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Prompt plus c production in pPb collisions at p sNN=5:02 TeV

Jian Wang, Mingkui Wang, Olivier Schneider, Zhirui Xu, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Yi Wang, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Jessica Prisciandaro, Tatsuya Nakada, Mark Tobin, Frédéric Blanc, Minh Tâm Tran, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Luca Pescatore, François Fleuret, Mirco Dorigo, Jean Wicht, Sebastiana Gianì, Liupan An, Elena Graverini, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Renato Quagliani, Maxime Schubiger, Hang Yin, Guido Andreassi, Olivier Göran Girard, Axel Kuonen, Preema Rennee Pais, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Michel De Cian, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Vladimir Macko, Federico Leo Redi, Tommaso Colombo, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Tara Nanut, Violaine Bellée, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Pavol Stefko, Pietro Marino, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Christoph Frei, Marilisa Neri
2019
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The prompt production of +c baryons is studied in proton- lead collisions collected with the LHCb detector at the LHC. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 1 : 58 nb recorded at a nucleon- nucleon centre- of- mass energy of p sNN = 5 : 02TeV. Measurements of the di ff erential cross- section and the forwardbackward production ratio are reported for +c baryons with transverse momenta in the range 2 < pT < 10 GeV =c and rapidities in the ranges 1 : 5 < y < 4 : 0 and 4 : 5 < y < 2 : 5 in the nucleon- nucleon centre- of- mass system. The ratio of cross- sections of +c baryons and D0 mesons is also reported. The results are compared with next- to- leading order calculations that use nuclear parton distribution functions.

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LHCb experiment

The LHCb (Large Hadron Collider beauty) experiment is a particle physics detector experiment collecting data at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. LHCb is a specialized b-physics experiment, designed primarily to measure the parameters of CP violation in the interactions of b-hadrons (heavy particles containing a bottom quark). Such studies can help to explain the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe. The detector is also able to perform measurements of production cross sections, exotic hadron spectroscopy, charm physics and electroweak physics in the forward region.

Meson

In particle physics, a meson (ˈmiːzɒn,_ˈmɛzɒn) is a type of hadronic subatomic particle composed of an equal number of quarks and antiquarks, usually one of each, bound together by the strong interaction. Because mesons are composed of quark subparticles, they have a meaningful physical size, a diameter of roughly one femtometre (10^−15 m), which is about 0.6 times the size of a proton or neutron. All mesons are unstable, with the longest-lived lasting for only a few tenths of a nanosecond.

Vector meson

In high energy physics, a vector meson is a meson with total spin 1 and odd parity (usually noted as JP = 1−). Vector mesons have been seen in experiments since the 1960s, and are well known for their spectroscopic pattern of masses. The vector mesons contrast with the pseudovector mesons, which also have a total spin 1 but instead have even parity. The vector and pseudovector mesons are also dissimilar in that the spectroscopy of vector mesons tends to show nearly pure states of constituent quark flavors, whereas pseudovector mesons and scalar mesons tend to be expressed as composites of mixed states.

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