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Study of heavy meson production in p–Pb collisions atS=5.02TeV in the general-mass variable-flavour-number scheme
H. SpiesbergerH. SpiesbergerGustav Kramersubject
PhysicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsParticle physicsMeson productionLarge Hadron Collider010308 nuclear & particles physicsMonte Carlo methodFlavour01 natural sciences0103 physical sciencesHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentB mesonCharm (quantum number)010306 general physicsVariable (mathematics)description
Abstract We study inclusive charm and bottom production, for both D and B mesons, in p–Pb collisions at the LHC. Numerical results for p T -differential production cross sections are obtained at next-to-leading-order in the general-mass variable-flavour-number scheme. We compare our results with recent data from ALICE, LHCb and CMS at a centre-of-mass energy of 5 TeV and find good agreement. A comparison with p–p cross sections does not reveal the presence of nuclear initial-state interaction effects that could be expected to become visible as deviations of the ratio of p–Pb and p–p cross sections from one.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-12-01 | Nuclear Physics B |