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HEAVY FLAVOUR PRODUCTION AT ATLAS<br />

Z. DOLE ˇ ZAL<br />

on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration<br />

Institute of Particle <strong>and</strong> Nuclear Physics, Faculty of Mathematics <strong>and</strong> Physics, Charles University in<br />

Prague, V Holeˇsovičkách 2, CZ 18000 Prague, The Czech Republic<br />

ATLAS is a general purpose <strong>de</strong>tector built at the Large Hadron Colli<strong>de</strong>r at CERN, Geneva.<br />

In addition to the high pT program it has a rich flavour physics program. Latest results of<br />

heavy flavour production in ATLAS are presented, focusing on D <strong>and</strong> B meson production<br />

<strong>and</strong> J/ψ prompt <strong>and</strong> indirect cross-section measurements.<br />

1 Introduction<br />

ATLAS is a general purpose <strong>de</strong>tector built at the Large Hadron Colli<strong>de</strong>r at CERN, Geneva. Its<br />

main objective is to search for physics beyond the St<strong>and</strong>ard Mo<strong>de</strong>l. In addition to this program<br />

it has a rich flavour physics program as well. Flavour-related processes serve also as a very useful<br />

tool to un<strong>de</strong>rst<strong>and</strong> <strong>de</strong>tector performance using well known particles with c <strong>and</strong> b quarks <strong>and</strong><br />

measurements of production cross-sections for D hadrons, B hadrons, J/ψ <strong>and</strong> Υ to test <strong>QCD</strong><br />

predictions for proton-proton (pp) collisions at √ s = 7 TeV. With higher statistics (several fb −1<br />

expected in <strong>2011</strong> <strong>and</strong> 2012) properties of B hadrons <strong>and</strong> other interesting observables will be<br />

measured.<br />

2 ATLAS Detector <strong>and</strong> Triggers<br />

A <strong>de</strong>tailed <strong>de</strong>scription of the ATLAS <strong>de</strong>tector can be found here 1 . Only the most important<br />

parts of the nominal <strong>de</strong>tector relevant for flavour physics studies are <strong>de</strong>scribed in this paper.<br />

The Inner Detector uses its magnetic field of 2 T to measure charged particle tracks in a pseudorapidity<br />

range of |η| < 2.5. In the barrel region it consists of 3 pixel layers followed by 4 silicon<br />

strip <strong>de</strong>tector layers <strong>and</strong> the Transition Radiation Tracker allowing to reach <strong>de</strong>sign momentum<br />

precision of σpT /pT = 0.05%pT ⊕1%. Muon <strong>de</strong>tector system (MS) - the outermost <strong>de</strong>tector of

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