Monte Carlo simulations of Upsilon meson production in p + p at s = 500 GeV

Abstract

Abstract Quarkonium production in proton-proton collisions serves as an essential baseline for studying the effect of quarkonium suppression in proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions. This paper presents the main characteristics of Upsilon mesons production in proton-proton collisions at s = 500 GeV studied with two Monte Carlo event generators: Pythia and Herwig and the results compared. Main aim of these simulations is to explore the dependence of normalised Upsilon meson yield on normalised event multiplicity and the influence of the feed-down effect on Upsilon meson production. The simulations show that the normalised Upsilon yield rises stronger than linear with regards to the normalised charged particle multiplicity. A mass ordering is found for Upsilons originating from feed-down and it suggests that the observed strong increase depends on the scale of the original hard process producing the quarkonium state.