Dielectron production in proton-proton collisions at root s=7 TeV
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61389005%3A_____%2F18%3A00494425" target="_blank" >RIV/61389005:_____/18:00494425 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/68378271:_____/18:00494425 RIV/68407700:21340/18:00328330
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2018)064" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2018)064</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2018)064" target="_blank" >10.1007/JHEP09(2018)064</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Dielectron production in proton-proton collisions at root s=7 TeV
Original language description
The first measurement of e(+)e(-) pair production at mid-rapidity (vertical bar eta vertical bar(e) < 0.8) in pp collisions at root s = 7TeV with ALICE at the LHC is presented. The dielectron production is studied as a function of the invariant mass (m(ee )< 3.3 GeV/c(2)), the pair transverse momentum (p(T,ee) < 8 GeV/c), and the pair transverse impact parameter (DCA(ee)), i.e., the average distance of closest approach of the reconstructed electron and positron tracks to the collision vertex, normalised to its resolution. The results are compared with the expectations from a cocktail of known hadronic sources and are well described when PYTHIA is used to generate the heavy-flavour contributions. In the low-mass region (0.14 < m(ee) < 1.1 GeV/c(2)), prompt and non-prompt e(+)e(-) sources can be separated via the DCA(ee). In the intermediate-mass region (1.1 < m(ee) < 2.7 GeV/c(2)), a double-differential fit to the data in m(ee) and p(T,ee) and a fit of the DCA(ee) distribution allow the total cc and bb cross sections to be extracted. Two different event generators, PYTHIA and POWHEG, can reproduce the shape of the two-dimensional m(ee) and p(T,ee) spectra, as well as the shape , of the DCA(ee) distribution, reasonably well. However, differences in the c (c) over bar and b (b) over bar cross sections are observed when using the generators to extrapolate to full phase space. Finally, the ratio of inclusive to decay photons is studied via the measurement of virtual direct photons in the transverse-momentum range 1 < p(T) < 8 GeV/c. This is found to be unity within the statistical and systematic uncertainties and consistent with expectations from next-to-leading order perturbative quantum chromodynamic calculations.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10304 - Nuclear physics
Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of High Energy Physics
ISSN
1029-8479
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
2018
Issue of the periodical within the volume
9
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
47
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
000444678800007
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85053272489