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Phys. Rev. D 59, 094023 (1999) [6 pages]

Υ polarization at DESY HERA-B

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A. Kharchilava1, T. Lohse2, A. Somov2, and A. Tkabladze3
1Institute of Physics, Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi, Georgia
2Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany
3DESY Zeuthen, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany

Received 24 November 1998; published 7 April 1999

The production of Υ mesons in fixed target pN collisions is considered. It is shown that non-relativistic QCD predicts Υ states to be produced with sizeable transverse polarization. The possibility of a measurement of the Υ polarization at the DESY HERA-B experiment is discussed.

© 1999 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.59.094023
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.59.094023
PACS:
13.20.Gd, 12.38.Qk, 13.60.Le, 13.88.+e