Charmonium production in pNe collisions at √sNN = 68.5 GeV

• The measurement of charmonium states produced in proton-neon ( pNe) collisions by the LHCb experiment in its fixed-target configuration is presented. The production of J/ψ and ψ(2S) mesons is studied with a beam of 2.5 TeV protons colliding on gaseous neon targets at rest, corresponding to a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy √sNN = 68.5 GeV. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 21.7 ± 1.4 nb−1 . The J/ψ and ψ(2S) hadrons are reconstructed in μ+μ− final states. The J/ψ production cross-section per target nucleon in the centre-of-mass rapidity range y ∈ [−2.29, 0] is found to be 506 ± 8 ± 46 nb/nucleon. The ratio of J/ψ and D0 cross-sections is evaluated to (1.06 ± 0.02 ± 0.09)%. The ψ(2S) to J/ψ relative production rate is found to be (1.67 ± 0.27 ± 0.10)% in good agreement with other measurements involving beam and target nuclei of similar sizes.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Subatomär fysik (hsv//swe)

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