Spin rotation effects in diffractive electroproduction of heavy quarkonia

Michal Krelina, Jan Nemchik, Roman Pasechnik, Jan Čepila

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    Abstract

    In this work we present for the first time the comprehensive study of the Melosh spin rotation effects in diffractive electroproduction of S-wave heavy quarkonia off a nucleon target. Such a study has been performed within the color dipole approach using, as an example and a reference point, two popular parametrizations of the dipole cross section and two potentials describing the interaction between Q and Q¯ and entering in the Schrödinger equation based formalism for determination of the quarkonia wave functions. We find a strong onset of spin rotation effects in 1S charmonium photoproduction which is obviously neglected in present calculations of corresponding cross sections. For photoproduction of radially excited ψ (2 S) these effects are even stronger leading to an increase of the photoproduction cross section by a factor of 2 ÷ 3 depending on the photon energy. Even in production of radially excited Υ (2 S) and Υ ′ ′ (3 S) they can not be neglected and cause the 20–30% enhancement of the photoproduction cross section. Finally, we predict that the spin effects vanish gradually with photon virtuality Q 2 following universality properties in production of different heavy quarkonia as a function of Q2+MV2.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number154
    JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
    Volume79
    Issue number2
    Early online date2019 Feb 20
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2019

    Subject classification (UKÄ)

    • Subatomic Physics

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