TY - JOUR
T1 - Angular distributions of leptons from J/psi's produced in 920 GeV fixed-target proton-nucleus collisions
AU - Amaral, Vasco Miguel Moreira do
PY - 2009/1/1
Y1 - 2009/1/1
N2 - A study of the angular distributions of leptons from decays of J/psi's produced in p-C and p-W collisions at root s = 41.6 GeV has been performed in the J/psi Feynman-x region -0.34 < x(F) < 0.14 and for J/psi transverse momenta up to 5.4 GeV/c. The data were collected by the HERA-B experiment at the HERA proton ring of the DESY laboratory. The results, based on a clean selection of 2.3 x 10(5) J/psi's reconstructed in both the e(+)e(-) and mu(+)mu(-) decay channels, indicate that J/psi's are produced polarized. The magnitude of the effect is maximal at low p(T). For p(T) > 1 GeV/c a significant dependence on the reference frame is found: the polar anisotropy is more pronounced in the Collins-Soper frame and almost vanishes in the helicity frame, where, instead, a significant azimuthal anisotropy arises.
AB - A study of the angular distributions of leptons from decays of J/psi's produced in p-C and p-W collisions at root s = 41.6 GeV has been performed in the J/psi Feynman-x region -0.34 < x(F) < 0.14 and for J/psi transverse momenta up to 5.4 GeV/c. The data were collected by the HERA-B experiment at the HERA proton ring of the DESY laboratory. The results, based on a clean selection of 2.3 x 10(5) J/psi's reconstructed in both the e(+)e(-) and mu(+)mu(-) decay channels, indicate that J/psi's are produced polarized. The magnitude of the effect is maximal at low p(T). For p(T) > 1 GeV/c a significant dependence on the reference frame is found: the polar anisotropy is more pronounced in the Collins-Soper frame and almost vanishes in the helicity frame, where, instead, a significant azimuthal anisotropy arises.
U2 - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-0957-7
DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-0957-7
M3 - Article
SN - 1434-6044
VL - 60
SP - 517
EP - 524
JO - The European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
JF - The European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
IS - 4
ER -