Measurement of b hadron production fractions in 7 TeV pp collisions

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LHCb-PAPER-2011-018
CERN-PH-EP-2011-172
arXiv:1111.2357 [PDF]

(Submitted on 09 Nov 2011)
Phys. Rev. D85 (2012) 032008
Inspire 945381

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Abstract

Measurements of $b$ hadron production ratios in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with an integrated luminosity of 3 pb$^{-1}$ are presented. We study the ratios of strange $B$ meson to light $B$ meson production $f_s/(f_u+f_d)$ and $\Lambda_b^0$ baryon to light $B$ meson production $f_{\Lambda_b}/(f_u+f_d)$ as a function of the charmed hadron-muon pair transverse momentum $p_T$ and the $b$ hadron pseudorapidity $\eta$, for $p_T$ between 0 and 14 GeV and $\eta$ between 2 and 5. We find that $f_s/(f_u+f_d)$ is consistent with being independent of $p_{\rm T}$ and $\eta$, and we determine $f_s/(f_u+f_d)$ = 0.134$\pm$ 0.004 $^{+0.011}_{-0.010}$, where the first error is statistical and the second systematic. The corresponding ratio $f_{\Lambda_b}/(f_u+f_d)$ is found to be dependent upon the transverse momentum of the charmed hadron-muon pair, $f_{\Lambda_b}/(f_u+f_d)=(0.404\pm 0.017 (stat) \pm 0.027 (syst) \pm 0.105 (Br))\times[1 -(0.031 \pm 0.004 (stat) \pm 0.003 (syst))\times p_T(GeV)]$, where Br reflects an absolute scale uncertainty due to the poorly known branching fraction Br(\Lambda_c^+ \to pK^-\pi^+)$. We extract the ratio of strange $B$ meson to light neutral $B$ meson production $f_s/f_d$ by averaging the result reported here with two previous measurements derived from the relative abundances of $\bar{B}_s \to D_S^+ \pi ^-$ to $\bar{B}^0 \to D^+K^-$ and $\bar{B}^0 \to D^+\pi^-$. We obtain $f_s/f_d=0.267^{+0.021}_{-0.020}$.

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The logarithm of the IP distributions for (a) RS and (c) WS $D^0$ candidate combinations with a muon. The dotted curves show the false $D^0$ background, the small red-solid curves the Prompt yields, the dashed curves the Dfb signal, and the larger green-solid curves the total yields. The invariant $K^-\pi^+$ mass spectra for (b) RS combinations and (d) WS combinations are also shown.	fig1.pdf [71 KiB] HiDef png [374 KiB] Thumbnail [224 KiB] *.C file
The logarithm of the IP distributions for (a) RS and (c) WS $D^+$ candidate combinations with a muon. The grey-dotted curves show the false $D^+$ background, the small red-solid curves the Prompt yields, the blue-dashed curves the Dfb signal, and the larger green-solid curves the total yields. The invariant $K^-\pi^+\pi^+$ mass spectra for (b) RS combinations and (d) WS combinations are also shown.	fig2.pdf [78 KiB] HiDef png [369 KiB] Thumbnail [269 KiB] *.C file
The logarithm of the IP distributions for (a) RS and (c) WS $ D ^+_ s $ candidate combinations with a muon. The grey-dotted curves show the false $ D ^+_ s $ background, the small red-solid curves the Prompt yields, the blue-dashed curves the Dfb signal, the purple dash-dotted curves represent the background originating from $\Lambda _ c ^+$ reflection, and the larger green-solid curves the total yields. The invariant $K^-K^+\pi^+$ mass spectra for RS combinations (b) and WS combinations (d) are also shown.	fig3.pdf [73 KiB] HiDef png [386 KiB] Thumbnail [238 KiB] *.C file
The logarithm of the IP distributions for (a) RS and (c) WS $\Lambda_c^+$ candidate combinations with a muon. The grey-dotted curves show the false $\Lambda_c^+$ background, the small red-solid curves the Prompt yields, the blue-dashed curves the Dfb signal, and the larger green-solid curves the total yields. The invariant $p K^-\pi^+$ mass spectra for RS combinations (b) and WS combinations (d) are also shown.	fig4.pdf [70 KiB] HiDef png [334 KiB] Thumbnail [203 KiB] *.C file
(a) Invariant mass of $D^0 p$ candidates that vertex with each other and together with a RS muon (black closed points) and for a $\overline{p}$ (red open points) instead of a $p$; (b) fit to $D^0$ invariant mass for RS events with the invariant mass of $D^0 p$ candidate in the signal mass difference window; (c) fit to $D^0$ invariant mass for WS events with the invariant mass of $D^0 p$ candidate in the signal mass difference window.	fig5.pdf [73 KiB] HiDef png [321 KiB] Thumbnail [238 KiB] *.C file
Projections of the two-dimensional fit to the $q^2$ and $m( D ^+_ s \mu)$ distributions of semileptonic decays including a $ D ^+_ s $ meson. The $D_s^/D_s$ ratio has been fixed to the measured $D^/D$ ratio in light $B$ decays (2.42$\pm$0.10), and the background contribution is obtained using the sidebands in the $K^+K^-\pi^+$ mass spectrum. The different components are stacked: the background is represented by a black dot-dashed line, $ D ^+_ s $ by a red dashed line, $D_s ^{+}$ by a blue dash-double dotted line and $ D _s^{*+}$ by a green dash-dotted line.	fig6.pdf [62 KiB] HiDef png [253 KiB] Thumbnail [139 KiB] *.C file
Projections of the two-dimensional fit to the $q^2$ and $m(\Lambda _ c ^+\mu^-)$ distributions of semileptonic decays including a $\Lambda _ c ^+$ baryon. The different components are stacked: the dotted line represents the combinatoric background, the bigger dashed line (red) represents the $\Lambda _ c ^+\mu^-\overline{\nu}$ component, the smaller dashed line (blue) the ${\it \Lambda _c}(2595)^+$, and the solid line represents the ${\it \Lambda _c}(2625)^+$ component. The ${\it \Lambda _c}(2595)^+/{\it \Lambda _c}(2625)^+$ ratio is fixed to its predicted value, as described in the text.	fig7.pdf [62 KiB] HiDef png [186 KiB] Thumbnail [141 KiB] *.C file
Measured proton identification efficiency as a function of the $\Lambda _ c ^+\mu^-$ $p_{\rm T}$ for $2<\eta < 3$, $3<\eta <4$, $4<\eta < 5$ respectively, and for the selection criteria used in the $\Lambda _ c ^+\rightarrow pK^-\pi^+$ reconstruction.	fig8.pdf [60 KiB] HiDef png [95 KiB] Thumbnail [70 KiB] *.C file
Efficiencies for $ D ^0 \mu^-\overline{\nu} X$, $ D ^+ \mu^-\overline{\nu} X$, $ D ^+_ s \mu^-\overline{\nu} X$, $\Lambda _ c ^+\mu^-\overline{\nu} X$ as a function of $\eta$ and $p_{\rm T}$.	fig9.pdf [108 KiB] HiDef png [267 KiB] Thumbnail [284 KiB] *.C file
Ratio between $\overline{ B }{} ^0_ s $ and light $B$ meson production fractions as a function of the transverse momentum of the $ D ^+_ s \mu^-$ pair in two bins of $\eta$. The errors shown are statistical only.	fig10.pdf [59 KiB] HiDef png [64 KiB] Thumbnail [52 KiB] *.C file
$f_+/f_0$ as a function of $p_{\rm T}$ for $\eta$=(2,3) (a) and $\eta$=(3,5) (b). The horizontal line shows the average value. The error shown combines statistical and systematic uncertainties accounting for the detection efficiency and the particle identification efficiency.	fig11.pdf [60 KiB] HiDef png [74 KiB] Thumbnail [57 KiB] *.C file
Fragmentation ratio $f_{\Lambda _ b }/(f_u+f_d)$ dependence upon $p_{\rm T}(\Lambda _ c ^+\mu^-)$. The errors shown are statistical only.	fig12.pdf [60 KiB] HiDef png [118 KiB] Thumbnail [82 KiB] *.C file
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Charmed hadron decay modes and branching fractions.	Table_1.pdf [52 KiB] HiDef png [56 KiB] Thumbnail [28 KiB] tex code
Systematic uncertainties on the relative $\overline{ B }{} ^0_ s $ production fraction.	Table_2.pdf [56 KiB] HiDef png [124 KiB] Thumbnail [58 KiB] tex code
Coefficients of the linear fit describing the $p_{\rm T}(\Lambda _ c ^+\mu^-)$ dependence of $f_{\Lambda _ b }/(f_u+f_d)$. The systematic uncertainties included are only those associated with the bin-dependent MC and particle identification errors.	Table_3.pdf [28 KiB] HiDef png [51 KiB] Thumbnail [25 KiB] tex code
Systematic uncertainties on the absolute scale of $f_{\Lambda_b}/(f_u+f_d)$.	Table_4.pdf [57 KiB] HiDef png [149 KiB] Thumbnail [65 KiB] tex code
Summary of the systematic and theoretical uncertainties in the three LHCb measurements of $f_s/f_d$.	Table_5.pdf [59 KiB] HiDef png [109 KiB] Thumbnail [48 KiB] tex code
Uncertainties in the combined value of $f_s/f_d $.	Table_6.pdf [54 KiB] HiDef png [78 KiB] Thumbnail [36 KiB] tex code