https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4731-y
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
New algorithms for identifying the flavour of 
mesons using pions and protons
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Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Center for High Energy Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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LAPP, Université Savoie Mont-Blanc, CNRS/IN2P3, Annecy-Le-Vieux, France
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Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France
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LAL, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Orsay, France
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LPNHE, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France
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I. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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Fakultät Physik, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
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Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK), Heidelberg, Germany
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Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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School of Physics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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Sezione INFN di Bari, Bari, Italy
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Sezione INFN di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Sezione INFN di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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Sezione INFN di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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Sezione INFN di Firenze, Firence, Italy
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Laboratori Nazionali dell’INFN di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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Sezione INFN di Genova, Genoa, Italy
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Sezione INFN di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy
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Sezione INFN di Milano, Milano, Italy
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Sezione INFN di Padova, Padua, Italy
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Sezione INFN di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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Sezione INFN di Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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Sezione INFN di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
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Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
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Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH-University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland
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National Center for Nuclear Research (NCBJ), Warsaw, Poland
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Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
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Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI), Gatchina, Russia
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Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Moscow, Russia
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Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University (SINP MSU), Moscow, Russia
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Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INR RAN), Moscow, Russia
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Yandex School of Data Analysis, Moscow, Russia
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Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (SB RAS), Novosibirsk, Russia
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Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP), Protvino, Russia
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ICCUB, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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Institute of Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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Physik-Institut, Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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NSC Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology (NSC KIPT), Kharkiv, Ukraine
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Institute for Nuclear Research of the National Academy of Sciences (KINR), Kiev, Ukraine
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University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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Imperial College London, London, UK
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
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Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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Departamento de Fisica, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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Institut für Physik, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
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Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular, Centro Mixto Universidad de Valencia-CSIC, Valencia, Spain
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Van Swinderen Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
* e-mail: marta.calvi@mib.infn.it
Received:
20
October
2016
Accepted:
1
March
2017
Published online:
12
April
2017
Two new algorithms for use in the analysis of 
collision are developed to identify the flavour of mesons at production using pions and protons from the hadronization process. The algorithms are optimized and calibrated on data, using 
decays from collision data collected by LHCb at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV . The tagging power of the new pion algorithm is 60% greater than the previously available one; the algorithm using protons to identify the flavour of a meson is the first of its kind.
© CERN for the benefit of the LHCb collaboration, 2017
