Measurements of prompt charm production cross-sections in pp collisions at s√=5s=5 TeV

Robert Appleby, Igor Babuschkin, Roger Barlow, Thomas Bird, Alexander Bitadze, Silvia Borghi, Jolanta Brodzicka, Christopher Burr, Lorenzo Capriotti, Shun Chen, Stefano De Capua, Giulio Dujany, Marco Gersabeck, Jonathan Harrison, Christoph Hombach, George Lafferty, Kevin Maguire, Andrew Mcnab, D Muller, Christopher ParkesAlex Pearce, Pablo Rodriguez Perez, LHCb Collaboration

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    Abstract

    Production cross-sections of prompt charm mesons are measured using data from pp collisions at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 5 TeV. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 8.60 ± 0.33 pb−1 collected by the LHCb experiment. The production cross-sections of D0, D+, Ds+, and D∗+ mesons are measured in bins of charm meson transverse momentum, pT, and rapidity, y. They cover the rapidity range 2.0 < y < 4.5 and transverse momentum ranges 0 < pT< 10 GeV/c for D0 and D+ and 1 < pT< 10 GeV/c for Ds+ and D∗+ mesons. The inclusive cross-sections for the four mesons, including charge-conjugate states, within the range of 1 < pT< 8 GeV/c are determined to be σ(pp→D0X)=1004±3±54μb,σ(pp→D+X)=402±2±30μb,σ(pp→D+sX)=170±4±16μb,σ(pp→D∗+X)=421±5±36μb, σ(pp→D0X)=1004±3±54μb,σ(pp→D+X)=402±2±30μb,σ(pp→Ds+X)=170±4±16μb,σ(pp→D∗+X)=421±5±36μb, where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalThe Journal of High Energy Physics
    Volume147
    Early online date28 Jun 2017
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jun 2017

    Keywords

    • Charm physics
    • Forward physics
    • Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
    • Heavy quark production
    • QCD

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