Production of the charmonium states χc1 and χc2 in proton nucleus interactions at √s=41.6 GeV

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作者
Abt, I. [1 ,24 ]
Adams, M. [11 ]
Agari, M. [14 ]
Albrecht, H. [13 ]
Aleksandrov, A. [30 ]
Amaral, V. [9 ]
Amorim, A. [9 ]
Aplin, S. J. [13 ]
Aushev, V. [17 ]
Bagaturia, Y. [13 ,40 ]
Balagura, V. [23 ]
Bargiotti, M. [6 ,38 ]
Barsukova, O. [12 ]
Bastos, J. [9 ]
Batista, J. [9 ]
Bauer, C. [14 ]
Bauer, Th. S. [37 ]
Belkov, A. [12 ]
Belkov, Ar. [12 ]
Belotelov, I. [12 ]
Bertin, A. [6 ,38 ]
Bobchenko, B. [23 ]
Boecker, M. [27 ]
Bogatyrev, A. [23 ]
Bohm, G. [30 ]
Braeuer, M. [14 ]
Bruinsma, M. [29 ,37 ]
Bruschi, M. [6 ,38 ]
Buchholz, P. [27 ]
Buran, T. [25 ]
Carvalho, J. [9 ]
Conde, P. [2 ,13 ]
Cruse, C. [11 ]
Dam, M. [10 ]
Danielsen, K. M. [25 ]
Danilov, M. [23 ]
De Castro, S. [6 ]
Deppe, H. [15 ]
Dong, X. [3 ]
Dreis, H. B. [15 ]
Egorytchev, V. [13 ]
Ehret, K. [11 ]
Eisele, F. [15 ]
Emeliyanov, D. [13 ]
Essenov, S. [23 ]
Fabbri, L. [6 ,38 ]
Faccioli, P. [6 ,38 ]
Feuerstack-Raible, M. [15 ]
Flammer, J. [13 ]
Fominykh, B. [13 ,23 ]
机构
[1] Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, Werner Heisenberg Inst, D-80805 Munich, Germany
[2] Univ Barcelona, Dept ECM, Fac Phys, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
[3] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
[4] Tsinghua Univ, Inst Engn Phys, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China
[5] Humboldt Univ, Inst Phys, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
[6] Univ Bologna, Dipartimento Fis, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[7] Fdn Giuseppe Occhialini, I-61034 Fossombrone, Pesaro Urbino, Italy
[8] Univ Cincinnati, Dept Phys, Cincinnati, OH 45221 USA
[9] LIP Coimbra, P-3004516 Coimbra, Portugal
[10] Niels Bohr Inst, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
[11] Univ Dortmund, Inst Phys, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
[12] Joint Inst Nucl Res, Dubna 141980, Moscow, Russia
[13] DESY, D-22603 Hamburg, Germany
[14] Max Planck Inst Kernphys, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
[15] Heidelberg Univ, Inst Phys, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
[16] Univ Houston, Dept Phys, Houston, TX 77204 USA
[17] Ukrainian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res, UA-03680 Kiev, Ukraine
[18] Jozef Stefan Inst, Ljubljana 1001, Slovenia
[19] Univ Ljubljana, Ljubljana 1001, Slovenia
[20] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA
[21] Univ Mannheim, Lehrstuhl Informat 5, D-68131 Mannheim, Germany
[22] Univ Maribor, Maribor 2000, Slovenia
[23] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117218, Russia
[24] Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, Werner Heisenberg Inst, D-80805 Munich, Germany
[25] Univ Oslo, Dept Phys, N-0316 Oslo, Norway
[26] Univ Rostock, Fachbereich Phys, D-18051 Rostock, Germany
[27] Univ Siegen, Fachbereich Phys, D-57068 Siegen, Germany
[28] INRNE BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria
[29] Univ Utrecht, NIKHEF, NL-3584 CB Utrecht, Netherlands
[30] DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
[31] Univ Zurich, Inst Phys, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
[32] Univ Florence, Dipartimento Energet, I-50121 Florence, Italy
[33] PN Lebedev Phys Inst, Moscow 117924, Russia
[34] Moscow Phys Engn Inst, Moscow 115409, Russia
[35] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow 119992, Russia
[36] Inst High Energy Phys, Protvino, Russia
[37] NIKHEF H, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[38] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[39] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Bologna, Bologna, Italy
[40] Inst High Energy Phys, GE-380086 Tbilisi, Georgia
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2009年 / 79卷 / 01期
基金
瑞士国家科学基金会; 美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
OUTER TRACKER DETECTOR; HERA-B EXPERIMENT; J/PSI PRODUCTION; P(P)OVER-BAR COLLISIONS; HADRONIC PRODUCTION; PSI; SUPPRESSION; QUARKONIUM; TARGET; DECAY;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.79.012001
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
A measurement of the ratio R-chi c = (chi(c) --> J/psi + gamma)/J/psi in pC, pTi, and pW interactions at 920 GeV/c (root s = 41.6 GeV) in the Feynman-x range -0.35 < x(F)(J/psi) < 0.15 is presented. Both mu(+)mu(-) and e(+)e(-) J/psi decay channels are observed with an overall statistics of about 15 000 chi(c) events, which is by far the largest available sample in pA collisions. The result is R chi(c) = 0.188 +/- 0.013(st-0.022sys)(+0.024) averaged ratio R-12 = R-chi c1/R-chi c2 is measured to be 1.02 +/- 0.40, leading to a cross section ratio sigma(chi(c1))/sigma(chi(c2)) = 0.57 +/- 0.23. The dependence of R-chi c on the Feynman-x of the J/psi, x(F)(J/psi), and its transverse momentum, p(T)(J/psi), is studied, as well as its dependence on the atomic number, A, of the target. For the first time, an extensive study of possible biases on R-chi c and R-12 due to the dependence of acceptance on the polarization states of J/psi and chi(c) is performed. By varying the polarization parameter, lambda(obs), of all produced J/psi's by two sigma around the value measured by HERA-B, and considering the maximum variation due to the possible chi(c1) and chi(c2) polarizations, it is shown that R-chi c could change by a factor between 1.02 and 1.21 and R-12 by a factor between 0.89 and 1.16.
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