Quarkonium production at the LHC

Goals

• REVIEW OF EXPERIMENTAL INPUT FROM THE TEVATRON
  • cover present results, and prospects for further analysis of tevatron data  
• REVIEW OF THEORY STATUS, AND PREDICTIONS FOR THE LHC
  • cover pt spectra and polarization, status of NLO results, turn best-fits of tevatron/hera data into best predictions for LHC, and present benchmark expectations
• REVIEW OF AVAILABLE TOOLS
  • list existing codes for cross-section calculations, as well as event generators.
  • Validate the results of event generators (e.g. pythia) against tevatron data, or against the inclusive cross-section calculations.
  • Discuss impact of higher-order effects induced by the shower, effects of hadronization, etc.  
• PROPOSALS FOR NEW USEFUL OBSERVABLES, to complement pt and polarization
  • discuss observables like track multiplicities, energy flows around the J/psi, etc.
  • discuss value of comparisons between measurements at different CM energies, and impact of data in different pt and eta ranges on the understanding of the production mechanisms
  • etc.

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