@article{e9e23e8fcc814185bb48dc9798a5415b,
title = "Measurement of the relative Bc± /B± production cross section with the ATLAS detector at √s = 8 TeV",
abstract = "The total cross section and differential cross sections for the production of Bc± mesons, times their branching fraction to J/ψπ±, are measured relative to those for the production of B± mesons, times their branching fraction to J/ψK±. The data used for this study correspond to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb-1 of pp collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012 at a center-of-mass energy of √s = 8 TeV. The measurement is performed differentially in bins of transverse momentum pT for 13 GeV < pT(Bc±) < 22 GeV and pT(Bc±) > 22 GeV and in bins of rapidity y for |y| < 0.75 and 0.75 < |y| < 2.3. The relative cross section times branching fraction for the full range pT > 13 GeV and |y| < 2.3 is (0.34 ± 0.04stat -0.02sys+0.06 ± 0.01lifetime)\%. The differential measurements suggest that the production cross section of the Bc± decreases faster with pT than the production cross section of the B±, while no significant dependence on rapidity is observed.",
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year = "2021",
month = jul,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.104.012010",
language = "English",
volume = "104",
pages = "012010--1--012010--26",
journal = "Physical Review D",
issn = "2470-0010",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "1",
}