Heavy Quarkonium Production and Propagation in Nuclei
Abstract
We describe a precursor in heavy quarkonium production in terms of a coherent admixture of states of different color, spin, and angular momentum quantum numbers, and obtain the production amplitudes for different quarkonium bound states by projecting out this precursor state onto these bound states. The precursor is absorbed in its passage through a nucleus in a pA reaction, and the total cross section between this precursor with a nucleon can be calculated with the two-gluon model of the Pomeron. Such a description of coherent precursors and their subsequent interactions with nucleons can explain many salient features of J/psi and psi' production in pA collisions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9712320,
title = {Heavy Quarkonium Production and Propagation in Nuclei},
author = {Cheuk-Yin Wong},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9712320},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
8 pages (REVTeX), to be published in the Proceedings of International Symposium on Trends in Subatomic Physics, August 7-12, 1997, Taipei