27–30 Mar 2023
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
US/Pacific timezone

Polarized $J/\psi$ TMD fragmentation functions

30 Mar 2023, 09:00
20m
Room 310, Building 91 (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

Room 310, Building 91

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Speaker

Mr Reed Hodges (Duke University)

Description

We derive the leading-order polarized transverse momentum dependent fragmentation functions (TMDFFs) for light quark and gluon partons fragmenting to a $J/\psi$, and match the TMDFFs onto NRQCD. While unpolarized TMDFFs for quarkonium have been computed, a systematic treatment of the FFs for polarized quarkonium and parton has yet to appear in the literature. This will be crucial for making predictions for $J/\psi$ production cross sections at low transverse momentum, and allow for new tests of the NRQCD factorization formalism.

Primary author

Mr Reed Hodges (Duke University)

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