Probing Heavy Quarkonium Production Mechnism: ${\chi }_c$ polarization

Abstract

The necessicity of the color-octet mechanism in describing heavy quarkonium production is a longstanding puzzle. Compared to the yields of heavy quarkonium, its polarizations should be a sensitive observable to pin down the color-octet contributions. In this talk, I will focus on the ${\chi }_c$ polarization in hadroproduction processes, which may provide a unique test for the color-octet mechanism in nonrelativistic QCD.

Comments: 6 pages, 8 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the "Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum XI", 8-12 September 2014, Saint-Petersburg, Russia