1pm - 2pm: Quarkonia Production in Modified NRQCD

Particle Physics Theory seminar

1pm - 2pm: Quarkonia Production in Modified NRQCD

  • Event time: 12:30pm until 2:30pm
  • Event date: 6th October 2025
  • Speaker: Krishnamoorthy Sridhar (Azim Prenji University, Bengaluru)
  • Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305,

Event details

Non-Relativistic QCD (NRQCD) has been used with considerable success for understanding charmonium production and decays but the true tests of NRQCD -- the parameter-free predictions that rely on the heavy-quark symmetry of the NRQCD Lagrangian viz., the polarisation of J/psi and psi' and the prediction of the eta_c cross section -- fail miserably to conform with experiment. This has provoked us to propose a modification of NQRCD where we invoke soft, perturbative gluon emission from the intermediate colour-octet c c(bar) states. This model is able to i) provide very good fits to Tevatron data on J/psi, psi' and chi production, ii) provide parameter-free predictions for J/psi, psi' and chi production which are in excellent agreement with the data from LHC, and iii) provide a complete resolution of the LHCb eta_c anomaly. Results on bottomonium production at the LHC and on quarkonium production in nucleus-nucleus collisions will also be presented.

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The Particle Physics Theory seminar is a weekly series of talks reflecting the diverse interests of the group. Topics include analytic and numerical calculations based on the Standard Model of elementary particle physics, theories exploring new physics, as well as more formal developments in gauge theories and gravity..

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