Resolution of the LHCb ηc anomaly

Biswal, Sudhansu S and Mishra, Sushree S and Sridhar, K. (2023) Resolution of the LHCb ηc anomaly. Journal of High Energy Physics. pp. 1-7. ISSN 1029-8479

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Abstract

Due to the heavy-quark symmetry of Non-Relativistic Quantum Chromodynamics (NRQCD), the cross-section for the production of ηc can be predicted. This NRQCD prediction when confronted with data from the LHCb is seen to fail miserably. We address this LHCb ηc anomaly in this paper using a new approach called modified NRQCD, an approach that has been shown to work extremely well for studying J/ψ, ψ 0 and χc production at the LHC. We show, in the present paper, that the predictions for ηc production agrees very well with LHCb measurements at the three different values of energy that the experiment has presented data for. Modified NRQCD also explains the intriguing agreement of the LHCb ηc data with the colour-singlet prediction. The remarkable agreement of the theoretical predictions with the LHCb data suggests that modified NRQCD is closer to apprehending the true dynamics of quarkonium production.

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Biswal, Sudhansu S and Mishra, Sushree S and Sridhar, K.

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