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J. P. Lansberg

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arXiv2010

QCD corrections to J/psi polarisation in pp collisions at RHIC

We update the study of the polarisation of J/psi produced in proton-proton collisions at RHIC at sqrt(s)=200 GeV using the QCD-based Colour-Singlet Model (CSM), including next-to-leading order partonic matrix elements from gluon and light quark fusion and leading-order contributions from charm-quark initiated processes. To do so, we also evaluate the corresponding cross section differential in P_T which agrees qualitatively with the measurements of PHENIX in the central and forward regions at low P_T -- for instance below 2 GeV --, while emphasising the need for Initial State Radiation (ISR) resummation. At mid P_T, we also compare the measurements from PHENIX and STAR with the same evaluation complemented with the dominant alphaS^5 contributions (NNLO*). We find a reasonable agreement with the data. Regarding the polarisation, as shown for previous studies at larger sqrt(s) and P_T, the polarisation pattern from gluon and light quark fusion in the helicity frame is drastically modified at NLO and is shown to be increasingly longitudinal. The yield from charm-gluon fusion is found to be slightly transversally polarised. Combining both these contributions with a data-driven range for the polarisation of J/psi from chi_c, we eventually provide an evaluation of the polarisation of the prompt J/psi yield which is in a good agreement with the experimental data from PHENIX both in the central and forward regions.

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arXiv2010

Total J/Psi and Upsilon production cross section at the LHC: theory vs. experiment

We evaluate the production cross section for direct J/Psi and Upsilon integrated in P_T for various collision energies in the QCD-based Colour-Singlet Model (CSM). We consider the LO contribution from gluon fusion whose P_T-integrated cross section shows a very good agreement with the Tevatron and LHC data, both for J/Psi and Upsilon. The rapidity distribution of this yield is evaluated in the central region relevant for the ATLAS and CMS detectors, as well as in the more forward region relevant for the ALICE and LHCb detectors. The results obtained here are compatible with those of other approaches within the range of the theoretical uncertainties which are admittedly very large. This suggests that the "mere" measurements of the yield at the LHC will not help disentangle between the different possible quarkonium production mechanisms. Yet, the comparison with the first LHC results by ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb confirms that the CSM correctly accounts for the P_T-integrated yield at sqrt(s)=7 TeV.

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arXiv2010

Spin Observables in Transition-Distribution-Amplitude Studies

Exclusive hadronic reactions with a massive lepton pair (l^+l^-) in the final state will be measured with PANDA at GSI-FAIR and with Compass at CERN, both in p+p-bar -> l^+l^-+pi and pi+N -> N'+l^+l^-. Similarly, electroproduction of a meson in the backward region will be studied at JLAB. We discuss here how the spin structure of the amplitude for such processes will enable us to disentangle various mechanisms. For instance, target-transverse-spin asymmetries are specific of a partonic description, where the amplitude is factorised in terms of baryon to meson or meson to baryon Transition Distribution Amplitudes (TDAs) as opposed to what is expected from baryon-exchange contributions.

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arXiv2010

Hard exclusive processes in the backward region

We review the potentialities offered by the study of backward exclusive processes in a new scaling regime, i.e. involving a large -timelike or spacelike- Q2 photon and a baryonic exchange in the t-channel. We recall the concept of Transition Distribution Amplitudes (TDAs) containing unique information on the hadron structure, then discuss how they enter the description of processes such as backward electroproduction of a pion, antiproton-proton annihilations into a dilepton + meson as well as into J/psi + meson. We then discuss first phenomenological studies for processes that are being analysed at JLAB and HERMES or that will be measured by Panda at GSI-FAIR. Finally we present outlooks for their theoretical studies based on approaches such as the pion-cloud model.

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arXiv2010

Total J/psi production cross section at the LHC

We evaluate the production cross section for direct J/psi integrated in P_T for various collision energies of the LHC in the QCD-based Colour-Singlet Model. We consider the LO contribution from gluon fusion as well as the one from a fusion of a gluon and a charm quark from the colliding protons. The rapidity distribution of the yield is evaluated in the central region relevant for the ATLAS and CMS detectors, as well as in the more forward region relevant for the ALICE and LHC-b detectors. The results obtained here are compatible with those of other approaches within the range of the theoretical uncertainties which are admittedly very large. This suggests that the "mere" measurements of the yield at the LHC will not help disentangle between the different possible quarkonium production mechanisms.

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arXiv2010

Centrality, Rapidity and Transverse-Momentum Dependence of Cold Nuclear Matter Effects on J/Psi Production in d+Au, Cu+Cu and Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV

We have carried out a wide study of Cold Nuclear Matter (CNM) effects on J/Psi production in d+Au, Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV. We have studied the effects of three different gluon-shadowing parametrisations, using the usual simplified kinematics for which the momentum of the gluon recoiling against the J/Psi is neglected as well as an exact kinematics for a 2 -> 2 process, namely g+g -> J/psi+g as expected from LO pQCD. We have shown that the rapidity distribution of the nuclear modification factor R_dAu, and particularly its anti-shadowing peak, is systematically shifted toward larger rapidities in the 2 -> 2 kinematics, irrespective of which shadowing parametrisation is used. In turn, we have noted differences in the effective final-state nuclear absorption necessary to fit the PHENIX d+Au data. Taking advantage of our implementation of a 2 -> 2 kinematics, we have also computed the transverse momentum dependence of the latter nuclear modification factor, which cannot be predicted with the usual simplified kinematics. All the corresponding observables have been computed for Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions and compared to the PHENIX and STAR data. Finally, we have extracted the effective nuclear absorption from the recent measurements of R_CP in d+Au by the PHENIX collaboration.

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arXiv2010

On the theoretical and experimental uncertainties in the extraction of the J/psi absorption cross section in cold nuclear matter

We investigate the cold nuclear matter effects on $J/ψ$ production, whose understanding is fundamental to study the quark-gluon plasma. Two of these effects are of particular relevance: the shadowing of the parton distributions and the nuclear absorption of the $c\bar{c}$ pair. If $J/ψ$'s are not produced {\it via} a $2 \to 1$ process as suggested by recent theoretical works, one has to modify accordingly the way to compute the nuclear shadowing. This naturally induces differences in the absorption cross-section fit to the data. A careful analysis of these differences however requires taking into account the experimental uncertainties and their correlations, as done in this work for $d$Au collisions at $\sqrtsNN=200\mathrm{GeV}$, using several shadowing parametrisations.

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arXiv2009

Real next-to-next-to-leading-order QCD corrections to J/psi and Upsilon hadroproduction in association with a photon

We update the study of the QCD corrections to direct J/psi and Upsilon hadroproduction in association with a photon in the QCD-based approach of the Colour-Singlet (CS) Model. After comparison with the recent full next-to-leading-order (NLO) computation for this process, we provide an independent confirmation to the inclusive case that NLO QCD corrections to quarkonium-production processes whose LO exhibits a non-leading P_T behaviour can be reliably computed at mid and large P_T by considering only the real emission contributions accompanied with a kinematical cut. In turn, we evaluate the leading part of the alpha^4_S alpha contributions, namely those coming from (J/psi,Upsilon)+gamma associated with two light partons. We find that they are dominant at mid and large P_T. This confirms our expectations from the leading P_T scaling of the new topologies appearing at NNLO. We obtain that the yield from the CS becomes one order of magnitude larger than the upper value of the potential Colour-Octet yield. The polarization of the 3S1 quarkonia produced in association with a photon is confirmed to be longitudinal at mid and large P_T.

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arXiv2009

Cold nuclear matter effects on J/psi production: intrinsic and extrinsic transverse momentum effects

Cold nuclear matter effects on J/psi production in proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions are evaluated taking into account the specific J/psi production kinematics at the partonic level, the shadowing of the initial parton distributions and the absorption in the nuclear matter. We consider two different parton processes for the c-cbar pair production: one with collinear gluons and a recoiling gluon in the final state and the other with initial gluons carrying intrinsic transverse momentum. Our results are compared to RHIC observables. The smaller values of the nuclear modification factor R_AA in the forward rapidity region (with respect to the mid rapidity region) are partially explained, therefore potentially reducing the need for recombination effects.

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arXiv2009

On the physical Relevance of the Study of gamma* gamma -> pi0 pi0 at small t and large Q2

We discuss the relevance of a dedicated measurement of exclusive production of a pair of neutral pions in a hard gamma* gamma scattering at small momentum transfer. In this case, the virtuality of one photon provides us with a hard scale in the process, enabling us to perform a QCD calculation of this reaction rate using the concept of Transition Distribution Amplitudes (TDA). Those are related by sum rules to the pion axial form factor F^pi_A and, as a direct consequence, a cross-section measurement of this process at intense beam electron-positron colliders such as CLEO, KEK-B and PEP-II, or Super-B would provide us with a unique measurement of the neutral pion axial form factor F^pi0_A at small scale.

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arXiv2009

Effective Lagrangian for Two-photon and Two-gluon Decays of $P$-wave Heavy Quarkonium $χ_{c0,2}$ and $χ_{b0,2}$ states

In the traditional non-relativistic bound state calculation, the two-photon decay amplitudes of the $P$-wave $χ_{c0,2}$ and $χ_{b0,2}$ states depend on the derivative of the wave function at the origin which can only be obtained from potential models. However by neglecting the relative quark momenta, the decay amplitude can be written as the matrix element of a local heavy quark field operator which could be obtained from other processes or computed with QCD sum rules technique or lattice simulation. Following the same line as in recent work for the two-photon decays of the $S$-wave $η_{c}$ and $η_{b}$ quarkonia, we show that the effective Lagrangian for the two-photon decays of the $P$-wave $χ_{c0,2}$ and $χ_{b0,2}$ is given by the heavy quark energy-momentum tensor local operator or its trace, the $\bar{Q}Q$ scalar density and that the expression for $χ_{c0}$ two-photon and two-gluon decay rate is given by the $f_{χ_{c0}}$ decay constant and is similar to that of $η_{c}$ which is given by $f_{η_{c}}$. From the existing QCD sum rules value for $f_{χ_{c0}}$, we get $5\rm keV$ for the $χ_{c0}$ two-photon width, somewhat larger than measurement, but possibly with large uncertainties.

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arXiv2009

Cold Nuclear Matter effects on J/ψproduction at RHIC: comparing shadowing models

We present a wide study on the comparison of different shadowing models and their influence on \jpsi production. We have taken into account the possibility of different partonic processes for the $c \bar c$-pair production. We notice that the effect of shadowing corrections on \jpsi production clearly depends on the partonic process considered. Our results are compared to the available data on \dAu collisions at RHIC energies. We try different break up cross section for each of the studied shadowing models.

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arXiv2008

On the mechanisms of heavy-quarkonium hadroproduction

We discuss the various mechanisms potentially at work in hadroproduction of heavy quarkonia in the light of computations of higher-order QCD corrections both in the Colour-Singlet (CS) and Colour-Octet (CO) channels and the inclusion of the contribution arising from the s-channel cut in the CS channel. We also discuss new observables meant to better discriminate between these different mechanisms.

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arXiv2008

Perspectives on heavy-quarkonium production at the LHC

We summarise the perspectives on heavy-quarkonium production at the LHC, both for proton-proton and heavy-ion runs, as emanating from the round table held at the HLPW 2008 Conference. The main topics are: present experimental and theoretical knowledge, experimental capabilities, open questions, recent theoretical advances and potentialities linked to some new observables.

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arXiv2008

J/psi production at the Tevatron and RHIC from s-channel cut

We report on our recent evaluation of the s-channel cut contribution to J/psi hadroproduction. We show that it is likely significantly larger than the usual cut contribution of the colour-singlet model (CSM), which is known to underestimate the experimental measurements. Here the s-channel cut develops for configurations with off-shell quarks in the bound state. A correct treatment of its contribution requires the introduction of a four point function, partially constrained by gauge invariance and limiting behaviours at small and large momenta. When the unconstrained degrees of freedom are fixed to reproduce the Tevatron data, we show that RHIC data are remarkably well reproduced down to very low transverse momenta P_T without need of resummation of initial-state gluon effects. This unique feature might be typical of s-channel cut contribution.

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arXiv2008

Upsilon production at the Tevatron and the LHC

We update the theoretical predictions for direct Y(nS) hadroproduction in the framework of NRQCD. We show that the next-to-leading order corrections in alpha_s to the color-singlet transition significantly raise the differential cross section at high pT and substantially affect the polarization of the Upsilon. Motivated by the remaining gap between the NLO yield and the cross section measurements at the Tevatron, we evaluate the leading part of the alpha_s^5 contributions, namely those coming from Y(nS) associated with three light partons. The differential color-singlet cross section at alpha_s^5 is in substantial agreement with the data, so that there is no evidence for the need of color-octet contributions. Furthermore, we find that the polarization of the Y(nS) is longitudinal. We also present our predictions for Y(nS) production at the LHC.

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