We estimate differential rapidity cross sections for $J/Ψ$, $Ψ(2S)$, $Υ(1S)$, $Υ(2S)$, and $Υ(3S)$ production via Pb-Pb collisions at proton-proton energy $\equiv \sqrt{s_{pp}}$ =5.02 TeV. For the $Ψ(2S)$, $Υ(3S)$ states we use the mixed heavy quark hyrid theory, with these states being approximately 50\% standard and 50\% hybrid charmonium, bottomonium meson states. This is an extension of previous work on heavy quark state production via Cu-Cu and Au-Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{pp}}$=200 GeV.
We present predictions for the suppression of B-mesons using AdS/CFT techniques assuming a strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76$ TeV for central collisions and $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5.5$ TeV for various centrality classes. We provide estimates of the systematic theoretical uncertainties due to 1) the mapping of QCD parameters to those in $\mathcal N = 4$ SYM and 2) the exact form of the momentum dependence of the diffusion coefficient predicted by AdS/CFT. We show that coupling energy loss to flow increases $v_2$ substantially out to surprisingly large momenta, on the order of $…
This paper reflects the heavy Higgs scenario where the mass of charged Higgs is equal to or greater than 200 GeV. The CMS observed and expected values of upper limits on the product $σ_H^\pm BR(H^\pm \rightarrow tb^\mp)$, assuming $H^\pm \rightarrow tb^\mp=1$, both at 8 TeV (at integrated luminosity of 19.7 $fb^{-1}$ ) and 13 TeV (at integrated luminosity of 35.9 $fb^{-1}$ ) c.m energies are used. By comparing these expected and observed upper limits with computational values , we find out the expected and observed exclusion regions of charged Higgs parameter space ($ m_H^\pm - tanβ$ space ) i…
We estimate differential rapidity cross sections for $J/Ψ$, $Ψ(2S)$, $Υ(1S)$, $Υ(2S)$, and $Υ(3S)$ production; and $Ψ(2S)$ to $J/Ψ(1S)$, $Υ(3S)$ to $Υ(1S)$ suppression via Xe-Xe collisions at proton-proton energy $\equiv \sqrt{s_{pp}}$ =5.44 TeV. For the $Ψ(2S)$, $Υ(3S)$ states we use the mixed heavy quark hybrid theory, with these states being approximately 50\% standard and 50\% hybrid charmonium, bottomonium meson states.
Reference heavy flavour cross sections in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 2.76 TeV, using a pQCD-driven sqrt(s)-scaling of ALICE measurements at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
The ALICE data on light flavor hadron production obtained in $p-Pb$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} $ = 5.02 TeV are studied in the thermal model using the canonical approach with exact strangeness conservation. The chemical freeze-out temperature is independent of centrality except for the lowest multiplicity bin, with values close to 160 MeV but consistent with those obtained in $Pb-Pb$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 2.76 TeV. The value of the strangeness non-equilibrium factor $γ_s$ is slowly increasing with multiplicity from 0.9 to 0.96, i.e. it is always very close to full chemical equilibr…
Although transverse-mass scaling of femtoscopic radii is found to hold to a good approximation in heavy-ion collision experiments, it is seen to fail for high-energy proton-proton collisions. It is shown that if invariant radius parameters are plotted versus the transverse velocity instead, scaling with the transverse velocity is seen in $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV proton-proton experiments. A simple semi-classical model is shown to qualitatively reproduce this transverse velocity scaling.
The intermittency-type fluctuations as outlined by Bialas and Peschanski in the 1980s is analysed in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 0.9, 7 and 8 TeV from the CMS collaboration at CERN. Our preliminary analysis shows that the intermittency exponents in the bin-averaged scaled factorial moments decrease in magnitude with increasing collision energy at the TeV scale, which suggests that the cascading nature of multiparticle production described by the $α$-model is weakening. We outline possible areas planned for future studies.
Multifractal analysis was performed on $pp$ collision data at $\sqrt{s}=$ 0.9, 7 and 8 TeV from the CMS experiment at CERN. The data was obtained and processed from the CERN Open Data Portal. Vertical analysis was used to compute the generalised dimensions $D_q$ and the multifractal spectra $f(α)$ of the data, which reveals the level of complexity of its pseudorapidity distribution. It was found that the $f(α)$ curves widen with increasing collision energy, signalling an increase in branching complexity.
Predictions have been compiled for the $p+$Pb LHC runs, focusing on production of hard probes in cold nuclear matter. These predictions were first made for the $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}} = 5.02$ TeV $p+$Pb run and were later compared to the available data. A similar set of predictions were published for the 8.16~TeV $p+$Pb run. A selection of the predictions are reviewed here.
