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Measurement of the B-+/- production cross-section in pp collisions at root s=7 and 13 TeV

Aaij, R.
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Adeva, B.
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Adinolfi, M.
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2017
Journal of High Energy Physics

The production of B +/- mesons is studied in pp collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 13 TeV, using B-+/- -> J/psi K-+/- decays and data samples corresponding to 1.0 fb(-1) and 0.3 fb(-1), respectively. The production cross-sections summed over both charges and integrated over the transverse momentum range 0 < pT < 40 GeV/c and the rapidity range 2.0 < y < 4.5 are measured to be sigma-(pp -> B-+/- X, root s = 7 TeV) = 43.0 +/- 0.2 +/- 2.5 +/- 1.7 mu b, sigma(pp -> B-+/- X, root s = 13 TeV) = 86.6 +/- 0.5 +/- 5.4 +/- 3.4 mu b, where the first uncertainties are statistical, the second are systematic, and the third are due to the limited knowledge of the B-+/- -> J/psi K-+/- branching fraction. The ratio of the cross-section at 13 TeV to that at 7 TeV is determined to be 2.02 +/- 0.02 (stat) +/- 0.12 (syst). Differential cross-sections are also reported as functions of pi, and y. All results are in agreement with theoretical calculations based on the state-of-art fixed next-to-leading order quantum chromodynamics.

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DOI
10.1007/Jhep12(2017)026
Web of Science ID

WOS:000417757900004

Author(s)
Aaij, R.
Adeva, B.
Adinolfi, M.
Ajaltouni, Z.
Akar, S.
Albrecht, J.
Alessio, F.
Alexander, M.
Albero, A. Alfonso
Ali, S.
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Corporate authors
LHCb Collaboration
Date Issued

2017

Publisher

Springer Nature

Published in
Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume

2017

Issue

12

Start page

26

Subjects

B physics

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Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)

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Particle and resonance production

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