Measurement of ϒ production in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV

Aaij, R. et al. (2012) Measurement of ϒ production in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV. European Physical Journal C, 72(2025), (doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2025-y)

Abstract

The production of ϒ(1S), ϒ(2S) and ϒ(3S) mesons in proton-proton collisions at the centre-of-mass energy of s√=7 TeV is studied with the LHCb detector. The analysis is based on a data sample of 25 pb−1 collected at the Large Hadron Collider. The ϒ mesons are reconstructed in the decay mode ϒ→μ + μ − and the signal yields are extracted from a fit to the μ + μ − invariant mass distributions. The differential production cross-sections times dimuon branching fractions are measured as a function of the ϒ transverse momentum p T and rapidity y, over the range p T <15 GeV/c and 2.0<y<4.5. The cross-sections times branching fractions, integrated over these kinematic ranges, are measured to be where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second systematic and the third is due to the unknown polarisation of the three ϒ states.

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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., 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., Brand, J., Bressieux, J., Brett, D., Britsch, M., Britton, T., Brook, N. H., Brown, H., Bruyn, K., 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., Contu, A., Cook, A., Coombes, M., Corti, G., Couturier, B., Cowan, G. A., Currie, R., D’Ambrosio, C., David, P., David, P. N. Y., Bonis, I., Capua, S., Cian, M., Lorenzi, F., Miranda, J. 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• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
• Journal Name: European Physical Journal C
• Publisher: Springer
• ISSN: 1434-6044
• ISSN (Online): 1434-6052
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2012 CERN, for the benefit of the LHCb collaboration
• First Published: First published in Scientific World Journal 2013:838042
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