Measurement of the cross-section ratio σ ψ(2S) /σ J/ψ(1S) in exclusive photoproduction at HERA

oleh: The ZEUS collaboration, I. Abt, M. Adamus, R. Aggarwal, V. Aushev, O. Behnke, A. Bertolin, I. Bloch, I. Brock, N. H. Brook, R. Brugnera, A. Bruni, P. J. Bussey, A. Caldwell, C. D. Catterall, J. Chwastowski, J. Ciborowski, R. Ciesielski, A. M. Cooper-Sarkar, M. Corradi, R. K. Dementiev, S. Dusini, J. Ferrando, B. Foster, E. Gallo, D. Gangadharan, A. Garfagnini, A. Geiser, G. Grzelak, C. Gwenlan, D. Hochman, N. Z. Jomhari, I. Kadenko, U. Karshon, P. Kaur, R. Klanner, U. Klein, I. A. Korzhavina, N. Kovalchuk, M. Kuze, B. B. Levchenko, A. Levy, B. Löhr, E. Lohrmann, A. Longhin, F. Lorkowski, I. Makarenko, J. Malka, S. Masciocchi, K. Nagano, J. D. Nam, Yu. Onishchuk, E. Paul, I. Pidhurskyi, A. Polini, M. Przybycień, A. Quintero, I. Rubinsky, M. Ruspa, U. Schneekloth, T. Schörner-Sadenius, I. Selyuzhenkov, M. Shchedrolosiev, L. M. Shcheglova, I. O. Skillicorn, W. Słomiński, A. Solano, L. Stanco, N. Stefaniuk, B. Surrow, K. Tokushuku, J. Tomaszewska, A. Trofymov, O. Turkot, T. Tymieniecka, A. Verbytskyi, W. A. T. Wan Abdullah, K. Wichmann, M. Wing, S. Yamada, Y. Yamazaki, A. F. Żarnecki, O. Zenaiev

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Diterbitkan: SpringerOpen 2022-12-01

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Abstract The exclusive photoproduction reactions γp → J/ψ(1S)p and γp → ψ(2S)p have been measured at an ep centre-of-mass energy of 318 GeV with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 373 pb −1. The measurement was made in the kinematic range 30 < W < 180 GeV, Q 2 < 1 GeV2 and |t| < 1 GeV2, where W is the photon-proton centre-of-mass energy, Q 2 is the photon virtuality and t is the squared four-momentum transfer at the proton vertex. The decay channels used were J/ψ(1S) → μ + μ − , ψ(2S) → μ + μ − and ψ(2S) → J/ψ(1S)π + π − with subsequent decay J/ψ(1S) → μ + μ − . The ratio of the production cross sections, R = σ ψ(2S) /σ J/ψ(1S), has been measured as a function of W and |t| and compared to previous data in photoproduction and deep inelastic scattering and with predictions of QCD-inspired models of exclusive vector-meson production, which are in reasonable agreement with the data.