Measurement of D0, D+, D*+ and D+s production in pp collisions at √s=5.02 TeV with ALICE

Abstract

The measurements of the production of prompt D0, D+, D*+, and D+ s mesons in proton–proton (pp) collisions at √ s = 5.02 TeV with the ALICE detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are reported. D mesons were reconstructed at mid-rapidity (|y| < 0.5) via their hadronic decay channels D0 → K− π +, D+ → K− π + π +, D∗+ → D0π + → K− π + π +, D+ s → φπ + → K+K− π +, and their charge conjugates. The production cross sections were measured in the transverse momentum interval 0 < pT < 36 GeV/c for D0, 1 < pT < 36 GeV/c for D+ and D∗+, and in 2 < pT < 24 GeV/c for D+ s mesons. Thanks to the higher integrated luminosity, an analysis in fi√ner pT bins with respect to the previous measurements at s = 7 TeV was performed, allowing for a more detailed description of the cross-section pT shape. The measured pTdifferential production cross sections are compared to the results at √ s = 7 TeV and to four different perturbativeQCD calculations. Its rapidity dependence is also tested combini√ ng the ALICE and LHCb measurements in pp collisions at s = 5.02 TeV. This measurement will allow for a more accurate determination of the nuclear modification factor in p–Pb and Pb–Pb collisions performed at the same nucleon– nucleon centre-of-mass energy.