Production of D-mesons in p + p and p + Pb collisions at LHC energies

Abstract

We present theoretical model comparison with published ALICE results for [Formula: see text]-mesons ([Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]) in [Formula: see text] collisions at [Formula: see text] = 7 TeV and [Formula: see text] collisions at [Formula: see text][Formula: see text]TeV. Event generator Heavy-Ion Jet Interaction Generator (HIJING), transport calculation of AMPT and calculations from Next-to-Leading Order (NLO)(MNR) and Fixed-Order Next-to-Leading-Logarithmic (FONLL) have been used for this study. We found that HIJING and AMPT model predictions are matching with published [Formula: see text]-meson cross-sections in [Formula: see text] collisions, while both under predict the same in [Formula: see text] collisions. Attempts were made to explain the [Formula: see text] data using NLO-pQCD(MNR), FONLL and other above mentioned models.