Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1999-02-23
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
9 pages, latex, 2 ps figures. Invited talk presented at the 13th International Conference on Hadron Collider Physics, Mumbai,
Scientific paper
In this talk, I start with a brief introduction to Non-Relativistic QCD (NRQCD) and its applications to quarkonium physics. This theory has provided a consistent framework for the physics of quarkonia, in particular, the colour-octet Fock components predicted by NRQCD have important implications for the phenomenology of charmonium production in experiments. The applications of NRQCD to $J/\psi$ production at Tevatron and the tests of the theory in other experiments is discussed. In particular, the apparent disagreement of NRQCD with results from HERA on inelastic photoproduction of $J/\psi$ is discussed and it is shown that the results are rather susceptible to intrinsic transverse momentum smearing. The photoproduction data, therefore, do not provide a good test of NRQCD. It is argued that NRQCD may be tested stringently by looking for the production of other charmonium resonances at the Tevatron, because the production rates for these resonances can be predicted within the NRQCD framework.
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