Heavy Flavor Measurements in ATLAS and CMS

TL;DR

This paper reports on heavy flavor measurements by ATLAS and CMS at the LHC, including production mechanisms, lifetime measurements, and rare decay searches, leveraging large datasets and detector capabilities.

Contribution

It provides new measurements of heavy flavor production, lifetimes, and rare decay searches using 2011 LHC data with improved precision.

Findings

Consistent heavy flavor production rates with theoretical predictions

Precise lifetime measurements of heavy flavor hadrons

First search results for Bs->mumu decay

Abstract

We present heavy flavor measurements performed by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations with data collected at the Large Hadron Collider. The production mechanism of heavy flavor hadrons is discussed as well as lifetime measurements and searches for the rare decay Bs->mumu. The large available statistics of about 5 fb-1 per experiment collected during the year 2011 together with the excellent detector performance allows to perform competitive heavy flavor measurements.