e+ e- Annihilation into J/psi + J/psi
Abstract
Recent measurements by the Belle Collaboration of the exclusive production of two charmonia in e+ e- annihilation differ substantially from theoretical predictions. We suggest that a significant part of the discrepancy can be explained by the process e+ e- -> J/psi + J/psi. Because the J/psi + J/psi production process can proceed through fragmentation of two virtual photons into two cc-bar pairs, its cross section may be larger than that for J/psi +etac by about a factor 1.8, in spite of a suppression factor alpha2/alphas2 that is associated with the QED and QCD coupling constants.
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