Hadroproduction of [formula omitted] and ϒ in association with a heavy-quark pair

Abstract

We calculate the cross sections for the direct hadroproduction of J/ψ and ϒ associated with a heavy-quark pair of the same flavour at leading order in αS and v in NRQCD. These processes provide an interesting signature that could be studied at the Tevatron and the LHC and also constitute a gauge-invariant subset of the NLO corrections to the inclusive hadroproduction of J/ψ and ϒ. We find that the fragmentation approximation commonly used to evaluate the contribution of these processes to the inclusive quarkonium production sizeably underestimates the exact calculation in the kinematical region accessible at the Tevatron. Both J/ψ and ϒ are predicted to be unpolarised, independently of their transverse momentum.