Heavy Quarkonium Production with Polarized Hadrons and Photons
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We investigate the inclusive production of prompt J/psi mesons in polarized hadron-hadron and photon-hadron collisions in the factorization formalism of NRQCD. Numerical results are presented for BNL RHIC-Spin and the approved SLAC fixed-target experiment E161 to assess the feasibility to access the spin-dependent parton distributions in the polarized proton and photon. We point out that data on J/psi production taken by the PHENIX Collaboration in unpolarized proton-proton collisions at RHIC tend to favor the NRQCD factorization hypothesis, while they significantly overshoot the theoretical prediction of the CSM.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0307384,
title = {Heavy Quarkonium Production with Polarized Hadrons and Photons},
author = {M. Klasen and B. A. Kniehl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0307384},
year = {2007}
}
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6 pages, 3 figures, contribution to DIS03