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  "abstract": "A bstract : This article reports the measurement of the transverse-momentum ( p T ) differential production cross section of B ⁰ mesons in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $$\\sqrt{s}=13.6$$ TeV with the ALICE detector at the CERN LHC. For the first time, the B ⁰ production cross section is measured at midrapidity (| y | < 0 . 5) down to p T = 1 GeV /c at LHC energies. The B ⁰ mesons and their charge conjugates were reconstructed via the B ⁰ → D − π ⁺ decay channel, followed by the D − → K ⁺ π − π − decay. The measured p T -differential production cross section is described within uncertainties by state-of-the-art models based on perturbative quantum-chromodynamics calculations. Its rapidity dependence is also studied by computing the p T -differential ratios between the ALICE measurement and the one of B ⁺ mesons performed by the LHCb Collaboration at forward rapidity. The B ⁰ production cross section per unit of rapidity at midrapidity is $$\\mathrm{d}{\\sigma }^{\\mathrm{B}^{0}}/{\\left.\\mathrm{d}y\\right|}_{\\left|y\\right|<0.5}=24.2\\pm 1.4\\left(\\mathrm{stat}.\\right)\\pm 2.6{\\left(\\mathrm{syst}.\\right)}_{-0.3}^{+0.2}\\left(\\mathrm{extrap}.\\right)\\upmu \\mathrm{b}$$ .",
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    "Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università and Sezione INFN",
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    "Aligarh Muslim University",
    "P.J. Šafárik University",
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    "Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt",
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    "University of Bergen",
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    "University of Oslo",
    "Yale University",
    "University of Tokyo",
    "INFN, Sezione di Catania",
    "Sungkyunkwan University",
    "University of Science and Technology of China",
    "Université de Lyon, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon",
    "University of Jammu",
    "Université Paris-Saclay, Centre d’Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN)",
    "AGH University of Krakow",
    "University of Kansas",
    "Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica ‘M. Merlin’ and Sezione INFN",
    "Gauhati University",
    "HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics",
    "SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3"
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  "published": "2026-11-06",
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  "title": "Measurement of the B0-meson production cross section in proton-proton collisions at $$\\sqrt{s}=13.6$$ TeV",
  "title_text": "Measurement of the B0-meson production cross section in proton-proton collisions at √s=13.6 TeV",
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  "venue": "Journal of High Energy Physics",
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