Role of Multi-Parton Interactions on $J/\psi$ production in $p+p$ collisions at LHC Energies

TL;DR

This paper investigates how multi-parton interactions influence $J/C6$ production in high-energy proton-proton collisions at the LHC, using PYTHIA8 simulations to analyze multiplicity dependence and the $C8(2S)$ to $J/C6$ ratio.

Contribution

It provides a detailed simulation-based analysis of MPI effects on quarkonium production and multiplicity correlations at LHC energies, including the impact of color reconnection.

Findings

Relative $J/C6$ yield increases linearly with charged particle multiplicity.

MPI and color reconnection significantly affect quarkonium production patterns.

The $C8(2S)$ to $J/C6$ ratio varies with multiplicity, indicating different production mechanisms.

Abstract

The production mechanism of quarkonia states in hadronic collisions is still to be understood by the scientific community. In high-multiplicity $p+p$ collisions, Underlying Event (UE) observables are of major interest. The Multi-Parton Interactions (MPI) is a UE observable, where several interactions occur at the partonic level in a single $p+p$ event. This leads to dependence of particle production on event multiplicity. If the MPI occurs in a harder scale, there will be a correlation between the yield of quarkonia and total charged particle multiplicity. The ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in $p+p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 and 13 TeV has observed an approximate linear increase of relative $J/\psi$ yield ($\frac{dN_{J/\psi}/dy}{<dN_{J/\psi}/dy>}$) with relative charged particle multiplicity density ($\frac{dN_{ch}/dy}{<dN_{ch}/dy>}$). In our present work we have performed a comprehensive study of the production of charmonia as a function of charged particle multiplicity in $p+p$ collisions at LHC energies using pQCD-inspired multiparton interaction model, PYTHIA8 tune 4C, with and without Color Reconnection (CR) scheme. A detail multiplicity and energy dependent study is performed to understand the effects of MPI on $J/\psi$ production. The ratio of $\psi(2S)$ to $J/\psi$ is also studied as a function of charged particle multiplicity at LHC energies.