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Measurement of inelastic J/ψ photoproduction at HERA

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University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
12/1997; 76(4). DOI: 10.1007/s002880050583
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We present a measurement of the inelastic, non diffractive J/$\psi$ photoproduction cross section in the reaction $e^{+} p \rightarrow e^{+} \mbox{J}/\psi X$ with the ZEUS detector at HERA. The J/$\psi$ was identified using both the $\mu^{+}\mu^{-}$ and $e^{+}e^{-}$ decay channels and events were selected within the range $0.4 ($0.5) for the muon (electron) decay mode, where $z$ is the fraction of the photon energy carried by the J/$\psi$ in the proton rest frame. The cross section, the $p^2_T$ and the $z$ distributions, after having subtracted the contributions from resolved photon and diffractive proton dissociative processes, are given for the photon-proton centre of mass energy range $50 GeV;$p^2_T$is the square of the J/$\psi$transverse momentum with respect to the incoming proton beam direction. In the kinematic range$0.4 and $p^2_T > 1$ GeV$^2$, NLO calculations of the photon-gluon fusion process based on the colour-singlet model are in good agreement with the data. The predictions of a specific leading order colour-octet model, as formulated to describe the CDF data on J/$\psi$ hadroproduction, are not consistent with the data.

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