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Probing the gravitational form factors from near threshold heavy quarkonium photoproduction

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Abstract

I will talk about the recent development on the exclusive near threshold photoproduction of heavy quarkonium in the generalized parton distribution (GPD) framework. I will discuss the relation between the Compton-like amplitudes, especially their real parts, and the gravitational form factors that are crucial for the understanding of the mechanic properties and higher-dimensional structure of the nucleon. Utilizing recent measurements of near-threshold J/psi photoproduction, I will describe how such a framework can be tested with these measurements and allows for the potential extraction of the gluonic gravitational form factors from them.

* This talk is based upon work supported by the LDRD program of LBNL, and by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under contract numbers DE-AC02-05CH11231. The authors also acknowledge partial support by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics under the umbrella of the Quark-Gluon Tomography (QGT) Topical Collaboration with Award DE-SC0023646.

Publication: arxiv: 2305.06992
arxiv: 2308.13006

Presenters

  • Yuxun Guo

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Authors

  • Yuxun Guo

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Feng Yuan

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Xiangdong Ji

    University of Maryland, College Park