We present a measurement of the polarization observed for bottomonium states produced in p-Cu collisions at sqrt(s)=38.8 GeV. The angular distribution of the decay dimuons of the Upsilon(1S) state show no polarization at small xF and pT but significant positive transverse production polarization for either pT > 1.8 GeV/c or for xF > 0.35. The Upsilon(2S+3S) unresolved states show a large transverse production polarization at all values of xF and pT measured. These observations are compared with an NRQCD calculation that predicts a transverse polarization in bottomonium production arising from quark-antiquark fusion and gluon-gluon fusion diagrams.
The observed polarization in the Drell-Yan sideband region as a function of PT. There is an additional systematic uncertainty of 0.02 in the polarization measurements.
The observed polarization in the Drell-Yan sideband region as a function of XL. There is an additional systematic uncertainty of 0.02 in the polarization measurements.
The observed polarization in the UPSILON(1S) region as a function of PT. There is an additional systematic error of 0.06 in the polarization measurements.
We report a high-statistics study of the reaction p+W→μ++μ−+X with use of an intense 400-GeV/c proton beam, a magnetized-iron beam dump, and a wide-acceptance detector. Using data near xF=0, we have extracted the nucleon sea-quark distribution and find it to be a factor 1.6±0.3 larger than that obtained by inelastic charged-current neutrino scattering. We then compare the Drell-Yan prediction with our data including the previously unexplored region of large xF and find excellent agreement for a wide range of μ-pair invariant mass.
Dimuon mass mass distribution at XFP=0.1.
Dimuon production for varying mass as function of XFP.
Dimuon production for varying mass as function of XFP.