NLO QCD corrections to exclusive electroproduction of quarkonium

Autor: Zi-Qiang Chen, Cong-Feng Qiao
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Physics Letters B, Vol 797, Iss , Pp - (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0370-2693
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134816
Popis: The process of exclusive electroproduction of vector quarkonium (EEQ), ep→epV, is per se an interesting topic in studies of quarkonium production mechanism, QCD description of diffractive interaction and nucleon structure. We investigate this process in the framework of nonrelativistic QCD and QCD collinear factorization at the next-to-leading order QCD accuracy. The perturbative convergence behavior is discussed in a large range of photon virtuality Q2. The J/ψ large-Q2 electroproduction data at HERA can be well explained, and the ϒ differential production rate is predicted. The uncertainties in theoretical predictions with radiative corrections are greatly reduced. Notice the EEQ process is extremely sensitive to the gluon distribution in nucleon, the generalized parton distribution, our results will constraint the gluon density with high precision while confronting to the future experimental data. For the sake of comparing convenience, the analytic expressions are provided.
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