Possible solution of the J/psi production puzzle.

We argue that the s-channel cut contribution to J/psi hadroproduction can be significantly larger than the usual cut contribution of the color-singlet mechanism, which is known to underestimate the experimental measurements. A scenario accounting for intermediate cc[over ] interactions is proposed that reproduces the data at low and midrange transverse momenta P_(T) from the Fermilab Tevatron and BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The J/psi produced in this manner are polarized predominantly longitudinally.

Pion photo- and electroproduction and the partially conserved axial current

The relevance of the axial current for pion production processes off the nucleon with real or virtual photons is revisited. Employing the hypothesis of a partially conserved axial current (PCAC), it is shown that, when all of the relevant contributions are taken into account, PCAC does not provide any additional constraint for threshold production processes that goes beyond the Goldberger-Treiman relation. In particular, it is shown that pion electroproduction processes at threshold cannot be used to extract any information regarding the weak axial form factor. The relationships found in previous investigations are seen to be an accident of the approximations usually made in this context.