About this book
Introduction
This thesis, which won one of the six 2015 ATLAS Thesis Awards, concerns
the study of the charmonium and bottomonium bound heavy quark bound
states. The first section of the thesis describes the observation of a
candidate for the chi_b(3P) bottomonium states. This represented the
first observation of a new particle at the LHC and its existence was
subsequently confirmed by D0 and LHCb experiments. The second part of
the thesis presents measurements of the prompt and non-prompt production
of the chi_c1 and chi_c2 charmonium states in proton-proton collisions.
These measurements are compared to several theoretical predictions and
can be used to inform the development of theoretical models of
quarkonium production.
Keywords
J/psi production from chi_c decays Observation of the chi_b(3P) states Quarkonium production at the LHC Quarkonium reconstruction with the ATLAS experiment Quarkonium spectroscopy Radiative quarkonium decays
Authors and affiliations
- 1.Physics and Astronomy DepartmentUniversity of BirminghamBirminghamUnited Kingdom
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