Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2009-09-25
Eur.Phys.J.C65:433-448,2010
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
30 pages, 8 figures, minor typos corrected, version to appear in EPJC
Scientific paper
10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-1214-9
Motivated by the recent experimental observation of exclusive chi_c events at the Tevatron, we revisit earlier studies of central exclusive scalar chi_c0 meson production, before generalising the existing formalism to include chi_c1 and chi_c2 mesons. Although chi_c0 production was previously assumed to be dominant, we find that the chi_c1 and chi_c2 rates for the experimentally considered chi_c -> J/psi gamma -> mu+ mu- gamma decay process are in fact comparable to the chi_c0 rate. We have developed a new Monte Carlo event generator, SuperCHIC, which models the central exclusive production of the three chi_c states via this decay chain, and have explored possible ways of distinguishing them, given that their mass differences are not resolvable within the current experimental set-up. Although we find that the severity of current experimental cuts appears to preclude this, the acceptance does not change crucially between the three states and so our conclusions regarding the overall rates remain unchanged. This therefore raises the interesting possibility that exclusive chi_c1 and chi_c2 production has already been observed at the Tevatron.
Harland-Lang L. A.
Khoze Valery A.
Ryskin M. G.
Stirling James W.
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