Resummation of Large Endpoint Corrections to Color-Octet J/psi Photoproduction

dc.creatorFleming, Sean
dc.creatorLeibovich, Adam K.
dc.creatorMehen, Thomas
dc.date2006-07-11
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:05:13Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:05:13Z
dc.descriptionAn unresolved problem in J/psi phenomenology is a systematic understanding of the differential photoproduction cross section, dsigma/dz [gamma + p -> J/psi + X], where z= E_psi/E_gamma in the proton rest frame. In the non-relativistic QCD (NRQCD) factorization formalism, fixed-order perturbative calculations of color-octet mechanisms suffer from large perturbative and nonperturbative corrections that grow rapidly in the endpoint region, z -> 1. In this paper, NRQCD and soft collinear effective theory are combined to resum these large corrections to the color-octet photoproduction cross section. We derive a factorization theorem for the endpoint differential cross section involving the parton distribution function and the color-octet J/psi shape functions. A one loop matching calculation explicitly confirms our factorization theorem at next-to-leading order. Large perturbative corrections are resummed using the renormalization group. The calculation of the color-octet contribution to dsigma/dz is in qualitative agreement with data. Quantitative tests of the universality of color-octet matrix elements require improved knowledge of shape functions entering these calculations as well as resummation of the color-singlet contribution which accounts for much of the total cross section and also peaks near the endpoint.
dc.description30 pages, 6 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0607121
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0607121
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D74:114004,2006
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.74.114004
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/189140
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleResummation of Large Endpoint Corrections to Color-Octet J/psi Photoproduction
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