30 July 2026 to 5 August 2026
Natal, Brazil
America/Sao_Paulo timezone

Measurement of the J/$\psi$ Fragmentation Function in pp Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13.6$ TeV with ALICE

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20m
Natal, Brazil

Natal, Brazil

Via Costeira Sen. Dinarte Medeiros Mariz, 6664-6704 - Ponta Negra, Natal - RN, 59090-002
Poster (early career: student or postdoctoral researcher) Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics

Speaker

Lucas Ferrandi (University of Münster & University of São Paulo)

Description

In this study, jets containing a J/$\psi$ among their constituents are identified, and the fragmentation function is defined as the longitudinal jet momentum fraction carried by the J/$\psi$ relative to the jet. Its measurement provides insight into quarkonium production, parton-shower dynamics, and their interplay.

The substantial upgrades of the ALICE detector in Run 3, in particular the implementation of continuous readout, provide a major increase in statistics for J/$\psi$ analyses at midrapidity. This significantly reduces uncertainties and enables fragmentation-function measurements with finer granularity and extended kinematic reach, offering valuable input for theoretical developments. Proton–proton collisions provide a clean environment and constitute a crucial baseline for heavy-ion and QGP studies, for which ALICE is optimized, where phenomena such as J/$\psi$ suppression and charm-quark recombination can be further investigated.

The observable will be presented separately for prompt and non-prompt J/$\psi$ mesons decaying into electron–positron pairs. Jets are reconstructed with the anti-k$_{\mathrm{T}}$ algorithm over a wide range of transverse momentum. The results will be compared with PYTHIA predictions and other state-of-the-art theoretical models.

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Author

Lucas Ferrandi (University of Münster & University of São Paulo)

Co-author

Andreas Ulveseth Mikalsen (University of Bergen (NO))

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