Colorless States in Perturbative QCD: Charmonium and Rapidity Gaps

Abstract

We point out that an unorthodox way to describe the production of rapidity gaps in deep inelastic scattering, recently proposed by Buchmüller and Hebecker, suggests a description of the production of heavy quark bound states which is in agreement with data. The approach questions the conventional treatment of the color quantum number in perturbative QCD.

Comments: 14 pages, plain Latex, 9 postscript figures included. Uses epsf.sty. Postscript file of paper with figures also available at http://phenom.physics.wisc.edu/pub/preprints/1995/madph-95-919.ps.Z or at ftp://phenom.physics.wisc.edu/pub/preprints/1995/madph-95-919.ps.Z