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Hayrapetyan, A.
Observation of Double J/*q Meson Production in pPb Collisions at *%s&sub(NN)=8.16 TeV / A.Hayrapetyan, S.Afanasiev, D.Budkouski, I.Golutvin, I.Gorbunov, V.Karjavine, V.Korenkov, N.Krasnikov, A.Lanev, A.Malakhov, V.Matveev, V.Palichik, V.Perelygin, M.Savina, V.Shalaev, S.Shmatov, S.Shulha, V.Smirnov, O.Teryaev, N.Voytishin, B.S.Yuldashev, A.Zarubin, I.Zhizhin, [CMS Collab.] // Physical Review D [Electronic resource]. – 2024. – Vol. 110, No. 9. – P. 092002. – URL: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.110.092002. – Bibliogr.: 87.

The first observation of the concurrent production of two 𝐽/𝜓 mesons in proton-nucleus collisions is presented. The analysis is based on a proton-lead (𝑝⁢Pb) data sample recorded at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 8.16 TeV by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 174.6  nb*−*1. The two 𝐽/𝜓 mesons are reconstructed in their 𝜇+⁢𝜇− decay channels with transverse momenta 𝑝T >6.5  GeV and rapidity |𝑦| <2.4. Events where one of the 𝐽/𝜓 mesons is reconstructed in the dielectron channel are also considered in the search. The 𝑝⁢Pb →𝐽/𝜓⁢𝐽/𝜓+𝑋 process is observed with a significance of 5.3 standard deviations. The measured inclusive fiducial cross section, using the four-muon channel alone, is 𝜎⁡(𝑝⁢Pb →𝐽/𝜓⁢𝐽/𝜓 +𝑋) = 22.0 ±8.9⁢(stat) ±1.5⁢(syst)  nb. A fit of the data to the expected rapidity separation for pairs of 𝐽/𝜓 mesons produced in single (SPS) and double (DPS) parton scatterings yields 𝜎𝑝⁢Pb→𝐽/𝜓⁢𝐽/𝜓+𝑋 SPS=16.5±10.8⁢(stat)±0.1⁢(syst)  nb and 𝜎𝑝⁢Pb→𝐽/𝜓⁢𝐽/𝜓+𝑋 DPS =5.4 ±6.2⁢(stat) ±0.4⁢(syst)  nb, respectively. This latter result can be transformed into a lower bound on the effective DPS cross section, closely related to the squared average interparton transverse separation in the collision, of 𝜎eff >1.0  mb at 95% confidence level.



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