Statistical analysis of the azimuthal asymmetry in the $J/\psi$ leptoproduction in unpolarized $ep$ collisions

Abstract

In this paper, we study the azimuthal asymmetry in the $J/\psi$ leptoproduction in unpolarized $ep$ collisions. There are two independent azimuthal asymmetry modulations, namely $\cos (\psi )$ and $\cos (2\psi )$, where $\psi$ is the azimuthal angle of the lepton scattering plane with respect to the hadron-interacting plane. We calculate the two modulations as functions of four kinematic variables, and find that they provide a very good laboratory to distinguish several models describing the heavy quarkonium production, including the color-singlet (CS) model, the nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD) associated with the ${}^1{S}_0^{[8]}$ dominance picture, and the NRQCD in which the values of all the three color-octet (CO) long-distance matrix elements are of the same order. In order to make definite conclusions, we restrict our calculation in a specific kinematic region, where the CS and CO mechanisms can be distinguished by scrutinizing the values of the $\cos (\psi )$ modulation, while the ${}^1{S}_0^{[8]}$ dominance picture can be tested by measuring the values of the $\cos (2\psi )$ modulation. Calculating their values and carrying out a meticulous statistical analysis, we find that at an integrated luminosity $\mathcal{L}=1000{\mathrm{pb}}^{-1}$, the statistical uncertainties of the two quantities are small enough to tell the three models apart. When this experiment is implemented at the future $ep$ colliders such as the EIC, crucial information for the $J/\psi$ production mechanism might be discovered.

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