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Neutral pion and $\eta$ meson production in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=0.9$ TeV and $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV

ALICE

Collaboration

May, 2012

11 pages

Published in:

Phys.Lett.B 717 (2012) 162-172

Published: Jul 16, 2013

e-Print:

1205.5724 [hep-ex]

DOI:

10.1016/j.physletb.2012.09.015

Report number:

CERN-PH-EP-2012-001

Experiments:

CERN-LHC-ALICE

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Abstract: (Elsevier)

The first measurements of the invariant differential cross sections of inclusive π0 and η meson production at mid-rapidity in proton–proton collisions at s=0.9 TeV and s=7 TeV are reported. The π0 measurement covers the ranges 0.4

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17 pages, 5 captioned figures, 2 tables, authors from page 12, published version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/3103

Hadron production
Inclusive spectra
Comparison with QCD
p p: inclusive reaction
pi0: hadroproduction
eta: hadroproduction
differential cross section: measured
transverse momentum: dependence
quantum chromodynamics: perturbation theory
yield: (eta pi0)

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