Color-octet mechanism and J/psi polarization at LEP
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-30 v2
Abstract
Polarized heavy quarkonium productions in decays are considered. We find that polarizations of the produced quarkonia are independent of that of the parent Z^0 provided that one considers the energy distribution or the total production rate. Produced J/psi's via the color-octet and the color- singlet mechanisms are expected to be 19% and 29% longitudinally polarized, respectively. The energy dependence of eta_{1,8}(x)=\frac{dGamma_{1,8}^L}{dx} /\frac{dGamma_{1,8}}{d x} is very sensitive to the production mechanism, and therefore the measurement of \eta(x)_exp will be an independent probe of the color-octet mechanism.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9701208,
title = {Color-octet mechanism and J/psi polarization at LEP},
author = {Seungwon Baek and P. Ko and Jungil Lee and H. S. Song},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9701208},
year = {2009}
}
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15 pages, minor changes, version to be published in Phys. Rev. D