LHCb CollaborationAdeva Andany, BernardoBorsato, MartinoChobanova, VeronikaCid Vidal, XabierDosil Suárez, ÁlvaroFernández Prieto, AntonioGallas Torreira, Abraham AntonioGarcía Pardiñas, JuliánLemos Cid, EdgarLucio Martínez, MiriamMartínez Santos, DiegoPlo Casasus, MáximoPrisciandaro, JessicaRamos Pernas, MiguelRomero Vidal, AntonioSaborido Silva, Juan JoséSanmartín Sedes, BraisSantamarina Ríos, CibránVázquez Regueiro, PabloVieites Díaz, MaríaVázquez Sierra, Carlos2020-05-282020-05-282017Aaij, R., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M. et al. Observation of the decay Λ0b → pK − μ + μ − and a search for CP violation. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 108 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2017)1081029-8479http://hdl.handle.net/10347/22668A search for CP violation in the decay Λ0b → pK − μ + μ − is presented. This decay is mediated by flavour-changing neutral-current transitions in the Standard Model and is potentially sensitive to new sources of CP violation. The study is based on a data sample of proton-proton collisions recorded with the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb−1. The Λ0b → pK − μ + μ − decay is observed for the first time, and two observables that are sensitive to different manifestations of CP violation are measured, ΔACP≡ACP(Λ0b→pK−μ+μ−)−ACP(Λ0b→pK−J/ψ) and a aTˆ-oddCP, where the latter is based on asymmetries in the angle between the μ + μ − and pK − decay planes.eng© CERN, for the benefit of the LHCb Collaboration. Article funded by SCOAP3. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0B physicsCP violationFCNC InteractionHadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)journal article10.1007/JHEP06(2017)108open access