Clark, Brian LeeFranklin, MelissaHuth, JohnIppolito, ValerioLazovich, TomoLopez Mateos, DavidMercurio, KevinMorii, MasahiroSpearman, WilliamSun, SiyuanTolley, EmmaYen, AndyZambito, Stefano2017-06-082016ATLAS Collaboration. 2016. “Measurement of D∗±, D± and D±s meson production cross sections in pp collisions at s√=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector.” Nuclear Physics B 907 (June): 717–763. doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2016.04.032.0550-3213http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:32940953The production of D∗±, D± and D±s charmed mesons has been measured with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s√=7 TeV at the LHC, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 280nb−1. The charmed mesons have been reconstructed in the range of transverse momentum 3.5<pT(D)<100 GeV and pseudorapidity |η(D)|<2.1. The differential cross sections as a function of transverse momentum and pseudorapidity were measured for D∗± and D± production. The next-to-leading-order QCD predictions are consistent with the data in the visible kinematic region within the large theoretical uncertainties. Using the visible D cross sections and an extrapolation to the full kinematic phase space, the strangeness-suppression factor in charm fragmentation, the fraction of charged non-strange D mesons produced in a vector state, and the total cross section of charm production at s√=7 TeV were derived.en-USMeasurement of D∗±, D± and D±s meson production cross sections in pp collisions at s√=7 TeV with the ATLAS detectorJournal Article2017-06-0810.1016/j.nuclphysb.2016.04.032