22–29 Jul 2015
Europe/Vienna timezone

Heavy flavour production in the forward acceptance at the LHC

23 Jul 2015, 11:45
15m
HS32

HS32

talk QCD and Hadronic Physics QCD and Hadronic Physics

Speaker

Ivan Polyakov (ITEP Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (RU))

Description

Its forward acceptance puts the LHCb in a unique position at the LHC to measure QCD phenomena at large rapidities and low transverse momenta, where theoretical models often fail to describe the data accurately. We present new studies of the production of the ϒ meson of the Λb baryon.

Primary author

Ivan Polyakov (ITEP Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (RU))

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