par Khachatryan, Vardan;Charaf, Othman
;Clerbaux, Barbara
;De Lentdecker, Gilles
;Dero, Vincent
;Gay, Arnaud
;Hammad, Grégory
;Hreus, Tomas
;Marage, Pierre
;Thomas, Laurent
;Vanlaer, Pascal
;Vander Velde, Catherine
;Wickens, John H.
; [et al.]
Référence The Journal of high energy physics, 2011, 3, 136
Publication Publié, 2011












Référence The Journal of high energy physics, 2011, 3, 136
Publication Publié, 2011
Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : | A measurement of the angular correlations between beauty and anti-beauty hadrons (BB̄) produced in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV at the CERN LHC is presented, probing for the first time the region of small angular separation. The B hadrons are identified by the presence of displaced secondary vertices from their decays. The B hadron angular separation is reconstructed from the decay vertices and the primaryinteraction vertex. The differential BB̄ production cross section, measured from a data sample collected by CMS and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.1 pb -1, shows that a sizable fraction of the BB̄ pairs are produced with small opening angles. These studies provide a test of QCD and further insight into the dynamics of bb̄ production. |