@article{d8643c833f924064a2f3fcfc1513be7c,
title = "Measurement of Ds ± production asymmetry in pp collisions at √s=7 and 8 TeV",
abstract = "The inclusive Ds ± production asymmetry is measured in pp collisions collected by the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of s=7 and 8 TeV. Promptly produced Ds ± mesons are used, which decay as Ds ± → ϕπ±, with ϕ → K+K−. The measurement is performed in bins of transverse momentum, pT, and rapidity, y, covering the range 2.5 < pT< 25.0 GeV/c and 2.0 < y < 4.5. No kinematic dependence is observed. Evidence of nonzero Ds ± production asymmetry is found with a significance of 3.3 standard deviations.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].",
keywords = "Charm physics, Forward physics, Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments), Heavy quark production, QCD",
author = "{The LHCb Collaboration} and R. Aaij and B. Adeva and M. Adinolfi and Z. Ajaltouni and S. Akar and P. Albicocco and J. Albrecht and F. Alessio and M. Alexander and {Alfonso Albero}, A. and S. Ali and G. Alkhazov and {Alvarez Cartelle}, P. and Alves, {A. A.} and S. Amato and S. Amerio and Y. Amhis and L. An and L. Anderlini and G. Andreassi and M. Andreotti and Andrews, {J. E.} and Appleby, {R. B.} and F. Archilli and P. d{\textquoteright}Argent and {Arnau Romeu}, J. and A. Artamonov and M. Artuso and E. Aslanides and M. Atzeni and G. Auriemma and S. Bachmann and Back, {J. J.} and S. Baker and V. Balagura and W. Baldini and A. Baranov and Barlow, {R. J.} and S. Barsuk and W. Barter and F. Baryshnikov and V. Batozskaya and V. Battista and A. Bay and J. Beddow and F. Bedeschi and A. Mazurov and A. Petrov and S. Strokov and A. Vagner",
note = "Funding Information: Open Access, Copyright CERN, for the benefit of the LHCb Collaboration. Article funded by SCOAP3. Funding Information: We express our gratitude to our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC. We thank the technical and administrative staff at the LHCb institutes. We acknowledge support from CERN and from the national agencies: CAPES, CNPq, FAPERJ and FINEP (Brazil); MOST and NSFC (China); CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG and MPG (Germany); INFN (Italy); NWO (The Netherlands); MNiSW and NCN (Poland); MEN/IFA (Romania); MinES and FASO (Russia); MinECo (Spain); SNSF and SER (Switzerland); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); NSF (U.S.A.). We acknowledge the computing resources that are provided by CERN, IN2P3 (France), KIT and DESY (Germany), INFN (Italy), SURF (The Netherlands), PIC (Spain), GridPP (United Kingdom), RRCKI and Yandex LLC (Russia), CSCS (Switzerland), IFIN-HH (Romania), CBPF (Brazil), PL-GRID (Poland) and OSC (U.S.A.). We are indebted to the communities behind the multiple open-source software packages on which we depend. Individual groups or members have received support from AvH Foundation (Germany), EPLANET, Marie Sklo dowska-Curie Actions and ERC (European Union), ANR, Labex P2IO and OCEVU, and R{\'e}gion Auvergne-Rh{\^o}ne-Alpes (France), Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS, CAS PIFI, and the Thousand Talents Program (China), RFBR, RSF and Yandex LLC (Russia), GVA, XuntaGal and GENCAT (Spain), Herchel Smith Fund, the Royal Society, the English-Speaking Union and the Lev-erhulme Trust (United Kingdom).",
year = "2018",
month = aug,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/JHEP08(2018)008",
language = "English",
volume = "2018",
journal = "Journal of High Energy Physics",
issn = "1126-6708",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
number = "8",
}