PT Journal AU LHCb Collaboration (Aaij, Rea Martinez-Vidal, F Oyanguren, A Ruiz Valls, P Sanchez Mayordomo, C TI Measurement of B-c(+) Production in Proton-Proton Collisions at root s=8 TeV SO Physical Review Letters JI Phys. Rev. Lett. PY 2015 BP 132001 EP 9pp VL 114 IS 13 DI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.132001 LA English AB Production of B-c(+) mesons in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV is studied with data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.0 fb(-1) recorded by the LHCb experiment. The ratio of production cross sections times branching fractions between the B_c. J/psi pi(+) and B+ -> J/psi K+ decays is measured as a function of transverse momentum and rapidity in the regions 0 < p(T) < 20 GeV/c and 2.0 < y < 4.5. The ratio in this kinematic range is measured to be (0.683 +/- 0.018 +/- 0.009)%, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. ER