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Measurement of the ϒ(1S) production cross-section in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV in ATLAS

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>3/11/2011
<mark>Journal</mark>Physics Letters B
Issue number1-2
Volume705
Number of pages19
Pages (from-to)9-27
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

A measurement of the cross-section for ϒ(1S)→μ+μ−ϒ(1S)→μ+μ− production in proton–proton collisions at centre of mass energy of 7 TeV is presented. The cross-section is measured as a function of the ϒ(1S)ϒ(1S) transverse momentum in two bins of rapidity, |yϒ(1S)|<1.2|yϒ(1S)|<1.2 and 1.2<|yϒ(1S)|<2.41.2<|yϒ(1S)|<2.4. The measurement requires that both muons have transverse momentum View the pTμ>4 GeV and pseudorapidity |ημ|<2.5|ημ|<2.5 in order to reduce theoretical uncertainties on the acceptance, which depend on the poorly known polarisation. The results are based on an integrated luminosity of 1.13 pb−1, collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The cross-section measurement is compared to theoretical predictions: it agrees to within a factor of two with a prediction based on the NRQCD model including colour-singlet and colour-octet matrix elements as implemented in Pythia while it disagrees by up to a factor of ten with the next-to-leading order prediction based on the colour-singlet model.

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This article is published Open Access at sciencedirect.com. It is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited.