Eur. Phys. J. C (2015) 75: 392
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3625-0

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Double vector meson production in the International Linear Collider

¹ Departamento de Ciências Exatas e da Terra, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Campus Diadema, Rua Prof. Artur Riedel, 275, Jd. Eldorado, Diadema, SP, 09972-270, Brazil
² High and Medium Energy Group, Instituto de Física e Matemática, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Caixa Postal 354, Pelotas, RS, 96010-900, Brazil
³ Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, C.P. 66318, São Paulo, SP, 05315-970, Brazil

^* e-mail: navarra@if.usp.br

Received: 26 April 2015
Accepted: 17 August 2015
Published online: 27 August 2015

Abstract

In this paper we study double vector meson production in interactions at high energies and estimate, using the color dipole picture, the main observables which can be probed at the International Linear Collider (ILC). The total cross sections for , , , and are computed and the energy and virtuality dependencies are studied in detail. Our results demonstrate that the experimental analysis of this process is feasible at the ILC and it can be useful to constrain the QCD dynamics at high energies.