1999/07/12 by B. A. Kniehl, Kniehl, B. A.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9907315
6 pages (Latex), 6 figures (Postscript). To appear in the proceedings of the workshop on Monte Carlo Generators for HERA Physics, DESY, Hamburg, 21 April 1998 - 5 February 1999, edited by T. Doyle, G. Grindhammer, G. Ingelman, and H. Jung
arxiv created 1999/07/12 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
Approximately taking into account the higher-order effects due to multiple-gluon initial-state radiation, we extract from the latest Tevatron data of prompt J/psi hadroproduction the leading colour-octet matrix elements within the nonrelativistic-QCD (NRQCD) factorization formalism. We find that the matrix elements which describe the formation of J/psi mesons from colour-octet c c-bar pairs in the angular-momentum states (2S+1)LJ = 1S0 and 3PJ, with J = 0, 1, 2, which are responsible for the excess of the predicted cross section of inelastic J/psi photoproduction over the existing HERA data at high values of the inelasticity variable z, are significantly reduced. As a consequence, the Tevatron and HERA measurements of inclusive J/psi production are reconciled in the NRQCD framework.