Prompt Upsilon(nS) production at the LHC in the Regge limit of QCD

Abstract

We study prompt Upsilon(nS) hadroproduction (n=1,2,3) invoking the hypothesis of gluon Reggeization in t-channel exchanges at high energy and the factorization formalism of nonrelativistic quantum chromodynamics at leading order in the strong-coupling constant alpha_s and the relative velocity v of the bound quarks. The transverse-momentum distributions of prompt Upsilon(nS)-meson production measured by the ATLAS Collaboration at the CERN LHC are fitted to obtain the color-octet nonperturbative long-distance matrix elements, which are used to predict prompt Upsilon(nS) production spectra measured by the CMS and LHCb Collaborations. At the numerical calculation, we adopt the Kimber-Martin-Ryskin prescription to derive unintegrated gluon distribution function of the proton from its collinear counterpart, for which we use the Martin-Roberts-Stirling-Thorne set. We find good agreement with measurements by the ATLAS, CMS and LHCb Collaborations at the LHC at the hadronic c.m. energy sqrt S=7 TeV as well as with measurements by the CDF Collaboration at the Fermilab Tevatron.

22 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1201.3464

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