Integral involving Bessel function, exponential, and power

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In the course of a derivation I encountered the following integral and was unable to find it in standard integral tables (though I found one that looked very similar).

Here, $\beta$ is a positive real number. $$ \int_{0}^{a} \frac{1-e^{-\beta x}}{x}J_0(x) dx $$ Is there a known formula for this integral, or if not, for when the upper integral bound approaches infinity?

Thank you in advance!

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To substantiate the partial answer provided by Mathematica in comments above, the following integral is known to be valid when $\beta'\geq 0$: $$\int_0^\infty e^{-\beta' x} J_0(x)\,dx=\frac{1}{\sqrt{1+\beta'^2}}$$ (This is usually found in a table of Laplace transforms.) Integrating from $\beta'=0$ to $\beta$ then yields

$$\int_0^\infty \frac{1-e^{-\beta x}}{x}J_0(x)\,dx=\int_0^\beta \frac{d\beta'}{\sqrt{1+\beta'^2}}=\sinh^{-1}\beta=\operatorname{arcsinh} \beta$$ using a standard integral representation of arcsinh. (A more scrupulous calculation would check that this integration is legitimate, but since the integrand vanishes exponentially fast as $x\to\infty$ I'm not especially concerned.)