Dielectron production in proton-proton collisions at root s=7 TeV

S. Acharya; F Acosta; D. Adamova; J Adolfsson; MM. Aggarwal; G. Aglieri Rinella; Maria Agnello; N. Agrawl; Z. Ahammed; S.U. Ahn; S. Aiola; A. Akindinov; M. Al-Turany; SN Alam; DSD Albuquerque; D. Aleksandrov; B Alessandro; R. Alfaro-Molina; Yusuf Ali; A. Alici; A. Alkin; J. Alme; T. Alt; Ian Bearden; Christian Alexander Bourjau; Christian Holm Christensen; Ante Bilandzic; bsm989 bsm989; Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje; Katarina Gajdosova; Børge Svane Nielsen; Freja Thoresen; Lais Ozelin De Lima Pimentel; Marek Chojnacki; Vytautas Vislavicius; You Zhou

doi:10.1007/JHEP09(2018)064

Dielectron production in proton-proton collisions at root s=7 TeV

S. Acharya, F Acosta, D. Adamova, J Adolfsson, MM. Aggarwal, G. Aglieri Rinella, Maria Agnello, N. Agrawl, Z. Ahammed, S.U. Ahn, S. Aiola, A. Akindinov, M. Al-Turany, SN Alam, DSD Albuquerque, D. Aleksandrov, B Alessandro, R. Alfaro-Molina, Yusuf Ali, A. AliciA. Alkin, J. Alme, T. Alt, Ian Bearden, Christian Alexander Bourjau, Christian Holm Christensen, Ante Bilandzic, bsm989 bsm989, Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje, Katarina Gajdosova, Børge Svane Nielsen, Freja Thoresen, Lais Ozelin De Lima Pimentel, Marek Chojnacki, Vytautas Vislavicius, You Zhou

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The first measurement of e⁺e⁻ pair production at mid-rapidity (|η_e| < 0.8) in pp collisions at s=7 TeV with ALICE at the LHC is presented. The dielectron production is studied as a function of the invariant mass (m_ee < 3.3 GeV/c²), the pair transverse momentum (p_T,ee < 8 GeV/c), and the pair transverse impact parameter (DCA_ee), i.e., the average distance of closest approach of the reconstructed electron and positron tracks to the collision vertex, normalised to its resolution. The results are compared with the expectations from a cocktail of known hadronic sources and are well described when PYTHIA is used to generate the heavy-flavour contributions. In the low-mass region (0.14 < m_ee < 1.1 GeV/c²), prompt and non-prompt e⁺e⁻ sources can be separated via the DCA_ee. In the intermediate-mass region (1.1 < m_ee < 2.7 GeV/c²), a double-differential fit to the data in m_ee and p_T,ee and a fit of the DCA_ee distribution allow the total c c ¯ and b b ¯ cross sections to be extracted. Two different event generators, PYTHIA and POWHEG, can reproduce the shape of the two-dimensional m_ee and p_T,ee spectra, as well as the shape of the DCA_ee distribution, reasonably well. However, differences in the c c ¯ and b b ¯ cross sections are observed when using the generators to extrapolate to full phase space. Finally, the ratio of inclusive to decay photons is studied via the measurement of virtual direct photons in the transverse-momentum range 1 < p_T < 8 GeV/c. This is found to be unity within the statistical and systematic uncertainties and consistent with expectations from next-to-leading order perturbative quantum chromodynamic calculations.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].

Original language	English
Article number	064
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2018
Issue number	9
Number of pages	47
ISSN	1126-6708
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2018)064
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2018

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Acharya, S., Acosta, F., Adamova, D., Adolfsson, J., Aggarwal, MM., Aglieri Rinella, G., Agnello, M., Agrawl, N., Ahammed, Z., Ahn, S. U., Aiola, S., Akindinov, A., Al-Turany, M., Alam, SN., Albuquerque, DSD., Aleksandrov, D., Alessandro, B., Alfaro-Molina, R., Ali, Y., ... Zhou, Y. (2018). Dielectron production in proton-proton collisions at root s=7 TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018(9), [064]. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2018)064

Acharya, S, Acosta, F, Adamova, D, Adolfsson, J, Aggarwal, MM, Aglieri Rinella, G, Agnello, M, Agrawl, N, Ahammed, Z, Ahn, SU, Aiola, S, Akindinov, A, Al-Turany, M, Alam, SN, Albuquerque, DSD, Aleksandrov, D, Alessandro, B, Alfaro-Molina, R, Ali, Y, Alici, A, Alkin, A, Alme, J, Alt, T, Bearden, I, Bourjau, CA, Christensen, CH, Bilandzic, A, bsm989, B , Gaardhøje, JJ, Gajdosova, K, Nielsen, BS, Thoresen, F, Ozelin De Lima Pimentel, L, Chojnacki, M, Vislavicius, V & Zhou, Y 2018, 'Dielectron production in proton-proton collisions at root s=7 TeV', Journal of High Energy Physics, vol. 2018, no. 9, 064. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2018)064

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Dielectron production in proton-proton collisions at root s=7 TeV

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