Please note: participation is by invitation only.
Rationale:
- Heavy flavour hadrons are sensitive probes of the underlying dynamics in proton-proton collisions
- Measurements of heavy flavour hadron decay rates (such as Bs->mumu) are excellent probes of heavy New Physics
Context:
This meeting has been motivated by a combination of recent results on heavy flavour production and fragmentation, and the recent work from the theory side to provide predictions for these interesting results
- LHCb has found a dependence of beauty baryon or Bs meson production relative to Bd or Bu meson production versus pT; the absolute precision is starting to reach the percent level.
- ALICE has shown clear dependencies of charm baryon versus meson production versus pT and multiplicity;
Workshop goals:
- Bring together leading researchers to discuss heavy flavour production at the LHC
- Identify the current state of experimental and theoretical knowledge and (especially) where gaps in our understanding still exist
- Discuss which future measurements should be done/how measurements should be performed in order to close these gaps
Organisers:
- Alexander Mitov (Cambridge)
- Alexis Pompili (Bari)
- Mick Mulder (CERN)
- Michal Czakon (Aachen)
