Heavy Quarkonium Hadroproduction in the Color Evaporation Model
Abstract
The primary goal of this thesis is to test the predictions of the Color Evaporation Model against the available hadroproduction data on the bottomonium system. As a secondary effort, it also applies each test to the model's predictions for the charmonium system in order to confirm and extend previous results and to identify any differences between the two heavy quarkonium systems. The analysis leads to three significant results. First, although it shows that the model can account for most of the available hadroproduction data, it identifies two potentially important behaviors in the charmonium system that the model fails to explain. Second, it refutes two significant assumptions made in some previous formulations of the model. Finally, it introduces a potentially useful technique to estimate the numerical values of the model's non-perturbative factors for states on which experimental data is not available.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA377773
Entities
People
- Christopher P. Smith
Organizations
- University of Wisconsin Madison Department of Physics