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| CMS-BPH-10-004 ; CERN-PH-EP-2010-087 | ||
| Measurement of the $ \mathrm{B}^+$ Production Cross Section in pp Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV | ||
| CMS Collaboration | ||
| 4 January 2011 | ||
| Phys. Rev. Lett. 106 (2011) 112001 | ||
| Abstract: Measurements of the total and differential cross sections with respect to transverse momentum and rapidity for B+ mesons produced in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV are presented. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 5.8 inverse picobarns collected by the CMS experiment operating at the LHC. The exclusive decay $B^+ \to J/\psi K^+$, with the $J/\psi$ decaying to an oppositely charged muon pair, is used to detect B+ mesons and to measure the production cross section as a function of the transverse momentum and rapidity of the B. The total cross section for p_t(B) > 5 GeV and |y(B)| < 2.4 is measured to be 28.1 +/- 2.4 +/- 2.0 +/- 3.1 microbarns, where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second is systematic, and the last is from the luminosity measurement. | ||
| Links: e-print arXiv:1101.0131 [hep-ex] (PDF) ; CDS record ; inSPIRE record ; Public twiki page ; HepData record ; CADI line (restricted) ; | ||
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