CMS-BPH-14-008 ; CERN-EP-2016-237 | ||
Observation of Υ(1S) pair production in proton-proton collisions at √s= 8 TeV | ||
CMS Collaboration | ||
23 October 2016 | ||
JHEP 05 (2017) 013 | ||
Abstract: Pair production of Υ(1S) mesons is observed at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at √s= 8 TeV by the CMS experiment in a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.7 fb−1. Both Υ(1S) candidates are fully reconstructed via their decays to μ+μ−. The fiducial acceptance region is defined by an absolute Υ(1S) rapidity smaller than 2.0. The fiducial cross section for the production of Υ(1S) pairs, assuming that both mesons decay isotropically, is measured to be 68.8 ± 12.7 (stat) ± 7.4 (syst) ± 2.8 (B) pb, where the third uncertainty comes from the uncertainty in the branching fraction of Υ(1S) decays to μ+μ−. Assuming instead that the Υ(1S) mesons are produced with different polarizations leads to variations in the measured cross section in the range from −38% to +36%. | ||
Links: e-print arXiv:1610.07095 [hep-ex] (PDF) ; CDS record ; inSPIRE record ; CADI line (restricted) ; |
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Figure 1:
Two-dimensional distribution of M(1)μμ vs. M(2)μμ. |
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Figure 2:
Invariant mass distributions of the higher-mass muon pair (left) and the lower-mass muon pair (right). The data are shown by the points. The different curves show the contributions of the various event categories from the fit. |
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Figure 2-a:
Invariant mass distribution of the higher-mass muon pair. The data are shown by the points. The different curves show the contributions of the various event categories from the fit. |
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Figure 2-b:
Invariant mass distribution of the lower-mass muon pair. The data are shown by the points. The different curves show the contributions of the various event categories from the fit. |
Tables | |
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Table 1:
Summary of the relative systematic uncertainties in the Υ(1S) pair production cross section. |
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Table 2:
Relative change in percent of the acceptance-corrected Υ(1S)Υ(1S) yield for different polarization assumptions with respect to that for λθ1=λθ2= 0. |
Summary |
The first observation of Υ(1S) pair production has been performed with the CMS detector in proton-proton collisions at √s= 8 TeV from a sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.7 fb−1. A signal yield of 38±7 Υ(1S)Υ(1S) events is measured with a significance exceeding five standard deviations. Using the measured muon kinematic properties in the data, an event-based acceptance and efficiency-correction method is applied, minimizing the model dependence of the cross section measurement. The fiducial cross section of Υ(1S) pair production measured within the single-Υ acceptance |yΥ|<2.0 is found to be σfid= 68.8 ± 12.7 (stat) ± 7.4 (syst) ± 2.8 (B) pb, where the Υ(1S) decay into muons is assumed to be isotropic. Assuming instead that the Υ(1S) mesons are produced with different polarizations leads to variations in the measured cross section in the range from −38% to +36%. An effective cross section is also estimated using our result that is in agreement with the values from heavy-quarkonium measurements, but is smaller than that from multijet studies. |
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