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Measurement of D-meson production at mid-rapidity in pp collisions at s=7 TeV
Ist Teil von
The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields, 2017-08, Vol.77 (8), p.1-21
Ort / Verlag
Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erscheinungsjahr
2017
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The production cross sections for prompt charmed mesons
D
0
,
D
+
,
D
∗
+
and
D
s
+
were measured at mid-rapidity in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy
s
=
7
TeV
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
0
π
+
,
D
s
+
→
ϕ
π
+
→
K
-
K
+
π
+
, and their charge conjugates.With respect to previous measurements in the same rapidity region, the coverage in transverse momentum (
p
T
) 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
p
T
-differential cross sections are compared with the results of three perturbative QCD calculations.