Measurement of the relative Bc± /B± production cross section with the ATLAS detector at s =8 TeV MEASUREMENT of the RELATIVE Bc± /B± ... AABOUD M. et al.

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Aaboud, M, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abdinov, O, Abed Abud, A ORCID: 0000-0002-2788-3822, Abhayasinghe, DK, Abidi, SH, Abouzeid, OS, Abraham, NL et al (show 90 more authors) , Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, BS, Adachi, S, Adam, L, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Adamek, L, Adelman, J, Adersberger, M, Adiguzel, A, Adorni, S, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agapopoulou, C, Agaras, MN, Aggarwal, A, Agheorghiesei, C, Aguilar-Saavedra, JA, Ahmadov, F, Aielli, G, Akatsuka, S, Åkesson, TPA, Akilli, E, Akimov, AV, Al Khoury, K, Alberghi, GL, Albert, J, Alconada Verzini, MJ, Alderweireldt, S, Aleksa, M, Aleksandrov, IN, Alexa, C, Alexandre, D, Alexopoulos, T, Alfonsi, A, Alhroob, M, Ali, B, Alimonti, G, Alison, J, Alkire, SP, Allaire, C, Allbrooke, BMM, Allen, BW, Allport, PP, Aloisio, A, Alonso, A, Alonso, F, Alpigiani, C, Alshehri, AA, Alstaty, MI, Alvarez Estevez, M, Alvarez Gonzalez, B, Álvarez Piqueras, D, Alviggi, MG, Amaral Coutinho, Y, Ambler, A, Ambroz, L, Amelung, C, Amidei, D, Amor Dos Santos, SP, Amoroso, S, Amrouche, CS, An, F, Anastopoulos, C, Andari, N, Andeen, T, Anders, CF, Anders, JK ORCID: 0000-0002-1846-0262, Andreazza, A, Andrei, V, Anelli, CR, Angelidakis, S, Angelozzi, I, Angerami, A, Anisenkov, AV, Annovi, A, Antel, C, Anthony, MT, Antonelli, M, Antrim, DJA, Anulli, F, Aoki, M, Aparisi Pozo, JA, Aperio Bella, L, Arabidze, G, Araque, JP and Araujo Ferraz, V (2021) Measurement of the relative Bc± /B± production cross section with the ATLAS detector at s =8 TeV MEASUREMENT of the RELATIVE Bc± /B± ... AABOUD M. et al. Physical Review D, 104 (1). 012010-. ISSN 2470-0010, 2470-0029

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Abstract

The total cross section and differential cross sections for the production of Bc± mesons, times their branching fraction to J/ψπ±, are measured relative to those for the production of B± mesons, times their branching fraction to J/ψK±. The data used for this study correspond to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb-1 of pp collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012 at a center-of-mass energy of s=8 TeV. The measurement is performed differentially in bins of transverse momentum pT for 13 GeV<pT(Bc±)<22 GeV and pT(Bc±)>22 GeV and in bins of rapidity y for |y|<0.75 and 0.75<|y|<2.3. The relative cross section times branching fraction for the full range pT>13 GeV and |y|<2.3 is (0.34±0.04stat -0.02+0.06sys±0.01lifetime)%. The differential measurements suggest that the production cross section of the Bc± decreases faster with pT than the production cross section of the B±, while no significant dependence on rapidity is observed.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	39 pages in total, author list starting page 23, 7 figures, submitted to PRD. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/BPHY-2016-03
Uncontrolled Keywords:	hep-ex, hep-ex
Divisions:	Faculty of Science & Engineering > School of Physical Sciences
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	31 Aug 2021 08:16
Last Modified:	01 Mar 2026 00:12
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevD.104.012010
Open Access URL:	https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/Phys...
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3135315
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