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CP VIOLATIONS (AND MORE) AFTER THE FIRST TWO YEARS
OF LHCB

Giulio Auriemmaa,b,∗

a Università degli Studi della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy
b INFN Sezione di Roma, Roma, Italy
∗ corresponding author: Giulio.Auriemma@cern.ch

Abstract. The most interesting cosmological open problems, baryon asymmetry, dark matter,
inflation and dark energy, are not explained by the standard model of particle physics (SM). The final
goal of the Large Hadron Collider an experimental verification of the SM in the Higgs sector, and also
a search for evidence of new physics beyond it. In this paper we will report some of the results obtained
in 2010 and 2011, from the LHCb experiment dedicated to the study of CP violations and rare decays
of heavy quarks.

1. Introduction
The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics is at
present the most advanced and comprehensive phe-
nomenological theory of all the elementary particles
and forces known, with the exclusion of gravity [1].
The SM is already a very successful theory because it
can predict very accurately the particle properties and
their interactions [2], but it needs to be completed
in the Higgs sector1. With data taking at the Large
Hadron Collider (LHC) at

√
s = 8 TeV in progress,

the SM (if completely confirmed) will be the best can-
didate description for the physics of the Universe in
the time span from ∼ 10−10 s to 13.7 Gy after the Big
Bang (see Fig. 1). However the progress of observative
cosmology made in last decades, specially from space,
has radically reshaped our vision of the Universe, in a
way that seems to contradict the completeness of the
SM. The following is a time ordered list of problems
in cosmology, that do not appear compatible with the
SM, at least in its minimal version.

• Baryon asymmetry: Since the discovery of the
existence of antimatter in the early 1940’s, the pre-
dominance of matter over antimatter in the whole
visible Universe has been a puzzle [5]. In the late
1960’s, Sakharov [6] showed that the puzzle could be
solved by the recently discovered Charge and Parity
violation (CPV) in the decay of K0 mesons. A few
years later, Kobayashi & Maskawa found that the
extension of Cabibbo mixing [8] to three families
could easily explain CPV if one of the elements of
the 3×3 quarks mixing matrix was complex [9] (see
following §2).

• Dark Matter: Constitutes (23 ± 2) % of the mass
of the Universe in the ΛCDM model, while baryons
account only for the (4.6 ± 0.2) % [10]. The forma-
1During the preparation of this manuscript, CERN an-

nounced officially that a significant excess of events for mH =
125.5 ± 0.6 GeV/c2 has been observed in the data by both
ATLAS [3] and CMS [4].

tion of large scale structures in the Universe gives a
clue to the nature of this matter, which is currently
understood as formed by Weakly Interacting Mas-
sive Particles (WIMPs) relic from the Big Bang (see
e.g. [11] and references therein). An ideal candidate
for WIMPs is the lightest SuperSymmetric Particle
(LSP) of the supersymmetric theories (SUSY), sta-
ble if R-parity is conserved [12]. LHC is expected
to be able either to prove the validity of SUSY, or
to exclude its realization in specific models [13, 14]
(see §4).
• Inflation: The prototype for the “inflaton” [15] for
Alan Guth was originally the Higgs field. However
it was realized very soon [16] that in order to have
the required shape the self-coupling of the Higgs
should be of the order of λ . 10−13, too small to
be compatible with EW physics. However the SM
Higgs itself could provide the inflationary potential
if its coupling to gravity is non-minimal [17]. In
this case the observation of the Cosmic Microwave
Background (CMB) fluctuations set limits to the
Higgs mass in the range 120÷140 GeV/c2, compat-
ible with the present limits of the TEVATRON and
LHC experiments (see e.g. [18]).

• Dark Energy: About fifteen years ago, two in-
dependent groups tracking the expansion of the
Universe with Type Ia SuperNovae (SNIa) with
the Hubble Space Telescope discovered that the
expansion was accelerating [20]. The present un-
derstanding is that about 73 % of the mass-energy
content of the universe is in the form of a vacuum
energy very similar to the famous “cosmological
constant” Λ0, introduced by Einstein [21]. From
the point of view of HEP, the problem with Λ0 is its
smallness, compared to the huge energy density of
quantum fluctuations in the vacuum of SM, which
can be estimated to about 128 orders of magnitude
larger than the critical density [22]. Perfect symme-
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of this energy density, because the contribution of
bosons to the vacuum energy has an opposite sign
to that of fermions (see e.g. §5.1 of Ref. [21]). Since
SUSY is broken at present, the discrepancy is not
eliminated but only mitigated by SUSY to the level
of about 60 order of magnitudes. This situation
indicates a serious unsolved problem for particle
physics theory [23].

Finally, it should be emphasized that all these prob-
lems are more or less directly related to our present
lack of knowledge of the Higgs sector of the SM. In
fact while the fermion sector of the SM includes at
least three families of quarks and leptons, and four
gauge bosons, its Higgs structure consists only of a
single doublet. In the coming years, the LHC experi-
ments will be certainly able to set constraints to the
various possible alternative theories that have been
proposed.

2. The Sakharov mechanism for
baryon asymmetry

In his seminal paper, Sakharov [6] pointed out that
even if the initial Universe was matter–antimatter
symmetrical, the observed present asymmetry could
be originated if at a certain point of the evolution of
the Universe:
(1.) the baryon number is violated;
(2.) charge and parity is violated;
(3.) there is an exit from thermodynamical equilib-
rium.
In fact, condition (1.) is obviously needed to go from

the initial B = 0 to B 6= 0, with B = 13
∑

q (nq −nq );
condition (2.) produces asymmetry because the decay
rates of particles are different from those of antiparti-
cles (see e.g. Fig. 3), finally condition (3.) is needed
because otherwise annihilation reactions qq � γγ
would keep B = 0 in force of the CPT theorem. These
conditions could be present at different stages of the
evolution of the Universe [24].

In the SM, there is a possibility that baryon asym-
metry could be produced at the electroweak phase
transition (EWPT) [25], which is the transition in-
duced at a temperature TEW ∼ 200 GeV [26] by
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking (SSB) from the full
SU(2)L ⊗U(1)Y symmetry of the early Universe, to
the present time, in which fermions and boson get
mass interacting with the Higgs field. For T � TEW,
the early Universe was in the state of the vacuum
expectation value (VEV) of the Higgs field 〈φ〉 = 0,
while at T � TEW the Higgs field has the present
value 〈φ〉 = v0 = 246 GeV. In this transition vec-
tor bosons and fermions acquired masses. The first
Sakharov condition can be realized in the SM because
only the difference B −L, where L =

∑
`

(
n` −n`

)
is

strictly conserved. Anomalous processes that changes
both B and L, keeping ΔB = ΔL, are possible as
tunneling through the Higgs field potential barrier.
In the present state of the Universe these processes
are strongly suppressed, but this is not true when
T ≥ TEW.
In the SM, CPV occurs only via the CKM-

mechanism [8, 9], which arise from quark mixing. This
mechanism with 3 families can operate if and only
if there is a complex phase δCP in the mixing ma-
trix with sin δCP 6= 0, and if the masses of quarks
with equal electric charge but a different flavor are
not degenerated, namely should mu 6= ms 6= mt and
md 6= mc 6= mb. It is evident that the CKM mecha-
nism will be switched off in the symmetric phase of
the primordial plasma at T > TEW, when all fermions
and bosons were mass less. In the minimal SM, a siz-
able baryon asymmetry can therefore be generated at
the EWPT only if the SSB proceeds through a strong
first order transition [27, 28]. In this case the VEV of
the Higgs field changes non-adiabatically at T ≈ TEW
by nucleation of bubbles with 〈φ〉 = vTEW (TEW) 6= 0
inside the supercooled bulk with null VEV. In fact,
CPV will be active inside the bubbles and can pro-
duce baryon asymmetry. A first order transition oc-
curs only if the effective potential of the Higgs field
Veff (φ,T) [29] has a pronounced second local mini-
mum with ξ = vTEW (TEW)/TEW > 1. Recent calcula-
tions [30] of Veff in the minimal SM show that this is
possible if the Higgs mass is mh . 114 GeV/c2, already
excluded by the combined TEVATRON limits [31].

SUSY completely changes this scenario, for two rea-
sons: 1) EWPT can be strong even with a mass of the
Higgs compatible with the LHC experiments [30, 32]
and 2) CPV is not switched off for T ≈ TEW. The Min-
imal SUSY extension of the SM (MSSM) [33] includes
two Higgs complex doublets of opposite hypercharge:

Φu =
(
Φ+u
Φ0u

)
and Φd =

(
Φ0d
Φ−d

)
, (1)

a combination of eight real degrees fields that couples
separately to heavier u, c, t and lighter d, s, b quarks
(and leptons). The expectation values of the two neu-
tral fields will be respectively the heavier

〈
Φ0u
〉

= vu√
2

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and the lighter
〈
Φ0d
〉

= vd e
iθ

√
2

that originate “sponta-
neous” CP violating phases in the mixing matrix [34].
In order to conserve the strength of SM weak interac-
tions the VEV of the two fields must obviously be

v2u + v
2
d = v

2
0 = (246 GeV)

2 (2)

tan β = vu/vd � 1 being a free parameter of the
theory. In the physical realization of this theory the
eight degrees of freedom correspond to three massless
Goldstone bosons and five massive Higgs fields: a CP-
odd neutral scalar A0, two charged scalar H± and
two CP-even neutral scalars h0, H0, the first being
identical to the SM one. If the mass of the heavier
Higgs is mH . few TeV, it will be possible to de-
tect the existence of this new type of CPV as small
deviations from the prediction of the CKM ansatz,
generically indicated as “New Physics” (NP), using
precision measurements on the B meson physics by
LHCb and the other LHC experiments, as we will
discuss in the following Section §3.

More recently a different way of establishing baryon
asymmetry has been proposed [35]. As we said be-
fore, in the SM only the difference B−L is conserved,
while both baryon number B and lepton number L
can change with the constraint ΔB = ΔL. Leptonic
asymmetry can easily be generated from the CP vi-
olating decay of right handed massive neutrinos N
at T � MN � TEW. When MN ≤ T ≤ TEW, the
difference B − L 6= 0 would be enforced by baryon
number violating interactions of the SM. The exis-
tence of heavy Majorana neutrinos can explain the
mass of the ordinary light neutrinos [36]. In Section §4
we will give the results of indirect searches for SUSY
and majorana neutrinos in B meson rare decays.

3. CPV after the first two years
of LHCb

The LHCb detector, located at intersection point 8 of
the LHC, is a single arm spectrometer covering the
very forward cone 30 ≤ θ ≤ 300 mrad optimized for
the reconstruction of heavy mesons decay [37]. As
shown in Fig. 2, LHCb does not look like a regular
collider experiment (e.g. compare with the ATLAS
or CMS layout shown in Ref. [18]). The core of the
detector is the vertex locator (VELO), a high resolu-
tion silicon tracker with cylindrical geometry, which
allows the reconstruction of the position of the de-
cay vertices with a resolution of ∼ 10 µm. Two Ring
Cerenkov Detectors (RICH1 & RICH2) allow the iden-
tification of charged particles, whose momentum is
determined by the magnet deflection measured by the
downstream (TT) and upstream tracking stations (T1,
T2, T3). Energy measurements are performed by the
electromagnetic (ECAL) and the hadronic (HCAL)
calorimeters. Finally, energetic muon are identified
by the muon detector chambers (M1–M5) interleaved
into the 4 m iron filter.

Figure 2. Layout of the LHCb detector at the inter-
section point 8 of LHC [37].

The LHCb detector ran at
√
s = 7 TeV from April

2010 to September 2011, collecting integrated lumi-
nosity for about 1 fb−1 (corresponding to ≈ 1014 pp
collisions and ≈ 8 × 1010 bb̄ inclusive pair produced
in the LHCb acceptance [38]). Among the many in-
teresting results obtained by the LHCb collaboration,
it is worth mentioning.
• Direct CPV in the B0s,d system: The CKM
mechanism manifests itself in two ways in neutral
meson decays: time dependent “indirect” CPV,
which take place during B0s,d ↔ B

0
s,d oscillations and

“direct” CPV which gives the different decay rate
of the B0s,d from B

0
s,d that could originate baryon

asymmetry. LHCb has given the first evidence
of direct CPV in the charmless two body decay
B0s → K

−
π

+ at 3.3σ [39]. Figure 3 makes a direct
comparison of the distribution of the invariant mass
of K−π+ pairs (on the left) with that of K+π−.

• Mixing and indirect CPV in the charmed
mesons: Evidence for indirect CPV in D mesons
has been reported for the first time by LHCb [40].
Evidence for the mixing D0 ↔ D

0
has been ob-

served at the B-factories. Belle has published the
mixing parameters derived from the 3-body decay
D0 → K0sπ+π−, obtaining a CP violation phase
−0.2±0.3 consistent with no CPV. LHCb has inves-
tigated the decay of D0 and D

0
into a pair of charged

hadrons using data taken in 2010. LHCb obtain-
ing yLHCbCP = [5.5 ± 6.3 (stat) ± 4.1 (syst)]×10

−3, a
value still compatible with no CPV. A significant
improvements in sensitivity and systematic uncer-
tainty is expected from an improved treatment of
background events, which will be possible for the
data taken in 2011 [41].

An important test of the SM is the check for uni-
tarity of the CKM matrix VCKM extracted from mea-
surements [42]. In the complex plane (ρ,η), where η
is related to the CPV phase, the unitarity condition is
represented by a closed triangle (see §12.3 of Ref. [2]).
Figure 4 shows the various constraints used for the fit

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Bd

Bs

Bs

Figure 3. Visual illustration of direct CPV in the
b-meson system [39]. Top and bottom plots show the
same data, only the vertical scale of the bottom is
multiplied ×15.

of the unitary triangle, together with the uncertainty
over the closure of the triangle.

A detailed study of the parameters of the oscillations
B0s ↔ B̄

0
s has been proposed in the past as a sensitive

test of deviations from the predictions of the SM that
could be explained by NP (see e.g. [43] and references
therein). Particularly
• Bs anomaly: the CPV phase φs of the |ΔF | = 2
transitions, predicted to be φSMs = −0.036 ± 0.002
rad in the SM. Previous measurements of this phase
at TEVATRON gave values only marginally com-
patible with the SM [44, 45]. LHCb has significantly
improved the study of the decay B

0
s → J/ψφ fol-

lowed by φ→ K+K− [46]. Using 0.37 fb−1 of data
taken during 2011 at

√
s = 7 TeV, the LHCb collab-

oration has obtained

φJ/ψφs = 0.15 ± 0.18 (stat) ± 0.06 (syst) , (3)

only 1σ larger than the SM. Hopefully the collection
of larger amount of data expected at

√
s = 8 TeV in

the 2012 runs of LHC can reduce the statistical error
to an acceptable level suitable for understanding the
situation. In case of the very similar decay B

0
s →

J/ψf0 (980) with f0 → π+π− [47], LHCb derived a
value

φcombs = −0.44 ± 0.44 (stat) ± 0.02 (syst) . (4)

This value is compatible with the SM, but leaving
still room for NP deviations. A statistical study
using both B0s ↔ B̄

0
s and B

0
d ↔ B̄

0
d LHCb data [48]

concludes that the the SM predictions have only
≈ 0.7 % C.L.

4. The search for New Physics in
rare B decays

• Search for the decay B0d,s → µ+µ−: This is the
golden channel in the search for NP, because in the
SM this decay is possible only through the transition

β γ

SM Fit uncertanty

α

Figure 4. The present status of the fit to the unitary
triangle. Yellow color indicates 95 % C.L. contour of
the SM fit (adapted from Ref. [42]).

b

u,c,t

W −
Z

0

µ −

µ+d̄, ¯ s

ū,c,t¯ ¯

b

H0/A0

µ−

µ +d̄,s̄

t̃

χ̄
b̄

Figure 5. Left: SM, right: MSSM.

b → u, c or t shown by the graph in Fig. 5, which
allows precise calculation of the branching ratio [49],
being Br

(
B0d → µ+µ−

)
SM = (1.0 ± 0.1) × 10

−10

and Br
(
B0s → µ+µ−

)
SM = (3.2 ± 0.2) × 10

−9. The
best experimental limits obtained until now are set
by LHCbr [50] using 1.0 fb−1 integrated luminos-
ity, which are respectively Br

(
B0d → µ+µ−

)
LHCb ≤

1.0 × 10−9 and Br
(
B0s → µ+µ−

)
LHCb ≤ 4.5 × 10

−9

at 95 % C.L. In theories beyond the SM, with an ex-
tended Higgs sector, additional graphs are expected
to contribute to these decays. An example is the
graph shown in Fig. 5 where this essential role is
played by the neutralino, supposed to be a good
candidate for dark matter [51]. The enhancement
of the branching ratio with respect to the SM is

Rs =
Br
(
B0s → µ+µ−

)
LHCb

Br
(
B0s → µ+µ−

)
SM

≤ 1.2 at 95 % C.L.

(5)
where Br is the time averaged theoretical branch-
ing ratio [52]. The complete MSSM has about
100 free parameters, making any comparison with
experimental results practically impossible. Some
indications can be obtained from the “constrained”
MSSM (CMSSM), in which all the masses of scalar
partners of fermions (squarks, sleptons, etc.) are
assumed to have the same mass m0 while all the
fermionic partners of gauge bosons (gauginos) are

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LHCb

CMS 4/fb

Figure 6. Exclusion region for the two CMSSM mass
parameters, derived from the LHCb upper limits on
Bs → µ+µ− for tan β = 50. Solid lines indicate the
direct limits from CMS (adapted from Ref. [54]).

b

ū

W −

c

µ−

N

µ −

d̄

W−

(MeV)Majorana neutrino mass
0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000

2 |
4

|V

-610

-510

-410

-310

-210

-110

1

µ

LHCb

Figure 7.

assumed to have mass m1/2. In the CMSSM it is
possible to make predictions about the amplitude
of NP deviations from the SM, for example in the
rare decays of B meson. In the CMSSM it is ex-
pected [53]:

Br
(
B0s → µ

+µ−
)
MSSM ∝

mbmµ
m4A

tan6 β. (6)

Therefore the limit on Rs from LHCb can already
exclude a substantial fraction of the CMSSM pa-
rameter space, as shown in Fig. 6.

• Search for Heavy Majorana neutrinos: The
decay B− → D+µ−µ− (if it exists) violates the
conservation of the lepton number [55]. Its graph,
shown schematically in Fig. 7, is equivalent to the
nuclear neutrinoless double beta decay [56]. The
limit on the branching ratio is ≤ 10−8. Figure 7
shows the limit to the coupling of the majorana
neutrino with the muon for MN ≤ 5 GeV/c2.

• Lepton number violation: More recently
LHCb has also searched for the decay τ− →
µ+µ+µ−, which violates the lepton number con-
servation, expected in the SM with an extremely
small branching ratio Br (τ− → µ+µ+µ−)SM ≈
10−40 [57]. LHCb has obtained the upper limit
Br (τ− → µ+µ−µ−)LHCb ≤ 6.3 × 10

−8 (90 % C.L.).
The sensitivity of this search has been calibrated
with the control channel D−s → φ(µ+µ−)π−, for
which the branching ratio measured by LHCb is
1.33 ± 0.8 × 10−5 [58].

5. Summary
• All the results obtained up to now exclude a mass of

the lighter Higgs particles smaller than 115 GeV/c2
or greater than 126 GeV/c2 (up to ≈ 800 GeV/c2).
The ATLAS and CMS data are at present not
inconsistent with a SM Higgs mass in the range
115 ≤ mh ≤ 126 GeV/c2 (see note 1) which is fa-
vored by EW precision measurements [2] and is
compatible with the CMSSM [59].

• CPV phenomenology is very well established in the
transitions of the s and b quarks while only some
indirect evidence has finally been found by LHCb
for charmed hadrons. In all respects, the CKM
mechanism is the dominant way in which CPV is
realized, as shown from the most accurate fit of the
unitary triangle made possible by LHCb measure-
ments. Some large anomalies in B0s semileptonic
decays claimed by past experiments have not been
confirmed, even if the situation is still ambiguous.

• Rare decays of B mesons are theoretically well con-
strained in the SM, e.g. B0s → µ+µ−, have been
shown to be very effective in setting constraints to
beyond SM effects. LHCb, increasing the collected
integrated luminosity, will soon be able to detect
this decay at the level predicted by the SM, earlier if
it is enhanced as predicted by CMSSM. At present,
both the scalar mass scale m0 and the gauginos
mass m1/2 are above 1 TeV/c2 for the large tan β
fit of CMSSM [60].

• The 2012 data taking period of LHC, started last
spring, is expected to yield in LHCb an integrated
luminosity of at least 5 fb−1, that is very promis-
ing for the detection or exclusion of new physics
phenomenology.

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	Acta Polytechnica 53(Supplement):528–533, 2013
	1 Introduction
	2 The Sakharov mechanism for baryon asymmetry
	3 CPV after the first two years of LHCb
	4 The search for New Physics in rare B decays
	5 Summary
	References