# $\mathcal O(\alpha^{3}\alpha_s)$ Study on the yields and polarizations of $J/\psi(\Upsilon)$ within the framework of non-relativistic QCD via $\gamma\gamma \to J/\psi(\Upsilon)+\gamma+X$ at CEPC

## TL;DR

This study analyzes the production and polarization of $J/$ and $$ in photon-photon collisions at CEPC within NRQCD, highlighting the dominance of direct photoproduction and the significance of color octet contributions for $J/$ polarization.

## Contribution

It provides the first systematic NLO QCD analysis of $J/$ and $$ yields and polarizations in $ o J/()++X$ at CEPC, emphasizing the role of color octet mechanisms.

## Key findings

- Direct photoproduction dominates over resolved processes by at least two orders of magnitude.
- NLO QCD corrections significantly reduce the yields due to large negative virtual corrections.
- Color octet contributions dramatically alter $J/$ polarization from transverse to longitudinal.

## Abstract

Within the framework of the non-relativistic QCD (NRQCD), we make a systematical study of the yields and polarizations of $J/\psi$ and $\Upsilon$ via $\gamma \gamma \to J/\psi(\Upsilon)+\gamma+X$ in photon-photon collisions at the Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC), up to $\mathcal O(\alpha^{3}\alpha_s)$. We find that this process at CEPC is quite "clean", namely the direct photoproduction absolutely dominate over the single- and double- resolved processes, at least 2 orders of magnitude larger. It is found that the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections will significantly reduce the results due to that the virtual corrections to $^3S_1^1$ is large and negative. For $J/\psi$, as $p_t$ increases, the color octet (CO) processes will provide increasingly important contributions to the total NLO results. Moreover the inclusion of CO contributions will dramatically change the polarizations of $J/\psi$ from toally transverse to longitudinal, which can be regarded as a distinct signal for the CO mechanism. However, for the case of $\Upsilon$, the effects of the CO processes are negligible, both for yields and polarizations. For $J/\psi$, the dependence of the yields on the value of the renormalization scale $\mu_r$ is moderate, while significant for the polarization. The impact of the variation of $\mu_{\lambda}$ is found to be relatively slight. As for the case of $\Upsilon$, the uncertainties of $\mu_{r}$ and $\mu_{\lambda}$ just bring about negligible effects. The future measurements on this semi-inclusive photoproductions of $J/\psi(\Upsilon)+\gamma+X$, especially on the polarization parameters of $J/\psi$, will be a good laboratory for the study of heavy quarkonium production mechanism and helpful to clarify the problems of the $J/\psi$ polarization puzzle.