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Article

Date of this Version

9-19-2023

Citation

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 131, 121901 (2023). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.121901

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Abstract

The dependence of the ratio between the B0s and B+ hadron production fractions, fs/fu, on the transverse momentum (pT) and rapidity of the B mesons is studied using the decay channels B0sJ/ψϕ and B+J/ψK+. The analysis uses a data sample of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, collected by the CMS experiment in 2018 and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 61.6 fb−1. The fs/fu ratio is observed to depend on the B pT and to be consistent with becoming asymptotically constant at large pT. No rapidity dependence is observed. The ratio of the B0 to B+ meson production fractions, fd/fu, is also measured, for the first time in proton-proton collisions, using the B0 J/ψK*0 decay channel. The result is found to be within 1 standard deviation of unity and independent of pT and rapidity, as expected from isospin invariance.

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