TY  - JOUR
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VL  - 99
A1  - Lancaster, M
A1  - Nurse, E
A1  - Waters, DCDFC
JF  - Physical Review Letters
TI  - Polarizations of J / ? and ? ( 2 S ) Mesons Produced in p ¯ p Collisions at ? s = 1.96 TeV
Y1  - 2007/09/26/
SN  - 0031-9007
AV  - public
IS  - 13
N2  - We have measured the polarizations of J/? and ?(2S) mesons as functions of their transverse momentum pT when they are produced promptly in the rapidity range |y|<0.6 with pT?5??GeV/c. The analysis is performed using a data sample with an integrated luminosity of about 800??pb-1 collected by the CDF II detector. For both vector mesons, we find that the polarizations become increasingly longitudinal as pT increases from 5 to 30??GeV/c. These results are compared to the predictions of nonrelativistic quantum chromodynamics and other contemporary models. The effective polarizations of J/? and ?(2S) mesons from B-hadron decays are also reported.
ID  - discovery131839
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.132001
ER  -