Measurement of the ratio of prompt chi(c) to J/psi production in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV

LHCb collaboration; Valerie Gibson

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2012.10.068

Measurement of the ratio of prompt chi(c) to J/psi production in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV

LHCb collaboration, Valerie Gibson^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The prompt production of charmonium chi(c) and J/psi states is studied in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of root s = 7 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. The chi(c) and J/psi mesons are identified through their decays chi(c) -> J/psi gamma and J/psi -> mu(+)mu(-) using 36 pb(-1) of data collected by the LHCb detector in 2010. The ratio of the prompt production cross-sections for chi(c) and J/psi, sigma(chi(c) -> J/psi gamma)/sigma(J/psi). is determined as a function of the J/psi, transverse momentum in the range 2 < P-T(J/psi) < 15 GeV/c. The results are in excellent agreement with next-to-leading order non-relativistic expectations and show a significant discrepancy compared with the colour singlet model prediction at leading order, especially in the low P-T(J/psi) region. (C) 2012 CERN. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	431-440
Number of pages	10
Journal	Physics Letters B
Volume	718
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.10.068
Publication status	Published - 5 Dec 2012
Externally published	Yes

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