Measurement of the polarizations of prompt and non-prompt Image 1 and mesons produced in pp collisions at
Collaboration
43 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Lett.B 858 (2024) 139044
- Published: Sep 30, 2024
e-Print:
- 2406.14409 [hep-ex]
DOI:
- 10.1016/j.physletb.2024.139044 (publication)
Report number:
- CMS-BPH-22-009,
- CERN-EP-2024-155
Experiments:
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Abstract: (Elsevier B.V.)
The polarizations of prompt and non-prompt Image 2 and mesons are measured in proton-proton collisions at TeV, using data samples collected by the CMS experiment in 2017 and 2018, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 103.3. Based on the analysis of the dimuon decay angular distributions in the helicity frame, the polar anisotropy, , is measured as a function of the transverse momentum, , of the charmonium states, in the 25–120 and 20–100 GeV ranges for the Image 2 and , respectively. The non-prompt polarizations agree with predictions based on the hypothesis that, for , the non-prompt Image 2 and are predominantly produced in two-body B meson decays. The prompt results clearly exclude strong transverse polarizations, even for exceeding 30 times the Image 2 mass, where tends to an asymptotic value around 0.3. Taken together with previous measurements, by CMS and LHCb at TeV, the prompt polarizations show a significant variation with , at low .Note:
- Replaced with the published version. Added the journal reference and the DOI. All the figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/BPH-22-009 (CMS Public Pages)
- CMS
- Quarkonium production
- Quarkonium polarization
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