Diffractive Heavy Quarkonium Photo- and Electroproduction in QCD

Abstract

Hard diffractive photo- and electroproduction of heavy vector mesons ($J/\psi$ and ${\rm Y}$) is evaluated within the leading ${\alpha }_s\ln \frac{Q^2}{{\Lambda }_{QCD}^2}$ approximation of QCD. In difference from our earlier work on that subject, also the production of transversely polarized vector mesons is calculated. Special emphasis is placed on the role of the vector meson's $q\bar{q}$ light-cone wave function. In that context, conventional non-relativistic quarkonium models and a light-front QCD bound state calculation are critically examined and confronted with QCD expectations. Our numerical analysis finds a significant high momentum tail in the latter wave functions and a deviation from the expected asymptotic behavior of ${\varphi }_V(z,b=0)\propto z(1-z)$. We then design an interpolation to match the quarkonium models at large inter-quark separations with QCD expectations at small distances. We use these results to compare our predictions for the forward differential cross section of $J/\psi$ photo- and electroproduction with recent experimental results from HERA. In addition, our earlier discussion of ${\rho }^o$ electroproduction is updated in light of recent experimental and theoretical enhancements.

44 pages, LaTeX, 14 figures included using epsf.tex; Final version to appear in Phys. Rev. D

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