We must know. We will know

The after-dinner talk has by now become a tradition of this Conference series on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum. On this occasion, I have tried to combine a free-style and (hopefully) amusing presentation with deep questions of physics especially connected with the dynamics of strong interaction. To this end some masterpieces of classical music (by Beethoven, Mozart, Dvorak, Stravinsky ...) and pop music (by Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton) were employed to illustrate certain aspects of physics. By no means was this presentation (nor this paper) intended as a comprehensive review of the different topics examined during the Conference, but rather a call for further thinking on the sinergy of different branches of physics and the excitement of foreseen discoveries in a not too distant future.Comment: 6 pages, 8 figures, After-dinner talk given at the IX Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Structure, Madrid, August 30th to September 3rd 201

Bottomonium Production at the Tevatron and the LHC

Inclusive bottomonium hadroproduction at the Tevatron is firstly examined in a Monte Carlo framework with the colour-octet mechanism implemented in the event generation. We extract some NRQCD colour-octet matrix elements relevant for $\Upsilon(1S)$ hadroproduction. Remarkably we find a quite small contribution (compatible with zero) from feeddown of $\chi_{bJ}$ states produced through the colour-octet mechanism: $\Upsilon(1S)$ indirect production via $\chi_{bJ}$ decays should be mainly ascribed to the colour-singlet model. Finally we extrapolate to LHC energies to predict prompt $\Upsilon(1S)$ production rates.Comment: LaTeX, 11 pages, 6 EPS figure

Extended HQEFT Lagrangian and currents

From the tree-level heavy quark effective Lagrangian keeping particle-antiparticle mixed sectors we derive the vector current coupling to a hard gluonic field allowing for heavy quark-antiquark pair annihilation and creation.Comment: Talk given at 4th International Conference on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty Hadrons, Valencia, Spain, 27-30 Jun 2000. LaTeX, 4 pages, 1 EPS figur

New extraction of color-octet NRQCD matrix elements from charmonium hadroproduction

We re-analyze Tavatron data on charmonium hadroproduction in the framework of the color-octet model implemented in the event generator PYTHIA taking into account initial-state radiation of gluons and Altarelli-Parisi evolution of final-state gluons fragmenting into cc¯ pairs. We obtain new values for the color-octet matrix elements relevant to this production process. We discuss the sensitivity of our results to the transverse momentum lower cut-off employed in the generation to avoid the problematic pt→0 region, arguing about the reliability of our previous extraction of the NRQCD matrix elements for the 3S(8)1 and 1S(8)0+3P(8)J contributions. Finally we extrapolate to LHC energies to get predictions on the J/ψ direct production rate

Searching for hidden sectors in multiparticle production at the LHC

Most signatures of new physics in colliders have been studied so far on the transverse plane with respect to the beam direction. In this work however we study the impact of a hidden sector beyond the Standard Model (SM) on inclusive (pseudo)rapidity correlations and moments of the multiplicity distributions, with special emphasis in the LHC results.Comment: Presentation given at ICHEP 2014 Valenci

Bottomonia Hadroproduction

We analyze Tevatron data of bottomonium hadroproduction in the framework of the colour-octet model (COM) implemented in the event generator PYTHIA using CTEQ4L PDF taking into account initial-state radiation of gluons and Altarelli-Parisi evolution of final-state gluons. We obtain new values for the colour-octet matrix elements relevant to this production process for the Upsilon(nS) family (n=1,2,3), finding that the ^1S_0^{(8)}+^3P_J^{(8)} contributions are not needed in the fit. We show the different contributions to Upsilon(1S) production at Tevatron for p_T>8 GeV, comparing them with CDF data. Finally we extrapolate to LHC energies to predict Upsilon(nS) production rates.Comment: Talk given at 4th International Conference on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty Hadrons, Valencia, Spain, 27-30 Jun 2000. LaTeX, 4 pages, 4 EPS figure