ATLAS reach for Quarkonium cross section and polarization measurement
Abstract
The ATLAS detector at CERN's LHC is preparing to take data from the first proton-proton collisions expected in the next few months. We report on the analysis of simulated data samples for production of heavy Quarkonium states J/psi and Upsilon, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 10 pb^-1 with center of mass energy of 14 TeV expected at the early ATLAS data. We review various aspects of prompt Quarkonium production at LHC: the accessible ranges in transverse momentum and pseudorapidity, spin alignment of vector states, separation of color octet and color singlet production mechanism and feasibility of observing radiative decays Xi_c and Xi_b decays. Strategies of various measurements are outlined and methods of separating promptly produced J/psi and Upsilon mesons from various backgrounds are discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0809.1459,
title = {ATLAS reach for Quarkonium cross section and polarization measurement},
author = {Erez Etzion and Jony Ginzburg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.1459},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
8 pages, 7 figures, presented at 8th International Conference on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty Hadrons, Columbia, SC, USA, 22 - 28 Jun 2008, submitted to Nuclear Physics B -- Proceeding Supplements (NUPHBP) by Elsevier