Production of π0 and η mesons up to high transverse momentum in pp collisions at 2.76 TeV
ALICE Collaboration. (2017). Production of π0 and η mesons up to high transverse momentum in pp collisions at 2.76 TeV. European Physical Journal C, 77(5), Article 339. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4890-x
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The invariant differential cross sections for inclusive
π0 and η mesons at midrapidity were measured in
pp collisions at √s = 2.76 TeV for transverse momenta
0.4 < pT < 40 GeV/c and 0.6 < pT < 20 GeV/c, respectively,
using the ALICE detector. This large range in pT
was achieved by combining various analysis techniques and
different triggers involving the electromagnetic calorimeter
(EMCal). In particular, a new single-cluster, shower-shape
based method was developed for the identification of highpT
neutral pions, which exploits that the showers originating
from their decay photons overlap in the EMCal. Above
4 GeV/c, the measured cross sections are found to exhibit a
similar power-law behavior with an exponent of about 6.3.
Next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD calculations differ
from the measured cross sections by about 30% for the π0,
and between 30–50% for the η meson, while generator-level
simulations with PYTHIA 8.2 describe the data to better than
10–30%, except at pT < 1 GeV/c. The new data can therefore
be used to further improve the theoretical description of
π0 and η meson production.
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