Measurement of b hadron production fractions in 7 TeV pp collisions
Measurements of b hadron production ratios in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with an integrated luminosity of 3 pb−1 are presented. We study the ratios of strange B meson to light B meson production fs/(fu+fd) and Λ0b baryon to light B meson production fΛb/(fu+fd) as a...
| Autores: | , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2012 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya) |
| Repositorio: | Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:recercat.cat:20.500.14342/3093 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14342/3093 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.032008 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Gran col·lisionador d'hadrons (França i Suïssa) Partícules (Física nuclear) Col·lisions (Física nuclear) Protons 539 |
| Sumario: | Measurements of b hadron production ratios in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with an integrated luminosity of 3 pb−1 are presented. We study the ratios of strange B meson to light B meson production fs/(fu+fd) and Λ0b baryon to light B meson production fΛb/(fu+fd) as a function of the charmed hadron-muon pair transverse momentum pT and the b hadron pseudorapidity η, for pT between 0 and 14 GeV and η between 2 and 5. We find that fs/(fu+fd) is consistent with being independent of pT and η, and we determine fs/(fu+fd)=0.134±0.004+0.011−0.010, where the first error is statistical and the second systematic. The corresponding ratio fΛb/(fu+fd) is found to be dependent upon the transverse momentum of the charmed hadron-muon pair, fΛb/(fu+fd)=(0.404±0.017(stat)±0.027(syst)±0.105(Br))×[1−(0.031±0.004(stat)±0.003(syst))×pT(GeV)], where Br reflects an absolute scale uncertainty due to the poorly known branching fraction B(Λ+c→pK−π+). We extract the ratio of strange B meson to light neutral B meson production fs/fd by averaging the result reported here with two previous measurements derived from the relative abundances of ¯¯¯B0s→D+sπ− to ¯¯¯B0→D+K− and ¯¯¯B0→D+π−. We obtain fs/fd=0.267+0.021−0.020. |
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