@article{e421404d11e144d2b5e45314d23fd341,
title = " π0 and η meson production in proton-proton collisions at √s=8 TeV",
abstract = "An invariant differential cross section measurement of inclusive π0 and η meson production at mid-rapidity in pp collisions at s=8 TeV was carried out by the ALICE experiment at the LHC. The spectra of π0 and η mesons were measured in transverse momentum ranges of 0.30 and AESSS for the η overestimate the cross sections of both neutral mesons, although such calculations agree with the measured η/ π0 ratio within uncertainties. The results were also compared with PYTHIA 8.2 predictions for which the Monash 2013 tune yields the best agreement with the measured neutral meson spectra. The measurements confirm a universal behavior of the η/ π0 ratio seen for NA27, PHENIX and ALICE data for pp collisions from s=27.5 GeV to s=8 TeV within experimental uncertainties. A relation between the π0 and η production cross sections for pp collisions at s=8 TeV is given by mT scaling for pT>3.5 GeV/c. However, a deviation from this empirical scaling rule is observed for transverse momenta below pT<3.5 GeV/c in the η/ π0 ratio with a significance of 6.2 σ.",
author = "{ALICE Collaboration} and S. Acharya and J. Adam and D. Adamov{\'a} and J. Adolfsson and Aggarwal, {M. M.} and {Aglieri Rinella}, G. and M. Agnello and N. Agrawal and Z. Ahammed and N. Ahmad and Ahn, {S. U.} and S. Aiola and A. Akindinov and M. Al-Turany and Alam, {S. N.} and Alba, {J. L.B.} and Albuquerque, {D. S.D.} and D. Aleksandrov and B. Alessandro and {Alfaro Molina}, R. and A. Alici and A. Alkin and J. Alme and T. Alt and L. Altenkamper and I. Altsybeev and Prado, {C. Alves Garcia} and C. Andrei and D. Andreou and Andrews, {H. A.} and A. Andronic and V. Anguelov and C. Anson and T. Anti{\v c}i{\'c} and F. Antinori and P. Antonioli and R. Anwar and L. Aphecetche and H. Appelsh{\"a}user and S. Arcelli and R. Arnaldi and Arnold, {O. W.} and Arsene, {I. C.} and M. Arslandok and B. Audurier and A. Augustinus and R. Averbeck and Azmi, {M. D.} and A. Badal{\`a} and Seger, {J. E.}",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgements We thank Werner Vogelsang and Marco Strat-mann for providing the pQCD calculations. The ALICE Collaboration would like to thank all its engineers and technicians for their invaluable contributions to the construction of the experiment and the CERN accelerator teams for the outstanding performance of the LHC complex. The ALICE Collaboration gratefully acknowledges the resources and support provided by all Grid centres and the World-wide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) collaboration. The ALICE Collaboration acknowledges the following funding agencies for their support in building and running the ALICE detector: A. I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) Foundation (ANSL), State Committee of Science and World Federation of Scientists (WFS), Armenia; Austrian Academy of Sciences and Nationals-tiftung f{\"u}r Forschung, Technologie und Entwicklung, Austria; Ministry of Communications and High Technologies, National Nuclear Research Center, Azerbaijan; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient{\'i}fico e Tecnol{\'o}gico (CNPq), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (Finep) and Funda{\c c}{\~a}o de Amparo {\`a} Pesquisa do Estado de S{\~a}o Paulo (FAPESP), Brazil; Ministry of Science & Technology of China (MSTC), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and Ministry of Education of China (MOEC) , China; Ministry of Science, Education and Sport and Croatian Science Foundation, Croatia; Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic; The Danish Council for Independent Research | Natural Sciences, the Carlsberg Foundation and Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF), Denmark; Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Finland; Commissariat {\`a} l{\textquoteright}Energie Atomique (CEA) and Institut National de Physique Nucl{\'e}aire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France; Bundesministerium f{\"u}r Bildung, Wis-senschaft, Forschung und Technologie (BMBF) and GSI Helmholtzzen-trum f{\"u}r Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Germany; General Secretariat for Research and Technology, Ministry of Education, Research and Religions, Greece; National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Hungary; Department of Atomic Energy Government of India (DAE) and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India; Indonesian Institute of Science, Indonesia; Centro Fermi -Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Italy; Institute for Innovative Science and Technology , Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science (IIST), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAK-ENHI and Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan; Consejo Nacional de Ciencia (CONA-CYT) y Tecnolog{\'i}a, through Fondo de Cooperaci{\'o}n Internacional en Ciencia y Tecnolog{\'i}a (FONCICYT) and Direcci{\'o}n General de Asuntos Funding Information: del Personal Academico (DGAPA), Mexico; Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), Netherlands; The Research Council of Norway, Norway; Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS), Pakistan; Pon-tificia Universidad Cat{\'o}lica del Per{\'u}, Peru; Ministry of Science and Higher Education and National Science Centre, Poland; Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information and National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), Republic of Korea; Ministry of Education and Scientific Research, Institute of Atomic Physics and Romanian National Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation, Romania; Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Russia; Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, Slovakia; National Research Foundation of South Africa, South Africa; Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnol{\'o}gicas y Desar-rollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Cubaenerg{\'i}a, Cuba, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion and Centro de Investigaciones Energ{\'e}ticas, Medioambi-entales y Tecnol{\'o}gicas (CIEMAT), Spain; Swedish Research Council (VR) and Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW), Sweden; European Organization for Nuclear Research, Switzerland; National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSDTA), Suranaree University of Technology (SUT) and Office of the Higher Education Commission under NRU project of Thailand, Thailand; Turkish Atomic Energy Agency (TAEK), Turkey; National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine; Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), United Kingdom; National Science Foundation of the United States of America (NSF) and United States Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics (DOE NP), United States of America.",
year = "2018",
month = mar,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5612-8",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "78",
journal = "Zeitschrift fur Physik C-Particles and Fields",
issn = "1434-6044",
publisher = "Springer New York",
number = "3",
}