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Prompt and non-prompt J/psi production in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

The CMS collaboration Khachatryan, Vardan ; Sirunyan, Albert M ; Tumasyan, Armen ; et al.

Eur.Phys.J.C 71 (2011) 1575, 2011.

Inspire Record 878118 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.57532

The production of J/psi mesons is studied in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The measurement is based on a dimuon sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 314 inverse nanobarns. The J/psi differential cross section is determined, as a function of the J/psi transverse momentum, in three rapidity ranges. A fit to the decay length distribution is used to separate the prompt from the non-prompt (b hadron to J/psi) component. Integrated over J/psi transverse momentum from 6.5 to 30 GeV/c and over rapidity in the range |y| < 2.4, the measured cross sections, times the dimuon decay branching fraction, are 70.9 \pm 2.1 (stat.) \pm 3.0 (syst.) \pm 7.8(luminosity) nb for prompt J/psi mesons assuming unpolarized production and 26.0 \pm 1.4 (stat.) \pm 1.6 (syst.) \pm 2.9 (luminosity) nb for J/psi mesons from b-hadron decays.

13 data tables

Table 1

Total cross section within the kinematic limits for prompt and non-prompt J/PSI production times branching ratio into MU+ MU-, assuming zero polarizartion. The second systematic error is the luminosity uncertainty.

Table 2

Differential inclusive cross J/PSI section for the |rapidity| range 0 to 1.2 for each prompt J/PSI polarization scenario considered.

Table 3

Differential inclusive cross J/PSI section for the |rapidity| range 1.2 to 1.6 for each prompt J/PSI polarization scenario considered.