Prompt K_short production in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=0.9 TeV
ArXiv 1008.3105 (2010)
Authors:
LHCb Collaboration, R Aaij, C Abellan Beteta, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, C Adrover, A Affolder, M Agari, Z Ajaltouni, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, M Alfonsi, P Alvarez Cartelle, AA Alves Jr, S Amato, Y Amhis, J Amoraal, J Anderson, R Antunes Nobrega, R Appleby, O Aquines Gutierrez, A Arefyev, L Arrabito, M Artuso, E Aslanides, G Auriemma, S Bachmann, Y Bagaturia, DS Bailey, V Balagura, W Baldini, G Barber, C Barham, RJ Barlow, S Barsuk, S Basiladze, A Bates, C Bauer, Th Bauer, A Bay, I Bediaga, T Bellunato, K Belous, I Belyaev, M Benayoun, G Bencivenni, R Bernet, RP Bernhard, M-O Bettler, M van Beuzekom, JH Bibby, S Bifani, A Bizzeti, PM Bjørnstad, T Blake, F Blanc, C Blanks, J Blouw, S Blusk, A Bobrov, V Bocci, B Bochin, E Bonaccorsi, A Bondar, N Bondar, W Bonivento, S Borghi, A Borgia, E Bos, TJV Bowcock, C Bozzi, T Brambach, J van den Brand, L Brarda, J Bressieux, S Brisbane, M Britsch, NH Brook, H Brown, S Brusa, A Büchler-Germann, A Bursche, J Buytaert, S Cadeddu, JM Caicedo Carvajal, O Callot, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, A Camboni, W Cameron, L Camilleri, P Campana, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, J Carroll, L Carson, K Carvalho Akiba, G Casse, M Cattaneo, B Chadaj, M Charles, Ph Charpentier, J Cheng, N Chiapolini, A Chlopik, J Christiansen, P Ciambrone, X Cid Vidal, PJ Clark, PEL Clarke, M Clemencic, HV Cliff, J Closier, C Coca, V Coco, J Cogan, P Collins, A Comerma-Montells, F Constantin, G Conti, A Contu, P Cooke, M Coombes, B Corajod, G Corti, GA Cowan, R Currie, B D'Almagne, C D'Ambrosio, I D'Antone, W Da Silva, E Dane', P David, I De Bonis, S De Capua, M De Cian, F De Lorenzi, JM De Miranda, L De Paula, P De Simone, D Decamp, G Decreuse, H Degaudenzi, M Deissenroth, L Del Buono, CJ Densham, C Deplano, O Deschamps, F Dettori, J Dickens, H Dijkstra, M Dima, S Donleavy, P Dornan, D Dossett, A Dovbnya, R Dumps, F Dupertuis, L Dwyer, R Dzhelyadin, C Eames, S Easo, U Egede, V Egorychev, S Eidelman, D van Eijk, F Eisele, S Eisenhardt, L Eklund, DG d'Enterria, D Esperante Pereira, L Estève, E Fanchini, C Färber, G Fardell, C Farinelli, S Farry, V Fave, G Felici, V Fernandez Albor, M Ferro-Luzzi, S Filippov, C Fitzpatrick, W Flegel, F Fontanelli, C Forti, R Forty, C Fournier, B Franek, M Frank, C Frei, M Frosini, JL Fungueirino Pazos, S Furcas, A Gallas Torreira, D Galli, M Gandelman, P Gandini, Y Gao, J-C Garnier, L Garrido, D Gascon, C Gaspar, A Gaspar De Valenzuela Cue, J Gassner, N Gauvin, P Gavillet, M Gersabeck, T Gershon, Ph Ghez, V Gibson, Yu Gilitsky, VV Gligorov, C Göbel, D Golubkov, A Golutvin, A Gomes, G Gong, H Gong, H Gordon, M Grabalosa Gándara, V Gracco, R Graciani Diaz, LA Granado Cardoso, E Graugés, G Graziani, A Grecu, S Gregson, G Guerrer, B Gui, E Gushchin, Yu Guz, Z Guzik, T Gys, G Haefeli, SC Haines, T Hampson, S Hansmann-Menzemer, R Harji, N Harnew, PF Harrison, J He, K Hennessy, P Henrard, JA Hernando Morata, E van Herwijnen, A Hicheur, E Hicks, HJ Hilke, W Hofmann, K Holubyev, P Hopchev, W Hulsbergen, P Hunt, T Huse, RS Huston, D Hutchcroft, F Iacoangeli, V Iakovenko, C Iglesias Escudero, C Ilgner, J Imong, R Jacobsson, M Jahjah Hussein, O Jamet, E Jans, F Jansen, P Jaton, B Jean-Marie, M John, D Johnson, CR Jones, B Jost, F Kapusta, TM Karbach, A Kashchuk, S Katvars, J Keaveney, U Kerzel, T Ketel, A Keune, S Khalil, B Khanji, YM Kim, M Knecht, S Koblitz, A Konoplyannikov, P Koppenburg, M Korolev, A Kozlinskiy, L Kravchuk, R Kristic, G Krocker, P Krokovny, F Kruse, K Kruzelecki, M Kucharczyk, I Kudryashov, S Kukulak, R Kumar, T Kvaratskheliya, VN La Thi, D Lacarrere, A Lai, RW Lambert, G Lanfranchi, C Langenbruch, T Latham, R Le Gac, J-P Lees, R Lefèvre, A Leflat, J Lefrançois, F Lehner, M Lenzi, O Leroy, T Lesiak, L Li, YY Li, L Li Gioi, J Libby, M Lieng, R Lindner, S Lindsey, C Linn, B Liu, G Liu, S Löchner, JH Lopes, E Lopez Asamar, N Lopez-March, P Loveridge, J Luisier, B M'charek, F Machefert, IV Machikhiliyan, F Maciuc, O Maev, J Magnin, A Maier, S Malde, RMD Mamunur, G Manca, G Mancinelli, N Mangiafave, U Marconi, R Märki, J Marks, G Martellotti, A Martens, L Martin, D Martinez Santos, A Massaferri, Z Mathe, C Matteuzzi, V Matveev, E Maurice, B Maynard, A Mazurov, G McGregor, R McNulty, C Mclean, M Merk, J Merkel, M Merkin, R Messi, FCD Metlica, S Miglioranzi, M-N Minard, G Moine, S Monteil, D Moran, J Morant, JV Morris, J Moscicki, R Mountain, I Mous, F Muheim, R Muresan, F Murtas, B Muryn, M Musy, J Mylroie-Smith, P Naik, T Nakada, R Nandakumar, J Nardulli, A Nawrot, M Nedos, M Needham, N Neufeld, P Neustroev, M Nicol, L Nicolas, S Nies, V Niess, N Nikitin, A Noor, A Oblakowska-Mucha, V Obraztsov, S Oggero, O Okhrimenko, R Oldeman, M Orlandea, A Ostankov, J Palacios, M Palutan, J Panman, A Papadelis, A Papanestis, M Pappagallo, C Parkes, CJ Parkinson, G Passaleva, GD Patel, M Patel, SK Paterson, GN Patrick, C Patrignani, E Pauna, C Pauna, C Pavel, A Pazos Alvarez, A Pellegrino, G Penso, M Pepe Altarelli, S Perazzini, DL Perego, E Perez Trigo, A Pérez-Calero Yzquierdo, P Perret, G Pessina, A Petrella, A Petrolini, E Picatoste Olloqui, B Pie Valls, D Piedigrossi, B Pietrzyk, D Pinci, S Playfer, M Plo Casasus, M Poli-Lener, G Polok, A Poluektov, E Polycarpo, D Popov, B Popovici, S Poss, C Potterat, A Powell, S Pozzi, T du Pree, V Pugatch, A Puig Navarro, W Qian, JH Rademacker, B Rakotomiaramanana, I Raniuk, G Raven, S Redford, W Reece, AC dos Reis, S Ricciardi, J Riera, K Rinnert, DA Roa Romero, P Robbe, E Rodrigues, F Rodrigues, C Rodriguez Cobo, P Rodriguez Perez, GJ Rogers, V Romanovsky, E Rondan Sanabria, M Rosello, G Rospabe, J Rouvinet, L Roy, T Ruf, H Ruiz, C Rummel, V Rusinov, G Sabatino, JJ Saborido Silva, N Sagidova, P Sail, B Saitta, T Sakhelashvili, C Salzmann, A Sambade Varela, M Sannino, R Santacesaria, R Santinelli, E Santovetti, M Sapunov, A Sarti, C Satriano, A Satta, T Savidge, M Savrie, D Savrina, P Schaack, M Schiller, S Schleich, M Schmelling, B Schmidt, O Schneider, T Schneider, A Schopper, M-H Schune, R Schwemmer, A Sciubba, M Seco, A Semennikov, K Senderowska, N Serra, J Serrano, B Shao, M Shapkin, I Shapoval, P Shatalov, Y Shcheglov, T Shears, L Shekhtman, V Shevchenko, A Shires, S Sigurdsson, E Simioni, HP Skottowe, T Skwarnicki, N Smale, A Smith, AC Smith, NA Smith, K Sobczak, FJP Soler, A Solomin, P Somogy, F Soomro, B Souza De Paula, B Spaan, A Sparkes, E Spiridenkov, P Spradlin, A Srednicki, F Stagni, S Stahl, S Steiner, O Steinkamp, O Stenyakin, S Stoica, S Stone, B Storaci, U Straumann, N Styles, M Szczekowski, P Szczypka, T Szumlak, S T'Jampens, E Tarkovskiy, E Teodorescu, H Terrier, F Teubert, C Thomas, E Thomas, J van Tilburg, V Tisserand, M Tobin, S Topp-Joergensen, MT Tran, S Traynor, U Trunk, A Tsaregorodtsev, N Tuning, A Ukleja, O Ullaland, U Uwer, V Vagnoni, G Valenti, A Van Lysebetten, R Vazquez Gomez, P Vazquez Regueiro, S Vecchi, JJ Velthuis, M Veltri, K Vervink, B Viaud, I Videau, D Vieira, X Vilasis-Cardona, J Visniakov, A Vollhardt, D Volyanskyy, D Voong, A Vorobyev, An Vorobyev, H Voss, K Wacker, S Wandernoth, J Wang, DR Ward, AD Webber, D Websdale, M Whitehead, D Wiedner, L Wiggers, G Wilkinson, MP Williams, M Williams, FF Wilson, J Wishahi, M Witek, W Witzeling, ML Woodward, SA Wotton, K Wyllie, Y Xie, F Xing, Z Yang, G Ybeles Smit, R Young, O Yushchenko, M Zeng, L Zhang, Y Zhang, A Zhelezov, E Zverev
Abstract:
The production of K_short mesons in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy
of 0.9 TeV is studied with the LHCb detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The
luminosity of the analysed sample is determined using a novel technique,
involving measurements of the beam currents, sizes and positions, and is found
to be 6.8 +/- 1.0 microbarn^-1. The differential prompt K_short production
cross-section is measured as a function of the K_short transverse momentum and
rapidity in the region 0 < pT < 1.6 GeV/c and 2.5 < y < 4.0. The data are found
to be in reasonable agreement with previous measurements and generator
expectations.
