Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2007-05-20
Phys.Rev.D76:094014,2007
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
22 pages, 20 figures; dedicated to Kolya Nikolaev on the occasion of his 60th birthday; 4 figures and discussion added
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.094014
Protons and antiprotons at collider energies are a source of high energy Weizs\"acker--Williams photons. This may open a possibility to study exclusive photoproduction of heavy vector mesons at energies much larger than possible at the HERA accelerator. Here we present a detailed investigation of the exclusive $J/\psi$ photoproduction in proton-proton (RHIC, LHC) and proton-antiproton (Tevatron) collisions. We calculate several differential distributions in $t_1, t_2, y, \phi$, as well as transverse momentum distributions of $J/\Psi$'s. We discuss correlations in the azimuthal angle between outgoing protons or proton and antiproton as well as in the ($t_1, t_2$) space. Differently from electroproduction experiments, here both colliding beam particles can be a source of photons, and we find large interference terms in azimuthal angle distributions in a broad range of rapidities of the produced meson. We also include the spin--flip parts in the electromagnetic vertices. We discuss the effect of absorptive corrections on various distributions. Interestingly, absorption corrections induce a charge asymmetry in rapidity distributions, and are larger for $p p$ reactions than for the $p \bar p$ case. The reaction considered here constitutes an important nonreduceable background in recently proposed searches for odderon exchange.
Schäfer Wolfgang
Szczurek Antoni
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