Measurement of / And Production in + And + interactions at 120 GeV
C.H. Leung (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA)
; K. Nagai (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA, Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
; K. Nakano (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA, RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Wako, Japan, Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
; D. Nawarathne (Department of Physics, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA)
; J. Dove (Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA); et al - Show all 61 authors
We report the and differential cross sections measured in the SeaQuest experiment for and production at Image 1 beam energy covering the forward x-Feynman () range of . The measured cross sections are in good agreement with theoretical calculations based on the nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD) using the long-distance matrix elements deduced from a recent global analysis of proton- and pion-induced charmonium production data. The cross section ratios are found to increase as increases, indicating that the annihilation process has larger contributions in the production than the production. The cross section ratios are observed to be significantly different for the Drell-Yan process and production, reflecting their different production mechanisms. We find that the ratios for production at the forward region are sensitive to the flavor asymmetry of the proton sea, analogous to the Drell-Yan process. The transverse momentum () distributions for and production are also presented and compared with data collected at higher center-of-mass energies.