Measurement of the Strange B Meson Production Cross Section with J/Psi phi Decays in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV.

Freya Blekman, Stijn Blyweert, Jorgen D'Hondt, Olivier Devroede, Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Michael Maes, Walter Van Doninck, Petra Van Mulders, Gerrit Van Onsem, Ilaria Villella

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The B^0_s differential production cross section is measured as functions of the transverse momentum and rapidity in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV, using the J/Psi phi decay, and compared with predictions based on perturbative QCD calculations at next-to-leading order. The data sample, collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC, corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 40 inverse picobarns. The B^0_s is reconstructed from the decays J/Psi to an oppositely charged muon pair and phi to K+ K-. The integrated B^0_s cross section times B^0_s to J/Psi phi branching fraction in the range 8 < pt(B) < 50 GeV/c and |y(b)| < 2.4 is measured to be 6.9 +/- 0.6 +/- 0.6 nb, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic.
Originele taal-2English
Artikelnummer052008
TijdschriftPhysical Review D
Volume84
StatusPublished - jul 2011

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