PT Journal
AU LHCb Collaboration (Aaij, Rea
   Garcia Martin, LM
   Martinez-Vidal, F
   Oyanguren, A
   Remon Alepuz, C
   Ruiz Valls, P
   Sanchez Mayordomo, C
TI Measurements of prompt charm production cross-sections in pp collisions at root s=5TeV
SO Journal of High Energy Physics
JI J. High Energy Phys.
PY 2017
BP 147
EP 41pp
VL 06
IS 6
DI 10.1007/JHEP06(2017)147
LA English
DE Charm physics; Forward physics; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); Heavy quark production; QCD
AB Production cross-sections of prompt charm mesons are measured using data from pp collisions at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 5TeV. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 8 : 60 +/- 0 : 33 pb(-1) collected by the LHCb experiment. The production cross-sections of D-0, D+, D-s(+), and D*(+) mesons are measured in bins of charm meson transverse momentum, p(T), and rapidity, y. They cover the rapidity range 2 : 0 < y < 4 : 5 and transverse momentum ranges 0 < p(T) < 10 GeV/c for D-0 and D+ and 1 < p(T) < 10 GeV/c for D-s(+) and D*(+) mesons. The inclusive cross- sections for the four mesons, including charge-conjugate states, within the range of 1 < p(T) < 8 GeV/c are determined to be sigma (pp -> D-0 X) – 1004 +/- 3 +/- 54 μb; sigma ( pp -> D+ X) = 402 +/- 2 +/- 30 μb; sigma ( pp -> Ds+X) = 170 +/- 4 +/- 16 μb; sigma ( pp -> D*(+) X) = 421 +/- 5 +/- 36 μb; where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively.
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