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NLO inclusive $J/ψ$ photoproduction at large $P_T$ at HERA and the EIC

by Carlo Flore, Jean-Philippe Lansberg, Hua-Sheng Shao, Yelyzaveta Yedelkina

Submission summary

As Contributors:	Carlo Flore
Arxiv Link:	https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13434v1 (pdf)
Date accepted:	2022-02-16
Date submitted:	2021-07-29 09:37
Submitted by:	Flore, Carlo
Submitted to:	SciPost Physics Proceedings
Proceedings issue:	DIS2021
Academic field:	Physics
Specialties:	High-Energy Physics - Experiment High-Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Physics - Theory
Approach:	Phenomenological

Abstract

We study inclusive $J/\psi$ photoproduction at NLO at large $P_T$ at HERA and the EIC. Our computation includes NLO QCD leading-$P_T$ corrections, QED contributions via an off-shell photon as well as those from $J/\psi$+charm channels. For the latter, we employ the variable-flavour-number scheme. Our results are found to agree with the latest HERA data by H1 and provide, for the first time, a reliable estimate of the EIC reach for such a measurement. Finally, we demonstrate the observability of $J/\psi$+charm production and the sensitivy to probe the non-perturbative charm content of the proton at high $x$, also known as intrinsic charm, at the EIC.

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