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Kinematic correlations for pairs of beauty hadrons, produced in high energy proton-proton collisions, are studied. The data sample used was collected with the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb−1. The measurement is performed using inclusive b → J/ψX decays in the rapidity range 2 < yJ/ψ < 4.5. The observed correlations are in good agreement with theoretical predictions.
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The LHCb collaboration., Aaij, R., Adeva, B. et al. Study of \( \mathrm{b}\overline{\mathrm{b}} \) correlations in high energy proton-proton collisions. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 30 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2017)030
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