Published April 1, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Polarization effects in the central exclusive χc production and the J/ψ angular distributions

  • 1. Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, JINR, Dubna 141980 (Russian Federation)
  • 2. Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, PL-31-342 Cracow (Poland) and the University of Rzeszow, PL-35-959 Rzeszow (Poland)
  • 3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, SE-751 20 Uppsala (Sweden)

Description

We discuss exclusive elastic double diffractive axial-vector χc(1+) and tensor χc(2+) mesons production for different meson polarizations in proton-(anti)proton collisions at the Tevatron energy. The amplitude for the process is derived within the kt-factorization approach using unintegrated gluon distributions. Differential cross sections for different χc polarizations are calculated. Angular distributions of J/ψ meson from the radiative χc(1+,2+) decays are derived. Prospects for experimental selection of different spin states of χc mesons are discussed.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
83
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 074017-074017.13
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2011 American Institute of Physics