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Inclusive J/$\psi$ production at midrapidity in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}~=~13$ TeV

Nuclear Experiment 2022-01-13 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We report on the inclusive J/ψ\psi production cross section measured at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy s = 13\sqrt{s}~=~13 TeV. The J/ψ\psi mesons are reconstructed in the e+e\rm e^{+} e^{-} decay channel and the measurements are performed at midrapidity (y<0.9|y|<0.9) in the transverse-momentum interval 0<pT<400< p_{\rm T} <40 GeV/cc, using a minimum-bias data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity Lint=32.2 nb1L_{\text{int}} = 32.2~\text{nb}^{-1} and an Electromagnetic Calorimeter triggered data sample with Lint=8.3 pb1L_{\text{int}} = 8.3~\mathrm{pb}^{-1}. The pTp_{\rm T}-integrated J/ψ\psi production cross section at midrapidity, computed using the minimum-bias data sample, is dσ/dyy=0=8.97±0.24 (stat)±0.48 (syst)±0.15 (lumi) μb\text{d}\sigma/\text{d}y|_{y=0} = 8.97\pm0.24~(\text{stat})\pm0.48~(\text{syst})\pm0.15~(\text{lumi})~\mu\text{b}. An approximate logarithmic dependence with the collision energy is suggested by these results and available world data, in agreement with model predictions. The integrated and pTp_{\rm T}-differential measurements are compared with measurements in pp collisions at lower energies and with several recent phenomenological calculations based on the non-relativistic QCD and Color Evaporation models.

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@article{arxiv.2108.01906,
  title  = {Inclusive J/$\psi$ production at midrapidity in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}~=~13$ TeV},
  author = {ALICE Collaboration},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.01906},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

25 pages, 4 captioned figures, 1 table, authors from page 19, published version, figures at http://alice-publications.web.cern.ch/node/7300