Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2012-01-09
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
8 pages, 2 figures; minor changes to the text, 3 references added; accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
Scientific paper
We study the polarization observables of J/psi hadroproduction at next-to-leading order within the factorization formalism of nonrelativistic quantum chromodynamics. We complete the present knowledge of the relativistic corrections by also providing the contribution due to the intermediate ^3P_J^{[8]} color-octet states at this order, which turns out to be quite significant. Exploiting the color-octet long-distance matrix elements previously extracted through a global fit to experimental data of unpolarized J/psi production, we provide theoretical predictions in the helicity and Collins-Soper frames and compare them with data taken by CDF at Fermilab Tevatron I and II and by ALICE at CERN LHC. The notorious CDF J/psi polarization anomaly familiar from leading-order analyses persists at the quantum level, while the situation looks promising for the LHC, which is bound to bring final clarification.
Butenschoen Mathias
Kniehl Bernd A.
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