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Measurement of D*(+/-) meson production in jets from pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Atlas CollaborationVasiliki MitsouJuan A. Fuster VerdúAntonio Ferrer SoriaSusana Cabrera UrbánCarmen García GarcíaMaría Victoria Castillo GiménezEmilio Higón RodríguezSalvador Martí GarcíaEduardo Ros MartínezSantiago González De La HozJosé Salt CairolsJuan Antonio Valls FerrerMohammed KaciLuca FioriniYesenia Hernández JiménezCarlos Lacasta LlácerMiguel Villaplana Pérez

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Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical PhenomenaAcceleradors de partículesHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentFísica nuclearNuclear ExperimentDetectors de radiació

description

This paper reports a measurement of D*(+/-) meson production in jets from proton- proton collisions at a center- of- mass energy of root s = 7 TeV at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The measurement is based on a data sample recorded with the ATLAS detector with an integrated luminosity of 0.30 pb(-1) for jets with transverse momentum between 25 and 70 GeV in the pseudorapidity range vertical bar eta vertical bar D-0 pi(+), D-0 -> K-pi(+), and its charge conjugate. The production rate is found to be N(D*(+/-))/N(jet) = 0.025 +/- 0.001(stat.) +/- 0.004(syst.) for D*(+/-) mesons that carry a fraction z of the jet momentum in the range 0.3< z< 1. Monte Carlo predictions fail to describe the data at small values of z, and this is most marked at low jet transverse momentum.

10.1103/physrevd.85.052005http://hdl.handle.net/10550/36707