Production and polarization of Υ mesons in the kt-factorization approach in more detail
S. P. Baranov, N. P. Zotov* 1)
P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics RAS, 119991 Moscow, Russia
*D.V. Skobeltzyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, 119991 Moscow, Russia
PACS: 12.38.Bx, 13.85.Ni, 14.40.Gx
Abstract
In the framework of the kt-factorization approach, the
production and polarization of Υ mesons at the Fermilab Tevatron is
considered, and a comparision of the calculated double differential
distributions and spin alignment parameter α with the D0 experimental
data is shown. We argue that measuring the double differential cross section
and the polarization of upsilonium states can serve as a crucial test
discriminating two competing theoretical approaches to the parton dynamics in
QCD.