Pursuing forbidden beauty: Search for the lepton-flavour violating decays B0 → e± μ∓ and Bs0 → e± μ∓ and study of electron-reconstruction performance at LHCb

Abstract

In part III, a study of electron-reconstruction performance at LHCb is presented. The study led to the development of a novel method that in the future can reduce systematic uncertainties of measurements involving electrons at LHCb. This is of crucial importance to lepton universality measurements, especially once the statistical uncertainties will go down with future runs and upgrades of the LHCb experiment. This study led to the following peer-reviewed publication: