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Study of flavor dependence of the baryon-to-meson ratio in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

  • (ALICE Collaboration)
  • Université Clermont Auvergne
  • Czech Academy of Sciences
  • CERN
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre India
  • Aligarh Muslim University
  • Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information
  • Pavol Jozef Šafárik University
  • GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research
  • Central China Normal University
  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  • University of Bologna
  • University of Houston
  • University of Bergen
  • Goethe University Frankfurt
  • Technical University of Munich
  • Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
  • University of Derby
  • University of Münster
  • Heidelberg University 
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Nantes Université
  • Université Grenoble Alpes
  • University of Cagliari
  • Universidade de São Paulo
  • University of Oslo
  • Yale University
  • The University of Tokyo
  • Sungkyunkwan University
  • Gangneung-Wonju National University
  • University of Science and Technology of China

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Abstract

The production cross sections of D0 and Λc+ hadrons originating from beauty-hadron decays (i.e., nonprompt) were measured for the first time at midrapidity (|y|<0.5) by the ALICE Collaboration in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy s=13 TeV. They are described within uncertainties by perturbative QCD calculations employing the fragmentation fractions of beauty quarks to baryons measured at forward rapidity by the LHCb Collaboration. The bb¯ production cross section per unit of rapidity at midrapidity, estimated from these measurements, is dσbb¯/dy||y|<0.5=83.1±3.5(stat)±5.4(syst)-3.2+12.3(extrap) μb. The baryon-to-meson ratios are computed to investigate the hadronization mechanism of beauty quarks. The nonprompt Λc+/D0 production ratio has a similar trend to the one measured for the promptly produced charmed particles and to the p/π+ and Λ/KS0 ratios, suggesting a similar baryon-formation mechanism among light, strange, charm, and beauty hadrons. The pT -integrated nonprompt Λc+/D0 ratio is found to be significantly higher than the one measured in e+e- collisions.

Original languageEnglish
Article number112003
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume108
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023.12.1

Quacquarelli Symonds(QS) Subject Topics

  • Physics & Astronomy

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