Measurement of φ(1020) meson production in fixed-target pNe collisions at sNN = 68.5 GeV

The LHCb collaboration

doi:10.1007/JHEP03(2025)151

Measurement of φ(1020) meson production in fixed-target pNe collisions at sNN = 68.5 GeV

The LHCb collaboration

National Institute for Subatomic Physics
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Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Oxford
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Abstract

The first measurement of ϕ(1020) meson production in fixed-target pNe collisions at sNN = 68.5 GeV is presented. The ϕ(1020) mesons are reconstructed in their K⁺K⁻ decay in a data sample consisting of proton collisions on neon nuclei at rest, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 21.7 ± 1.4 nb⁻¹, collected by the LHCb detector at CERN. The ϕ(1020) production cross-section in the centre-of-mass rapidity range of −1.8 < y^*< 0 and transverse momentum range of 800 < p_T< 6500 MeV/c is found to be σ = 182.7 ± 2.7 (stat.) ± 14.1 (syst) μb/nucleon. A double-differential measurement of the cross-section is also provided in four regions of rapidity and six regions of transverse momentum of the ϕ(1020) meson and compared with the predictions from Pythia and EPOS4, which are found to underestimate the experimental values.

Original language	English
Article number	151
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2025
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2025)151
State	Published - Mar 2025
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Fixed Target Experiments
Forward Physics
Particle and Resonance Production
Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics

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Measurement of φ(1020) meson production in fixed-target pNe collisions at sNN = 68.5 GeV

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