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Measurement of B meson production fractions in proton-proton collisions at s= 13 TeV using hadronic open-charm and charmonium decays
Abstract: Production fractions of B±, B0, and B0s mesons are measured in proton-proton collisions at s= 13 TeV using a special data set recorded in 2018 with high-rate triggers designed to collect an unbiased sample of 1010 b hadrons with the CMS experiment at the LHC. These data made hadronic open-charm decays of B mesons (B(s)πD(s)), where the D meson decays into fully hadronic final states, accessible for this measurement. Production fraction ratios as functions of the B meson transverse momentum (pT) and rapidity (y) are measured using the open-charm decays in the kinematic range of 8 <pT< 60 GeV and |y|< 2.25. In addition, the same data are used to measure the relative production fraction ratios in the charmonium decay channels (B(s) X J/ψ, with X being K, K(892)0, ϕ(1020) mesons), where the J/ψ meson decays into a pair of muons. These measurements are normalized in situ to the measured yields in the open-charm channels, thus allowing, for the first time, the extraction of the production fractions in charmonium channels directly with an absolute normalization. These results also improve several world-average values of the ratios of branching fractions of B meson decays to charmonium and open-charm states. Finally, we test isospin invariance in B meson production in proton-proton collisions.
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Figures

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Figure 1:
Representative Feynman diagrams for the open-charm (upper) and charmonium (lower) decays of the B+, B0, and B0s mesons.

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Figure 1-a:
Representative Feynman diagrams for the open-charm (upper) and charmonium (lower) decays of the B+, B0, and B0s mesons.

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Figure 1-b:
Representative Feynman diagrams for the open-charm (upper) and charmonium (lower) decays of the B+, B0, and B0s mesons.

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Figure 2:
Examples of fits to the B candidate mass distribution (corrected by the D meson mass) used to extract the signal in the open-charm channels. The upper, middle, and lower rows correspond to the B+, B0, and B0s decays, respectively. The values of χ2 per degree of freedom (χ2/dof) are presented in each plot. The lower panels illustrate the pull distribution, defined as the deviation of data from the fit function, normalized by the statistical uncertainty in each bin.

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Figure 2-a:
Examples of fits to the B candidate mass distribution (corrected by the D meson mass) used to extract the signal in the open-charm channels. The upper, middle, and lower rows correspond to the B+, B0, and B0s decays, respectively. The values of χ2 per degree of freedom (χ2/dof) are presented in each plot. The lower panels illustrate the pull distribution, defined as the deviation of data from the fit function, normalized by the statistical uncertainty in each bin.

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Figure 2-b:
Examples of fits to the B candidate mass distribution (corrected by the D meson mass) used to extract the signal in the open-charm channels. The upper, middle, and lower rows correspond to the B+, B0, and B0s decays, respectively. The values of χ2 per degree of freedom (χ2/dof) are presented in each plot. The lower panels illustrate the pull distribution, defined as the deviation of data from the fit function, normalized by the statistical uncertainty in each bin.

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Figure 2-c:
Examples of fits to the B candidate mass distribution (corrected by the D meson mass) used to extract the signal in the open-charm channels. The upper, middle, and lower rows correspond to the B+, B0, and B0s decays, respectively. The values of χ2 per degree of freedom (χ2/dof) are presented in each plot. The lower panels illustrate the pull distribution, defined as the deviation of data from the fit function, normalized by the statistical uncertainty in each bin.

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Figure 3:
Examples of fits to the B candidate mass distribution used to extract the signal in the charmonium channels in the tag-side analysis. The upper, middle, and lower rows correspond to the B+, B0, and B0s decays, respectively. Notations are as in Fig. 2

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Figure 3-a:
Examples of fits to the B candidate mass distribution used to extract the signal in the charmonium channels in the tag-side analysis. The upper, middle, and lower rows correspond to the B+, B0, and B0s decays, respectively. Notations are as in Fig. 2

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Figure 3-b:
Examples of fits to the B candidate mass distribution used to extract the signal in the charmonium channels in the tag-side analysis. The upper, middle, and lower rows correspond to the B+, B0, and B0s decays, respectively. Notations are as in Fig. 2

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Figure 3-c:
Examples of fits to the B candidate mass distribution used to extract the signal in the charmonium channels in the tag-side analysis. The upper, middle, and lower rows correspond to the B+, B0, and B0s decays, respectively. Notations are as in Fig. 2

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Figure 4:
Examples of fits to the B candidate mass distribution used to extract the signal in the charmonium channels in the probe-side analysis. The upper, middle, and lower rows correspond to the B+, B0, and B0s decays, respectively. Notations are as in Fig. 2

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Figure 4-a:
Examples of fits to the B candidate mass distribution used to extract the signal in the charmonium channels in the probe-side analysis. The upper, middle, and lower rows correspond to the B+, B0, and B0s decays, respectively. Notations are as in Fig. 2

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Figure 4-b:
Examples of fits to the B candidate mass distribution used to extract the signal in the charmonium channels in the probe-side analysis. The upper, middle, and lower rows correspond to the B+, B0, and B0s decays, respectively. Notations are as in Fig. 2

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Figure 4-c:
Examples of fits to the B candidate mass distribution used to extract the signal in the charmonium channels in the probe-side analysis. The upper, middle, and lower rows correspond to the B+, B0, and B0s decays, respectively. Notations are as in Fig. 2

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Figure 5:
The production fraction ratios fs/fu and fs/fd as functions of pT and |y|, measured using open-charm decays. Vertical error bars for each point represent the combined statistical and bin-to-bin-uncorrelated systematic uncertainty. The global uncertainties are not included in these plots for the test of the pT and |y| dependence of PFRs. The red dashed line is the average over the full reconstructed kinematic range, and the blue line is the linear fit result. Values enclosed in angle brackets represent pT-averaged quantities, where the absolute normalization of PFR values may be affected by the pT dependence.

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Figure 5-a:
The production fraction ratios fs/fu and fs/fd as functions of pT and |y|, measured using open-charm decays. Vertical error bars for each point represent the combined statistical and bin-to-bin-uncorrelated systematic uncertainty. The global uncertainties are not included in these plots for the test of the pT and |y| dependence of PFRs. The red dashed line is the average over the full reconstructed kinematic range, and the blue line is the linear fit result. Values enclosed in angle brackets represent pT-averaged quantities, where the absolute normalization of PFR values may be affected by the pT dependence.

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Figure 5-b:
The production fraction ratios fs/fu and fs/fd as functions of pT and |y|, measured using open-charm decays. Vertical error bars for each point represent the combined statistical and bin-to-bin-uncorrelated systematic uncertainty. The global uncertainties are not included in these plots for the test of the pT and |y| dependence of PFRs. The red dashed line is the average over the full reconstructed kinematic range, and the blue line is the linear fit result. Values enclosed in angle brackets represent pT-averaged quantities, where the absolute normalization of PFR values may be affected by the pT dependence.

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Figure 5-c:
The production fraction ratios fs/fu and fs/fd as functions of pT and |y|, measured using open-charm decays. Vertical error bars for each point represent the combined statistical and bin-to-bin-uncorrelated systematic uncertainty. The global uncertainties are not included in these plots for the test of the pT and |y| dependence of PFRs. The red dashed line is the average over the full reconstructed kinematic range, and the blue line is the linear fit result. Values enclosed in angle brackets represent pT-averaged quantities, where the absolute normalization of PFR values may be affected by the pT dependence.

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Figure 5-d:
The production fraction ratios fs/fu and fs/fd as functions of pT and |y|, measured using open-charm decays. Vertical error bars for each point represent the combined statistical and bin-to-bin-uncorrelated systematic uncertainty. The global uncertainties are not included in these plots for the test of the pT and |y| dependence of PFRs. The red dashed line is the average over the full reconstructed kinematic range, and the blue line is the linear fit result. Values enclosed in angle brackets represent pT-averaged quantities, where the absolute normalization of PFR values may be affected by the pT dependence.

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Figure 6:
The relative production fraction ratios Rs, Rds as functions of pT and |y|, measured using charmonium decays. Results for tag-side (upper row) and probe-side (lower row) events are shown. For comparison, the recent CMS measurement [7] is also presented. The error bars include both statistical and bin-to-bin uncorrelated systematic uncertainties, as well as the global uncertainty of 2.1% associated with the tracking efficiency, added quadratically in each bin. Values enclosed in angle brackets represent pT-averaged quantities, where the absolute normalization of PFR values may be affected by the pT dependence.

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Figure 6-a:
The relative production fraction ratios Rs, Rds as functions of pT and |y|, measured using charmonium decays. Results for tag-side (upper row) and probe-side (lower row) events are shown. For comparison, the recent CMS measurement [7] is also presented. The error bars include both statistical and bin-to-bin uncorrelated systematic uncertainties, as well as the global uncertainty of 2.1% associated with the tracking efficiency, added quadratically in each bin. Values enclosed in angle brackets represent pT-averaged quantities, where the absolute normalization of PFR values may be affected by the pT dependence.

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Figure 6-b:
The relative production fraction ratios Rs, Rds as functions of pT and |y|, measured using charmonium decays. Results for tag-side (upper row) and probe-side (lower row) events are shown. For comparison, the recent CMS measurement [7] is also presented. The error bars include both statistical and bin-to-bin uncorrelated systematic uncertainties, as well as the global uncertainty of 2.1% associated with the tracking efficiency, added quadratically in each bin. Values enclosed in angle brackets represent pT-averaged quantities, where the absolute normalization of PFR values may be affected by the pT dependence.

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Figure 6-c:
The relative production fraction ratios Rs, Rds as functions of pT and |y|, measured using charmonium decays. Results for tag-side (upper row) and probe-side (lower row) events are shown. For comparison, the recent CMS measurement [7] is also presented. The error bars include both statistical and bin-to-bin uncorrelated systematic uncertainties, as well as the global uncertainty of 2.1% associated with the tracking efficiency, added quadratically in each bin. Values enclosed in angle brackets represent pT-averaged quantities, where the absolute normalization of PFR values may be affected by the pT dependence.

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Figure 6-d:
The relative production fraction ratios Rs, Rds as functions of pT and |y|, measured using charmonium decays. Results for tag-side (upper row) and probe-side (lower row) events are shown. For comparison, the recent CMS measurement [7] is also presented. The error bars include both statistical and bin-to-bin uncorrelated systematic uncertainties, as well as the global uncertainty of 2.1% associated with the tracking efficiency, added quadratically in each bin. Values enclosed in angle brackets represent pT-averaged quantities, where the absolute normalization of PFR values may be affected by the pT dependence.

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Figure 7:
The production fraction ratios fd/fu as functions of pT and |y| measured using both the open-charm and chamonium decays, without assuming isospin invariance. The error bars include both statistical and bin-to-bin uncorrelated systematic uncertainties, as well as the global uncertainty associated with r+0= 1.057 ± 0.023 added quadratically in each bin.

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Figure 7-a:
The production fraction ratios fd/fu as functions of pT and |y| measured using both the open-charm and chamonium decays, without assuming isospin invariance. The error bars include both statistical and bin-to-bin uncorrelated systematic uncertainties, as well as the global uncertainty associated with r+0= 1.057 ± 0.023 added quadratically in each bin.

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Figure 7-b:
The production fraction ratios fd/fu as functions of pT and |y| measured using both the open-charm and chamonium decays, without assuming isospin invariance. The error bars include both statistical and bin-to-bin uncorrelated systematic uncertainties, as well as the global uncertainty associated with r+0= 1.057 ± 0.023 added quadratically in each bin.

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Figure 8:
Comparison of the fd/fu measurements across different channels. The "Combined" value, shown above the black dashed line, is obtained from a combined χ2 fit of the measurements from two statistically independent channels: the open-charm and tag-side charmonium. Additionally, the plot presents the previous CMS result [7] for comparison. The blue dashed line represents the unity value where the production fraction fd and fu are equal.

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Figure 9:
The Rs and Rds values measured in the charmonium analysis are converted to fs/fu and fs/fd using the absolute normalization csu and csd. For comparison, PFR measurements from the open-charm analysis, LEP [10] and CMS [7] (converted to fs/fu using the csu) are overlaid, along with the latest trend of fs/fd observed by LHCb [5]. The error bars include both statistical and bin-to-bin uncorrelated systematic uncertainties, as well as the global uncertainty of 2.1% associated with the tracking efficiency, added quadratically in each bin.

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Figure 9-a:
The Rs and Rds values measured in the charmonium analysis are converted to fs/fu and fs/fd using the absolute normalization csu and csd. For comparison, PFR measurements from the open-charm analysis, LEP [10] and CMS [7] (converted to fs/fu using the csu) are overlaid, along with the latest trend of fs/fd observed by LHCb [5]. The error bars include both statistical and bin-to-bin uncorrelated systematic uncertainties, as well as the global uncertainty of 2.1% associated with the tracking efficiency, added quadratically in each bin.

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Figure 9-b:
The Rs and Rds values measured in the charmonium analysis are converted to fs/fu and fs/fd using the absolute normalization csu and csd. For comparison, PFR measurements from the open-charm analysis, LEP [10] and CMS [7] (converted to fs/fu using the csu) are overlaid, along with the latest trend of fs/fd observed by LHCb [5]. The error bars include both statistical and bin-to-bin uncorrelated systematic uncertainties, as well as the global uncertainty of 2.1% associated with the tracking efficiency, added quadratically in each bin.

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Figure 10:
Comparison of fs/fu measurements in high pT (pT> 18 GeV) across different channels. The blue dashed line and shaded band represent the LEP measurement and its uncertainty [10], respectively, included for comparison. The Rs values obtained in the chamonium analysis with tag-side events and the previous CMS measurement [7] are converted to fs/fu using the absolute normalization factor csu.
Tables

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Table 1:
Summary of the single-muon B parking triggers.

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Table 2:
Inputs for the open-charm PFR measurements.

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Table 3:
Summary of the preselection requirements for B candidates in the open-charm analysis. The-sign means that the selection does not apply to this channel.

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Table 4:
Summary of the selection requirements for B candidates in the charmonium analysis. The-sign means that the selection is not applied in this channel.

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Table 5:
Fit functions used in the open-charm and charmonium analyses. The-sign means that the background does not apply to this channel.

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Table 6:
Summary of MC corrections for the open-charm and charmonium channels.

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Table 7:
The sources and values of the systematic uncertainties affecting the measured PFRs in the open-charm analysis. The bin-to-bin-uncorrelated uncertainties are presented as ranges, which indicate the range of uncertainties across different pT and |y| bins. The-sign means that the uncertainty does not apply. The reported values are the relative systematic uncertainties in percent.

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Table 8:
Sources of systematic uncertainty affecting the measured Rs, Rds, and fd/fu values for each tag-side and probe-side events in the charmonium analysis. The uncertainties are presented as ranges, which indicate the range of the uncertainties across different pT and |y| bins. The-sign means that the uncertainty does not apply. The reported values are the relative systematic uncertainty in percent.

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Table 9:
Summary of the channels employed in each measurement of fs/fu, fs/fd, Rs, Rds, fd/fu, and in determining the absolute normalizations for Rs and Rds. The-sign means that the channel is not included.
Summary
In summary, the relative production fractions of B+, B0, and B0s mesons have been measured in proton-proton collisions at s= 13 TeV using a special data set recorded in 2018 with the CMS experiment at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 41.6 fb1. This data set, collected with high-rate triggers, provided an unprecedented unbiased sample of 1010b hadrons. These data enabled the measurement of the hadronic open-charm decays of B mesons (B(s)πD(s)) for the first time in CMS. Production fraction ratios as functions of B meson transverse momentum and absolute rapidity were measured using the open-charm decays in the range of 8 <pT< 60 GeV and |y|< 2.25. The same data set was also used to measure these ratios in the charmonium decay channels, with the J/ψ meson decaying into a pair of muons, to determine the dependence of these ratios on B meson kinematics. No statistically significant dependence on B meson kinematics was observed within the uncertainties, although these results are also consistent with the low-pT trend observed in previous measurements by LHCb [5] and CMS [7]. Additionally, the fd/fu ratio was measured in both the charmonium and open-charm channels, providing a test of isospin invariance in B meson production. No significant deviation from isospin invariance was observed within the precision of the data. The absolute normalization from the charmonium to the open-charm decays has been measured independent of the possible low-pT trend of the PFRs. This measurement allows, for the first time, the extraction of production fraction ratios in the charmonium channels with an absolute normalization, rather than just as a shape measurement. The measurements are also used to extract B+B0s, and B0 branching fraction ratios of open-charm decays to charmonium decays, improving upon the world-average value for the B0s decays.
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