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Central exclusive production at LHCb

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2020-12-03 v1

Abstract

The LHCb collaboration has measured central exclusive production of J/ψJ/\psi, ψ(2S)\psi(2S), and Υ\Upsilon mesons as well as J/ψJ/ψJ/\psi J/\psi, J/ψψ(2S)J/\psi\psi(2S), ψ(2S)ψ(2S)\psi(2S)\psi(2S), and χcχc\chi_c\chi_c meson pairs in proton-proton collisions. The analyses of Υ\Upsilon and charmonium pairs are performed at the centre-of-mass energies of 7 TeV and 8 TeV, and those of J/ψJ/\psi and ψ(2S)\psi(2S) are done at 7 TeV and 13 TeV. The analysis at 13 TeV involves the use of new shower counters. These allow a reduction in the background by vetoing events with activity in an extended region in rapidity. The measurements of central exclusive production at LHCb are sensitive to gluon distributions for Bjorken-xx values down to 2×1062\times10^{-6} (at 13 TeV). An overview of the LHCb results is presented and compared to existing measurements of other experiments and theoretical calculations.

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@article{arxiv.2012.00895,
  title  = {Central exclusive production at LHCb},
  author = {Charlotte Van Hulse},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.00895},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

6 pages, 5 figures, conference proceedings for New trends in high-energy physics 2019

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