New extraction of color-octet NRQCD matrix elements from charmonium hadroproduction
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We re-analyze Tavatron data on charmonium hadroproduction in the framework of the color-octet model implemented in the event generator PYTHIA taking into account initial-state radiation of gluons and AltarelliParisi evolution of final-state gluons fragmenting into cc pairs. We obtain new values for the color-octet matrix elements relevant to this production process. We discuss the sensitivity of our results to the transverse momentum lower cut-off employed in the generation to avoid the problematic pt→0 region, arguing about the reliability of our previous extraction of the NRQCD matrix elements for the S (8) 1 and S (8) 0 + 3 P (8)
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