Abstract
The inclusive Ds ± production asymmetry is measured in pp collisions collected by the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of s=7 and 8 TeV. Promptly produced Ds ± mesons are used, which decay as Ds ± → ϕπ±, with ϕ → K+K−. The measurement is performed in bins of transverse momentum, pT, and rapidity, y, covering the range 2.5 < pT< 25.0 GeV/c and 2.0 < y < 4.5. No kinematic dependence is observed. Evidence of nonzero Ds ± production asymmetry is found with a significance of 3.3 standard deviations.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].
Original language | English |
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Article number | 8 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-21 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | Journal of High Energy Physics |
Volume | 2018 |
Issue number | 8 |
Early online date | 2 Aug 2018 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Aug 2018 |
Funding
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 (The 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 (The 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 or members have received support from AvH Foundation (Germany), EPLANET, Marie Sklo dowska-Curie Actions and ERC (European Union), ANR, Labex P2IO and OCEVU, and Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (France), Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS, CAS PIFI, and the Thousand Talents Program (China), RFBR, RSF and Yandex LLC (Russia), GVA, XuntaGal and GENCAT (Spain), Herchel Smith Fund, the Royal Society, the English-Speaking Union and the Lev-erhulme Trust (United Kingdom).
Funders | Funder number |
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Not added | ST/N000250/1, ST/N000447/1, 1681016, ST/K003410/1, 1796908, ST/N000234/1, ST/N000463/1, ST/N000455/1, ST/L003163/1, ST/N000242/1 |
AvH Foundation | |
CNRS/IN2P3 | |
FASO | |
Herchel Smith Fund | |
Lev-erhulme Trust | |
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 | ST/J004332/1, LHCb, LHCb Upgrades |
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)
- Heavy quark production
- QCD