Heavy flavour decay muon production at forward rapidity in proton-proton collisions at √s=7 TeV

被引:76
作者
Abelev, B. [82 ]
Adam, J. [47 ]
Adamova, D. [87 ]
Adare, A. M. [125 ]
Aggarwal, M. M. [91 ]
Rinella, G. Aglieri [43 ]
Agocs, A. G. [75 ]
Agostinelli, A. [22 ,23 ]
Aguilar Salazar, S. [71 ]
Ahammed, Z. [121 ]
Ahmad, N. [17 ]
Masoodi, A. Ahmad [17 ]
Ahn, S. U. [1 ,50 ]
Akindinov, A. [61 ]
Aleksandrov, D. [103 ]
Alessandro, B. [37 ]
Alfaro Molina, R. [71 ]
Alici, A. [11 ,23 ,43 ]
Alkin, A. [3 ]
Almaraz Avina, E. [71 ]
Alt, T. [49 ]
Altini, V. [40 ,41 ,43 ]
Altinpinar, S. [18 ]
Altsybeev, I. [8 ]
Andrei, C. [84 ]
Andronic, A. [99 ,100 ]
Anguelov, V. [96 ]
Anielski, J. [69 ]
Anson, C. [19 ]
Anticic, T. [101 ]
Antinori, F. [29 ]
Antonioli, P. [23 ]
Aphecetche, L. [108 ]
Appelshaeuser, H. [67 ]
Arbor, N. [78 ]
Arcelli, S. [22 ,23 ]
Arend, A. [67 ]
Armesto, N. [15 ,16 ]
Arnaldi, R. [37 ]
Aronsson, T. [125 ]
Arsene, I. C. [99 ,100 ]
Arslandok, M. [67 ]
Asryan, A. [122 ]
Augustinus, A. [43 ]
Averbeck, R. [99 ,100 ]
Awes, T. C. [88 ]
Aysto, J. [51 ,52 ]
Azmi, M. D. [17 ]
Bach, M. [49 ]
Badala, A. [33 ]
机构
[1] Univ Blaise Pascal, Clermont Univ, Lab Phys Corpusculaire LPC, CNRS IN2P3, Clermont Ferrand, France
[2] Benemerita Univ Autonoma Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
[3] Bogolyubov Inst Theoret Phys, Kiev, Ukraine
[4] Budker Inst Nucl Phys, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
[5] Calif Polytech State Univ San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 USA
[6] Ctr Calcul IN2P3, Villeurbanne, France
[7] Ctr Aplicac Tecnol & Desarrollo Nucl CEADEN, Havana, Cuba
[8] Ctr Invest Energet Medioambientales & Tecnol CIEM, Madrid, Spain
[9] Ctr Invest & Estudios Avanzados CINVESTAV, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
[10] Ctr Invest & Estudios Avanzados CINVESTAV, Merida, Mexico
[11] Ctr Fermi Ctr Studi & Ric & Museo Stor Fis Enrico, Rome, Italy
[12] Chicago State Univ, Chicago, IL USA
[13] China Inst Atom Energy, Beijing, Peoples R China
[14] IRFU, Saclay, France
[15] Univ Santiago de Compostela, Dept Fis Particulas, Santiago De Compostela, Spain
[16] Univ Santiago de Compostela, IGFAE, Santiago De Compostela, Spain
[17] Aligarh Muslim Univ, Dept Phys, Aligarh 202002, Uttar Pradesh, India
[18] Univ Bergen, Dept Phys & Technol, Bergen, Norway
[19] Ohio State Univ, Dept Phys, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[20] Sejong Univ, Dept Phys, Seoul, South Korea
[21] Univ Oslo, Dept Phys, Oslo, Norway
[22] Univ Bologna, Dipartimento Fis, Bologna, Italy
[23] Sezione Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Bologna, Italy
[24] Univ Trieste, Dipartimento Fis, Trieste, Italy
[25] Sezione Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Trieste, Italy
[26] Univ Cagliari, Dipartimento Fis, Cagliari, Italy
[27] Sezione Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Cagliari, Italy
[28] Univ Padua, Dipartimento Fis, Padua, Italy
[29] Sezione Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Padua, Italy
[30] Univ Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento Fis, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[31] Sezione Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Rome, Italy
[32] Univ Catania, Dipartimento Fis & Astron, Catania, Italy
[33] Sezione Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Catania, Italy
[34] Univ Salerno, Dipartimento Fis ER Caianiello, I-84100 Salerno, Italy
[35] Grp Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
[36] Univ Turin, Dipartimento Fis Sperimentale, Turin, Italy
[37] Sezione Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Turin, Italy
[38] Univ Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento Sci & Tecnol Avanzate, Alessandria, Italy
[39] Grp Collegato INFN, Alessandria, Italy
[40] Dipartimento Interateneo Fis M Merlin, Bari, Italy
[41] Sezione Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Bari, Italy
[42] Lund Univ, Div Expt High Energy Phys, Lund, Sweden
[43] European Org Nucl Res CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
[44] Fachhsch Koln, Cologne, Germany
[45] Bergen Univ Coll, Fac Engn, Bergen, Norway
[46] Comenius Univ, Fac Math Phys & Informat, Bratislava, Slovakia
[47] Czech Tech Univ, Fac Nucl Sci & Phys Engn, CR-11519 Prague, Czech Republic
[48] Safarik Univ, Fac Sci, Kosice, Slovakia
[49] Goethe Univ Frankfurt, Frankfurt Inst Adv Studies, Frankfurt, Germany
[50] Gangneung Wonju Natl Univ, Kangnung, South Korea
基金
芬兰科学院; 欧洲研究理事会; 中国国家自然科学基金; 美国能源部; 新加坡国家研究基金会; 美国国家科学基金会; 巴西圣保罗研究基金会; 英国科学技术设施理事会; 瑞典研究理事会;
关键词
LHC; ALICE experiment; pp collisions; Single muons; Heavy flavour production; PRODUCTION CROSS-SECTION; BOTTOM-QUARK PRODUCTION; P(P)OVER-BAR COLLISIONS; HADRON-COLLISIONS; J/PSI PRODUCTION; PP COLLISIONS; ALICE;
D O I
10.1016/j.physletb.2012.01.063
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The production of muons from heavy flavour decays is measured at forward rapidity in proton-proton collisions at root s = 7 TeV collected with the ALICE experiment at the LHC. The analysis is carried out on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity L-int = 16.5 nb(-1). The transverse momentum and rapidity differential production cross sections of muons from heavy flavour decays are measured in the rapidity range 2.5 < y <4, over the transverse momentum range 2 < p(t) < 12 GeV/c. The results are compared to predictions based on perturbative QCD calculations. (C) 2012 CERN. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:265 / 275
页数:11
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