Charmonium production at neutrino factories

Abstract

At existing and planned neutrino factories (high energy and high intensity neutrino beam facilities) precision studies of QCD in neutrino-nucleon interactions are a realistic opportunity. We investigate charmonium production in fixed target neutrino experiments. We find that $J/\psi$ production in neutrino-nucleon collision is dominated by the color octet ${}^3{S}_1$ NRQCD matrix element in a neutral current process, which is not accessible in photo or leptoproduction. Neutrino experiments at a future Muon Collider will acquire sufficient event rate to accurately measure color octet matrix element contributions. The currently running high energy neutrino experiments, NOMAD and NuTeV could also observe several such events.

13 pages Latex, with five embedded eps figures. Cosmetic fixups in the figures, otherwise unchanged

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