Central exclusive production of J/ψ and ψ(2S) mesons in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV

The Lhcb Collaboration

doi:10.1007/JHEP10(2018)167

Central exclusive production of J/ψ and ψ(2S) mesons in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV

The Lhcb Collaboration

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Measurements are reported of the central exclusive production of J/ψ and ψ(2S) mesons in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. Backgrounds are significantly reduced compared to previous measurements made at lower energies through the use of new forward shower counters. The products of the cross-sections and the branching fractions for the decays to dimuons, where both muons are within the pseudorapidity range 2.0 < η < 4.5, are measured to be σJ/ψ→μ+μ−=435±18±11±17pbσψ(2S)→μ+μ−=11.1±1.1±0.3±0.4pb. The first uncertainties are statistical, the second are systematic, and the third are due to the luminosity determination. The cross-sections are also measured differentially for meson rapidities between 2.0 and 4.5. Good agreement is observed with theoretical predictions. Photoproduction cross-sections are derived and compared to previous experiments, and a deviation from a pure power-law extrapolation of lower energy data is observed.[Figure not available: see fulltext.]

Original language	English
Article number	167
Pages (from-to)	1-27
Number of pages	27
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2018
Issue number	10
Early online date	26 Oct 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2018)167
Publication status	Published - Oct 2018

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Open Access, Copyright CERN, for the benefit of the LHCb Collaboration. Article funded by SCOAP3. We express our gratitude to our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC. We thank the technical and administrative staff at the LHCb institutes. We acknowledge support from CERN and from the national agencies: CAPES, CNPq, FAPERJ and FINEP (Brazil); MOST and NSFC (China); CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG and MPG (Germany); INFN (Italy); NWO (Netherlands); MNiSW and NCN (Poland); MEN/IFA (Romania); MinES and FASO (Russia); MinECo (Spain); SNSF and SER (Switzerland); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); NSF (U.S.A.). We acknowledge the computing resources that are provided by CERN, IN2P3 (France), KIT and DESY (Germany), INFN (Italy), SURF (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), GridPP (United Kingdom), RRCKI and Yandex LLC (Russia), CSCS (Switzerland), IFIN-HH (Romania), CBPF (Brazil), PL-GRID (Poland) and OSC (U.S.A.). We are indebted to the communities behind the multiple open-source software packages on which we depend. Individual groups

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AvH Foundation
CNRS/IN2P3
FASO
Herchel Smith Fund
Marie Sklo dowska-Curie Actions
MinES
OCEVU
Yandex LLC
National Science Foundation
School of Energy Resources, University of Wyoming
CERN
College of Arts and Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Science and Technology Facilities Council	LHCb, ST/N000234/1, LHCb Upgrades, ST/N000242/1
Leverhulme Trust
Royal Society
English-Speaking Union
European Commission
European Research Council
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung	166208
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Russian Foundation for Basic Research
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Generalitat Valenciana
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Ministry of Science and Technology
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos
Russian Science Foundation
Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Recruitment Program of Global Experts

Keywords

Charm physics
Forward physics
Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
Particle and resonance production
Quarkonium

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Central exclusive production of J/ψ and ψ(2S) mesons in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV

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