https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0826-9
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
On the mechanisms of heavy-quarkonium hadroproduction
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg, Philosophenweg 19, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
* e-mail: lansberg@slac.stanford.edu
Received:
13
September
2008
Published online:
19
December
2008
We discuss the various mechanisms potentially at work in hadroproduction of heavy quarkonia in the light of computations of higher-order QCD corrections both in the colour-singlet (CS) and colour-octet (CO) channels and the inclusion of the contribution arising from the s-channel cut in the CS channel. We also discuss new observables meant to better discriminate between these different mechanisms.
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