J/ψ, Y and B meson production in proton–proton collisions at the LHC

Mechanisms of J/ψ, Υ and B meson production in proton-proton scattering at total energy 7 TeV are studied with the help of event generator Pythia 8. Uncertainties in the total and differential cross sections due to choice of the renormalization and factorization scales are analyzed for prompt J/ψ an...

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spelling irk-123456789-1070822016-10-14T03:02:07Z J/ψ, Y and B meson production in proton–proton collisions at the LHC Kotlyar, V.V. Krupina, N.V. Section C. Theory of Elementary Particles. Cosmology Mechanisms of J/ψ, Υ and B meson production in proton-proton scattering at total energy 7 TeV are studied with the help of event generator Pythia 8. Uncertainties in the total and differential cross sections due to choice of the renormalization and factorization scales are analyzed for prompt J/ψ and Υ production. Sensitivity of the inclusive cross sections on contributions of J/ψ from decay of b–hadrons is also discussed. Results of the calculations are compared with the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb data in order to assess potentialities and validity of the approaches, in particular color singlet and octet models, used in the simulations. Механизмы рождения J/ψ-,Υ- и B-мезонов в рассеянии протонов с полной энергией 7 ТэВ изучаются с помощью генератора событий Пифия 8. Неопределённости в значениях полных и дифференциальных сечений реакций, которые обусловлены выбором шкал перенормировки и факторизации, анализируются для рождения мгновенных J/ψ и Υ-мезонов. Исследуется также чувствительность инклюзивных сечений реакции к вкладам J/ψ источником которых являются распады b–адронов. Для проверки моделей, используемых в моделировании рассмотренных процессов, результаты расчётов сравниваются с данными, полученными коллаборациями ALICE, ATLAS, CMS и LHCb. Механізми народження J/ψ-, Υ- та B-мезонів у розсіянні протонів з повною енергією 7 ТеВ вивчаються за допомогою генератора подій Піфія 8. Невизначеність повних та диференційних перерізів реакцій, що зумовлена вибором шкал перенормування та факторизації, аналізується для народження миттєвих J/ψ- та Υ-мезонів. Досліджується також чутливість інклюзивних перерізів реакцій до внесків J/ψ джерелом яких є розпад b–адронів. Для перевірки моделей, що використовуються в моделюванні розглянутих процесів, результати розрахунків порівнюються з даними, що було отримано колабораціями ALICE, ATLAS, CMS та LHCb. 2012 Article J/ψ, Y and B meson production in proton–proton collisions at the LHC / V.V. Kotlyar, N.V. Krupina // Вопросы атомной науки и техники. — 2012. — № 1. — С. 183-187. — Бібліогр.: 28 назв. — англ. 1562-6016 PACS: 12.38.-t, 12.38.Bx, 12.39.St, 14.40.Gx, 13.85.Ni http://dspace.nbuv.gov.ua/handle/123456789/107082 en Вопросы атомной науки и техники Національний науковий центр «Харківський фізико-технічний інститут» НАН України
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J/ψ, Y and B meson production in proton–proton collisions at the LHC
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description Mechanisms of J/ψ, Υ and B meson production in proton-proton scattering at total energy 7 TeV are studied with the help of event generator Pythia 8. Uncertainties in the total and differential cross sections due to choice of the renormalization and factorization scales are analyzed for prompt J/ψ and Υ production. Sensitivity of the inclusive cross sections on contributions of J/ψ from decay of b–hadrons is also discussed. Results of the calculations are compared with the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb data in order to assess potentialities and validity of the approaches, in particular color singlet and octet models, used in the simulations.
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fulltext J/ψ, Υ, AND B MESON PRODUCTION IN PROTON–PROTON COLLISIONS AT THE LHC V.V. Kotlyar ∗and N.V. Krupina National Science Center ”Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology”, 61108, Kharkov, Ukraine (Received October 31, 2011) Mechanisms of J/ψ, Υ, and B meson production in proton-proton scattering at total energy 7 TeV are studied with the help of event generator Pythia 8. Uncertainties in the total and differential cross sections due to choice of the renormalization and factorization scales are analyzed for prompt J/ψ and Υ production. Sensitivity of the inclusive cross sections on contributions of J/ψ from decay of b–hadrons is also discussed. Results of the calculations are compared with the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb data in order to assess potentialities and validity of the approaches, in particular color singlet and octet models, used in the simulations. PACS: 12.38.-t, 12.38.Bx, 12.39.St, 14.40.Gx, 13.85.Ni 1. INTRODUCTION Production of charmonium and bottomonium is known as an important tool for testing perturba- tive quantum chromodynamics (pQCD) and gaining a better understanding of effects beyond the lead- ing order in strong–coupling constant. Detailed dis- cussion of models for charmonium and bottonium production in hadron scattering can be found, e.g. in [1–5]. Widely–used approaches for analysis of the quarkonium hadroproduction are based on an ap- proximation when the hard scattering of partons is separated from soft processes related to forma- tion of the mesons that are thought as heavy–quark bound states. Amplitudes of short–distance par- tonic processes are computed within pQCD, while treatment of long–distance ones yields to consider- ation of nonperturbative dynamics. The cross sec- tion for quarkonium hadroproduction can be writ- ten in a factorized form as superposition of cross sec- tions for hard scattering of initial–state partons, e.g. g + g → QQ̄ + g, convoluted with parton distribu- tion functions (PDFs) for colliding hadrons that are then weighted with matrix elements describing how created heavy–quark pair QQ̄ evolves into a quarko- nium state. The cross sections of hard partonic scattering (PDFs) depend on renormalization (factorization) scale. In rigorous calculations, that should include contributions beyond leading order both in the ampli- tudes of short–distance processes and evolution equa- tions for PDFs, the cross sections of the reactions are expected to be independent from a particular choice of the scales. High–order processes prove to affect visibly the cross sections and polarization in the quarkonium hadroproduction [6–10]. Neverthe- less, the uncertainties, inherent to extensions of the leading–order approaches, still remain essential. A growing interest in the last decade at studying the heavy–quarkonium production stems also from the hope to use these processes for the diagnostics of the quark–gluon medium produced in ultrarelativis- tic heavy–ion collisions [2, 5, 11, 12]. Purpose of this report is to study mechanisms of prompt J/ψ and Υ production, role of J/ψ, originat- ing from b–hadron decays, and to determine quan- titatively how variations of parameters, that define renormalization and factorization scales, influence the cross sections of the reactions. The present stud- ies aim to test the color singlet and octet models for heavy–quarkonium production [4, 13–15], employing with this end results of recent experiments [16–22] at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). 2. MODELS FOR QUARKONIA HADROPRODUCTION In this paper the meson production is simulated mak- ing use of event generator Pythia 8 [23]. Produc- tion of prompt J/ψ(1S) and Υ(1S) along with non– prompt J/ψ(1S) is considered. Prompt mesons originate from a heavy quark– antiquark pairs QQ̄ that hadronize into colorless states. It is assumed that the QQ̄ pairs, where Q = c or b, are created in short–range processes: g + g → QQ̄ [ 2S+1LJ(a) ] + g, (1) q + g → QQ̄ [ 2S+1LJ(a) ] + q, (2) q + q̄ → QQ̄ [ 2S+1LJ(a) ] + g, (3) with definite values of orbital angular momentum L, spin S, and total angular momentum J in color sin- glet (CS) or octet (CO) states, that are indicated by a = 1 or 8, respectively. ∗Corresponding author E-mail address: kotlyarv@kipt.kharkov.ua PROBLEMS OF ATOMIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 2012, N 1. Series: Nuclear Physics Investigations (57), p. 183-187. 183 CS QQ̄ pairs with 2S+1LJ = 3S1 spring from hard gluon scattering (1). CO QQ̄ states 1S0 and 3S1 are produced in all processes (1)–(3). CS and CO QQ̄ pairs in P–wave states 3PJ with J = 0, 1, 2 and J = 0, respectively, are generated in (1)–(3). Subsequent transition between CO QQ̄ and colorless quarkonium states is accompanied by soft gluon emission. The prompt mesons originate also from decays of higher quarkonium states, e.g. χ2c(1P ) → γ+J/ψ(1S) or χ0b(1P ) → γ+Υ(1S). Decays of b–hadrons, such as B–mesons, Λb, Σb, Ξb, Ωb, etc., serve as a source of non–prompt J/ψ(1S), for example, B+∗ → γ +B+, B+ → J/ψ(1S) +K+. Cross sections for non–prompt J/ψ(1S) production receive substantial contributions from the reaction p + p → B + X. Description of the latter relies on the Lund string model [24] being a framework for im- plementation of fragmentation processes in Pythia. 3. CROSS SECTIONS OF QUARKONIA AND B MESON PRODUCTION The simulation of the quarkonia production is per- formed with Pythia 8.145 using the default tune and PDFs CTEQ6.6M [25]. The renormalization and fac- torization scales are expressed through the transverse masses of outgoing particles in (1)–(3) Q2 R = cR ( (M2 QQ̄ + p2 T )(M2 + p2 T ) )1/2 , (4) Q2 F = cF ( M2 + p2 T ) , (5) where pT (M) denotes the transverse momentum (the mass) of u, d, s, c, b quark or gluon, MQQ̄ is the mass of QQ̄ pair. Fig. 1. Dependence of the total cross section for bb̄–pairs production on choice of the renormalization scale The total cross sections σQQ̄ for production of cc̄ or bb̄ pairs, obtained with (1)–(3), appear to be not independent from values of the renormalization and factorization scales. As seen in Figs. 1 and 2, func- tions σbb̄(cR, cF = const) and σbb̄(cR = const, cF ) vary rapidly for cR < cF . At the same time, decrease of σbb̄(cR, cF = const) is relatively slow for cR � 1 and cR � cF . The cross section σcc̄ reveals qualita- tively the same behaviour as in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 2. Dependence of the total cross section for bb̄–pairs production on choice of the factorization scale Calculations of the differential cross sections un- der conditions of experiments [16–22] have been car- ried out for various sets of parameters cR and cF . Results for some sets both at the diagonal in (cR, cF )– plane and outside it are displayed in Figs. 3 – 6. Val- ues cR = cF = 0.49 correspond to the minimum in σcc̄ for p+ p→ cc̄+X. Fig. 3. Differential cross section for J/ψ produc- tion in the central rapidity region. Points are taken from Ref. [17] Fig. 4. The same as in Fig. 3. The data are from Ref. [16]. The branching fraction of the J/ψ decay into two muons is B(J/ψ → μ+μ−) 184 Fig. 5. The same as in Fig. 3. The data are from Ref. [18] Fig. 6. Differential cross section for J/ψ pro- duction in the forward rapidity region. The data are from Ref. [19] The analysis of the pT distributions in Figs. 3−6 covers wide area of emission angles of the mesons from central to forward regions. Calculations show that the transverse–momentum spectra of J/ψ(1S), measured by the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb collaborations in the central–rapidity region, lie within the band of theoretical uncertainties. Re- sults of the LHCb in the forward region are near the low edge of this band. Note, that predictions [28] within the kT –factorization approach in CS model agree with the LHC experimental data in both cen- tral and forward regions. In Fig. 7 and 8 the differential cross sections for the reactions pp → B0,+X, obtained in the present report with Tune 4C in Pythia 8.153 and PDFs CTEQ6.6M, are compared with the results of mea- surements and simulations, performed by CMS col- laboration [26, 27]. In CMS papers Pythia 6 with Tune D6T and PDFs CTEQ6L1 is used. Figs. 7 and 8 show that the different codes lead to the cross sections, that do not differ visibly at considered pT – region and are close to the experimental data. Cross sections for prompt Υ(1S) production, com- puted in the framework of the CS and CO models, turn out be strong scale sensitive, as can be inferred from Fig. 9. Fig. 7. Differential cross section for B0 produc- tion. The points are from Ref. [26] Fig. 8. Differential cross section for B+ production. The points are from Ref. [27] Transverse–momentum and rapidity dependen- cies of the cross sections are displayed in Figs. 9 and 10 under conditions of CMS experiment [21]. Com- parison with ATLAS [20] and LHCb [22] data will be presented elsewhere. Detailed analysis shows that process (1) with 2S+1LJ(a) = 3P1(1),3P2(1), and 3P0(8) gives main contributions to the cross section of J/ψ(1S) produc- tion for cR = cF = 0.49. Thus, reaction mechanisms that involve creation of χ1c(1P ) and χ2c(1P ) mesons in the CS intermediate states are enhanced in the calculations. At pT � 10 GeV/c CS channel 3P1(1) turns out to be the most important. Transitions via (1) with 2S+1LJ(a) = 3P2(1) and 3P0(8) (3S1(8)) dominate in Υ(1S) production when scale parameters cR = cF = 0.3 (cR = cF = 1.0) are used in the calculations. For cR = cF = 1.0 ratio of CS and CO cross section for (1) is σbb̄( 3S1(1))/σbb̄( 3S1(8)) = 0.45. For pT � 40 GeV/c both the CS and CO chan- nels appear to be comparable. Strengthened contri- butions of the CO intermediate states may be respon- sible for the overestimation of the data by the theory as observed in Figs. 9 and 10. 185 Fig. 9. Transverse–momentum dependence of the differential cross section for Υ(1S) production. The points are from Ref. [21] Fig. 10. Rapidity dependence of the differential cross section for Υ(1S) production. The points are from Ref. [21]. The branching fraction of the Υ(1S) decay into two muons is B(Υ(1S) → μ+μ−) 4. CONCLUSIONS Production of J/ψ,Υ, and B mesons in proton-proton collisions at total energy 7 TeV is simulated with the help of event generator Pythia 8. Studies of the reac- tions pp→ J/ψ(1S)X and pp→ Υ(1S)X, performed within the color singlet and color octet models, have demonstrated the strong dependence of the cross sec- tions to parameters, that define renormalization and factorization scales. Results of the calculations are compared with the experimental data, obtained by the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb collaborations at the LHC. Transverse–momentum distributions of the emitted mesons, computed in the central–rapidity region, agree reasonably with the data. Nevertheless, some discrepancies appear in the forward region. Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank A.Yu. Korchin for useful discussions. N.V. 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