Production of f₂(1270) meson in pp collisions at the LHC via gluon-gluon fusion in the k_t-factorization approach

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2020.135816MaRDI QIDQ823110zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Piotr Lebiedowicz, Antoni Szczurek

Publication date 24 September 2021

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12485

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Nuclear physics (81V35) Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25)

Abstract: We calculate inclusive cross section for $f_2(1270)$ tensor meson production via color singlet gluon-gluon fusion in the $k_t$-factorization approach with unintegrated gluon distribution functions (UGDFs). The process may be potentially interesting in the context of searches for saturation effects. The energy-momentum tensor, equivalent to helicity-2 coupling, and helicity-0 coupling are used for the $g^{\ast }{g}^{\ast }o{f}_2(1270)$ vertex. Two somewhat different parametrizations of helicity-2 and helicity-0 tensorial structure from the literature are used in our calculations. Some parameters are extracted from $gammagammao{f}_2(1270)opipi$ reactions. Different modern UGDFs from the literature are used. The results strongly depend on the parametrization of the $g^{\ast }{g}^{\ast }o{f}_2(1270)$ form factor. Our results for transverse momentum distributions of $f_2$ are compared to preliminary ALICE data. We can obtain agreement with the data only at larger $f_2(1270)$ transverse momenta only for some parametrizations of the $g^{\ast }{g}^{\ast }o{f}_2(1270)$ form factor. No obvious sign of the onset of saturation is possible. At low transverse momenta one needs to include also the $pipi$ final-state rescattering. The agreement with the ALICE data can be obtained by adjusting probability of formation and survival of $f_2(1270)$ in a harsh quark-gluon and multipion environment. The pomeron-pomeron fusion mechanism is discussed in addition and results are quantified.

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