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$\psi(2S)$ production in jets using NRQCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-10-17 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Based on recent data from LHCb, we study ψ(2S)\psi(2S) production in jets using non-relativistic QCD (NRQCD) in conjunction with the Fragmenting Jet Function (FJF) and Gluon Fragmentation Improved Pythia (GFIP) formalisms. Similar to previous studies of J/ψJ/\psi production in jets, our results show that these formalisms offer a much better description of data than the default Pythia+NRQCD prediction. We compare and contrast the predictions from the FJF formalism and the GFIP approach. In addition, our results show that the distribution of ψ(2S)\psi(2S) in jets is an excellent discriminator to test different predictions for the ψ(2S)\psi(2S) LDMEs from various extractions. We find a large disparity between the predictions from three different collaborations, showing that a more precise extraction of the ψ(2S)\psi(2S) LDMEs may be necessary.

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@article{arxiv.2508.00814,
  title  = {$\psi(2S)$ production in jets using NRQCD},
  author = {Marston Copeland and Lin Dai and Yu Fu and Jyotirmoy Roy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.00814},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

17 pages,2 figures; results updated

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