Polarizations of J/psi and psi(2S) Mesons Produced in ppbar Collisions at 1.96 TeV

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2007-04-04

arxiv.org/abs/0704.0638v2

Phys.Rev.Lett.99:132001,2007

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Experiment

8 pages, 7 figures, published in Physical Review Letters

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.132001

We have measured the polarizations of $\jpsi$ and $\psiprime$ mesons as functions of their transverse momentum $\pt$ when they are produced promptly in the rapidity range $|y|<0.6$ with $\pt \geq 5 \pgev$. The analysis is performed using a data sample with an integrated luminosity of about $800 \ipb$ collected by the CDF II detector. For both vector mesons, we find that the polarizations become increasingly longitudinal as $\pt$ increases from 5 to $30 \pgev$. These results are compared to the predictions of nonrelativistic quantum chromodynamics and other contemporary models. The effective polarizations of $\jpsi$ and $\psiprime$ mesons from $B$-hadron decays are also reported.

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