Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1994-11-23
Phys.Rev.Lett. 74 (1995) 3327-3330
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
9 pages, LaTex
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.3327
The production rate of prompt $\psi'$'s at large transverse momentum at the Tevatron is larger than theoretical expectations by about a factor of 30. As a solution to this puzzle, we suggest that the dominant $\psi'$ production mechanism is the fragmentation of a gluon into a $c \bar c$ pair in a pointlike color-octet S-wave state, which subsequently evolves nonperturbatively into a $\psi'$ plus light hadrons. The contribution to the fragmentation function from this process is enhanced by a short-distance factor of $1/\alpha_s^2$ relative to the conventional color-singlet contribution. This may compensate for the suppression by $v^4$, where $v$ is the relative momentum of the charm quark in the $\psi'$. If this is indeed the dominant production mechanism at large $p_T$, then the prompt $\psi'$'s that are observed at the Tevatron should almost always be associated with a jet of light hadrons.
Braaten Eric
Fleming Sean
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