Measurement of the cross-section ratio σ(χc2)/σ(χc1) for prompt χc productionat √s=7 TeV

Aaij, R. et al. (2012) Measurement of the cross-section ratio σ(χc2)/σ(χc1) for prompt χc productionat √s=7 TeV. Physics Letters B, 714(2-5), pp. 215-223. (doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.06.077)

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Abstract

The prompt production of the charmonium χc1 and χc2 mesons has been studied in proton–proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy of √ s = 7 TeV. The χc mesons are identified through their decays χc → J/ψγ with J/ψ →μ +μ − using 36 pb−1 of data collected by the LHCb detector in 2010. The ratio of the prompt production cross-sections for the two χc spin states, σ(χc2)/σ(χc1), has been determined as a function of the J/ψ transverse momentum, p J/ψ T , in the range from 2 to 15 GeV/c. The results are in agreement with the next-to-leading order non-relativistic QCD model at high p J/ψ T and lie consistently above the pure leading-order colour-singlet prediction.

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Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Pappagallo, Dr Marco and Alexander, Dr Michael and Spradlin, Dr Patrick and MacRaighne, Dr Aaron and Rodrigues, Dr Eduardo and Bates, Mrs Alison and Soler, Professor Paul and Borghi, Dr Silvia and Plackett, Dr Richard and Eklund, Prof Lars
Authors: Aaij, R., Abellan Beteta, C., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Adrover, C., Affolder, A., Ajaltouni, Z., Albrecht, J., Alessio, F., Alexander, M., Alkhazov, G., Alvarez Cartelle, P., Alves, A.A., Amato, S., Amhis, Y., Anderson, J., Appleby, R.B., Aquines Gutierrez, O., Archilli, F., Arrabito, L., Artamonov, A., Artuso, M., Aslanides, E., Auriemma, G., Bachmann, S., Back, J.J., Bailey, D.S., Balagura, V., Baldini, W., Barlow, R.J., Barschel, C., Barsuk, S., Barter, W., Bates, A., Bauer, C., Bauer, T., Bay, A., Bediaga, I., Belogurov, S., Belous, K., Belyaev, I., Ben-Haim, E., Benayoun, M., Bencivenni, G., Benson, S., Benton, J., Bernet, R., Bettler, M.-O., van Beuzekom, M., Bien, A., Bifani, S., Bird, T., Bizzeti, A., Bjørnstad, P.M., Blake, T., Blanc, F., Blanks, C., Blouw, J., Blusk, S., Bobrov, A., Bocci, V., Bondar, A., Bondar, N., Bonivento, W., Borghi, S., Borgia, A., Bowcock, T.J.V., Bozzi, C., Brambach, T., van den Brand, J., Bressieux, J., Brett, D., Britsch, M., Britton, T., Brook, N.H., Brown, H., Büchler-Germann, A., Burducea, I., Bursche, A., Buytaert, J., Cadeddu, S., Callot, O., Calvi, M., Calvo Gomez, M., Camboni, A., Campana, P., Carbone, A., Carboni, G., Cardinale, R., Cardini, A., Carson, L., Carvalho Akiba, K., Casse, G., Cattaneo, M., Cauet, C., Charles, M., Charpentier, P., Chiapolini, N., Ciba, K., Cid Vidal, X., Ciezarek, G., Clarke, P.E.L., Clemencic, M., Cliff, H.V., Closier, J., Coca, C., Coco, V., Cogan, J., Collins, P., Comerma-Montells, A., Constantin, F., Conti, G., Contu, A., Cook, A., Coombes, M., Corti, G., Cowan, G.A., Currie, R., DʼAlmagne, B., DʼAmbrosio, C., David, P., David, P.N.Y., De Bonis, I., De Capua, S., De Cian, M., De Lorenzi, F., De Miranda, J.M., De Paula, L., De Simone, P., Decamp, D., Deckenhoff, M., Degaudenzi, H., Deissenroth, M., Del Buono, L., Deplano, C., Derkach, D., Deschamps, O., Dettori, F., Dickens, J., Dijkstra, H., Diniz Batista, P., Domingo Bonal, F., Donleavy, S., Dordei, F., Dosil Suárez, A., Dossett, 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College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
Journal Name:Physics Letters B
Publisher:Elsevier BV
ISSN:0370-2693
Copyright Holders:Copyright © 2012 CERN, for the benefit of the LHCb collaboration
First Published:First published in Physics Letters B 714(2-5):215-223
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