45 research outputs found
NLO Corrections to Deeply-Virtual Compton Scattering
We have calculated the NLO corrections to the twist-2 part of the
deeply-virtual Compton scattering amplitude. Our results for the transverse and
antisymmetric parts agree with recent calculations by Ji and Osborne and by
Belitsky and M\"uller. In addition we present NLO results for the longitudinal
part of the amplitude.Comment: 8 pages, Latex. Error in polarised gluonic coefficient in Eq.(8)
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Color-Octet Contributions to Photoproduction
We have calculated the leading color-octet contributions to the production of
particles in photon-proton collisions. Using the values for the
color-octet matrix elements extracted from fits to prompt data at the
Tevatron, we demonstrate that distinctive color-octet signatures should be
visible in photoproduction. However, these predictions appear at
variance with recent experimental data obtained at HERA, indicating that the
phenomenological importance of the color-octet contributions is smaller than
expected from theoretical considerations and suggested by the Tevatron fits.Comment: 10 pages, LaTeX, epsfig, 4 figure
Color-Octet Production at Low
We study contributions from color-octet quarkonium formation mechanisms to
-integrated production cross sections in pion-nucleon
reactions. The observed polarization of the is not reproduced by the
lowest-order leading-twist color-singlet and color-octet mechanisms. This
suggests that there are important quarkonium production mechanisms beyond
leading twist.Comment: 9 page
Double-Spin Asymmetry of J/psi Production in Polarized pp Collisions at HERA-
We calculated the color-octet contribution to the double spin asymmetry of
hadroproduction with nonzero transverse momenta at fixed target
energies GeV. It is shown that the color-octet contribution
is dominant in the asymmetries. The expected asymmetries and statistical errors
in a future option of HERA with longitudinally polarized protons at HERA- should allow one to distinguish between different parametrizations for the
polarized gluon distribution in the proton.Comment: 14 pages with 6 figures (epsfig), LaTeX; Some figures are changed and
misprint is correcte
Color-Octet Production at Low
We study contributions from color-octet quarkonium formation mechanisms to
hadroproduction at low . We include transitions of
color-octet states into ``direct'' and into
which decay radiatively into a . Together with earlier work, this
calculation constitutes a complete analysis of -integrated
production at leading twist. We find that the leading-twist contribution is not
sufficient to reproduce the observed production rates and polarization of the
and . Hence there must exist other important quarkonium
production mechanisms at low .Comment: REVTEX, 18 pages, 4 figures include
Hadroproduction and Polarization of Charmonium
In the limit of heavy quark mass, the production cross section and
polarization of quarkonia can be calculated in perturbative QCD. We study the
-averaged production of charmonium states in collisions at
fixed target energies. The data on the relative production rates of \jp and
is found to disagree with leading twist QCD. The polarization of the
\jp indicates that the discrepancy is not due to poorly known parton
distributions nor to the size of higher order effects (-factors). Rather,
the disagreement suggests important higher twist corrections, as has been
surmised earlier from the nuclear target -dependence of the production cross
section.Comment: 19 page
Double-Spin Asymmetry in the Cross Section for Exclusive rho^0 Production in Lepton-Proton Scattering
Evidence for a positive longitudinal double-spin asymmetry = 0.24
+-0.11 (stat) +-0.02 (syst) in the cross section for exclusive diffractive
rho^0(770) vector meson production in polarised lepton-proton scattering was
observed by the HERMES experiment. The longitudinally polarised 27.56 GeV HERA
positron beam was scattered off a longitudinally polarised pure hydrogen gas
target. The average invariant mass of the photon-proton system has a value of
= 4.9 GeV, while the average negative squared four-momentum of the virtual
photon is = 1.7 GeV^2. The ratio of the present result to the
corresponding spin asymmetry in inclusive deep-inelastic scattering is in
agreement with an early theoretical prediction based on the generalised vector
meson dominance model.Comment: 10 pages, 4 embedded figures, LaTe
Psi' to J/Psi Ratio in Diffractive Photoproduction
We evaluate the Psi' to J/Psi ratio in diffractive photoproduction in a
light-cone framework, using charmonium wave functions extracted from
non-relativistic potential models. Contrary to current belief, we find that the
best estimate for the ratio is a factor 2 to 5 below the data. The measured
ratio constrains the distribution of the charm quark-antiquark component of the
charmonium light-cone wave function and indicates that it is more compact than
in potential models. We predict that the inelastic photoproduction ratio will
be bigger than the elastic one, and will equal that measured in
hadroproduction.Comment: 4 pages, revte