Reconciling J/{psi} Production at HERA, RHIC, Tevatron, and LHC with Nonrelativistic QCD Factorization at Next-to-Leading Order

Journal Article · Fri Jan 14 04:00:00 EST 2011 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.106.022003· OSTI ID:21532240

Butenschoen, Mathias; Kniehl, Bernd A ^[1]

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1. II. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Universitaet Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg (Germany)

We calculate the cross section of inclusive direct J/{psi} hadroproduction at next-to-leading order within the factorization formalism of nonrelativistic quantum chromodynamics, including the full relativistic corrections due to the intermediate {sup 1}S{sub 0}{sup [8]}, {sup 3}S{sub 1}{sup [8]}, and {sup 3}P{sub J}{sup [8]} color-octet states. We perform a combined fit of the color-octet long-distance matrix elements to the transverse-momentum (p{sub T}) distributions measured by CDF at the Fermilab Tevatron and H1 at DESY HERA and demonstrate that they also successfully describe the p{sub T} distributions from PHENIX at BNL RHIC and CMS at the CERN LHC as well as the photon-proton c.m. energy and (with worse agreement) the inelasticity distributions from H1. This provides a first rigorous test of nonrelativistic QCD factorization at next-to-leading order. In all experiments, the color-octet processes are shown to be indispensable.

• OSTI ID: 21532240
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 106; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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