Heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in the LHC era: from proton–proton to heavy-ion collisions

A Andronic, F Arleo, R Arnaldi, A Beraudo… - The European Physical …, 2016 - Springer
This report reviews the study of open heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in high-
energy hadronic collisions, as tools to investigate fundamental aspects of Quantum …

Charm-quark fragmentation fractions and production cross section at midrapidity in pp collisions at the LHC

S Acharya, D Adamová, A Adler, J Adolfsson… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Recent p T-integrated cross-section measurements of the ground-state charm mesons and
baryons, D 0, D+, D s+, Λ c+, and Ξ c 0, are used to evaluate the charm fragmentation …

Theoretical predictions for charm and bottom production at the LHC

M Cacciari, S Frixione, N Houdeau… - Journal of High Energy …, 2012 - Springer
A bstract We present predictions for a variety of single-inclusive observables that stem from
the production of charm and bottom quark pairs at the 7 TeV LHC. They are obtained within …

Evidence for X(3872) in Pb-Pb Collisions and Studies of its Prompt Production at

AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, W Adam, F Ambrogi… - Physical review …, 2022 - APS
The first evidence for X (3872) production in relativistic heavy ion collisions is reported. The
X (3872) production is studied in lead-lead (Pb-Pb) collisions at a center-of-mass energy of s …

Suppression and azimuthal anisotropy of prompt and nonprompt production in PbPb collisions at

V Khachatryan, AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan… - The European Physical …, 2017 - Springer
The nuclear modification factor R_ AA R AA and the azimuthal anisotropy coefficient v_ 2 v 2
of prompt and nonprompt (ie those from decays of b hadrons) J/ψ J/ψ mesons, measured …

Impact of heavy quark and quarkonium data on nuclear gluon PDFs

P Duwentäster, T Ježo, M Klasen, K Kovařík, A Kusina… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
A clear understanding of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) plays a crucial role in
the interpretation of collider data taken at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, the Large …

HELAC-Onia 2.0: an upgraded matrix-element and event generator for heavy quarkonium physics

HS Shao - Computer Physics Communications, 2016 - Elsevier
We present an upgraded version (denoted as version 2.0) of the program HELAC-Onia for
the automated computation of heavy-quarkonium helicity amplitudes within non-relativistic …

Polarization at Hadron Colliders in Nonrelativistic QCD

KT Chao, YQ Ma, HS Shao, K Wang, YJ Zhang - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
With nonrelativistic QCD factorization, we present a full next-to-leading order computation of
the polarization observable for J/ψ production at hadron colliders including all important …

Gluon PDF constraints from the ratio of forward heavy-quark production at the LHC at and 13 TeV

M Cacciari, ML Mangano, P Nason - The European Physical Journal C, 2015 - Springer
We discuss production of charm and bottom quarks at forward rapidity in pp collisions at the
LHC, updating the QCD predictions for the run at S= 13 S= 13 TeV. We show that, while the …