Abstract

The ALICE experiment at the LHC has studied inclusive J/psi production at central and forward rapidities in pp collisions at root s = 7 TeV. In this Letter, we report on the first results obtained detecting the J/psi through the dilepton decay into e(+)e(-) and mu(+)mu(-) pairs in the rapidity ranges vertical bar y vertical bar < 0.9 and 2.5 < y < 4, respectively, and with acceptance down to zero PT. In the dielectron channel the analysis was carried Out on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity L(int) = 5.6 nb(-1) and the number of signal events is N(J/psi) = 352 +/- 32 (stat.) +/- 28 (syst.): the corresponding figures in the dimuon channel are L(int) = 15.6 nb(-1) and N(J/psi) = 1924 +/- 77 (stat.) +/- 144 (syst.). The measured production cross sections are sigma(J/psi) (vertical bar y vertical bar < 0.9) = 10.7 +/- 1.0 (stat.) +/- 1.6 (syst.)(-2.3)(+1.6) (syst.pol.) mu b and sigma(J/psi) (2.5 < y < 4) = 6.31 +/- 0.25 (stat.) +/- 0.76 (syst.)(-1.96)(+0.95) (syst.pol.) mu b. The differential cross sections, in transverse momentum and rapidity, of the J/psi were also measured.

Autore Pugliese

• Bruno Giuseppe Eugenio

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• BRUNO G.E. , AAMODT K , ET AL

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PHYSICS LETTERS. SECTION B

Anno di pubblicazione

2011

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0370-2693

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