Associated production of $J/\psi$ mesons and photons in the Parton Reggeization Approach and the double parton scattering model

Abstract

We study the contribution of double parton scattering (DPS) to the associated production of $J/\psi$ mesons and photons with large transverse momenta in proton-proton collisions. Cross sections are computed within high-energy factorization using the Parton Reggeization Approach (PRA). We used two frameworks for hadronization of the $c\bar c$ pair into charmonium: nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD) and the improved color evaporation model (ICEM). Hadronization model parameters are fixed using single $J/\psi$ production experimental data from the CMS and ATLAS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We show that the DPS contribution significantly exceeds the single parton scattering (SPS) contribution and that theoretical predictions are strongly sensitive to the choice of hadronization model. We made predictions for various differential cross sections and correlation spectra for the associated $J/\psi$ and photon production at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV.