Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2009-06-30
Phys.Rev.D80:034018,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
12 pages, 10 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.80.034018
A new mechanism for heavy quarkonium production in high-energy collisions called the "s-channel cut" was proposed in 2005 by Lansberg, Cudell, and Kalinovsky. We identify this mechanism physically as the production of a heavy quark and anti-quark that are on-shell followed by their rescattering to produce heavy quarkonium. We point out that in the NRQCD factorization formalism this rescattering mechanism is a contribution to the color-singlet model term at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbation theory. Its leading contribution to the production rate can be calculated without introducing any additional phenomenological parameters. We calculate the charm-pair rescattering (or s-channel cut) contribution to the production of J/psi at the Tevatron and compare it to estimates by Lansberg et al. using phenomenological models. This contribution competes with the leading-order term in the color-singlet model at large transverse momentum but is significantly smaller than the next-to-leading-order term. We conclude that charm-pair rescattering is not a dominant mechanism for charmonium production in high-energy collisions.
Artoisenet Pierre
Braaten Eric
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