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Studies of CP-Violation in Charmless Three-Body b-Hadron Decays

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The proton-proton (pp) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the final stage of the accelerator complex at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN), located near Geneva, on the Franco-Swiss border. The LHC and its associated accelerator chain are the culmination of over 100 years of research into the production, acceleration, and focussing of charged particles, with the LHC being the world’s largest and highest energy accelerator.

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Notes

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    Most operation is dedicated to proton-proton collisions, which is the only type relevant to the work presented in this thesis.

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    This distinction is important, both due to the asymmetry of the LHCb and ALICE detectors with respect to the beam axis, and also to cancel systematic effects of the large boost caused by the difference in momenta.

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    The LHC also operated for a short time in 2010 and 2013 with specialised conditions, however no analysis of data collected during these periods is presented in this thesis.

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O’Hanlon, D. (2018). The Large Hadron Collider. In: Studies of CP-Violation in Charmless Three-Body b-Hadron Decays. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02206-8_3

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