# Measurement of D-meson production at mid-rapidity in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV

Acharya, S, Adamova, D, Aggarwal, MM, Rinella, G Aglieri, Agnello, M, Agrawal, N, Ahammed, Z, Ahmad, N, Ahn, SU, Aiola, S
et al (show 1013 more authors) (2017) Measurement of D-meson production at mid-rapidity in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV. EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C, 77 (8).

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## Abstract

The production cross sections for prompt charmed mesons D 0, D +, D ∗ + and Ds+ were measured at mid-rapidity in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy s=7TeV with the ALICE detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). D mesons were reconstructed from their decays D 0→ K -π+, D +→ K -π+π+, D ∗ +→ D 0π+, Ds++→K-K+π+, and their charge conjugates.With respect to previous measurements in the same rapidity region, the coverage in transverse momentum (pT) is extended and the uncertainties are reduced by a factor of about two. The accuracy on the estimated total c c ¯ production cross section is likewise improved. The measured pT-differential cross sections are compared with the results of three perturbative QCD calculations.

Item Type: Article Symplectic Admin 08 Sep 2017 07:44 19 Jan 2023 06:56 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5090-4 https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3009330