Kinematic distributions of the ${\eta }_c$ photoproduction in $ep$ collisions within the nonrelativistic QCD framework

Abstract

We study the ${\eta }_c$ photoproduction in $ep$ collisions in this paper. The short-distance coefficients for $c\bar{c}{(}^1{S}_0^{[1]})$, $c\bar{c}{(}^1{S}_0^{[8]})$, $c\bar{c}{(}^3{S}_1^{[8]})$, and $c\bar{c}{(}^1{P}_1^{[8]})$ photoproductions are evaluated at leading order in ${\alpha }_s$ expansion, where the color-singlet contribution is achieved for the first time. We have carefully analyzed different kinematic distributions of the cross sections and found that the color-singlet contribution is considerably suppressed comparing with the color-octet parts. This feature renders the ${\eta }_c$ photoproduction process an ideal laboratory to test the color-octet mechanism in nonrelativistic QCD. By taking different sets of long-distance matrix elements, we have observed some apparently distinguishable predictions, which can be utilized to scrutinize the validity of these matrix elements.

6pages, 2 figures

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