J/ψ-PRODUCTION MECHANISMS AND DETERMINATION OF THE GLUON DENSITY AT HERA

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We discuss photo- and leptoproduction of J/ψ mesons at energies ranging from those of fixed-target experiments up to those of HERA. Elastic and diffractive production as well as various inelastic processes are studied. We investigate the range in which J/ψ production is described by photon-gluon fusion in the color-singlet model. We show how inelastic J/ψ production at HERA can be used to extract the gluon density. We estimate an accessible range of 3×10−4<x<0.1 and discuss sources of errors in the reconstruction of the gluon density at HERA.

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