Measurement of D*± meson production in jets from pp collisions at vs=7¿¿TeV with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad, Mogens Dam, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Peter Henrik Hansen, John Renner Hansen, Jørn Dines Hansen, Nele Maria Philomena Boelaert, Sascha Mehlhase, Morten Dam Jørgensen, Simon Johann Franz Heisterkamp, Esben Bryndt Klinkby, Troels Christian Petersen, Björn Stefan Nilsson, Stefania Xella

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Abstract

This paper reports a measurement of D meson production in jets from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of √s=7TeV at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The measurement is based on a data sample recorded with the ATLAS detector with an integrated luminosity of 0.30pb -1 for jets with transverse momentum between 25 and 70 GeV in the pseudorapidity range |η|<2.5. D * ± mesons found in jets are fully reconstructed in the decay chain: D *+→D0π +, D0→K -π +, 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.

Original languageEnglish
JournalPhysical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology)
Volume85
Issue number5
Pages (from-to)052005
Number of pages22
ISSN1550-7998
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 Mar 2012

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