NLO Corrections to Exclusive Heavy-Quarkonium Electroproduction in pQCD

6 May 2026, 09:00
20m
Sala GIOVE A, Ground Floor (Hotel Carlton)

Sala GIOVE A, Ground Floor

Hotel Carlton

Talk WG4 QCD with Heavy Flavors and Hadronic Final States WG4 QCD with Heavy flavours and Hadronic Final States

Speaker

Chris Flett (CP3, UCLouvain)

Description

We perform various phenomenological studies of exclusive heavy-quarkonium electroproduction in $ep$ collisions that are relevant for both the existing measurements from HERA and the forthcoming Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). We provide quantitative predictions at next-to-leading order (NLO) in perturbative QCD (pQCD) for various observables accessible at HERA for both $J/\psi$ and $\Upsilon$ electroproduction that serve as valuable benchmarks across a broad range of photon virtualities $Q^2$ and $\gamma^*p$ centre-of-mass energies. We then discuss how the forthcoming EIC will open a new era of precision physics in this sector and end by advocating the need for a dedicated and systematic resummation framework for $J/\psi$ electroproduction at large $Q^2$.

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Author

Chris Flett (CP3, UCLouvain)

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