Study of $J/\psi$ production in jets

Understand

The production of $J/\psi$ mesons in jets is studied in the forward region of proton-proton collisions using data collected with the LHCb detector at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV.

• The fraction of the jet transverse momentum carried by the $J/\psi$ meson, $z \equiv p_{\rm T}(J/\psi)/p_{\rm T}({\rm jet})$, is measured using jets with $p_{\rm T}({\rm jet}) > 20$ GeV in the pseudorapidity range $2.5 < \eta({\rm jet}) < 4.0$.
• The observed $z$ distribution for $J/\psi$ mesons produced in $b$-hadron decays is consistent with expectations.
• However, the results for prompt $J/\psi$ production do not agree with predictions based on fixed-order non-relativistic QCD.