Observation of J/$\psi$ pair production in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=7 TeV

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Abstract

The production of $J/\psi$ pairs in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV has been observed using an integrated luminosity of $37.5 pb^{-1}$ collected with the LHCb detector. The production cross-section for pairs with both \jpsi in the rapidity range $2<y^{J/\psi}<4.5$ and transverse momentum $p_{T}^{J/\psi}<10 GeV/c$ is $$\sigma^{J/\psi J/\psi} = 5.1\pm1.0\pm1.1 nb,$$ where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic.

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 The fitted yields of ${ J \mskip -3mu/\mskip -2mu\psi \mskip 2mu} \rightarrow \left(\mu ^+\mu ^- \right)_1$ in bins of $(\mu ^+\mu ^- )_2$ invariant mass: (a) the raw signal yield observed in the data; (b) the efficiency corrected yield (Sect. 6). The result of a fit with a double-sided Crystal Ball function for the signal and an exponential background is superimposed. Fig_1.pdf [109 KiB] HiDef png [139 KiB] Thumbnail [50 KiB] *.C file tex code Differential production cross-section for ${ J \mskip -3mu/\mskip -2mu\psi \mskip 2mu}$ pairs as a function of the invariant mass of the ${ J \mskip -3mu/\mskip -2mu\psi \mskip 2mu}{ J \mskip -3mu/\mskip -2mu\psi \mskip 2mu}$ system. The points correspond to the data. Only statistical uncertainties are included in the error bars. The shaded area corresponds to prediction by the model described in Ref. [20]. Fig_2.pdf [78 KiB] HiDef png [110 KiB] Thumbnail [42 KiB] *.C file tex code Animated gif made out of all figures. PAPER-2011-013.gif Thumbnail

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 Relative systematic uncertainties on the cross-section measurement. The total uncertainty is calculated as the quadratic sum of the individual components. Table_1.pdf [48 KiB] HiDef png [80 KiB] Thumbnail [12 KiB] tex code

Created on 23 February 2019.Citation count from INSPIRE on 23 February 2019.