Published March 1, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Relativistic effects in the double S- and P-wave charmonium production in e+e- annihilation

  • 1. Samara State University, Pavlov Street 1, Samara 443011 (Russian Federation)

Description

On the basis of perturbative QCD and the relativistic quark model we calculate relativistic and bound state corrections in the pair production of S-wave and P-wave charmonium states. Relativistic factors in the production amplitude connected with the relative motion of heavy quarks and the transformation law of the bound state wave function to the reference frame of the moving S- and P-wave mesons are taken into account. For the gluon and quark propagators entering the production vertex function we use a truncated expansion in the ratio of the relative quark momenta to the center-of-mass energy √(s) up to the second order. The relativistic treatment of the wave functions makes all such second order terms convergent, thus allowing the reliable calculation of their contributions to the production cross section. Relativistic corrections to the quark bound state wave functions in the rest frame are considered by means of the QCD generalization of the standard Breit potential. It turns out that the examined effects change essentially the nonrelativistic results of the cross section for the reaction e++e-→J/Ψ(ηc)+χcJ(hc) at the center-of-mass energy √(s)=10.6 GeV.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
81
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 054006-054006.11
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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