LHCb Collaboration (Including: Back, J. J., Dossett, D., Gershon, T. J., Harrison, P. F., Kreps, Michal, Latham, Thomas, Pilar, T., Poluektov, Anton, Reid, M. M., Whitehead, M. (Mark) and Williams, M. P.). (2012) Measurement of b hadron production fractions in 7 TeV pp collisions. Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology), Vol.85 (No.3). 032008. ISSN 1550-7998

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Measurements of b hadron production ratios in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with an integrated luminosity of 3  pb-1 are presented. We study the ratios of strange B meson to light B meson production fs/(fu+fd) and Λb0 baryon to light B meson production fΛb/(fu+fd) as a function of the charmed hadron-muon pair transverse momentum pT and the b hadron pseudorapidity η, for pT between 0 and 14 GeV and η between 2 and 5. We find that fs/(fu+fd) is consistent with being independent of pT and η, and we determine fs/(fu+fd)=0.134±0.004-0.010+0.011, where the first error is statistical and the second systematic. The corresponding ratio fΛb/(fu+fd) is found to be dependent upon the transverse momentum of the charmed hadron-muon pair, fΛb/(fu+fd)=(0.404±0.017(stat)±0.027(syst)±0.105(Br))×[1-(0.031±0.004(stat)±0.003(syst))×pT(GeV)], where Br reflects an absolute scale uncertainty due to the poorly known branching fraction B(Λc+→pK-π+). We extract the ratio of strange B meson to light neutral B meson production fs/fd by averaging the result reported here with two previous measurements derived from the relative abundances of B̅ s0→Ds+π- to B̅ 0→D+K- and B̅ 0→D+π-. We obtain fs/fd=0.267-0.020+0.021.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > Physics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Proton-proton interactions, Hadrons, B mesons, Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland)
Journal or Publication Title:	Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology)
Publisher:	American Physical Society
ISSN:	1550-7998
Date:	2012
Volume:	Vol.85
Number:	No.3
Page Range:	032008
Identification Number:	10.1103/PhysRevD.85.032008
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Funder:	Brazil. Coordenação do Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (Brazil) (FINEP), European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Guo jia zi ran ke xue ji jin wei yuan hui (China) [National Natural Science Foundation of China] (NSFC), Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) (CNRS), Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules, Germany. Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Hermann von Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften [Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science], Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), Istituto nazionale di fisica nucleare (INFN), Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM) [Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter], Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek [Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research] (NWO), SCSR (Poland), Autoritatea Nationala pentru Cercetare Stiintifica (ANCS), Russia (Federation). Ministerstvo obrazovanii︠a︡ i nauki [Ministry of Education and Science], Federalʹnoe agentstvo po atomnoĭ ėnergii (Russia), Spain. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN), Galicia (Spain : Region). Xunta, Catalonia (Spain), Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung [Swiss National Science Foundation] (SNSF), Switzerland. Staatssekretariat für Ausbildung und Forschung (SER), Nat︠s︡ionalʹna akademii︠a︡ nauk Ukraïny (NAS), Science and Technology Facilities Council (Great Britain) (STFC), National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF), Seventh Framework Programme (European Commission) (FP7/2007-2013), Auvergne (France)
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URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/44467

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