Measurement of the b -Quark Production Cross Section in 7 and 13 TeV pp Collisions

R. Aaij; B. Adeva; M. Adinolfi; Z. Ajaltouni; S. Akar; J. Albrecht; F. Alessio; M. Alexander; S. Ali; G. Alkhazov; P. Alvarez Cartelle; A. A. Alves; S. Amato; S. Amerio; Y. Amhis; LA Everse; L. Anderlini; G. Andreassi; M. Andreotti; J.E. Andrews; R. B. Appleby; F. Archilli; P. d'Argent; J. Arnau Romeu; A. Artamonov; M. Artuso; E. Aslanides; G. Auriemma; M. Baalouch; I. Babuschkin; K. Carvalho Akiba; V. Coco; P. N.Y. David; K. De Bruyn; M. Ferro-Luzzi; T. Ketel; R. F. Koopman; J. Van Leerdam; M. Merk; C. J.G. Onderwater; G. Raven; M. Schiller; N. Serra; H. Snoek; B. Storaci; V. Syropoulos; J. Van Tilburg; S. Tolk; P. Tsopelas; N. Tuning; (LHCb Collaboration)

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.052002

Measurement of the b -Quark Production Cross Section in 7 and 13 TeV pp Collisions

R. Aaij, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi, Z. Ajaltouni, S. Akar, J. Albrecht, F. Alessio, M. Alexander, S. Ali, G. Alkhazov, P. Alvarez Cartelle, A. A. Alves, S. Amato, S. Amerio, Y. Amhis, LA Everse, L. Anderlini, G. Andreassi, M. Andreotti, J.E. AndrewsR. B. Appleby, F. Archilli, P. d'Argent, J. Arnau Romeu, A. Artamonov, M. Artuso, E. Aslanides, G. Auriemma, M. Baalouch, I. Babuschkin, K. Carvalho Akiba, V. Coco, P. N.Y. David, K. De Bruyn, M. Ferro-Luzzi, T. Ketel, R. F. Koopman, J. Van Leerdam, M. Merk, C. J.G. Onderwater, G. Raven, M. Schiller, N. Serra, H. Snoek, B. Storaci, V. Syropoulos, J. Van Tilburg, S. Tolk, P. Tsopelas, N. Tuning, (LHCb Collaboration)

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Abstract

Measurements of the cross section for producing b quarks in the reaction pp→bbX are reported in 7 and 13 TeV collisions at the LHC as a function of the pseudorapidity η in the range 2<η<5 covered by the acceptance of the LHCb experiment. The measurements are done using semileptonic decays of b-flavored hadrons decaying into a ground-state charmed hadron in association with a muon. The cross sections in the covered η range are 72.0±0.3±6.8 and 154.3±1.5±14.3 μb for 7 and 13 TeV. The ratio is 2.14±0.02±0.13, where the quoted uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. The agreement with theoretical expectation is good at 7 TeV, but differs somewhat at 13 TeV. The measured ratio of cross sections is larger at lower η than the model prediction.

Original language	English
Article number	052002
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	118
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.052002
Publication status	Published - 3 Feb 2017

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We acknowledge support from CERN and from the national agencies: CAPES, CNPq, FAPERJ and FINEP (Brazil); NSFC (China); CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG and MPG (Germany); INFN (Italy); FOM and 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 (USA). 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 (USA). 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 Sklodowska-Curie Actions and ERC (European Union), Conseil General de Haute-Savoie, Labex ENIGMASS and OCEVU, Region Auvergne (France), RFBR and Yandex LLC (Russia), GVA, XuntaGal and GENCAT (Spain), Herchel Smith Fund, The Royal Society, Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 and the Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom).

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AvH Foundation
BMBF
CAPES
CBPF
CERN
CNPq
CSCS
Conseil General de Haute-Savoie
DESY
DFG
EPLANET
FAPERJ
FASO
FINEP
Herchel Smith Fund
IN2P3
INFN
Leverhulme Trust
MEN/IFA
MNiSW
MPG
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions
OCEVU
OSC
RFBR and Yandex LLC
RRCKI
Region Auvergne
Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851
Royal Society
SER
SNSF
STFC
SURF
Yandex LLC
National Science Foundation
Poultry Industry Council
Science and Technology Facilities Council	ST/M004058/1, 1641747, 1681016, ST/H006737/1, LHCb, ST/N000331/1, ST/K00140X/1, ST/L003538/1, LHCb Upgrades, ST/K004646/1, ST/N001370/1
European Research Council
European Geosciences Union
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung	166208
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter
Korea Institute of Toxicology
Labex
Narodowym Centrum Nauki
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine	Ukraine
ICIN Netherlands Heart Institute

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Aaij, R., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Ajaltouni, Z., Akar, S., Albrecht, J., Alessio, F., Alexander, M., Ali, S., Alkhazov, G., Alvarez Cartelle, P., Alves, A. A., Amato, S., Amerio, S., Amhis, Y., Everse, LA., Anderlini, L., Andreassi, G., Andreotti, M., ... (LHCb Collaboration) (2017). Measurement of the b -Quark Production Cross Section in 7 and 13 TeV pp Collisions. Physical Review Letters, 118(5), Article 052002. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.052002

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