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Charmonium production in pp collisions with ALICE at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2019-01-08 v1 Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

Charmonia, bound states of charm and anti-charm quarks, represent an interesting probe for the study of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) since their production involves both hard and soft energy scales. Several effective models are available to describe the production of charmonia, but so far none have been able to describe all experimental observables simultaneously. ALICE has studied the production of charmonia in different collision systems at all available LHC energies at both mid- and forward-rapidity down to zero transverse momentum. In this contribution, different measurements performed in proton--proton (pp) collisions are presented, namely pTp_{\text{T}}-differential cross sections of inclusive J/ψ\psi and ψ(2S)\psi(2\text{S}), inclusive J/ψ\psi polarization measurements and the latest results on correlations between inclusive J/ψ\psi and unidentified charged hadrons. The results are also compared to model predictions.

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@article{arxiv.1901.01829,
  title  = {Charmonium production in pp collisions with ALICE at the LHC},
  author = {Lucas Altenkämper},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.01829},
  year   = {2019}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of ICHEP 2018, 4-11 July, Seoul, Korea