Abstract

Presented here is a calculation of inelastic J/ψJ/\psi production in polarized photon-hadron collisions under the framework of NRQCD factorization formalism. We consider the photoproduction of \jpsi in the energy range relevant to HERA. The Weizs\"acker-Williams approximation is adopted in the evaluation of the cross sections for epep collisions. We found that this process can give another independent test for the color-octet mechanism, and the different features for the two color-octet processes may provide further informations on the mechanism for inelastic \jpsi photoproduction. And the discrepancy on the production asymmetry AA between various sets of polarized gluon distribution functions is also found to be distinctive.Comment: 14pages, 6 PS figure

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