Prospects for the measurement of Bs oscillations with the ATLAS detector at LHC

Abstract

The capabilities of the ATLAS detector to measure the $B_s^0$ oscillations in proton-proton interactions at the Large Hadron Collider were evaluated. $B_s^0$ candidates in the $D_s^{-}{\pi }^{+}$ and $D_s^{-}{a}_1^{+}$ decay modes from semileptonic exclusive events were fully simulated and reconstructed, using a detailed detector description. The sensitivity and the expected accuracy for the measurement of the oscillation frequency were derived from unbinned maximum likelihood amplitude fits as functions of the integrated luminosity. A detailed treatment of the systematic uncertainties was performed. The dependence of the measurement sensitivity on various parameters was also evaluated.