Measurement of  D ⁎± ,  D ±  and D s ± meson production cross sections in  pp  collisions at s = 7  TeV with the ATLAS detector

Aad, G; Abbott, B; Abdallah, J; Abdinov, O; Aben, R; Abolins, M; AbouZeid, O S; Abramowicz, H; Abreu, H; Abreu, R; Abulaiti, Y; Acharya, B S; Adamczyk, L; Adams, D L; Adelman, J; Adomeit, S; Adye, T; Affolder, A A; Agatonovic-Jovin, T; Aguilar-Saavedra, J A; Ahlen, S P; Ahmadov, F; Aielli, G; Akerstedt, H; Åkesson, T P A; Akimoto, G; Akimov, A V; Alberghi, G L; Albert, J; Albrand, S; Alconada Verzini, M J; Aleksa, M

Measurement of D ⁎± , D ± and D s ± meson production cross sections in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Journal Article

2016

Journal Title

Nuclear Physics, B

Link to Journal

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2016.04.032

Department

Department of Physics

Faculty

Faculty of Science

Abstract

The production of D∗±, D± and D± s charmed mesons has been measured with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV at the LHC, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 280 nb−1. The charmed mesons have been reconstructed in the range of transverse momentum 3.5 < pT(D) < 100 GeV and pseudorapidity were measured for D∗± and D± production. The differential cross sections as a function of transverse momentum and pseudorapidity ｜η(D)｜ < 2.1. The next-to-leading-order QCD predictions are consistent with the data in the visible kinematic region within the large theoretical uncertainties. Using the visible D cross sections and an extrapolation to the full kinematic phase space, the strangeness-suppression factor in charm fragmentation, the fraction of charged non-strange D mesons produced in a vector state, and the total cross section of charm production at √s = 7 TeV were derived.