Document Type
Article
Date
7-20-2011
Language
English
Disciplines
Physics
Description/Abstract
The cross-section for inclusive phi meson production in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 7 TeV has been measured with the LHCb detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The differential cross-section is measured as a function of the phi transverse momentum p_T and rapidity y in the region 0.6 < p_T < 5.0 GeV/c and 2.44 < y < 4.06. The cross-section for inclusive phi production in this kinematic range is sigma(pp -> phi X) = 1758 pm 19(stat) ^{+43}_{-14}(syst) pm 182(scale) microbarn, where the first systematic uncertainty depends on the p_T and y region and the second is related to the overall scale. Predictions based on the Pythia 6.4 generator underestimate the cross-section.
Recommended Citation
Mountain, Raymond; Artuso, Marina; Blusk, S.; and Borgia, Alessandra, "Measurement of the Inclusive Φ Cross-Section in pp Collisions at √s = 7 TeV" (2011). Physics - All Scholarship. 333.
https://surface.syr.edu/phy/333
Source
Harvested from Arxiv.org
Creative Commons License
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Additional Information
10 pages, 2 figures More information at http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.3935
Listed authors are from Syracuse University; 549 additional authors are not listed.