Inelastic J/psi Photoproduction
Inelastic photoproduction of $J/ψ$ particles at high energies is one of the processes to determine the gluon distribution in the nucleon. We have calculated the QCD radiative corrections to the color-singlet model of this reaction. They are large at moderate photon energies, but decrease with increasing energies. The cross section and the $J/ψ$ energy spectrum are compared with the available fixed-target photoproduction data and predictions are given for the HERA energy range.
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