article 54
The first full amplitude analysis of B+ → ψ(2S)K+π+π− decays is performed using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 fb−1 recorded with the LHCb detector. The rich K+π+π− spectrum is studied and the branching fractions of the resonant substructure associated with the prominent K1(1270)+ contribution are measured. The data cannot be described by conventional strange and charmonium resonances only. An ...
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Ratnikov F., Hushchyn M., Ryzhikov A. et al., Physical Review Letters 2025 Vol. 134 Article 031902
The first study of 𝐽/𝜓𝜙 production in diffractive processes in proton-proton collisions is presented. The study is based on an LHCb dataset recorded at center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5 fb−1. The data disfavor a nonresonant 𝐽/𝜓𝜙 production but are consistent with a resonant model including several resonant states observed previously only in 𝐵+→𝐽/𝜓𝜙𝐾+ decays. The 𝜒𝑐0(4500) state is observed ...
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Ratnikov F., Hushchyn M., Bocharnikov V. et al., Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 2025 Vol. 111 Article 012001
A measurement of the time-dependent ratio of the 𝐷0 →𝐾+𝜋− to ¯𝐷0→𝐾+𝜋− decay rates is reported. The analysis uses a sample of proton-proton collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 6 fb−1 recorded by the LHCb experiment from 2015 through 2018 at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The 𝐷0 meson is required to originate from a 𝐷*(2010)+→𝐷0𝜋+ decay, such that its flavor at production is inferred from ...
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Ratnikov F., Hushchyn M., Bocharnikov V. et al., Journal of High Energy Physics 2025 Article 61
A time-dependent, flavour-tagged measurement of CP violation is performed with B0→D+D− and B0s→D+sD−s decays, using data collected by the LHCb detector in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 6 fb−1. In B0→D+D− decays the CP-violation parameters are measured to be
SD+D−CD+D−=−0.552±0.100(stat)±0.010(syst),=0.128±0.103(stat)±0.010(syst).
In B0s→D+sD−s decays the CP-violating parameter formulation in terms of ϕs and |λ| results in
ϕs|λD+sD−s|=−0.086±0.106(stat)±0.028(syst)rad,=1.145±0.126(stat)±0.031(syst).
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Aaij R., Abdelmotteleb A. S., Abellan Beteta C. et al., SCIPOST PHYSICS 2025 Vol. 18 Article 071
Measurements are presented of the cross-section for the central exclusive production of J/ψ→μ+μ− and ψ(2S)→μ+μ− processes in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV with 2016–2018 data. They are performed by requiring both muons to be in the LHCb acceptance (with pseudorapidity 2<ημ±<4.5) and mesons in the rapidity range 2.0<y<4.5. The integrated cross-section results areσJ/ψ→μ+μ−(2.0<yJ/ψ<4.5,2.0<ημ±<4.5)=400±2±5±12 pb,σψ(2S)→μ+μ−(2.0<yψ(2S)<4.5,2.0<ημ±<4.5)=9.40±0.15±0.13±0.27 pb,where the uncertainties are statistical, systematic and due to the luminosity determination. ...
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