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NLO QCD Corrections for $J/\psi+ c + \bar{c}$ Production in Photon-Photon Collision

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-02-15 v2

Abstract

The γ+γJ/ψ+c+cˉ\gamma+\gamma\rightarrow J/\psi+c+\bar{c} inclusive process is an extremely important subprocess in J/ψJ/\psi production via photon-photon scattering, like at LEP\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral2} or various types future electron-positron colliders. In this work we perform the next-to-leading(NLO) QCD corrections to this process in the framework of non-relativistic QCD(NRQCD) factorization formalism, the first NLO calculation for two projectiles to 3-body quarkonium inclusive production process. By setting the center-of-mass energy at LEP\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral2}, the s=197\sqrt{s}=197 GeV, we conduct analyses of the pt2p_t^2 distribution and total cross section of this process at the NLO accuracy. It turns out that the total cross section is moderately enhanced by the NLO correction with a KK factor of about 1.46, and hence the discrepancy between DELPHI data and color-singlet(CS) calculation is reduced while the color-octet(CO) contributions are still inevitable at this order. At the future Circular Electron-Positron Collider(CEPC), the NLO corrections are found to be more significant, with a KK factor of about 1.76.

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@article{arxiv.1608.06231,
  title  = {NLO QCD Corrections for $J/\psi+ c + \bar{c}$ Production in Photon-Photon Collision},
  author = {Zi-Qiang Chen and Long-Bin Chen and Cong-Feng Qiao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.06231},
  year   = {2017}
}

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expressions are properly modified