Measurement of the J/$\psi $ photoproduction cross section over the full near-threshold kinematic region

Adhikari, S. et al. (2023) Measurement of the J/$\psi $ photoproduction cross section over the full near-threshold kinematic region. Physical Review C, 108(2), 025201. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.108.025201)

Abstract

We report the total and differential cross sections for J / ψ photoproduction with the large acceptance GlueX spectrometer for photon beam energies from the threshold at 8.2 GeV up to 11.44 GeV and over the full kinematic range of momentum transfer squared, t . Such coverage facilitates the extrapolation of the differential cross sections to the forward ( t = 0 ) point beyond the physical region. The forward cross section is used by many theoretical models and plays an important role in understanding J / ψ photoproduction and its relation to the J / ψ -proton interaction. These measurements of J / ψ photoproduction near threshold are also crucial inputs to theoretical models that are used to study important aspects of the gluon structure of the proton, such as the gluon generalized parton distribution of the proton, the mass radius of the proton, and the trace anomaly contribution to the proton mass. We observe possible structures in the total cross section energy dependence and find evidence for contributions beyond gluon exchange in the differential cross section close to threshold, both of which are consistent with contributions from open-charm intermediate states.

• Item Type: Articles
• Additional Information: This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics under Contract No. DE-AC0506OR23177. This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility operated under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This work used the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), which is supported by National Science Foundation Grant No. ACI-1548562. Specifically, it used the Bridges system, which is supported by National Science Foundation Award No. ACI-1445606, at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC).
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Livingston, Dr Kenneth and Hurck, Dr Peter and Fitches, Jamie and Ireland, Professor David and Darulis, Darius
• Authors: Adhikari, S., Afzal, F., Akondi, C. S., Albrecht, M., Amaryan, M., Arroyave, V., Asaturyan, A., Austregesilo, A., Baldwin, Z., Barbosa, F., Barlow, J., Barriga, E., Barsotti, R., Beattie, T. D., Berdnikov, V., Black, T., Boeglin, W., Briscoe, W., Britton, T., Brooks, W. K., Byer, D., Chudakov, E., Cole, P., Cortes, O., Crede, V., Macrae Dalton, M., Darulis, D., Deur, A., Dobbs, S., Dolgolenko, A., Dotel, R., Dugger, M., Dzhygadlo, R., Ebersole, D., Egiyan, H., Erbora, T., Eugenio, P., Fabrizi, A., Fanelli, C., Fang, S., Fegan, S., Fitches, J., Marwan Foda, A., Furletov, S., Gan, L., Gao, H., Gardner, A., Gasparian, A., Gleason, C., Goetzen, K., Goryachev, V. S., Grube, B., Guo, J., Guo, L., Hague, T. J., Hakobyan, H., Hernandez, J., Hoffman, N., Hornidge, D., Hou, G., Huber, G. M., Hurck, P., Hurley, A., Imoehl, W., Ireland, D. G., Ito, M., Jaegle, I., Jarvis, N., Jeske, T., Jones, R., Kakoyan, V., Kalicy, G., Khachatryan, V., Khatchatryan, M., Kourkoumelis, C., LaDuke, A., Larin, I., Lawrence, D., Lersch, D., Li, H., Li, W. B., Liu, B., Livingston, K., Lolos, G. J., Lorenti, L., Lyubovitskij, V., Mack, D., Mahmood, A., Martel, P. P., Marukyan, H., Matveev, V., McCaughan, M., McCracken, M., Meyer, C. A., Miskimen, R., Mitchell, R. E., Mizutani, K., Neelamana, V., Ng, L., Nissen, E., Orešić, S., Orei, S., Ostrovidov, A. I., Papandreou, Z., Paudel, C., Pedroni, R., Pentchev, L., Peters, K. J., Prather, E., Rakshit, S., Reinhold, J., Remington, A., Ritchie, B., Ritman, J., Rodriguez Linera, G., Romanov, D., Saldana, K., Salgado, C., Schadmand, S., Schertz, A., Scheuer, K., Schick, A., William Schmidt, A., Schumacher, R., Schwiening, J., Sharp, P., Shen, X., Shepherd, M., Smith, A., Smith, E. S., Sober, D. I., Somov, S., Somov, A., Stevens, J. R., Strakovsky, I. I., Sumner, B., Suresh, K., Tarasov, V. V., Taylor, S., Teymurazyan, A., Thiel, A., Viducic, T., Whitlatch, T., Wickramaarachchi, N., Williams, M., Wunderlich, Y., Yu, B., Zarling, J., Zhang, Z., Zhao, Z., Zhou, X., Zhou, J., and Zihlmann, B.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
• Journal Name: Physical Review C
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• ISSN: 2469-9985
• ISSN (Online): 2469-9993
• Published Online: 03 August 2023