Spin-Flip Interactions and the Puzzle of psi's Polarization at Tevatron

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dc.creatorLiu, K. Y.
dc.creatorMa, J. P.
dc.creatorWu, X. G.
dc.date2006-01-26
dc.date2007-02-06
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:44:41Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T10:44:41Z
dc.descriptionNonrelativistic QCD provides a systematic approach for inclusive decays and productions of a quarkonium. By taking color-octet components into account, the approach can explain the $ψ'$-anomaly at Tevatron, where the measured production rate at large transverse momentum $p_\perp$ is in order of magnitude larger than the predicted with color-singlet components only. With the approach one can predict that the produced $J/ψ$ and $ψ'$ at large $p_\perp$ will be transversely polarized. But the prediction fails in confronting with experimental measurements and this generates a puzzle. We examine the role of spin-flip interactions in the spin density matrix of the transition of a color-octet charm quark pair into $J/ψ$ and $ψ'$. These interactions will introduce new nonperturbative parameters in the spin density matrix. Our result shows that the impact of the interactions is always to dilute the polarization and can be very significant. Taking the impact into account, predictions for the polarization are more close to the measured than the previous predicted. The same can also be expected for the polarization of $J/ψ$.
dc.descriptionmatch the published version Phys.Lett.B645:180-184,2007
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0601215
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0601215
dc.identifierPhys.Lett.B645:180-184,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1016/j.physletb.2006.12.023
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/182683
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleSpin-Flip Interactions and the Puzzle of psi's Polarization at Tevatron
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