Quark polarization and transverse momentum effects on double quarkonium production in hadronic collisions

Abstract

We investigate the inclusive production of double quarkonia ($J/\psi$, $\psi (2S)$, ${\rm Y}$ mesons) in polarized hadron-hadron collisions, considering the kinematic configuration where the transverse momentum of each pair of bound states is much smaller than its invariant mass. Supported by nonrelativistic QCD arguments, we adopt the Color-Singlet Model for the quarkonium formation mechanism and assume the validity of transverse momentum dependent factorization. In strong analogy with dilepton production in the Drell-Yan processes, the azimuthal modulations of the cross section, calculated to the order ${\alpha }_s^4$ in the QCD coupling constant, can be expressed as convolutions of transverse momentum dependent distributions of light quarks and antiquarks inside the incoming hadrons. By adopting very recent parameterizations of these distributions, we show that a phenomenological study of these quantities in ${\pi }^{-}p\to J/\psi J/\psi X$ in the kinematic region covered by the COMPASS and AMBER fixed-target experiments at CERN, where the gluon contribution is found to be negligible, would provide direct access to the quark distributions. In particular, this will offer the possibility of a further sign change test of the quark Sivers function of the proton. The impact of our findings on similar studies about the gluon content of the proton in present and future fixed-target experiments at the LHC, like SMOG and LHCspin, is also demonstrated.

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