Published September 27, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Prompt KS0 production in pp collisions at √(s)=0.9 TeV

  • 1. Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
  • 2. Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain)
  • 3. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
  • 4. H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol (United Kingdom)
  • 5. CPPM, Aix-Marseille Universite, CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille (France)
  • 6. Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool (United Kingdom)
  • 7. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik (MPIK), Heidelberg (Germany)
  • 8. Clermont Universite, Universite Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand (France)
  • 9. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland)
  • 10. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow (United Kingdom)
  • 11. Laboratori Nazionali dell'INFN di Frascati, Frascati (Italy)
  • 12. Sezione INFN di Roma Sapienza, Roma (Italy)
  • 13. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
  • 14. Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne (Switzerland)
  • 15. Physik Institut, Universitaet Zuerich, Zuerich (Switzerland)
  • 16. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester (United Kingdom)

Description

The production of KS0 mesons in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 0.9 TeV is studied with the LHCb detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The luminosity of the analysed sample is determined using a novel technique, involving measurements of the beam currents, sizes and positions, and is found to be 6.8±1.0 μb-1. The differential prompt KS0 production cross-section is measured as a function of the KS0 transverse momentum and rapidity in the region 0<pT<1.6 GeV/c and 2.5<y<4.0. The data are found to be in reasonable agreement with previous measurements and generator expectations.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2010.08.055

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2010.08.055;
arXiv
arXiv:1008.3105v2;
PII
S0370-2693(10)01028-2;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
693
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 69-80
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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