Experimental Aspects of Heavy Quarkonium Production at the LHC

Understand

More than 30 years after the discovery of the J/psi, its production mechanism is still poorly understood.

• With the LHC data it will be possible to study quarkonia up to very high transverse momenta and with high statistics.
• In this note we discuss experimental aspects of J/psi and Upsilon(1S) production at the LHC.
• In particular, we investigate the sensitivity of a general purpose LHC detector to observables, which are complementary to the cross section and polarisation measurement.