Measurement of meson production in pp collisions at = 13 TeV
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Abstract: (arXiv)
The -differential cross section of meson production in pp collisions at = 13 TeV at midrapidity () was measured with the ALICE detector at the LHC, covering an unprecedented transverse-momentum range of GeV/. The meson is reconstructed via the decay channel. The results are compared with various theoretical calculations: PYTHIA8.2 with the Monash 2013 tune overestimates the data by up to 50%, whereas good agreement is observed with Next-to-Leading Order (NLO) calculations incorporating fragmentation using a broken SU(3) model. The ratio is presented and compared with theoretical calculations and the available measurements at lower collision energies. The presented data triples the ranges of previously available measurements. A constant ratio of is found above a transverse momentum of 4 GeV/, which is in agreement with previous findings at lower collision energies within the systematic and statistical uncertainties.Note:
- 26 pages, 5 captioned figures, 1 table, authors from page 20, submitted to JHEP, figures at http://alice-publications.web.cern.ch/node/11737
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