CERN Accelerating science

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Report number arXiv:1208.1948 ; CERN-PH-EP-2012-227 ; CERN-PH-EP-2012-227
Title D$_s^+$ meson production at central rapidity in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV
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Abelev, Betty (LLNL, Livermore) ; Adam, Jaroslav (Prague, Tech. U.) ; Adamova, Dagmar (Rez, Nucl. Phys. Inst.) ; Adare, Andrew Marshall (Yale U.) ; Aggarwal, Madan (Panjab U.) ; Aglieri Rinella, Gianluca (CERN) ; Agocs, Andras Gabor (Budapest, RMKI) ; Agostinelli, Andrea (INFN, Bologna ; Bologna U.) ; Aguilar Salazar, Saul (Mexico U.) ; Ahammed, Zubayer (Calcutta, VECC) ; Ahmad, Nazeer (Aligarh Muslim U.) ; Ahmad, Arshad (Aligarh Muslim U.) ; Ahn, Sul-Ah (KISTI, Daejeon) ; Ahn, Sang Un (Gangneung-Wonju Natl. U.) ; Akindinov, Alexander (Moscow, ITEP) ; Aleksandrov, Dmitry (Kurchatov Inst., Moscow) ; Alessandro, Bruno (INFN, Turin) ; Alfaro Molina, Jose Ruben (Mexico U.) ; Alici, Andrea (Enrico Fermi Ctr., Rome ; INFN, Bologna) ; Alkin, Anton (BITP, Kiev) ; Almaraz Avina, Erick Jonathan (Mexico U.) ; Alme, Johan (Bergen Coll. Higher Educ.) ; Alt, Torsten (Frankfurt U., FIAS) ; Altini, Valerio (INFN, Bari ; Bari U.) ; Altinpinar, Sedat (Bergen U.) ; Altsybeev, Igor (St. Petersburg State U.) ; Andrei, Cristian (Bucharest, IFIN-HH) ; Andronic, Anton (Darmstadt, EMMI) ; Anguelov, Venelin (Heidelberg U.) ; Anielski, Jonas (Munster U.) ; Anson, Christopher Daniel (Ohio State U.) ; Anticic, Tome (Boskovic Inst., Zagreb) ; Antinori, Federico (INFN, Padua) ; Antonioli, Pietro (INFN, Bologna) ; Aphecetche, Laurent Bernard (SUBATECH, Nantes) ; Appelshauser, Harald (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Arbor, Nicolas (LPSC, Grenoble) ; Arcelli, Silvia (INFN, Bologna ; Bologna U.) ; Arend, Andreas (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Armesto, Nestor (Santiago de Compostela U.) ; Arnaldi, Roberta (INFN, Turin) ; Aronsson, Tomas Robert (Yale U.) ; Arsene, Ionut Cristian (Darmstadt, EMMI) ; Arslandok, Mesut (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Asryan, Andzhey (St. Petersburg State U.) ; Augustinus, Andre (CERN) ; Averbeck, Ralf Peter (Darmstadt, EMMI) ; Awes, Terry (Oak Ridge) ; Aysto, Juha Heikki (Helsinki Inst. of Phys.) ; Azmi, Mohd Danish (Cape Town U. ; Aligarh Muslim U.) ; Bach, Matthias Jakob (Frankfurt U., FIAS) ; Badala, Angela (INFN, Catania) ; Baek, Yong Wook (Gangneung-Wonju Natl. U. ; Clermont-Ferrand U.) ; Bailhache, Raphaelle Marie (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Bala, Renu (INFN, Turin) ; Baldini Ferroli, Rinaldo (Enrico Fermi Ctr., Rome) ; Baldisseri, Alberto (IRFU, Saclay) ; Baldit, Alain (Clermont-Ferrand U.) ; Baltasar Dos Santos Pedrosa, Fernando (CERN) ; Ban, Jaroslav (Kosice, IEF) ; Baral, Rama Chandra (Bhubaneswar, Inst. Phys.) ; Barbera, Roberto (INFN, Catania ; Catania U.) ; Barile, Francesco (INFN, Bari ; Bari U.) ; Barnafoldi, Gergely Gabor (Budapest, RMKI) ; Barnby, Lee Stuart (Birmingham U.) ; Barret, Valerie (Clermont-Ferrand U.) ; Bartke, Jerzy Gustaw (Cracow, INP) ; Basile, Maurizio (INFN, Bologna ; Bologna U.) ; Bastid, Nicole (Clermont-Ferrand U.) ; Basu, Sumit (Calcutta, VECC) ; Bathen, Bastian (Munster U.) ; Batigne, Guillaume (SUBATECH, Nantes) ; Batyunya, Boris (Dubna, JINR) ; Baumann, Christoph Heinrich (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Bearden, Ian Gardner (Bohr Inst.) ; Beck, Hans (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Behera, Nirbhay Kumar (Indian Inst. Tech., Mumbai) ; Belikov, Iouri (Strasbourg, IPHC) ; Bellini, Francesca (INFN, Bologna ; Bologna U.) ; Bellwied, Rene (Houston U.) ; Belmont-Moreno, Ernesto (Mexico U.) ; Bencedi, Gyula (Budapest, RMKI) ; Beole, Stefania (INFN, Turin ; Turin U.) ; Berceanu, Ionela (Bucharest, IFIN-HH) ; Bercuci, Alexandru (Bucharest, IFIN-HH) ; Berdnikov, Yaroslav (St. Petersburg, INP) ; Berenyi, Daniel (Budapest, RMKI) ; Bergognon, Anais Annick Erica (SUBATECH, Nantes) ; Berzano, Dario (INFN, Turin) ; Betev, Latchezar (CERN) ; Bhasin, Anju (Jammu U.) ; Bhati, Ashok Kumar (Panjab U.) ; Bhom, Jihyun (Tsukuba U.) ; Bianchi, Livio (INFN, Turin ; Turin U.) ; Bianchi, Nicola (Frascati) ; Bianchin, Chiara (INFN, Padua ; Padua U.) ; Bielcik, Jaroslav (Prague, Tech. U.) ; Bielcikova, Jana (Rez, Nucl. Phys. Inst.) ; Bilandzic, Ante (Bohr Inst. ; NIKHEF, Amsterdam) ; Bjelogrlic, Sandro (NIKHEF, Amsterdam) ; Blanco, F (Madrid, CIEMAT) ; Blanco, Francescorancesco (Houston U.) ; Blau, Dmitry (Kurchatov Inst., Moscow) ; Blume, Christoph (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Boccioli, Marco (CERN) ; Bock, Nicolas (Ohio State U.) ; Boettger, Stefan (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Bogdanov, Alexey (Moscow Phys. Eng. Inst.) ; Boggild, Hans (Bohr Inst.) ; Bogolyubsky, Mikhail (Serpukhov, IHEP) ; Boldizsar, Laszlo (Budapest, RMKI) ; Bombara, Marek (Kosice U.) ; Book, Julian (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Borel, Herve (IRFU, Saclay) ; Borissov, Alexander (Wayne State U.) ; Bose, Suvendu Nath (Saha Inst.) ; Bossu, Francesco (INFN, Turin ; Turin U.) ; Botje, Michiel (NIKHEF, Amsterdam) ; Botta, Elena (INFN, Turin ; Turin U.) ; Boyer, Bruno Alexandre (Orsay, IPN) ; Braidot, Ermes (LBL, Berkeley) ; Braun-Munzinger, Peter (Darmstadt, EMMI) ; Bregant, Marco (SUBATECH, Nantes) ; Breitner, Timo Gunther (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Browning, Tyler Allen (Purdue U.) ; Broz, Michal (Comenius U.) ; Brun, Rene (CERN) ; Bruna, Elena (INFN, Turin ; Turin U.) ; Bruno, Giuseppe Eugenio (INFN, Bari ; Bari U.) ; Budnikov, Dmitry (RFNC-VNIIEF, Sarov) ; Buesching, Henner (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Bufalino, Stefania (INFN, Turin ; Turin U.) ; Busch, Oliver (Heidelberg U.) ; Buthelezi, Edith Zinhle (Cape Town U.) ; Caballero Orduna, Diego (Yale U.) ; Caffarri, Davide (INFN, Padua ; Padua U.) ; Cai, Xu (Hua-Zhong Normal U.) ; Caines, Helen Louise (Yale U.) ; Calvo Villar, Ernesto (Lima, Pont. U. Catolica) ; Camerini, Paolo (INFN, Trieste ; Trieste U.) ; Canoa Roman, Veronica (CINVESTAV, IPN) ; Cara Romeo, Giovanni (INFN, Bologna) ; Carena, Francesco (CERN) ; Carena, Wisla (CERN) ; Carlin Filho, Nelson (Sao Paulo U.) ; Carminati, Federico (CERN) ; Casanova Diaz, Amaya Ofelia (Frascati) ; Castillo Castellanos, Javier Ernesto (IRFU, Saclay) ; Castillo Hernandez, Juan Francisco (Darmstadt, EMMI) ; Casula, Ester Anna Rita (INFN, Cagliari ; Cagliari U.) ; Catanescu, Vasile (Bucharest, IFIN-HH) ; Cavicchioli, Costanza (CERN) ; Ceballos Sanchez, Cesar (Havana, CEADEN) ; Cepila, Jan (Prague, Tech. U.) ; Cerello, Piergiorgio (INFN, Turin) ; Chang, Beomsu (Yonsei U. ; Helsinki Inst. of Phys.) ; Chapeland, Sylvain (CERN) ; Charvet, Jean-Luc Fernand (IRFU, Saclay) ; Chattopadhyay, Subhasis (Calcutta, VECC) ; Chattopadhyay, Sukalyan (Saha Inst.) ; Chawla, Isha (Panjab U.) ; Cherney, Michael Gerard (Creighton U.) ; Cheshkov, Cvetan (Lyon U. ; CERN) ; Cheynis, Brigitte (Lyon U.) ; Chibante Barroso, Vasco Miguel (CERN) ; Chinellato, David (Campinas State U.) ; Chochula, Peter (CERN) ; Chojnacki, Marek (NIKHEF, Amsterdam) ; Choudhury, Subikash (Calcutta, VECC) ; Christakoglou, Panagiotis (NIKHEF, Amsterdam) ; Christensen, Christian Holm (Bohr Inst.) ; Christiansen, Peter (Lund U.) ; Chujo, Tatsuya (Tsukuba U.) ; Chung, Suh-Urk (Pusan Natl. U.) ; Cicalo, Corrado (INFN, Cagliari) ; Cifarelli, Luisa (Enrico Fermi Ctr., Rome ; CERN ; INFN, Bologna ; Bologna U.) ; Cindolo, Federico (INFN, Bologna) ; Cleymans, Jean Willy Andre (Cape Town U.) ; Coccetti, Fabrizio (Enrico Fermi Ctr., Rome) ; Colamaria, Fabio (INFN, Bari ; Bari U.) ; Colella, Domenico (INFN, Bari ; Bari U.) ; Conesa Balbastre, Gustavo (LPSC, Grenoble) ; Conesa del Valle, Zaida (CERN) ; Constantin, Paul (Heidelberg U.) ; Contin, Giacomo (INFN, Trieste ; Trieste U.) ; Contreras, Jesus Guillermo (CINVESTAV, IPN) ; Cormier, Thomas Michael (Wayne State U.) ; Corrales Morales, Yasser (INFN, Turin ; Turin U.) ; Cortese, Pietro (Piemonte Orientale U., Alessandria) ; Cortes Maldonado, Ismael (Puebla U., Mexico) ; Cosentino, Mauro Rogerio (LBL, Berkeley) ; Costa, Filippo (CERN) ; Cotallo, Manuel Enrique (Madrid, CIEMAT) ; Crescio, Elisabetta (CINVESTAV, IPN) ; Crochet, Philippe (Clermont-Ferrand U.) ; Cruz Alaniz, Emilia (Mexico U.) ; Cuautle, Eleazar (Mexico U., ICN) ; Cunqueiro, Leticia (Frascati) ; Dainese, Andrea (INFN, Padua ; Padua U.) ; Dalsgaard, Hans Hjersing (Bohr Inst.) ; Danu, Andrea (Bucharest, Inst. Space Science) ; Das, Indranil (Orsay, IPN) ; Das, Debasish (Saha Inst.) ; Das, Kushal (Saha Inst.) ; Dash, Sadhana (Indian Inst. Tech., Mumbai) ; Dash, Ajay Kumar (Campinas State U.) ; De, Sudipan (Calcutta, VECC) ; de Barros, Gabriel (Sao Paulo U.) ; De Caro, Annalisa (Enrico Fermi Ctr., Rome ; INFN, Salerno ; Salerno U.) ; de Cataldo, Giacinto (INFN, Bari) ; de Cuveland, Jan (Frankfurt U., FIAS) ; De Falco, Alessandro (INFN, Cagliari ; Cagliari U.) ; De Gruttola, Daniele (INFN, Salerno ; Salerno U.) ; Delagrange, Hugues (SUBATECH, Nantes) ; Deloff, Andrzej (Warsaw, Inst. Nucl. Studies) ; Demanov, Vyacheslav (RFNC-VNIIEF, Sarov) ; De Marco, Nora (INFN, Turin) ; Denes, Ervin (Budapest, RMKI) ; De Pasquale, Salvatore (INFN, Salerno ; Salerno U.) ; Deppman, Airton (Sao Paulo U.) ; D'Erasmo, Ginevra (INFN, Bari ; Bari U.) ; de Rooij, Raoul Stefan (NIKHEF, Amsterdam) ; Diaz Corchero, Miguel Angel (Madrid, CIEMAT) ; Di Bari, Domenico (INFN, Bari ; Bari U.) ; Dietel, Thomas (Munster U.) ; Di Giglio, Carmelo (INFN, Bari ; Bari U.) ; Di Liberto, Sergio (INFN, Rome) ; Di Mauro, Antonio (CERN) ; Di Nezza, Pasquale (Frascati) ; Divia, Roberto (CERN) ; Djuvsland, Oeystein (Bergen U.) ; Dobrin, Alexandru Florin (Lund U. ; Wayne State U.) ; Dobrowolski, Tadeusz Antoni (Warsaw, Inst. Nucl. Studies) ; Dominguez, Isabel (Mexico U., ICN) ; Donigus, Benjamin (Darmstadt, EMMI) ; Dordic, Olja (Oslo U.) ; Driga, Olga (SUBATECH, Nantes) ; Dubey, Anand Kumar (Calcutta, VECC) ; Dubla, Andrea (NIKHEF, Amsterdam) ; Ducroux, Laurent (Lyon U.) ; Dupieux, Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand U.) ; Dutta Majumdar, AK (Saha Inst.) ; Dutta Majumdar, Mihir Ranjan (Calcutta, VECC) ; Elia, Domenico (INFN, Bari) ; Emschermann, David Philip (Munster U.) ; Engel, Heiko (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Erazmus, Barbara (SUBATECH, Nantes) ; Erdal, Hege Austrheim (Bergen Coll. Higher Educ.) ; Espagnon, Bruno (Orsay, IPN) ; Estienne, Magali Danielle (SUBATECH, Nantes) ; Esumi, Shinichi (Tsukuba U.) ; Evans, David (Birmingham U.) ; Eyyubova, Gyulnara (Oslo U.) ; Fabris, Daniela (INFN, Padua ; Padua U.) ; Faivre, Julien (LPSC, Grenoble) ; Falchieri, Davide (INFN, Bologna ; Bologna U.) ; Fantoni, Alessandra (Frascati) ; Fasel, Markus (Darmstadt, EMMI) ; Fearick, Roger Worsley (Cape Town U.) ; Fedunov, Anatoly (Dubna, JINR) ; Fehlker, Dominik (Bergen U.) ; Feldkamp, Linus (Munster U.) ; Felea, Daniel (Bucharest, Inst. Space Science) ; Fenton-Olsen, Bo (LBL, Berkeley) ; Feofilov, Grigory (St. Petersburg State U.) ; Fernandez Tellez, Arturo (Puebla U., Mexico) ; Ferretti, Alessandro (INFN, Turin ; Turin U.) ; Ferretti, Roberta (Piemonte Orientale U., Alessandria) ; Festanti, Andrea (INFN, Padua ; Padua U.) ; Figiel, Jan (Cracow, INP) ; Figueredo, Marcel (Sao Paulo U.) ; Filchagin, Sergey (RFNC-VNIIEF, Sarov) ; Finogeev, Dmitry (Moscow, INR) ; Fionda, Fiorella (INFN, Bari ; Bari U.) ; Fiore, Enrichetta Maria (INFN, Bari ; Bari U.) ; Floris, Michele (CERN) ; Foertsch, Siegfried Valentin (Cape Town U.) ; Foka, Panagiota (Darmstadt, EMMI) ; Fokin, Sergey (Kurchatov Inst., Moscow) ; Fragiacomo, Enrico (INFN, Trieste) ; Francescon, Andrea (INFN, Padua ; Padua U. ; CERN) ; Frankenfeld, Ulrich Michael (Darmstadt, EMMI) ; Fuchs, Ulrich (CERN) ; Furget, Christophe (LPSC, Grenoble) ; Fusco Girard, Mario (INFN, Salerno ; Salerno U.) ; Gaardhoje, Jens Joergen (Bohr Inst.) ; Gagliardi, Martino (INFN, Turin ; Turin U.) ; Gago, Alberto (Lima, Pont. U. Catolica) ; Gallio, Mauro (INFN, Turin ; Turin U.) ; Gangadharan, Dhevan Raja (Ohio State U.) ; Ganoti, Paraskevi (Oak Ridge) ; Garabatos, Jose (Darmstadt, EMMI) ; Garcia-Solis, Edmundo (Chicago State U.) ; Garishvili, Irakli (LLNL, Livermore) ; Gerhard, Jochen (Frankfurt U., FIAS) ; Germain, Marie (SUBATECH, Nantes) ; Geuna, Claudio (IRFU, Saclay) ; Gheata, Mihaela (CERN ; Bucharest, Inst. Space Science) ; Gheata, Andrei George (CERN) ; Ghidini, Bruno (INFN, Bari ; Bari U.) ; Ghosh, Premomoy (Calcutta, VECC) ; Gianotti, Paola (Frascati) ; Girard, Martin Robert (Warsaw U. of Tech.) ; Giubellino, Paolo (CERN) ; Gladysz-Dziadus, Ewa (Cracow, INP) ; Glassel, Peter (Heidelberg U.) ; Gomez, Ramon (Sinaloa U.) ; Gonzalez Ferreiro, Elena (Santiago de Compostela U.) ; Gonzalez-Trueba, Laura Helena (Mexico U.) ; Gonzalez-Zamora, Pedro (Madrid, CIEMAT) ; Gorbunov, Sergey (Frankfurt U., FIAS) ; Goswami, Ankita (Rajasthan U.) ; Gotovac, Sven (Split Tech. U.) ; Grabski, Varlen (Mexico U.) ; Graczykowski, Lukasz Kamil (Warsaw U. of Tech.) ; Grajcarek, Robert (Heidelberg U.) ; Grelli, Alessandro (NIKHEF, Amsterdam) ; Grigoras, Costin (CERN) ; Grigoras, Alina Gabriela (CERN) ; Grigoriev, Vladislav (Moscow Phys. Eng. Inst.) ; Grigoryan, Smbat (Dubna, JINR) ; Grigoryan, Ara (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) ; Grinyov, Boris (BITP, Kiev) ; Grion, Nevio (INFN, Trieste) ; Gros, Philippe (Lund U.) ; Grosse-Oetringhaus, Jan Fiete (CERN) ; Grossiord, Jean-Yves (Lyon U.) ; Grosso, Raffaele (CERN) ; Guber, Fedor (Moscow, INR) ; Guernane, Rachid (LPSC, Grenoble) ; Guerra Gutierrez, Cesar (Lima, Pont. U. Catolica) ; Guerzoni, Barbara (INFN, Bologna ; Bologna U.) ; Guilbaud, Maxime Rene Joseph (Lyon U.) ; Gulbrandsen, Kristjan Herlache (Bohr Inst.) ; Gunji, Taku (Tokyo U.) ; Gupta, Ramni (Jammu U.) ; Gupta, Anik (Jammu U.) ; Gutbrod, Hans (Darmstadt, EMMI) ; Haaland, Oystein Senneset (Bergen U.) ; Hadjidakis, Cynthia Marie (Orsay, IPN) ; Haiduc, Maria (Bucharest, Inst. Space Science) ; Hamagaki, Hideki (Tokyo U.) ; Hamar, Gergoe (Budapest, RMKI) ; Han, Byounghee (Sejong U.) ; Hanratty, Luke David (Birmingham U.) ; Hansen, Alexander (Bohr Inst.) ; Harmanova, Zuzana (Kosice U.) ; Harris, John William (Yale U.) ; Hartig, Matthias (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Hasegan, Dumitru (Bucharest, Inst. Space Science) ; Hatzifotiadou, Despoina (INFN, Bologna) ; Hayrapetyan, Arsen (Yerevan Phys. Inst. ; CERN) ; Heckel, Stefan Thomas (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Heide, Markus Ansgar (Munster U.) ; Helstrup, Haavard (Bergen Coll. Higher Educ.) ; Herghelegiu, Andrei Ionut (Bucharest, IFIN-HH) ; Herrera Corral, Gerardo Antonio (CINVESTAV, IPN) ; Herrmann, Norbert (Heidelberg U.) ; Hess, Benjamin Andreas (Tubingen U.) ; Hetland, Kristin Fanebust (Bergen Coll. Higher Educ.) ; Hicks, Bernard (Yale U.) ; Hille, Per Thomas (Yale U.) ; Hippolyte, Boris (Strasbourg, IPHC) ; Horaguchi, Takuma (Tsukuba U.) ; Hori, Yasuto (Tokyo U.) ; Hristov, Peter Zahariev (CERN) ; Hrivnacova, Ivana (Orsay, IPN) ; Huang, Meidana (Bergen U.) ; Humanic, Thomas (Ohio State U.) ; Hwang, Dae Sung (Sejong U.) ; Ichou, Raphaelle (Clermont-Ferrand U.) ; Ilkaev, Radiy (RFNC-VNIIEF, Sarov) ; Ilkiv, Iryna (Warsaw, Inst. Nucl. Studies) ; Inaba, Motoi (Tsukuba U.) ; Incani, Elisa (INFN, Cagliari ; Cagliari U.) ; Innocenti, Gian Michele (INFN, Turin ; Turin U.) ; Innocenti, Pier Giorgio (CERN) ; Ippolitov, Mikhail (Kurchatov Inst., Moscow) ; Irfan, Muhammad (Aligarh Muslim U.) ; Ivan, Cristian George (Darmstadt, EMMI) ; Ivanov, Marian (Darmstadt, EMMI) ; Ivanov, Andrey (St. Petersburg State U.) ; Ivanov, Vladimir (St. Petersburg, INP) ; Ivanytskyi, Oleksii (BITP, Kiev) ; Jacobs, Peter (LBL, Berkeley) ; Jang, Haeng Jin (KISTI, Daejeon) ; Janik, Rudolf (Comenius U.) ; Janik, Malgorzata Anna (Warsaw U. of Tech.) ; Jayarathna, Sandun (Houston U.) ; Jena, Satyajit (Indian Inst. Tech., Mumbai) ; Jha, Deeptanshu Manu (Wayne State U.) ; Jimenez Bustamante, Raul Tonatiuh (Mexico U., ICN) ; Jirden, Lennart (CERN) ; Jones, Peter Graham (Birmingham U.) ; Jung, Hyung Taik (Gangneung-Wonju Natl. U.) ; Jusko, Anton (Birmingham U.) ; Kaidalov, Alexei (Moscow, ITEP) ; Kakoyan, Vanik (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) ; Kalcher, Sebastian (Frankfurt U., FIAS) ; Kalinak, Peter (Kosice, IEF) ; Kalliokoski, Tuomo Esa Aukusti (Helsinki Inst. of Phys.) ; Kalweit, Alexander Philipp (CERN ; Darmstadt, Tech. Hochsch.) ; Kang, Ju Hwan (Yonsei U.) ; Kaplin, Vladimir (Moscow Phys. Eng. Inst.) ; Karasu Uysal, Ayben (Yildiz Tech. U. ; CERN) ; Karavichev, Oleg (Moscow, INR) ; Karavicheva, Tatiana (Moscow, INR) ; Karpechev, Evgeny (Moscow, INR) ; Kazantsev, Andrey (Kurchatov Inst., Moscow) ; Kebschull, Udo Wolfgang (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Keidel, Ralf (Fachhochsch., Worms) ; Khan, Palash (Saha Inst.) ; Khan, Mohisin Mohammed (Aligarh Muslim U.) ; Khan, Shuaib Ahmad (Calcutta, VECC) ; Khanzadeev, Alexei (St. Petersburg, INP) ; Kharlov, Yury (Serpukhov, IHEP) ; Kileng, Bjarte (Bergen Coll. Higher Educ.) ; Kim, Mimae (Gangneung-Wonju Natl. U.) ; Kim, Dong Jo (Helsinki Inst. of Phys.) ; Kim, Do Won (Gangneung-Wonju Natl. U.) ; Kim, Jonghyun (Sejong U.) ; Kim, Jin Sook (Gangneung-Wonju Natl. U.) ; Kim, Taesoo (Yonsei U.) ; Kim, Minwoo (Yonsei U.) ; Kim, Seon Hee (Gangneung-Wonju Natl. U.) ; Kim, Se Yong (Sejong U.) ; Kim, Beomkyu (Yonsei U.) ; Kirsch, Stefan (Frankfurt U., FIAS) ; Kisel, Ivan (Frankfurt U., FIAS) ; Kiselev, Sergey (Moscow, ITEP) ; Kisiel, Adam Ryszard (Warsaw U. of Tech.) ; Klay, Jennifer Lynn (Cal. Poly.) ; Klein, Jochen (Heidelberg U.) ; Klein-Bosing, Christian (Munster U.) ; Kliemant, Michael (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Kluge, Alexander (CERN) ; Knichel, Michael Linus (Darmstadt, EMMI) ; Knospe, Anders Garritt (Texas U.) ; Koch, Kathrin (Heidelberg U.) ; Kohler, Markus (Darmstadt, EMMI) ; Kollegger, Thorsten (Frankfurt U., FIAS) ; Kolojvari, Anatoly (St. Petersburg State U.) ; Kondratiev, Valery (St. Petersburg State U.) ; Kondratyeva, Natalia (Moscow Phys. Eng. 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Tech., Mumbai) ; Kurashvili, Podist (Warsaw, Inst. Nucl. Studies) ; Kurepin, AB (Moscow, INR) ; Kurepin, A (Moscow, INR) ; Kuryakin, Alexey (RFNC-VNIIEF, Sarov) ; Kushpil, Svetlana (Rez, Nucl. Phys. Inst.) ; Kushpil, Vasily (Rez, Nucl. Phys. Inst.) ; Kvaerno, Henning (Oslo U.) ; Kweon, Min Jung (Heidelberg U.) ; Kwon, Youngil (Yonsei U.) ; Ladron de Guevara, Pedro (Mexico U., ICN) ; Lakomov, Igor (Orsay, IPN) ; Langoy, Rune (Bergen U.) ; La Pointe, Sarah Louise (NIKHEF, Amsterdam) ; Lara, Camilo Ernesto (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Lardeux, Antoine Xavier (SUBATECH, Nantes) ; La Rocca, Paola (INFN, Catania ; Catania U.) ; Lazzeroni, Cristina (Birmingham U.) ; Lea, Ramona (INFN, Trieste ; Trieste U.) ; Le Bornec, Yves (Orsay, IPN) ; Lechman, Mateusz (CERN) ; Lee, Ki Sang (Gangneung-Wonju Natl. U.) ; Lee, Graham Richard (Birmingham U.) ; Lee, Sung Chul (Gangneung-Wonju Natl. U.) ; Lefevre, Frederic (SUBATECH, Nantes) ; Lehnert, Joerg Walter (Frankfurt U., Inst. 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Publication 2012-12-05
Imprint 31 Jul 2012
Number of pages 27
Note Long authors list
Long authors list
26 pages, 5 captioned figures, 4 tables, authors from page 21, published version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/3027
In: Phys. Lett. B 718 (2012) 279-294
DOI 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.10.049
Subject category Particle Physics - Experiment
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment CERN LHC ; ALICE
Free keywords flavor physics ; heavy quark production ; experimental results ; D_s meson production ; proton-proton collisions
Abstract The pt-differential inclusive production cross section of the prompt charm-strange meson D$_s^+$ in the rapidity range |y|<0.5 was measured in proton--proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=7 TeV at the LHC using the ALICE detector. The analysis was performed on a data sample of 2.98 10$^8$ events collected with a minimum-bias trigger. The corresponding integrated luminosity is $L_{int}=4.8 nb^{-1}$. Reconstructing the decay $D_s^+ \to \phi\pi^+$, with $\phi \to K^-K^+$, and its charge conjugate, about 480 D$_s^{\pm}$ mesons were counted, after selection cuts, in the transverse momentum range 2<pt<12 GeV/c. The results are compared with the prediction of a model based on perturbative QCD. The ratios of the cross sections of four D meson species (namely D$^0$, D$^+$, D$^{*+}$ and D$_s^+$) were determined both as a function of pt and integrated over pt after extrapolating to full pt range, together with the strangeness suppression factor in charm fragmentation. The obtained values are found to be compatible within uncertainties with those measured by other experiments in $e^+e^-$, ep and pp interactions at various centre-of-mass energies.
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