Study of photon reconstruction efficiency using $B^+ \to J/\psi K^{(*)+}$ decays in the LHCb experiment

Abstract

The reconstruction efficiency of photons and neutral pions is measured using the relative yields of reconstructed $B^+ \to J/\psi K^{*+} (\to K^+ \pi^{0})$ and $B^+ \to J/\psi K^{+}$ decays. The efficiency is studied using the data set, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $3~\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$, collected by the LHCb experiment in proton-proton collisions at the centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV.