The first measurement of heavy-flavor production by the LHCb experiment in its fixed-target mode is presented. The production of J/ψ and D0 mesons is studied with beams of protons of different energies colliding with gaseous targets of helium and argon with nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energies of sNN=86.6 and 110.4 GeV, respectively. The J/ψ and D0 production cross sections in pHe collisions in the rapidity range [2, 4.6] are found to be σJ/ψ=652±33(stat)±42(syst) nb/nucleon and σD0=80.8±2.4(stat)±6.3(syst) μb/nucleon, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. No evidence for a substantial intrinsic charm content of the nucleon is observed in the large Bjorken-x region.

Aaij, R., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Aidala, C., Ajaltouni, Z., Akar, S., et al. (2019). First Measurement of Charm Production in its Fixed-Target Configuration at the LHC. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 122(13), 132002 [10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.132002].

First Measurement of Charm Production in its Fixed-Target Configuration at the LHC

Belloli N.;Borsato M.;Calvi M.;Carniti P.;Fazzini D.;Gotti C.;Martinelli M.;Petruzzo M.;
2019

Abstract

The first measurement of heavy-flavor production by the LHCb experiment in its fixed-target mode is presented. The production of J/ψ and D0 mesons is studied with beams of protons of different energies colliding with gaseous targets of helium and argon with nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energies of sNN=86.6 and 110.4 GeV, respectively. The J/ψ and D0 production cross sections in pHe collisions in the rapidity range [2, 4.6] are found to be σJ/ψ=652±33(stat)±42(syst) nb/nucleon and σD0=80.8±2.4(stat)±6.3(syst) μb/nucleon, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. No evidence for a substantial intrinsic charm content of the nucleon is observed in the large Bjorken-x region.
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Charm Production; Fixed-Target
English
2019
122
13
132002
132002
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Aaij, R., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Aidala, C., Ajaltouni, Z., Akar, S., et al. (2019). First Measurement of Charm Production in its Fixed-Target Configuration at the LHC. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 122(13), 132002 [10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.132002].
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