Published December 5, 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Inclusive J/ψ production in pp collisions at √(s)=2.76 TeV

  • 1. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA (United States)
  • 2. Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague (Czech Republic)
  • 3. Nuclear Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Řež u Prahy (Czech Republic)
  • 4. Yale University, New Haven, CT (United States)
  • 5. Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh (India)
  • 6. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland)
  • 7. KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (Hungary)
  • 8. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and Sezione INFN, Bologna (Italy)
  • 9. Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City (Mexico)
  • 10. Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata (India)
  • 11. Department of Physics Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (India)
  • 12. Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung (Korea, Republic of)
  • 13. Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC), Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS–IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand (France)
  • 14. Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow (Russian Federation)
  • 15. Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow (Russian Federation)
  • 16. Sezione INFN, Turin (Italy)

Description

The ALICE Collaboration has measured inclusive J/ψ production in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy √(s)=2.76 TeV at the LHC. The results presented in this Letter refer to the rapidity ranges |y|<0.9 and 2.5<y<4 and have been obtained by measuring the electron and muon pair decay channels, respectively. The integrated luminosities for the two channels are Linte=1.1 nb-1 and Lintμ=19.9 nb-1, and the corresponding signal statistics are NJ/ψe+e-=59±14 and NJ/ψμ+μ-=1364±53. We present dσJ/ψ/dy for the two rapidity regions under study and, for the forward-y range, d2σJ/ψ/dydpt in the transverse momentum domain 0<pt<8 GeV/c. The results are compared with previously published results at √(s)=7 TeV and with theoretical calculations.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.10.078

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2012.10.078;
arXiv
arXiv:1203.3641v2;
PII
S0370-2693(12)01144-6;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
718
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 295-306
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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