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Recent Developments in Heavy Quark and Quarkonium Production

Conference ·
OSTI ID:836843
Recent measurements of J/{psi} production in e{sup +}e{sup -} colliders pose a challenge to the NRQCD factorization theorem for quarkonium production. Discrepancies between leading order calculations of color-octet contributions and the momentum distribution of J/{psi} observed by Belle and BaBar are resolved by resumming large perturbative and nonperturbative corrections that are enhanced near the kinematic endpoint. The large cross sections for J/{psi} + c + {bar c} and double quarkonium production remain poorly understood. Nonperturbative effects in fixed-target hadroproduction of open charm are also discussed. Large asymmetries in the production of charm mesons and baryons probe nonperturbative corrections to the QCD factorization theorem. A power correction called heavy-quark recombination can economically explain these asymmetries with a few universal parameters.
Research Organization:
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
US Department of Energy; USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-84ER40150
OSTI ID:
836843
Report Number(s):
JLAB-THY-03-222; DOE/ER/40150-3142; hep-ph/0312239
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English