Measuring asymmetries in flavor asymmetric machines

TL;DR

This paper explores how production and CP asymmetries interact in proton-proton collisions at the LHC, highlighting differences from flavor symmetric colliders and implications for measuring asymmetries.

Contribution

It analyzes the interplay between production and CP asymmetries in flavor asymmetric machines like the LHC, a phenomenon absent in symmetric colliders.

Findings

Production and CP asymmetries influence each other in proton-proton collisions.

Effects of asymmetry interplay are unique to flavor asymmetric machines.

Implications for asymmetry measurements at the LHC are discussed.

Abstract

The LHC offers a unique opportunity to investigate an ample spectra of phenomenous ranging from the Electro-Weak (EW) to the QCD sector of the Standard Model (SM). Among the quantities which can be measured in the LHC experiments are the CP and production asymmetries for several particles in a wide variety of decay modes. In this work we discuss about the interplay between production and CP asymmetries for particles produced in proton-proton interactions and the effects of one on the measurement of the other. This kind of effects are not present in flavor symmetric machines like the Tevatron or $e^+-e^-$ colliders.