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Publications and source records attributed to Claudia Vacca.
Following the intriguing hints of deviations from the Standard Model in rare B meson decays, searches for rare and forbidden decays of charm hadrons become a hot topic again. We present recent results on Flavour Changing Neutral Current $D^{0}\rightarrowμ^+ μ^-$, $D^0 \rightarrowμ^+μ^- π^+ π^-$, $D^{\pm}_{(s)}\rightarrow π^{\pm} μ^+μ^-$ and LFV $D^{\pm}_{(s)}\rightarrow π^{\mp}μ^{\pm}μ^{\pm}$ obtained at LHCb.
It is proposed to exploit the decay of the meson ${B}^+ \rightarrow p π^+ π^+ \barΣ_c^{--}$ and of its charge conjugate $B^-$ copiously produced at LHC to obtain a sample of $Λ_c$ baryons through the strong decay $Σ_c \rightarrow Λ_c π$. The sample thus obtained is not affected by biases typically introduced by selections that depend on specific decay modes. Therefore it allows a measurement of the absolute branching fraction for the decay of the $Λ_c$ baryon into $ p K π$ or into other observable final states to be performed in a model independent manner. The accuracy that can be achieved with this method is discussed and it is shown that it would be either competitive with or an improvement over current measurements.