Heavy flavor correlations and Quarkonia production in high energy pp collisions in the EPOS4 framework
Jiaxing Zhao, Taesoo Song, Pol Bernard Gossiaux, Klaus Werner, Joerg Aichelin, Elena Bratkovskaya
公開日: 2025/9/29
Abstract
In QCD, the production of heavy quark-antiquark pairs can proceed through different mechanisms, each imprinting characteristic correlations between the heavy quarks. In this work, we use the EPOS4 event generator to study how these correlations affect quarkonium production in pp collisions. Our results demonstrate that the observed correlations between heavy mesons directly reflect the underlying production mechanisms and simultaneously shape the transverse-momentum distributions of quarkonia.