Measurement of the J/ Ψ meson and b-hadron production cross sections in pp̅ collisions at √S =1960 GeV

Authors

• Darin Acosta, University of Florida-GainesvilleFollow
• Kenneth A. Bloom, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
• Collider Detector at Fermilab Collaboration

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2-3-2005

Comments

Published by American Physical Society. Phys. Rev. D 71, 032001 (2005). http://prd.aps.org/. Copyright © 2005 American Physical Society. Permission to use.

Abstract

We present a new measurement of the inclusive and differential production cross sections of J/ψ mesons and b hadrons in proton-antiproton collisions at √s=1960 GeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 39.7 pb^-1l collected by the CDF run II detector. We find the integrated cross section for inclusive J/ψ production for all transverse momenta from 0 to 20 GeV/c in the rapidity range |y|-0.33^+0.36 (syst) µb. We separate the fraction of J/ψ events from the decay of the long-lived b hadrons using the lifetime distribution in all events with p_T(J/ψ)>1.25 GeV/c. We find the total cross section for b hadrons, including both hadrons and antihadrons, decaying to J/ψ with transverse momenta greater than 1.25 GeV/c in the rapidity range |y (J/ψ)|-0.33^+0.36 (syst) µb. Using a Monte Carlo simulation of the decay kinematics of b hadrons to all final states containing a J/ψ, we extract the first measurement of the total single b-hadron cross section down to zero transverse momentum at √s =1960 GeV. We find the total single b-hadron cross section integrated over all transverse momenta for b hadrons in the rapidity range |y|-2.3^+2.5(syst) µb.